Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1837-08-31
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.

die, Hamilton, Adams, and Talmadge, and
others, having been discharged, il is aow Of
high importance to know ~ hat the llustrious
Major has 10 say.
The Major promises i'm his next 10 take up
the subject of the currency and Ia go To work
in earnest 10 do his best toward putting
things in order again. In one OF his CONVEX
satuns the other day. il is reported lha, he
said there was but one honest political party
in this ~ any other country, and tina, he
weuld in good time demonstrate this Nous
rerronS, the Major now can Parley pOus
| French +" q dare say, having returned from
his travels in foreign par,s.-N. J. Express.
MARINEPAvILLIoN, Rock LID
August 18Th, 1897, in sight of
the wreck of the Two Pulles. y
To the People Of the United States of North
America IN general and 10 the great Demos
cratic Family IN particular.
FELLOW CITiZENs,-You have all by
this time heard tell Of my return 10 my ma
tive land, after an absence now oi over two
| yeais this grass, and how nigh came rests
| ing my bones along with The 1.-TWO Pollies"
on this beach, end all mainly owing tn no
tion that Captain Jumper took. that he was
more KNOWN than other folks about his laii
tude and longitude and sounds, and TO wind
up all, was willing, right OF wrong, "to take
|
short OF the matter is, the "Two Pollies''
went ashore, and there she lies now, right off
and from the house | am now in and as am
I in pretty good keepin here, ] mean To stick
| by and wait for the high tides OF September
| next, and see il there Is any hopes of getting
this vessel off. don't mean Ia quit So long
| as two sticks of timber ot this vessel hangs
together. know she is worth savin and If
we can't save all we can save part, jest enuff
| Ia, L.. 4
mother craft atloat or on shore in all this Gre
ated eirih
In the natral course of things, | suppose
that seeing il is now more than Two years
since wrote my last letter from France 10
my old friend MIR. Dwight, that ought to
tell where have been, and " hat have been
about ; but this would De long story-tou
long TO be good for nothing, and have no
time now 10 finish il il once begun it'll
leave that till get through more important
matters. did not intend writing any thing
till the "'Two Psllies' was off aud safe ahoai
again but seeing that all the great folks are
of work writing private letters for putlica
tIons, thought IL high lime To begin
and in doing so, as the Globe says of my old
friend, the Gneral's letter, .'dash il off in the
proud bold hand of the venerable chief With
on; the slightest care of punctualing or cor
recting, &c"
Whee ! left home the last time, on my
way to France, 10 aid in keeping things right
there, sat down at the starn off Two Pol
| lies, and kept my eye on my native hills I'LL
| the top Of the highest one was lost in fog
cloud that hung over il. | then began To
feel considerable wamblecrop'd, and could
not help thinking of the time when was
boy, and when the great platter OF ingin
dumplins stood smoking on The table, and The
family lsking chairs all round il; and jest
then my good old mother calling out, "You,
jenny. my son, them plagy cattle are in The |
corn field agin,--run my boy & turn 'em
out :" and away I'd scud, and whilst running
| would keep blinking Of them dunpins
What changes might take place among 'em
afore got back again, and, in fact, whether
there would be any lei, at Ill by the time |
got back. And just so IT was this time,
there were my native hills, ali smoking in
| the distance, jest like row OF hot dunn plins,
aud going off 10 keep an eye on them
Frenchmen, what changes, thinks will
take place among them hills, aiore gel back
TO them
| don't want 10 undeTruie dumplins, for
iivOJ on 'em nigh half my life, but l must
say, If any man wants 10 Know how n,uel,
dearer TO him is his native hills than any
thing else in all creation, let him stand on the
starn OF vessel going away from EN- at The |
down out oil sight in iug-bhnk, and II he |
don't then feel con. iderable streaked depend |
ont he hainl got country worth returning |
TO. In such d time a man knows how TO feel
Tor his Country-his hull country, and moth
ing but his country. Talk to HIM then d
bout party politics. and see how small, and
mean, and contemplate all the little, nasty,
differences of party squahbes appear. Wing,
Tory, Bank, Anti Bank, Hard Currency
Paper Currency, Loco FOco, ArIslocracy
Democracy, jackson, Benton, Van Buren,,
Kind!e. Niger, Anti Niger, Monopoly
Anti Monopoly, Tammapy and AnIi>Gam-
many, and Uncle Jushua-all becomes mix
ed Up like a ball of rayIins OF old stockings,
and aini worth no more, and this brings US
all TO the only Piut worth thinking about
--.i 10 have no time In dress up ii long sto-
MERICAN CITIZEN, the only class | care TO
talk to jest now TO think with me--and if |
sm mol right, let them tell me where and how
| am wrong. | have now seen all countries
except China, and the Sandwich Islands, aud
small part OF Russia and can say that
have seen no country and no people that can
hold candle TO us-aBd all that is wanting
on our part is TO feel and to ACT MS
we ought to feel and to act-and that is for
every man who has got the TaIe grill IN him
10 unsbackle himself from all nasty party
prejudces--and look to the good Of his com
try as he would to his own good and that OF
his family and children.
In some countries where | have been, The
will or wish OF one man is the law Of the land
when he whistles he says, let no dog bark.
is il 10 be So with us? Are we an indepen
dent and free people, and yet TO be whislled
into the traces and fancies of any man or sci