Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-04-16
Zoe Strickland.
From the n. Y. Commercial Advertiser
DOWN EAST, l4th March. 1886.

! DOWN EAST, l4th March. 1886.
| DEAR Sir: Sergeant joel Downing
sscp'd at my house as ne came home
along from Congress. He was so al
tered was great deal put tn il at
first to know him. Says /, Sergeant
Joel, is that your Says he, Squire
Strickland. l don't much wonder you
ask me that question, for ! ask II nv
self almost every time look N the
loohing-glass. Says I,you look sick,
he SAID the Gin'ral had put more
on to him this session than he ever did
before: and the iactis says he, I'm a
good deal Off the hooks, for besides
advising the government and looking
after tue cabinet, I've been trying
to Keep Congress right till I'm amost
beat out and discouraged. He told
me what with one thing and another
sitting Up o nights and talking over
matters with the government, he had
got his mind into such habit of
thinking tina. he couldn't stop it, and
| it seemed to him sometimes that he
should env-most 90 crazy. And so
one day after he'd got two or three
messages blocked out and fixed agin
suck difficulties as he thought might
turn up, says he, right up and told
the government plainly, says |, Gin
raj I've got the head ache and pam
IL ny side. no appe Ute, and besides l
la 1t very vel myself, and so II
no |
YOU must let me go down East q sp-l!,
and see II / can't &c; Il iittle better
Now, thought. as like as any way.
the government would be IN a huff
about 1t: but no such thing: the old
Hero is as good natured, when he's
p eased. as any body, and when that
pIaguy United States Bank is out Of
his head he's sometimes consic cradle
rational. an 80 saws he, .why If you
must YOU must; don't know how to
spare you very well. Sergeant Down
ing. at any time. bu. seem Mr.. Adams
has come over to our side. and we've
got the Senate arost right. If you've
got to 60 | can spare you as well now
as at any time. and perhaps BETTER
Sol told him Id got Mr.. Van Buren,
to tel, the Congress what it was best
to say, till the Instructions come on,
and says I, there'lI not be speck of
difficulty now, only from those who
long to make it-and that can't be
help'd If I'm here. "Well Sergeant"
SAID he, II know now, just as we'll as
%.,.Y ia hot ~
gone. some pcsky mischief or other
viii Turn up, t,ow'sever wei. try to
get along as well as we can till you
get blck.' The old Hero was so clev-
er. was a good mind to stay and doc
tor up as we'll as could there at
Washingtor,-but I'd made up nv
mind 10 90, and whcr the Gin raj and
make up our minds we shan't undo
'em for no BODY.
Sergeant Downing farther tod me
that he though. some of coming by
the wav of New York, but he knew
the New York folks would get up
dinner for Iim the minet he got there
and expect hln tc eat it, and more
over would think hard Of him If he
did't make a speech agin ,he Bank,
and tell some secrets about the gov
eminent and Mr.. Adams,-and SO,
said ne. cut around and across lots
by Albany. expectin to see the Re-
gencv and tel'ln all how to pu, down
the Bank tiatter than the Gln'rai did
the first time he put 1t down, and to
stomp On it. But instead of seeing
the Regency I come spat right upon
the Temperance Convention. That
Albany is a mighty place for reso!u-
tons; they're resoivin there to do a
great deal of good, and TO do it all at
once, and that ne body else shan't do
anv.
Well, says /, Sergeant Downing,
I'm glad you was at that Temperance
Convention to Albany; the people
aviii want 20 know your views about
it, but just now l wants to know
more about Congress. Says he. Squire
Strickland, yca may we'll ask me about
Congress, foe spose no man except
Mr.. Van Buren, and myself knows a
thimble full about it and well We may
for he aud have fixed over and over
the consciences of amost all the mem
Ibers. excep, Mr.. WiSe's. His'n he
wouldn' lie, US nave at all: But Mr..
Adam, said we nigh, have his IN wei
come as long as were mind tu.-
And SO we fixed it over till it would
20 any side up. ba: when we sent /.
nari !. rot o1,t of Mare some how