Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1839-01-19

fnI net, md # thev are ignorant I'd tcGcA en what
,i,e law L. and i arfer the first offence, they re-
peated il. Ia make 'em feel it. Ii something Of
this kind amt done---Congress WEI have p'thihs
else 70 DO but cackic all the "hIniS ina. o'a
granoys MI about the country will be seEdih m
a man South has Just as good a riStlt 10 Pet.t.o
CONGRESS 10 pass laws to stop my raIsin pt'hkihS'
as / have to stop his raisIn cotion-and on INC
score ofoDpression and slavery. and all ihat nom
senaa-thcrc IS nothino in i've are all slaves
to the necessity Of earning an honest iip'hg' anu
ali necessity 10 work IS evil but 1t IS an evil
like boards and toe nails we are Born 'o-So'iiG
have 10 work al calling and some at announcer
and some work is harder than another-sofne
90 down under the airth and dig coal and IRON ana
copper and lead and gold and s!eef-and some on
h face of the air.f, dig, piongh and hoe,a choP
xood-nhat last kind Of work is pagy tuh IN WIN
fer AWAY off in the woods, with sno" up 10 your
knees and vour dinner froze as hard IS brick
.ba1-and some 90 the great deep III storms
and tc,npests and don't know what it IS to have Il
drv Jacket on for weeks togethef-and 10 "he
and children TO sit round a fiac with every eve
nino-and some pick cotton and nave tins ahFah-
,ape over all the rest, and that Is when they gee
sick and old they taken care Of without GONG
bcogiuq or be thrust into poor house or PRISON,
Some folks are by natnr dependent on olners a"d
lean on 'em like bean vines to polls no" sup
nose some old women should get notion to petit
in the airth arter coal and iron, and so oFth, ans
say tbot n man wasn't born like iooodchHcf 10
live in the arth--aud then again TO stop t"ls
from risin their precious lives al sea, as though
they were born with fins like Il fish, ho" Then
and what would be the eend ont
Can any man tell what would he the state OF
thintrs if anv of these whims was t" be acted Oh
oniv for one wear Just for the trial onf ana men
aqin. has any one turned over the matter I" see
what would be the condition of things II "a Doll
tioo,, should take root--kicS up boboery down
South and let only one crop oi cotton go eGpirk u
folks abroad don't think much OF tins put
looE, al it pritv much VIC do At the Chinese.
and carelessy talk of abolition as matter oil
n,oash shine England sends her aboiitioniSts mere
to keen 'an | suppose from deviitry at home
nossibly that if their mad skemes were only Tor
one season to prosper here, storm would now
over Enciand worse than a unlN cfs2' cI".St"
morbuq Gut off one of oar crops oil cotton oh'f
and then let the Green or her Ministers at
tennt to toll the thousands OF splnneTs and "ea-
yors orEoriand. that they and their families must
submit to % hungry and unemployed, on accoun,
of the oreGt and glorious Cause Of GdotttsoH--ana
# they remain content and hungry. why tncn 10
harm win come from that Pint--but II on inc con
trarv. they don't understand the doctrine, (at.a
some folks do say that some OF 5ohn Bun i'h'y
ger cross mud ugly when hungry why 'he'' ''ie'
viii be troable, and such trouble IS amt coo'ed
hv SAGE o. catuip tea--and for one wash my
b1,ds on,,-and say sslet we'll alone
..Il tell YOU what it is Major says the bea-
90, ..we have now ben working along pretty
for fifty years under Constitution
that has kept us all together happy family, ana
any man who attempts Is disturb any mater OF
,b;,.r Guaranteed and secured by that C9nstitu-
to;,, amt got any more patriotism III nam than Il
rotten punkin--and al! petitions TO Congress, ask-
inr things contrary TO the Constitution, are Just
as had as for man to ask another mans agent
70 do wha, he knows he has no right to do under
Tie power of attorney he holds from his principal
that's law NJ i,r." SAYS the Deacon, lard DON'T
knows saws he, '.f it amt Gospel too"
| and Uncle Sam have ben thnkin over ta's
,,,t,er and npnn the hulI we come to the notion
tho, the Dcacon's doctrine is about right, and we
hope Won will not disregard IT.
Your friend and fellow citizen.
j. DOWNING, MaJr.
DowningvilIc Militia, Cd Brigade.