Litchfield enquirer., 1839-01-24
MAJOR DOWNING.
WashingtOn, l2th Jan. 1855

would, for one set good example and stop
cackling about such matters as Abolition, and
Anti. Masonry, and Animal Magnetism, and
Modification, and Sub Treasury, and all
,s,,ch kind of nonsense-and believe we
have had enuf ont Congress has now taken
up rat hunting, and will afore long give sO.nc
Of them plaguey rats q most etarnul twist.
inq-but this amt the only matter that is
worth attendin to-and now am going to
tell YOU thing or two about a matter that
will shortly be worth cackling about, an egg
worth Matching. / have got Il notion in my
head that trouble will come upon us afore
this scufi1e between France and Mexico is
settled up-if il is true that Mexico has de-
clared war against France it wont be so ca
sy q matter to hush it up as it would be If
France had declared war against Mexico
it aint my business 10 tell why, ony theps
my notion nor is it my business to say who is
right and and who is wrong-that pint is sell
dom found out and decided till the quarrel is
over, and by that time folks on both sides are
so glad to be at peace they don't stop to talk
about the beginning Of the fight-one thing
is pretty sartin, that when there is a fight so
nigh home, and folks get to throw stones at
one another, some stones may take slant
and disturb ether folks, and then there will
bemore trouble than was first calculated on
and that is the matter that wanted TO say
something about. There is only two ways
to prevent your windows from being broken
by some of these chance slantin stones. One
Is to close the shutters-and the other is to
stand prepared to thrash round. and let folks
see that you are able to throw three stones
to their one. a sr rs.it sell f:33
There is another thing that may as well be
said now so that there may be no mistake
about it, Our folks have got notion which
comes to 'em naturally, and that is when
they see big man grapple with little one,
and get him down, and he begins to yell and
soueal their dander is lifted-it was just so
with the Greeks, and come pretty nigh being
so with the Canada folks-it don't make any
odds who it is-it is q kind of natural notion,
and don't know how to account for tit
seems to me sometimes to belong to all ma
tnr-even down to the pigs,-catch one by
the ear and make him squeal-and all the
rest get their bristles up right off and are
ready for fight, though they don't know
whose pig he is, and don't seem to care, only
that soueaI seems to make them feel ugly. And
then agin there is another notion among our
folks on this side the oceans that s,they don't
like Europe to throw stones here at allies
pecially so nigh at home. We don't want
our windows broken-and we don't want to
shut the shutters, or bar the do0rs-and SO
uTh 80 MI I'll I'll &c ~, ..i;ii e.. ~
seaves anu ~ -. eli ,..h o., .he,, ~, az a.ne
axe cale " u. w. ,ha ..e a a ~" ~ So ~
cIaly .uoA ,l,es az we h. 70 oct corns
on 'em. -'' ~"
General Washington, who never said a sill
w thing in his born days, told us '" in time of
peace prepore for war" He knew what he
was about when he said that-he did not
mean that because man was well armed he
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Ino,yn to he ready 10 make as eenteel blow
md strife as hard as anv body else. lest ne
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Unless you 60 up stream ana men wagon across
--or come by rail ROADS anu canals across
the upper countryto salt water at New-fork,
Philadelphia, baltimore, or Charleston-
it is an old and true saying that" what's one
mans meat is another mans plsen"-this
may be very profitable work for the wagons
and rail roads and canals, and that kind OF
stock will rise considcrable-but 10 brlng
hO n Nf
like snake going tail foremost-agin the
grain--agin the scales and agin natur. But
suppose we get into trouble, owing to this
acntfle hetween France and Mexico.-where