The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1837-09-22
MAJOR DOWNING.

= % he Representatives Of the People Of
the United STATES Of North America. IN
Congress, II Washington" He looks
spon Congress, As upoa . q barrel Of e.
der boiled down 70 quart" and thus by
addressing himself 70 them. coneeiEes
thai he lays the case fright afOre the
hun people in one swing"
The editor Of che New York Express,
in Introducing this letter 10 his readers,
observes:
- We have, we confess, been led into
the popular belisf that nothing short Of
ceigkfy porer-something Of metallic
character a least, could IN as out Of our
present dificulty,-but we find that We,
In common with large and extended cir
Gle. are in error--and that when we come
TO Hling we want a pOirer Of directly
opposite character. We further confess
that we never have seen the credit sys-
tenn shador'd forth more adroidy and
more appropriately.
The Major thinks that there is no craft
in all creation equal to the Two Pollies,
and is therefore earnestly engaged in de-
vising ways and means to relieve her
from the perilous situation in which she
now lies, and this letter is addressed to
"the Representatives of the People" for
assistance. The first parsOf the Majors
letter we omit, as his plan for the relief
of his fayoriie vessel is sufficiently dis
played in the close Of it, as follows:
The business now is-how shall she
be lifted of? On this pin,,here rs good
many opinions. Some saw she ought to
wait and take chances for The high ldes
and low trade. and gu off with all The rest;
and that il Congress makes any appropri-
alton IL ought 10 be sifled round among
all the yessles now on shere-but this is
priay much like the conditions | once
eIl'd on about the wagons in the mud.
Now my notion is, We had best Try an
experiment with one-gil her of il We
csn--and Ihen with her aid, try 10 gil the
resi- ofF-for there alut power in all crea-
ton TO hit 'em all of together. have
Q great likin must say for the "a Two
PolIies." know what she is built on;
for tho she has changed flag, she sin'l
changed owners. and her keel and knees,
and plank. and fOor-liInbers-ihey are all
the ssme---sn6 she is worth savin for the
good she has done and can do yet And
this is my plan---Congress owns con-
siderable pile Of empty hOgsheads lsyln
round at the Navy Yard. al Brooklyn.
All I want is to have the use Of few on
'em for a speli---it won, cos. the country
dollar---for ,hem empty casks ain. worth
nothin ull pinch or war or some SIGH
kind Of thing comes--and ] promise TO
return them all aIore they are wanted for
other work
Some on You may say that empty
casks sound too much like credit---and
you wont let 'em be used, unless they are
fll'd with stones or iron or gold or sand
or silver or water, or something that
sunnds solid or me,aiic---but all I've go'
TO say about II is. that klnd Of work wont
Ifi any thing of shore---give me the use
OF the empty casks 10 do the tlffin and
call i; credit or what vou will, I'll promise
10 git the Two Pcllies' sHoat with ZEN,
and then you may fill EN- as you pleas;
bu, iF you want To push the Two Poi
lies" deeper in the sand, you can do SO
by rolling on top on her your casks hl'd
with heavy metal Of iron OF gold or stones
or silver, for IN any itfin cork me is a
bout as bad as to,her, and the heaviest i,
the worst.
don't mean " to commit myself anC
say tina, 90 for empty casks before ful
ones for all kind of work. that amt M,
notion at all, but say when vessel >:
on shore and you want 10 lift her of
empty casks are better than full ones
and when you GIT her of, then turn Il
and Gil up your empty casks for ballas
and keep EN- so.
Ifyour honorable body, then, will jus
pass a resolution and say, "that the ow
ners of the Two Pollies' shall have th
use Of few empty casks mark'd U. s.,
on condition tina. the same be used to q
SAID vessel of shore---and on condIlio,
too, that the said Two Pollies' will en-
gage to drag of shore all the other crai
spOrh sarin,) and return said empt.
casks uninjured".-lhen ] can only sa..
you will see along shore about as brisk
time as you ever seed in your bcr
DAYS.
IF any of you are afraid "to take th
responsibility" you can turn the hull on
on me. The time is come when you mus
do something, aud the. plan propose
sound and won't cost nolhin---not half a
much at any rate as i. will to pay you
expenses in making long speeches abou