Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-10-15
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- JoHS EiSLEY-I have at last lain under tn
~ needcessity of comm out on this affair of III
~ Post Office. have read of the warrin WHICH
orI has been gon on most long enough to com,
i to head, yet it seems to me tha'.l jist leave
N of where they begun. NV silence this Ions
70 cause l never NEEDLE with the affairs of gov
" lcrnent. its my principle to jist let 'em do u
d they please, cause you know the gineral is
% always right. and if he wasn't All Wayne
+ county couldcnt turn him, and when he is
wright, You know all bis mess is too, and be-
e sides YOU know am materially modest and
>, unussumin, and don't like to divuIge right in
r among SIGH powerful men, particularly when
!. there is iiten gon on, SO iist stuck close to
j. the chimney corner and cut punkin pies IN
Q til found which way the wind blowd.-
h Sometimes was on one side and sometimes
r on the other, like the rooster on dads barn.
Y but since ] couldent stand it no longer to
see my old friend and fcer scger Dan Reid,
!. as we used to call him. berated IN SIGH man.
f ner, and SO resolved to come right out weth-
e lcr It was poPeiar or not, and fix matters TO
: rights, Us it appears nobody else will.
r You know | was perty good scollar in
my young days, tho rather an opstrope!os
chap. One thing ! was tarnel famous for
, was, was rather shy of gettin in a scra pc,
for / was nation fcard of the master, and
whatever he sed was law and gospctWith me
and brother Sam-tho' by the by the gospel
had more effect with Sam than the law, for
he used to play truent sometimes, thereby
verifyin the old proverb, ''trane up child
and away he'll go,"-but as sed afore, was
n tolerable good secular, and used to tend to
my book, out Of shear needcessity, and Sam
used to play the fife and go 4 fishen, and vile
was larn;n my lessen, Sam catchin fish
and maxim trends with every chap that had ,
ia little smatterin Of polyticks and dident like |,
to work, until the next thing | knowd Sam ,
was elevated TO the rank of drum major, l.
next, to the post of governur and all this sort /;
o thing while ], NOTWITHSTANDING my larnin am $
nothin but corporal. But l am divuIgin h
from the subject. l was goin to establish {:
the character Of my old friend Daniel Reid in
this affair of government. As ! understand y
the matter is jist this. and Daniel Reid saws =
Robert Morrison (another of our :.
old Teller sogers) took the post office in Rich :;
mond 1t was a mater of no more account nor e.
no other good, but as old Bob had it only on -
he KEEP it in u little box by itself, !.
and whenever uncle Sam, who used to be =,
nonstrous pertikelar about them days, want :!
I'd to know how the affair stood, it was all !"
strait fishook, till in the course of time u
he Caroliny post Office was established right
|own close by old Bob's. Competition gen TO
rIy helps trade, but where they don't charge IN
otiiin for goods evry body will go.-Well. IN
$ was a sayin, Robert come to the conclu- tel
ion 1t would suit him best to give it up, and ea
Elm as nobody else wanted it, so he recon- or .,
'ended Dan as the most suitablist man that Tie
e knowd of. We'll now you see in the corse
human events this has got to be great dei
lace. The Ca:olinar post Office was re- ger
owed to Newport may be, and instid of the SOL
ally road OF much force that run frum old WIN
'hn Smiths right by Robert Morr:son's see
ore, to the Quaker meetin house, we have this
It the great national road leading right thro kno
ossways, formin as it does one of the rub
eatest works, prehaps, Venice Garner ever disa
ed, and sich great town! it beats all ma thin
:! Well now, as | was a sayjn this same to /
post Office becomes SO much more iInpor- .cas'
It, and Capten Reid so much more rich Eor
havin SIGH weishty affares of government vile
his sholders, he concludes, like his old Fru
lefactor, to rcsine, and accordiniv he does esse
and like his great prototype, Gineral Jack was
}, right IN the teeth of evry body else re- man
nends his friend Mister Bordin. Now know
u tins display hberallty only surpassed Dict
the gineral himself? for didn't he reco- be o.
1d Martin Vanburun as the only man fha, And
uld succeed him and in his own woro, learn
he say, when my time is out and mytquite
ry honord head put under the sod, Martin schot
carry out my principals to the letter. Blu
which the glorious rein Of gineral Jackson the
De handed down to posterity forever. who
, 10 III silIi.ar act OF one OF his party mot
. 'ne people nave the audac,ty 70 speak that a
Jul &c arm ITS right down impu- wiic!
80 anu in oiu 'eiglnnv i teller would think
Sooo c.iance 10 get his wien stretclli Phrcu
reson. II have a right understanding to be
re matter they wouldn't Nv sed 4 word 10, st
'pten ReId had a consulted them o, the the de
ct and told them he didn't like to break aroun,
Sabbath in the service Of his country The
vas With that other people should, if obiter
were so minded mo" my plan would quite a
~ can Dck Jons'n to account for opo- tor ths
: ounas Man Law but they'd all o. to pr
Nc was certainty right IN resInia; tut bii;:v
i'ou' nave sea TINS Mister Bordtn might says {,