Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1837-09-26
From the Neao York Erpress,
MAJOR DOWNING TO HIS FELLOW
CITIZENS.

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CITIZENS.
AttentioE all creation!-eyes right
face front Major Downing, just return
ed from foreign parts, addresses you OF
"great and weighty matters" The "bis
guns Of Biddle, Hamilton, Adams, an(
Talmadge, and others, having been dis
charged, it is now Of high Importance t.
know what the illustrious Major has t.
say.
The Major promises in his next to take
up the subject of the currency, and tC
90 to work in earnest to do his best to
ward putting things in order again. In
one of his conversations the other day, /
is reported that he said there was but one
honest political party in this or any other
demonstrateths. Nous rerrons, the Ma,
ior now can parley-r0ts French, we dare
say, having returned from his travels in
foreign parts.
MARINE PAvltoN, RocKwAY, L. L.
August 18th 1887, in sight Of
the wreck of the two Pollies.
To the People of the United States o.
North America IN general, and to the
great Democratic family IN particular
LLow-CITIzENs, You have all by this
time heard tell Of my return to my native
LAND, after an absence now of over two
years this grass, and how nigh | came
resting my bones along with the 1.-TWO
Poiies" on this beach, and all mainly
OWN to a notion that Captain Jumper took
that he was more KNOWN than other
folks about his latitude and longitude and
souudins, and to wind up all, was willing,
right or wrong, ''to take the responsible
ty." Well, the long and short of the
matter is, the "Two Polliesn went ashore,
and there she lies now, right off and on
the house | am now in, and as | am in
pretty good keepin here, | mean to stick
by and wal for the high tides of Septem-
Der next, aid see if there is any hopes Of
gettin this vessel off. | don't mean to
quit so long as two sticks Of timber of this
vessel hangs together. | know she is
worth savil, and if we can't save all, we
can save part, jest enut to preserve the
model, for there amt SIGH another craft
ahoat or OF shore in all this created airth.
In the mtral course Of things, | sup
pose that 'eein it is now more than two
years since wrote my last letter from
France to my old friend Mr.. Dwight,
that | ought to tell where | have been,
and what | have been about; but this
would be long story-too long to be
good for nohing, and | have no time now
10 finish it if | once begun it'll leave
that till get through more important
matters. did not intend writin any
thing till the "Two Pollies was off and
safe afloat agn; but seein that all the
great folks are Ut work WrltIn private
letters for publications, | thought it was
high time to begin, and in doing so, as
the Globe says of my old friend the Gin
erals letter, clash it off in the broad bold
hand of the venerable chief without the
slightest care of punctuating or correct
ing, &c"
When | left home the last time, on my
way to France, to aid in keeping things
right there, sat down at the starn of the
"fvo Politics." and kept my eye on my
native hills, till the top of the highest one
was lost III fog cloud that hung over it.
| then began to feel considerable wam-
bcrop'd, and could not help thinking of
the time when | was boy, and when the
great platter of lngin dumplins stood
Oh the table, and the family taking
chairs all around it; and jest then my
good old mother calling out, "You johnny,
my son, them plagy cattle are in the corn
field agins run, my boy, and turn 'em
out, "-and away I'd scud, and whilst run
ming would keep thinking of them dunn
pns, what changes might take place
among them afore | got back agin, and,
IN fact, whether there would be any left
at all by the time got back. And Jest
so 1t was this time; there we're nv native
hIls, all smoking in the distance, lest
IKE row OF hot dumplins, and | going
OIL to keep an eye on them Frenchmen;
what changes, thinks | will take place
among them hills aforc git back to
them!
don't want to underrate dumplins, for
lived on 'em nigh half my life, but
must say, if any man wants to know how
much dearer to him is his native hills than
any thing else in all creation, let him
stand on the starn of a vessel going away
from 'em at the rate Of ten miles an hour.
and see 'em go down out of sight in fog
bank, and if he don't then feel considera
bic streaked, depend ont he hant got
country worth returning to. In such
lime a man knows how to feel for his
,ountry-his hull country, and nothing
but his country. Talk to him then about
0arty politics, and see how small and
mean, and contemplate all the little nasty,
ilrty differences of party squabbles ap-