Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1839-01-24

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\ To the Editors ofAe Nsw York Erpress-the
same paper my old friend Mr.. Dwight
II printed spell ego.
II GENTLEMEN-I said in my last letter
lIthat would, for one, set a good exam
! pie and stop cackling about such mat
! ters as Abolition and Anti-Masonry and
| Animal Magnetism, and Notification,
and Sub Treasury, and all such kind OF
nonsenso--and believe we have had
cnuf ont. Congress has now taken up
rat hunting, and will afore long give
some Of them plagy rats a most etarnal
! twisting--but this aint the only matter
/ that is worth attendin to-and now l am
going to tell you thing or two about q
matter that will shortly BIO worth cack-
ling about, an egg worth Matching. l
have got notion in my head that trou-
bio will come upon Us alore this scnfile
between France and Mexico is settled
up-.if il il tru that Mexico has declared
war against France it wont be so easy
a matter to hush it up as it would be il
France had declared war against Mex
ico--it aint my business to tell why, Ony
that's my notion-nor is it my business
to say who is right and who is wrong
that pint is seldom found out and decid-.
ed till the quarrel il 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 fght--one thing is
pretty sartin, that when there is fight
80 nigh home and folks get to THROWN
stones at one another some stones NAV
take slant and disturb other folks, and
| then there will be more trouble than
was first calculated on---and that is tho
matter that want to say somethin about.
ltThere is only two ways to prevent your
windows from being broken by somo
Of these chance slantin stones. One is
to close the shutters--and the other il
to stand prepared to thrash round and
let folks see that you arc able to throw
three stones to their one.
II There is another thing that may as
well be said now so that there may be
no mistake about it. Our folks havo
got notion which comes to 'em natu-
rally, and that is when they see a big
man grapple with little one, and get
him down, and he begins to yell aud
squeel, their dander il lifted, and it
was Just so with the Greeks, and como
pretty nigh being so with the Canada
folks-it don't make any odds who it is
lit is a kind of natural notion, and I
don't know how to account for tit
seems TO me sometimes to belong to all
natur-even down to the pigs,-catch
one by the ear and make him squeel-
aud all the rest git 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 sgxeeI
seems to make them feel ugly. And
! then agin there is another notion among
our folks on this side the ocean, and
that il they don't like Europe to throw
stones here at all-espccially so nigh
at Home. We don't want our windows
broken---and we don't want to shut the
shutters, or bar the doors-and SO /
don't see what we can do but to prepare
ourselves and tell 'cm all, if they will
! fght-to take care to hit where they
aim, and especially to look where they
tread, and by no means step on our
: toes for we have got corns on 'cm.
General w ashington, who never said
a silly thing in his born days, told us
"in time of peace prepare for war;" He
know what he was about when he said
that-he did not mean that because a
! man was we'll arm'd he must fight-bat
that when man was known to be rca-
dy for fght-quarrelsomc folks would
not be so likely to tackle on to him, that
was all. A man like nation is never
so sure TO be let alone and treated civ
| lily as when he ia known to be ready to
make as genteel bow and strike rs
hard as any body else, jest as occasion
requires.
) Now let US see how we stand in case
trouble comes. have been looking
over the maps--and if any man will take
one and follow his finger and keep his
eye to what tell him now-he II git
new rinklc if he hadn't one afore-hc1l
see in tho first place that all the cotton
and tobacco, and sugar, and pork, and
bacon, and every thing else in the world
that grows aud is made--in Alabama,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Ten
ncssec, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Mis-
souri,, besides the greater part Of Geor-
gia and Florida-all float dorn. 10 salt
water market into tho Guy Of .Menico--
there aint no other way fgcttn to salt
water unless you go up stream and then
: wagon across-or come by rail roads
b and canals across the upper country
b. to salt water at New York, Philadcl-
phia, Baltimore or Charlcston--now II
is an old saying that "what's one
mans moat IL another mans pi,on "
this may bo very probably work for
Ithc wagons and rail roads and canals,
and that kind of stock will rise consid-
crablo--but to bring a bag of cotton that
way to salt water would be like snake
|, going tail foremost--agin the grain
agin the scales, and agin natur. But
b. suppose we git in trouble, owing to this
scuille between France and Mexico,
where will the stones fly thickcst p
Won't it be in the Gulf Of Mexico
must We shut our windows there, or
must we keep em open and be ready to
defend them. In n scuflle Of any kind
u ..,ha,n "a. !. H..