Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1839-04-20
From the New York Express.
a LETTER FROM MAJOR DOWNING.
WASHINGTON, 81 April, A. ID. 1889.

r., Squire BiddIe II got your letter tciin me
YOU had quit the Bank, and intended, 1t YOU could
possibly manage matters, To 50 To farming.
know this has always ben YOUR notion, ana 'ha'
voa would do soon "a vou see all Things clear
ahead; and n miu who has been ciphcring so TIA rd
rs you have for over twenty years tJr the public,
now ihu, has right TO go and dig his own
potatoes AMI hoe his own corn, and take iittIe
comfort in bis own way But somehow | feel,
Squire, Il Ieeiie wam5lecropf, Jist as did when
the Ginerai left ana wen, home 70 the Hermitage;
and tho YOU have left IN Your place as good
man To m mage the BInk as the Ginerii has 10
manage the O,erment, hope you will keep an
eve on matters aud things. and give much OF
YOUR advice in miiiers ynn understand 10 Mr..
Dnlap and his Cabinet. as the Gner does
Mr. Van Il and his C,binet. The fact Is. you
& The General always thought made Of prct-
" mich The same kind of grit. and both
considerably overworkd yourselves, tho the Gin
erai got Tho best pay.
used to tell The Gineral-snys ], sGnera,
You too good naturcd bv halt: you not only
'lc Government work, but you dip into pritty much
MI kind of work that M other President ever
thought on;' and the fact is. the Gineral did car
re- mlttcrs so far, or let other folks carry hun so
Far. that there few things going he was not
mixed up with, till ii got mt last that almost
every old Lady about the country wouldn't set
hen without writing or calling on the Gineral to
ask him which was the most lucky number of eggs
10 put in the incest, IL eggs or l3; and it almost
wore him skin and h,ne. / believe
tie only man that able 10 outwork the Gin
eraI; and if it hadn't ben that YOU was a lectle
Younger than he was, he'd made toohpck on /
You as he did of pritty much AL the of crea-
ton. Bat, US said before, | am considerable |
wambIecropt at your leaving public life--for now
tina, the Gnern has gone Ia home, and YOU too,
I feel somewhat cut out. Mr.. Van Buren, don't
seem To want my services how. and don't .
complain of hat-l did expec, to get n chance |
"Down Elsi." hut he selected GENERAL Scorr-
a r1nn that ou,rank'd me all hollow as he does I
prit,y much every man nowadays.
Hawsever Gineral Scott didn't forget me, and /
said tha, If there any fighting 10 be done a.
mong The Lnggers. he knew who he cm.ld count
ou and look'd me strait in the face; and sat down
and writ letter mark'd .coafieasial," TO the
@2i Brigade," and ,el'd 'em To stand firm and o.
bcv 40 orders but Gineral Scoit's-that it was
National matter, and he was National officer;
add when he said "Shoulder hoo - ihen TO march
aad follow him to Houlton or HaHfar, or any 9TH
e place beginning with Hit he chose TO lead;
and in that way they would not only have Fair
ltetd, but would be sure Of "Win.feld' and tina,
vas more iH<prtant.
m this matter Of fighting. there is one thing II
""sys keep my eve on, and found Gineral Scott a
~ tne same way Of thinking; and that is, to de-
PenG less on folks who say they are "ready to
'ned the LAST DROP Of theie bood,'' than on folks
9" are ready to shed the fr:f drop Give a man =