Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1840-04-30
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
AT THE CABIN ON THE NORTH
BEND.
ONO, ApriI 9, 1910.

ONO, April 3, 1910.
To the DoicningUitie. .Joiks al home and else
tchere.
Fellow cilizcns-'rhe Ohio is riz, and
so has the whole western resarve one
by hard rain and t'oher by hard cider
La all my born days never have seen
anything like it. AS for business, the
folks in all this quarter say there IS no
use in irving to do any kind Of business
as the present Office holders git pretty
much all the money that trade puts IN
circulation, and change it right of for
hard money, and put It in their pockets
for their wages. SO there IS no uSo to
do anything, unless the wages Of Office
holders is cut down to hard money phi
ces-jist as flour and grain and cotton is
The sihce holders and other govern
ment folks out here are making great
calculations on Eastern Elections /; they
say ,ha, old Connect ut will 20 all hol-
low for Sub Treasury and no Credit
and that New York will follow and so
forth. Well, | don't know how that is
but other folks out this way don't seem
TO care if all East and New York City
aud State go that way, and | don't won
der at their feel ng little Indifferent -
for folks living on the edge of salt water,
and never having been in this everlast-
ing western country can have no idea
out It aint here as it Is IN some coun-
tries, where folks who live in small cab
ins don't know much except digging,
and hoeing, and loafng, and are easily
bamboozled-but here every man stands
SIR it up on his hind legs trouble
is upon the country, and shares the cause
ont most awful.
wish some of the folks in the big
cities, who are considered considerable
politicians in their way, and 90 around
among the people there, and get up pro-
cessions, and banners and other light
work, and humbug 'em with notions
about the Importance Of carrying this
ward, or that ward, and that 'ss goes
sich and sich ward, goes all crea-
,itn
wish, say, they would come out
this way, and see the inside OF The gre at
national pudding, they would feel pretty
small tell ye. Why, till folks git Oh
the western side OF the Alegany Noun
tings, they hnint got more than leetle
arter breakfast tine in the Union. Eve
ry man knows The Constitution here jiSl
about as well as he knows how to plant
corn aud though for time, the men
at the helm at Washington may gi, the
old ship on the wrong tack, and succeed
by aid Of Jogs to keep the matter quiet,
but as soon as trouble comes-as come
it must, when the wrong tack is taken
then look out for regular raccoon hunt
There is no place like he Cabin here,
to know what is going on ; East, West,
North, and South for pretty much all
creation, coming and going, stop in to
see the Gineral to say nothing of spe-
cial committees sent from oil quarters,
and about two bushels of letters every
day, and the way the Gineral gifts along
with matters, convinces me moro and
more that he is one OF them kind of folk 5
we read about, who, arter dong good
service, are pushed aside by the Gro"
for spell, who git their eye Oh new
light, or jack-o'. lantern, which leads
them into the mush, and then they git
back # they can, and place the old and
neglected Veteran at the head.
IL does me good to see how kindly
the OM Hro treats every body who
comes Ia see him, and no matter what
they want to talk about, he's ready for
'em for, in his life time, he has had
considerable experience in pretty much
every thing. But when folks come to
sound him, or write to him, To know
What course he Will take on this aues-
ton or that question, when he is elected
President, he refers them To the Consti
tuition and the Laws, aud says that they
ever have been aud always will be h-
guides /; no matter what station he is in,
whether ia bi, abin At the North Bend
or Ia the Cabinet al the White House ri
Washington, uheih,r on horseback al
the head al an Amy, ar un fout at u
pluughtail with sword IN his hand ot
q hoe in hls hand, II makes no odds, h.
knows 70 other political guides.
The Gineral says that Iist a. the poo.
pie have made The Constitution and he
Lars. iist So IL is with his barrel Of ci.
der There is no use of promising onr
man glass Of sweet cider and an"ihei
o.an "a oI,,a nui ouite ~ sweet .-- one