Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1838-03-14

four years ago.
Susan had watched the converse
ton but she hadn't put in a wor
until she thought we had come TO III
right place. Then she SAID " sh
thought she seed how it was. Demo
crazy now wasn't what il wa, fou
years ago. Il was something like th
fashions used to be---ihey changed.
mere might be truth in Susan's re
mark, but | did not like the idea tina
principles changed. said "n,en chang,
principles, nerer.' She replied
she knew men changed but as iol
principles she didn't know how thai
was. understood her allusion III
was an old affair.
in fact we were all completely LOST
in fog. regretted that we had
meddled with politics and vet was
anxious to see little moonshne in the
matter, and also to understand the pre-.
sent condition of things.
My friend remarked that | was be-
hind the times---that the democratic
party had taken q new view OF mat.
tiers, and had adopted some new prin.
clples--that the banks must be put
down; they made the people extrava.
gant-poor men would borrow money
out of them and by that means get in.
to debt. He thought Mr.. Van Buren,
was the greatest man that ever lived
IN this country and he was pledged to
carry out the principles of Gen. jack.
son.
was more lost than ever; md we
quit the subject. | could not under
stand for my life what my friend was
driving at. ! knew that principles
never changed" and thought il was
best to say no more about it then, ult
find out the mystery some other way.
When | went home Susan said to
me she had something on her mind
she wished to tell me. She said |
must know she had always been a
prudent, saving woman; she did nj be-
lieve there was better or more pru.
dent house keeper in all "tha lost
township" | encouraged her to go
on. John" said she, sis getting To
be e strapping boy, and who knows
but the people ono day will want to
make him squire, or send him to the
legislature, and Ia that case he ought
to know what is going on in the world ;
and think my daughters, too, ought
10 have a better chance for informa
ton than they now have. saw (shc
continued) how you was put to il with
Cousin - in your talk about banks
and democracy, because you didn't
know what the democracy had been
doing for the last four years, and what
had made democratic principles change
since we had come to the Lost
Township"
What was coming could not inn.
CINE; but Susan had such knowing
look, that | knew there was something
good at the bottom Of il so said !,
=" Susee" in my kind way, do speak
it out"
She said, she had taught her daugb-
tiers to make the best butter IN all the
countryside knew tit was as sweet
as 4 rose, not a spec in it, and as yell
low as gold--and she said she thought
as how, if would agree 10 it, Sally
and Ann should make up pot Of but
ter in her best way-(giving me a
nudge and send IL 10 the Printer and
take his newspaper -
Susan never
looked lovelier in my eyes. You may
depend did not object TO her PROPOSE
ton. She thought the paper would
bs useful to her daughters, { don't
know why she calls them SD particu-
larly, to John, who she thinks mny be.
come squire, and perhaps go to the
legislature and to me, because she
thinks | ought to understand how "prin-
ciples change"