Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1837-09-09
From C.s .VsU Iork Ex2rs:s
LETTER FROM MAJOR JACK DOWNING.

We present our readers with the ed Gum OF
Maj,r Downing's Addrcss-and tisev who have
cars % hear them let them hear. FWo CONNIE I'D
It with all satisfaction and confidence. Wo are
happy 70 see that his next promises to contain the
plan Of floating the Two Po!iies'
We would respectfully call attention to the
operations Of Spanish democracy. and ask If the
tendency of late in our own country IS not too
similasl Captain Jumpers Letter, too: shows the
effect Of the no0ular influence Of the Hermitage
Letters We doubt not, the Editor of the Saco
Gazette approves the one, as the Globe did tho
other.
MARINE PAVILION, RocxAwAy, L. L.
August -, 1887, in sight Of the}
wreck Of the. Two-Poliies. }
To tie Poyl- Of e Uais~d Sates If North .4ese,ioa,
GENERAL, and the sound D:mocrasie Family ~ PAR
TBCCLAR.
FELLow-crrrzExs:-Jn my last :ell'd you there
was no way Of getting along out Of the present
troubles till we got I'D Of tie cause that put us IN
10 sroublc--and that was party management
mean that kind Of party management that, once
getting into power continues 70 keep power, by
tIrnin all kinds Of public measures right into one
mill. When the water don't run clear il is prct-
ty sure sign the old spring wants cleaning out,
and hope every man will look we'll 10 this pint.
Or else all our work is good for nothing. | know
il is a pretty tough job to upset party that has
got hold Of the biggest ccnd of tbs stcA bat il
must be dosc, or with them, very sticks I'VE the
people, gave them, they will crack ous crowns.
So there two ways about tive must teach
our political servants TO be content with the wa
yes and the honor ot office which givo en-,
and to execute the laws VIC have made for our
own good--and wo must teach 'em, too, that if
find any snOoSing round, and planning to kaep
their places by using power, tor their own party
puSpose1, which belongs alike to all parties and
all classes, then they must expect trouble they
han thar Vl1r oil S.ln hos
places.
Will any man tell me that the country would
be N the state il ~, IL folks Office for the last
five o. eight years, had gone accoriin 10 law?
don't believe n word ont for know to the contra
~. ], for one, am willing to the risk OF go
ing tn the Devil, IL il is accorJin to law-but l
wont 60 step hhJs rny agin the law; and don't
mean to let any man or any party drive me that
cog, unless he can show law for it. ! am for the
CONSTITUTE and tho Laws-and il we can't go
accosdin TO that rile-thcn say let every MN
I'D stakes and 20 TO Turkey or 10 China,-he will
be better of there than here-for If once git
our Constitution and our Laws ont Of jont--the
hull consarn will go all TO siDash--and he who
happens to have the strongest and longest arm
will grab most.
When I was travelling round, SOLITARY and a
lone, as MIR. Benton says-oyer that beautiful
country calld Spain; (for have been pretty much
all over that country used 10 stop sometimes
OH the top Of hill and look about and say my
self, my conshcns, says j, 'wiat country this
is,'-tl,ere was wide aud long ranges Of beauti- !
full meadow land all arOund-and Iitflo rivers and
streams streakin ai,out--apd some on cm running
head long down the side Of hills,--and there !
warn't q them pasturcs-not a mill or
factory them stresms--nota ro1d,--or canal,
and not hosise-all in n state of stark naked ma
tur-and all in tho finest climate in the world !
lest SIGH country, IL Won could put it INTO Of
oar States, any man who ownd 80 acres ont
would come pIagy nigh havin town plot or a fac
fory or a mill site, or canal, a rail road, on !
his farmland every part ont would be alive with |
q happy and prosperous people,
Instead Of this, what do you SEQ IN that fine
country3 Any man who wants TO know, let him
90 and look for himsclf-and the only advice
have to give him is, not to tako any thing along +
with him worth stealing; and ii he has an extra
life like a cat, that will stand stabbing, let him
take that along with him. Tor nc will want It:
thcy kill every thing worth killing, and steal eve
ry thing worth stealing- except Bank paper mo-
ney; they won't steal that for they don't know
what il is-they go for hard currency entire.-
They go tho Gineral's doctrines about money
matters, up to the hnb, they keep bank matters
and state matters entirely separate, and 80 wide
apart you can't SEQ nary ono on em. l ask d
some ON 'em there why they did not go TO work
and earn an honest vin' and put decent clothes,
and feed their starvin' families--but they said
there trying that. for as soon as they
got little forehanded in the world, all their pro-
Dr. pay taxcs--or was stolen. Well, says l, why
]on't you take the law OH 'em then! Law 4
What Law9 There aint no law here. but jest ,
such law as 'the Government chuscs to make |
and 'thc Government has got all the sogers and !
al the Office holders their side, and they out
number two to $
well thinks !, as far as that goes that sounds I
democratic at any rate, but shows the difference
between Government Democracy and "a 'Peo-
lies Democracy And this put INC to thinking
considerable how il comes ahoit in the OF a
lime that q Government can manage to work a g
ong, first with power granted by the people for '
he good Of the hull people and then sometimes /
With leetlc glory (ior Spain had its glory too.
md is full ont, there amt no vessels in Y
'ort, or industry in the country-therc amt no I
oom for any thing but rags and misery, and then
,gin, with lcctlcparty management, contrivc to I
ring things as to make power. bcget power, a
md smash every thing that darcs talk agin the
'arty that has tho control. And what is the {
equencef All the laws that were made for the i
.cod Of the hull people put aside, and only v
sch laws are made as suit tho party in power .
hat party has got all the officers, and got all d
'ard moncy,-and they won't allow, any other
lind Of moncy,-and they wont encourage COM
ncrcc. or trade, or ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS they
snow that, trade and commerce, and manufactur-
ng would create power right of that would upset l.