Litchfield enquirer., 1837-08-31

Y party to smash the farmers-and the next, the mechanics, and so on. If it is right in one case it is right in all, but my notion is 1t ain't right in nary case-and l, for one, won't vote for it. A man who builds ship for the merchant has as good a claim on the protec- | tion of the laws as the man who labors at any other honest callin, I don't care in what
 Will any man pint out in the Constitution, or | in any law, the right of sowing discord in
 the great national family?
 l A good deal is said about some private let ters from the Gineral at the Hermitage that he wrote to the Globe man at Washing ton. hain't had time yet to read 'em but if they are what hear tell'd on, don't believe | the Gineral ever wrote 'em--and if he did, it don't amount to nothing. What man writes atore he is President and what he
 writes atler he has quit that office amounts pritty much to the same thing. The Gener- al wrote very good letter once to Mir. Mun- ro-but it did not come to any good. One mans letter, then, is just as good us any oth- | CT mans letter. Take Gineral Harrison now for instance-let him write Q letter. don't think it would make the day longer or short CT; but make him President, and then all his letters-so long as he is President-Would be consider'd by many as very important and some would think the world was just be- ginning, and some that it was just ending.- 1 This shows, then, there must be something in the otfice--it may be the $25,OOO a-year, and big house free of rent, and the right of nominating folks to office-or something else, don't know what-but there is some-' thing that makes his notions better or sound- CT than before. We'll then, when he quits office don't see why he should take all the mother wit he found there along with him :;
 he should leave it where he found it, for the Ibenefit of the next. I ain't one of those kind of folks that think the world is coming to an end by the notions of any man-who ain't
 President--whether written before or arter-- , my letter then is jist as good as hisen, and don't know but it is leetle better, for haint
 got no party notions to sarve and no mis- takes to kiver up. Capt. Jumper, too, hear, has been writing ] letter to the editor of :" The Saco Gazette" -about The Two Pollies" gettin ashefe.- understand he lays it all to the crew, and : winds up by saying that arter all there is no : safety in any kind of vessel and goes agin the hull scrape on lem, and advises that the } Government should cut adrift from every ] thing that floats-that all vessels are danger : ous-apt to leak-apt to sink-apt to upset . and apt to go ashore. The fact is, the old t captain never did know much about naviga- 3 tior-unless he had land in sight--or could reach it with lead-line--but he thought he did--and the Two Pollies" tells the rest of , the story-and it is pretty much so with the Generals Banking and money notions-he, like Capt. Jumper, made mistake-and to ] kiver it up turns to and blows up the hull bu- siness. We'll, what does it amount to?
 I look upon President or any other man } in high office, iist as look on a juryman.- What his notions are afore he takes the oath, : and what his notions are Grter the verdict is
 brought in ain't nigh so important as schen he is in the jnrg bor--he is responsible then-and then only. Ifhe has notions contrary to the natur of the oath he is obleged to take, and ], goes on jury with two faces--he may es- , cape here, but he will want more than two fa- ; ces hereorter. A President in office has noth- 7 in to do with what he had said afore he took the oath of ofice-and folks hadn't ought to Z keep twitin him about it; it would be pret- . )ty matter for a lawyerin Court, when plead- in his case to jury, to put his eye on some juryman and say, "Mr. So-and-so, you re- t member last October, when you and was [ talkin over this matter, you said then my 7 side of the question was right--noW,do you 2 see that you stick to it." don't know what : would be done in these parts-but don't : know man in all Downingville that would : not hop out of jury-pox, and thrash any {, lawyer for saying SO, ifthe case warn't more ] than for ten dollars-and Squire Joslin would lend him hand if he had to ajurn
 the Court for it-and is Presidents oath no
 tighter than juryman's oath?
 But find am away off from what want-
 ed to put into this letter, and so I'll put it in my next see no way tho ofgittn at what
 am arter till folks can look at things strait
 in the face without any party squinting, and I will then show them why our country is not like Spain and other countries. But if we don't look out sharp we shall soon be ex-
 actly like them. The next thing is to show
 my plan for getting the Two Pollies afoat agin. think can do this without asking I any appropriation from Congress; all want l is, for Congress to give me the liberty to try
 my plan, and if succeed, let me have a pat ent for it. She must be got off this session at any rate, or won't answer for consequer- I ces. don't mean to offer any notion that
 don't think is sound at both eends; and hope that as ainf been many rods wide of the mark in the way of guessing at what was
 to happen, that all on you will keep an eye
 to what shall say, and have leetle pa tience, and let me say it in my own way I'll square the log afore have done with it
 but we have got to score the bark off first, and draw the chalk lines, or else we shall l run the risk of doing what old Deacon Knowles did when he thonghth he could square a door-pos as we'll as a carpenter-he took a stick of timber two-and twenty inches and three quarters in diameter--( (and pretty much like the Gineral's experiment. in bank ling)-he hewed and scored and dub'd with
 out rule or chalk-line, till there warn't . piece big enuf to make button for hen-house
 door. lfta N n5u 3F.
 Your friend, J. DOWNING. Major,
 2d Brigade, Downingville Militia.