Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-04-11

ALWAYS keep INV eve on and | found Gin
eral Scott in the same way of thinking; and
that is, to depend less on folks who say they
are ready to shed the LAST DROP Of their
blood" than on folks who are ready to shed
the first drop. Give man Eight Dollars
day to make speeches in Congress, with the
right of free postage, and you hear enuf of
d" last DROP matters but when it comes to
camp duty, and raw beef and stale bread,
and bagnet work, then the b" first drop" folks
! have to stand the racket at eight dollars
month. Itell'd Gineral Scott-says !, " Gin
eral, [ suppose you would about as leave
| fight as eat, for that is your natur; but for
my part, seeing as how things are gittin on
remarkably smart now all over the country,
and the spring of the year too, and the new
| improvements every day, and the green
leaves and grass, and the little children all
sprouting, and the canals and ail-roads about
half made, and the cotton crops Jest about
bagging, and the Banks all jest getting into
specie payments, and every thing looking
about slick-to say nothing about the steam
J boats crossing the ocean every week-it does
seem to me that wal wont help matters no
how" 81 know that" says he, Major" War
is great calamity, and there aint only one
thing worse,' says he. "What is that 7" say
|, e" Nationol dishonor," says he-straitening
up pretty nigh like an Aroostook pine. GO
ahead you crittur," says /, "and if there is
any chopping to be done Down East, let me
know" Well, you see what he has done !;
and all I've got to say about it thus far is, that
when you come to think that II man nigh
upon seven foot high and strait as a bean
| pole, and all grit from one eend to tother, is
willing to work like beaver at all pints-
South and South West, North and North
East, and Dozen East, TO keep an honorable
peace and watching like link, to see that
the nations honor is no way silcd-1 do
think, tho war would give me considera-
bic boost up in the world in military rank,
The man who keeps the peace is, according to
the Good Book, entitled to a blessing-especi.
ally if war is his trade.
There is one thing think Mr.. Van Buren,
deserves great credit for, and that is in COM
manding the sarvices of such man as Gin
eral Scott TO manage all matters of this natur;
and there is only one thing more think is
wanting, and that the people are entitled TO-,
and that is some one to manage the money
matters of the country as we'll. go on the
principle, that if a man does right in using
the best plough he can get on his farm, and
sowing the best grain-jest SO a President
does right in calling into the service of the
country the best talent the country has-the
People are entitled to it-and If PARTY folks
grumbie, they should take 1t out IN grumbllng.
Look what Is Party has done already for
some years back" Scratch ploughing, and
smutty crops"-but enuf of this.
thank you for your kind invitation to
stop and cat Peaches with you g. hen they are
ripe" and as l remember you have got some
capital early apple trees on your farm, I'll
stop and take bite on my way North, and
chance at the Peaches when return back,
jest by way ofremindng 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 nip of Early Apples
in June, and then fetch up on the Peaches af-
forwards.
The fact is, Squire, am desperately afraid
now that you and the Gineral have both
back'd out and gone to get some quiet and
rest-that good many on us will have cause
to feel that good times have gone by-only
with this difference, that the Gineral's extra
work came from his notion Of" rewarding
friends and furnishing enemies" and you
went on the principle offeeding both-and
one was about as hard work as tother.
As Amos Kindle haint yet got Post Office
nigh your farm, send this Letter to the
New York Erpress," TO print and send out,
and suppose you'll git it some how that way
best.
| Your friend in old times, and times
| TO