Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-04-16

be as good a reason Tor ms strange
conduct as he ever gave himself. Ana
now I'll tell you just what II is. Squire
Strickland, if youth let have bot
tie Of that old cider OF yours and
down there to Washington. SaysI.
Joel Nv got some cider that has got
a BODY tn II, yes and as you may say
a kinder soul too which I've kept
purpose. acin some popular man come
along, and SO if you'll IL stay over night
I'll 60 and du my chores. and see 70
,nings little, aad this evening we'll
have a thorough talk about the gov
ernment and them are southerncrs,
for I'm mighty feared Congress will
strike yet. for some thing or other. sec
ing the party are dom 1t al aboa:
the country.
When came in from fodderir, says
/, Sergeant Downing, I've been a
thinking about this instruction busI-
ness, and tins telling congress what
they must do and what they must
not do, ard they dom JUS: as they're
told, now what is the use Of any con
gress a, ala Why cant the irstruc
tons be sent right on the government
by the mail, and so save all tire ex-
pense and trouble, and pulling and
haul .ng, and taikia ag:n most every
thing the government wants 70 have
donee JUS, SO, squire Strickland.
says he that's the thing-that's wha,
the Gin. al and | and Mr.. Van Buren,
have been :. trying to do ever since
we got going. Sartn-that' the
slmpiivin plan which we've got q
most to work, and should quite if we
had'r, been a h.ndered. YOU see.
when we've got congress TO go rigat.
ana to do what the people and the
government wants to have'em do why
then YOU see it would be plain, that
the people themselves could tell the
COVE nment what they wanted 70 have
done, Just as we'll as TO tell Congress,
and then congress TO tell the govern
ment. Now, YOU see, if congress was
only oct of the way. IL would bring
the government Just so much nearer
the people as by the VIII lie space con
gress takes up. Now. for the last
two or three years no one could tell
where congress was a goin, nor wha {
they wanted to do when they got there
there was such pulling this way
and tugging that,a making motions
and hollerln order, and ayein and no
in. Squire Strickland, did YOU ever
see a carding machine! l know you
have. And you've seen a batch oil
wool pa. in, and one wheel would
scratch it this way. and another that,
and whisk it over and under and cu,
of sight, and YOU couldn't guess what
had come Of it! Well, twas just SO
in congress, only worse. Congress
was worse than seven cardin machines
one rlgh, on to the end of toihar.
Now, last session when government
wanted some money to build forts 20
keep offthe French from coming right
up TO Washington and burning every
thing out doors, we pat n as nice a
bill, as YOU ever see into one end o..
congress, and aiore i: got half way
through it was tore into sfiy gihIets,
and blotted and blurred SO tia, you
would Mt have known 1t. Now, the
government, and the patriotic states
and the people, have begun IN earnest
to instruct away these difficulties, and
simplify the government down SO that
a body can understand it;-and be-
sides. Mr.. Kendall saws he'll bring on
all the instructions for nothin, since
the opposition papers have done 60
IN.
Sargean. Downing told me great
many secrets that ! think ought to &c
kept in print. and some cu-is things
how Mr.. Adams got up in his sleep
one day and jumped righ, into the
mouth Of the Jackson party, and how
afterwards the party looked little
bigger in the middle than it did at airy
end. But I ha' Mt time to tell any more
now. 80 | wish YOU well.
Yours truly,
JOE STRICKLAND.