Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1839-04-30

thing I always keep my eye on, aud found
GineraI Soon ia the same way Of think.
ing and that IS. to depend less on folks
who say they IRE feady toshcd iheLAsT
DROP of their blood. than on folks who
arc ready to shed tho rst drop. Give q
man Eight Dollars 70 make speeches IN
Congress, with the right of free postage,
and you hear enUf 0f last drop matters;
but whenit comes 70 camp duty, and raw
beef and stale bread, and bagnet work.
then thees first drop" folks have 10 stand
the rnezer at 8 dollars a month tell'd
Gineral Scott says !, Gineral, suppose
you would about as leave light as cal, for
that Is your naiut-but for my parf, seeing
las how things are gisiin on remarkably
smart now all oyer the country, and the
spring Of the year, too, and the new in.
provements every day, and the green
leaves and grass. and the little children all
sprouting, and the canals aud railroads
about half made. and the cotton crops
jest about beginning, and the banks oil Jest
getting into specie payments, and every
thing looking about slick ITO say nolhing.
about the steamboats, crossing the Ocean
every week--it does seem 10 me that q
war WON'T help matters no how.
know that, Major, saws he's War
IS great calamity, and there ain. only o.'e
filing worse, " says he. :. Whit IS lhai ls'
says National dishonor, says he
straitening up priity nigh Ike an Aroos.
took pine. !" Go ahead, you criitur, SAYS
|, "and if there is any chopping 10 be
done Down East, let me know. Web,
you see what he has done; and AL Eve
got to say about il thus far is, thai when
you come TO think that man nigh upon
seven feet high and strait as bean pole,
and all girl from one ceud 10 sother, is
willing TO work like a HEAVIER al all ints--
South and Southwest, North and North
east, and DssCn East TO keep an honora.
bic peace. and watching like a link 10 see
that the nations honor is no way SLED = /
do think, tho war WOULD give me a con-
siderable boost up 10 the world in military
rank, alc man who keeps the peace IS, nc
cording to the Good Book, entitled 10 a
blessing especially if war is his trade.
There is one thing think Mr.. Van Bu-
rem deserves great credit for, and that is
in commanding the services nj such a man
as GineFal Scott TO manage all matters of
this naIur; and there is only one thing
more / think is wanting, and that the Pen.
pie are entitled 10; and that is, some one
to manage the money nattesDf the coua-
TRY as well. / 60 on the principle that il
a man does right in using the best plough
he can get on his farm, and sowing the
best grain--jest so President does right
in calling into the service of the country
the best talent the country has--the Peo-
| pie are entitled to it-and if PARTY folks
| grumble, they should take it out in grun.
| bling. Look what S Party has done al.
ready for some years back" Scratch
ploughing and smu,iy crops"-but enuf Of
this.
lihanbyou for your kind invitation TO
stop and eat Peaches with you achen they
are ripe;" and, as I remember you have
get some capital early apple trees on your
farm, TIL stop and take bite on my way
TO the North, and Il chance at the peaches
when ] return back, Jest by way Of remind.
ing you Of old times in the bank--for just
so sure You remember, when you tell'd
folks you thought Peaches would be ripe in
| September, they would be down upon you
to get a nip of Early Apples 10 June. and
then fetch up Oh the Peaches afterwards
The fact is, Squire, | am Desperately
afraid, now that you and The Gineral have
both back d cut aud gone to get some qai.
ct and resi,.that a good many an US viii
have cause to feel that god lines have
gone by- -only with this difference. that
the Gineral's extra work came from bis
notion Of j" rewarding friends and punish.
ing enemies, and yon went on the plinci,
pie of feeding both--and one was about
as hard work as tother
AS Amos Kindle haint got a Post Office
nigh your farm, / send this letter to the
!" New York Express, to print and send
out, and suppose you'll get il somehow
thai way best.
Your friend IN old lines. and times pres.
eni, and times 10 come,
]. DOWNING,
Major, Downingyilie Militia, Cd lirig.