The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-05-09
From the NeW York Express.
AT THE CABIN ON THE NORTH BEND,
Ono April 3. 1910,


TO the Domningriue folks at home and elsewhere:
Fellow Citizens-The Ohio has riz, and so
has the hull Western resarve--one BY hard rain
and t'other by hard cider. In all my born days
never have seen any thing like it, AS for bust
ness, the folks in all this quarter say there is
use in trying to do any kind Of business--as the
present oficeholders 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 use to
do any thing, unless the wages of officeholders
is TO be cut down to hard money prces-jist as
flour and grain and cotton is.
The oficeholders and other government folks
out here are making great calculations on East
ern Elections; they say that old Connecticut
will go all hollow for Sub-tredsu,y and no
Credif'-and that New y ork 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 and State 90 that way,
and don't wonder at their feeling leete indif-
terent-for folks living on the edge of salt water,
and never having been in this everlasting west
ern country can have no idea ont; it aint here
it is in some countries, where folks who live
in small cabins don't know much except digging,
and hoeing, and oafng, and are easily bam-
boozled-but here every man stands strait up on
his hind legs-when trouble is upon the country,
and sasharares the cause ont most awful.
! wish some of the folks in our big cities, who
are considered considerable politicians in their
aray, and go round among the people there, and
get up professions, and banners, and other night
work, and humbug 'em with notions about the
Importance of carrying this arard or that ndrd,
and that, Gas goes SIGH and SIGH ward so goes
all creation" wish, say, they would come
out this way, and see the inside of the great ma
'ioaai pudding, they would feel pretty small
tell We. Why, till folks git on the western side Of
the Alegany Mountings, they hant got more than
about leetle arter breakfast time in the Union.
Every man knows the Constitution here list
about as well as he knows how to plant corn:
and though, for time, the men at the helm at
Washington may git the old ship on the wrong
tack, and succeed by aid of foga to keep the
matter quiet, but 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 The Cabin here, to
know what is going on-Edst Hest, North and
South; for pretty much all creation, coming and
going, stop in TO see the Gineral-to say nothing
OF special Committees sent from all quarters,
and about two bushels Of letters every day and
the way the Gineral gifts along with matters,
convinces me more and more that he is one Of
them kind of folks we read about who, arter
doing good service, are pushed aside by the crowd
for spell, who git their eye on a new light, or
JACKIE lantern, which leads them into the mush
and then they git back agin if they can, and
piace tne ola ana neglected Netran AT The head.
Ii does me good to see how kindly the old
Hero treats every body who comes to see him,
and no matter what they want 10 talk about, he's
ready for 'em; for in his lifetime 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 question that question: when he is
elected President, he refers them to the Consti-
tuition and the Laws, and says that they ever
have been, and always will be, his gudes-no
matter what station he is in-whether in his
Cabin at the North Bend, or in the Cabinet at
the White House at Observation-Disclosures on
horseback at the head OF an army, or on foot at a
plough-tail-with a sword in his hand, or hoe
IN his hand-t makes no odds-he knows no
other political guides.
The Gineral says that jist as the people have
made the Constitution and The Lars, jist SO ii is
with his barrel of cider. There is no use of
promising one man glass of sweet cider and
another man glass of not quite so sweet
another man glass of hard cider and another
glass eetle harder-they must all take il rs it
comes, from the same barrel, and no favortisng
and # 1t don't suit em he can't help tit is his
business TO keep the barrel still and quiet. and
iuI, and bung up-and the spiggot about as nigh
We centre as possible, so that the cider will run
dearest, and no man get dregs or skums
There was a chap come along through these
parts tother day from Washington, on his way
west with an appointment, by Government as
Receiver Of Public Land Money and Of