Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-03-28
From The Nep Orleans Bulletin,

a DowningviIle Militia, Cd Briga'
!. From he Nr,o Orleans. Bulletin
@ LIVE OKE PLANTATION, (necr Pensycola,)
Q Feb. 80, 1889
10 Mayor Jack Dotcaia, up TO WaShintoa, CID
By Uncle SANS:
Deer Major--I red your letter to Squi
Dwie, mean the one you writ to print in /!
, old paper in York, guess you've about Il
rite notion of things, and that's leetle mo
than the Navy commissioners and the
e Scratchetary has. Pm glad you've he'd tai
Q with Uncle Sam, for he's cute old crittu
raal grit, and he'd go rite ahead and du tn
t clean thing if 'lwasn't for them tarnal yilan
+ his Agints, that cheat and defaulkaie him a
!, to smash. Now the Gulf of Mexico you wr
9 about is a case in pint. Unce Sam alIer
considered il valooabe place and a prett
important lokalk ~. t'me Of war, bat it lai
la long time neglekted cause his Agint
wouldn't pay no attention to it, Till one da
about IA years ago, he got paguily riled a
his lazy Agints all along shore for not picki
out place for buidin aud reparin his vessel
|of war-and the old Teller had his eyes OF
Pensacola, seem as how he'd been at his Jog
rafy and maps and foupd twenty-lour fee
on the Bar-but them feTers hadn't tell'd hin
nothing about that, and when he found 'em out
and how they'd been telln on him cock -and
bull stories Of the superior claims of Tortugas
Wahoo Swamp, and such sort of spots about
the Flurryday coast for the lokation of Naval
Depo, his dander riz in mint and he scolded
and storm'd round the house like all wrath
tell ye, and made some of them look streaked,
guess. Then he called in the Bos Bricklayer
and telled him to build Forty -fcations and
plenty on 'em, for he was goin tn make Pensyco-
la strong place and Naval Depo And then
he sot down and writ a long leiter to the Three
Old Shippers and their Seketary, to ma rch street
and stake out place in that Harbor where
ships and vessels could be built and fitted and
riggd cause, seq he, the lngisk and French
IS sending in ever 50 many coryettys and
briggs and steamers to crooZe about the Gulf
and what's the USE? Pm determined not toI
DO behind nobody in them waters and no 9TH
~" WAL, the Bos Bricklayer, he started
md sprung toit, like good Teller, and in Jest
bout no time he sot up the brick walls sleek
md smooth, and left holes and fxins for $50
ong 80 Founders, and it raaly was curious to
ee how Unkle Sam was tickled when they
eIl'd him the Fort was built and ready for
arvice, and not costin more'n half what them
Iun buildns down east came to, and when
hey show'd him pktur on it with the 'Mer-
ikln flag u flynn on top, swell SEE he, "if that
ont beat all natur," and with that he gin the
los look, and then they both snofted rite
ut.
Now Uncle Sam took il Tor granted that the
Id Shippers was doin his orders as well as
ne Dos Brick layer, and so, all bein' quiet a |
ong shore, and nobody sayin' nothin to his |
eople on their peddlin' voyages thro' the Gulf
l'od man sat down and red the newspapers
spell and writ letters, and all went on we'll
nuf till about or years ago, when the old
hap got into kinder snarl with Lewis Phil
IS about small balance he was OWN on US,
nd he found like enut he'd hev to lick Philips
etore he'd git 500 markec of the money. |
low the old leller's got about as much spunk |
S any body, and when he gins folks to under
tand that they must do this or that thing, or
'ok out, you may jist kallate he's in airnest, and
1ost likely II do what he seq. So he up and
9lled Phillips he must pay the money, or by
h old lioky-and then he shock his fist at him |
-jls' so. WAL, what did Philips do but send
ut an almighty squad Of vessels rite down the
he Gulf to be ready TO pounce upon US in
1innit And dreadful fine condition we was
., with plenty of Forts all round Orleans,
ioble and Pensycoa, but not a gun.nor a man
a the hull OMEN. Phillips, he had the plans
I all our Works, cause Uncle Sam, like
arn'd old fool, must go and hire plaguy old
rrenchman to stake 'em out for US, and he |
ocketed 'em and cleared out to France with
I'm Jlst in iime-so you see, Major, as you are
military man, what pretty fix our part of
ne country was in, especially as the Sim
llnoes had jlst begun on US at t'other eend,
nd there we was. But the beauty of the hull
n 1t was; that the French brought with 'em
hem new Guns called the Pizen Guns which
low up walls, kill men and pizen 'em arter-
'ards. The vessels, they come rite down the
iuif, looking dreadful like thuader-if YOU
yer see that They was more'n al. Unkel |
ANS Navy put together, aAoat, on the stocks,
ordinary, and sin the incipience of the ma
'rial'' as Squire Spaden cur'ously worded it,
'hen he writ to Kongress a spell ago to advise
I'M not to make no dimmnushion ofthe Force
but rather to add few small craft, let alone
ne Water Tank.
THIS Squad'run Of Phillips took UnkIe Sam
! aback, as the sailors say, and pretty nigh
him. But he statred up, kalled 1
r the Three Shippers, and ass'd 'em how
ngs come on at Pensycola. "Waal," seq one
ems donno, but guess they be right
'out nalow as they was when we tell'd YOU
spell ago, that we didn't kalkiate to du much
'wn along there--it's so fur South. "--"Youl
I'D me, you darn'd old super annotated law
fool! You lie, then, never tell'd you nor