Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1840-08-13
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
LOG CABIN, NoRTH BEND,
July %, no.
To The Edigs Me Express.

To The Edituls efMs Express.
! RespeciVv friends The weather is
considerable hot now, but not halt ss
hot as some joiks will find il aiore No
vember next for if am not mistaken
as things are going, we shall have pr, T.
ty warm work before that day comes.
han't had my coat on now going on
three weeks. Letters and folks pouring
in, and the Gineral says "Maj jor, you
must spiing to, aud lend me a.helping
| hand in The Cabin or the farm viii 20
neglected, and that ] can't allow no
how" The Gineral is a master hand
! for look ing oul about the farming work,
and ! do rally believe If any man can
show him an acre of ground can be
made TO produce more corn or hay than
il did aiorc, will stand bigger chance
Of getting an Office than any man who
shows he can control more coles than
any other man.
/ When the folks all 60 or and the
Gncral and sit down together and talk
over matters, and he writes down the
proceedings Of the day, find he culs
out especially all he has heard about
, what this and that one has said about
farming But" says !, Gincral,
/ why don't you say something about what
they said regarding the political votes
Of their districts Z" Well" say. he,
I "Major, some things are eidraal and
some things are chonseable. Now II ]
can only get the farming world gong
right, it matters very lille how other
matters go, for in the end that will brIng
al! things right"
The Gineral says that the nblcst and
best politician in the country is the man
who can make one ncre of ground pro-
duce more than it ever did before, aud no
says if he can only put his eyes aud
finger on that man, he will ask him as
particular favor to fill the highest Office
he can name, provided he is willing and
able to take Office, for the Gineral goes
on that principle. He says that oGicc
is to bo given only to such as are best
able to snrve the country best. lle
says that agriculture sta nds first next
comes the manufacturing aud mechanic
arts, aud then comes the merchant aud
iauyer- all necessary TO one another.
But the politician who has no other trade,
he thinks is a poor critur, ana he hopes
the present Administration will do all
they can for him, for he don't like to see
any body suffer, but he can do nothing
but tell him to go To work at some useful
calling. The first question the GineraI
puts to man who calls on him, is to know
what his trade or calling il, and If by
chance he lets on that he has none, the
Gircral takes him right out in his pota-
toe patch and gives hin, lesson IN Dig
g'ng.
I tell'd the Gincral ono day, says I,
"Gineial this will never do in creation"
Says ], "why, Mr. Van Burcn will beat
you all hollow on this tack, for the first
thing he fluids out is, to know how MANY
roitS a man can command, and according
To his power he sets too aud greases him,
Tor he knows that ii is by rot.S and not by
poiaiOes that President is 10 he elect
ed q" But the Gineral don't believe
this, and he says he would rather be n
plain farmer and surrounded by set Of
men who can dig potatoes, than to be
president and surrounded only by set
of roie diggers."
i don't XIV W how it is, but according
r to political calculations one would say
! the Gineral is to be beaion, but accord
ing to what one sees oil about creation
think the GineraPs corn and potatoc
:, crops will beat Mr. Van Buren's roie
crops three 10 one.
}. There is one thing that think will
throw Mr.. Van Buren, fiat nm his back.
lie thinks that has party will go for him
through thick and thin, because he sags
he is at the head of the "great demo-
cratic family" Now that family is very
large. All on 'em aint Office holders
Some on 'em are farmers some me-
chanics some manufacturers some
merchants and as his policy is on
ly intended to profit the o6ice holding
portion of that family, and dead agains,
all the other members, they tell him that
Mr.. Benton, Mr.. Blair, Mr.. kindal,
and a reIy tcp more, are not all the dem
ocratic family. But he don't believe il
and this is The rub and every time
he tres to "rcwnrd friends and pun 81,
enemies, nc MUS nc makes matters
worse-and he will find that instead ot
d beng good sound democrat, he is only
selfish politician, seeking to retain
= office at The expense of large mr.s q.
people who say that democratic corcrn-
n,nt was Intended for the good oi lh,
/, greatest nuInber--not for exclusive bcu-
J.. eft of few Office holders, who pu,
. noses together and plan schemes To kccp
4 themselves IN Office.
Il l don't know whai the folks think along
the scaboard, but out here the cry ~
= the Government must be administered
. by honest men, and every man ~ oilico
must be such ms any honest citizen would
s'lcci 10 be his executor, aud guardian
Of his estate aud children, when hs
comes tn die AND no other vii suit ,
! that they must be men who book 10 the
good Of the whole people, and not 10 u
party men who taking Office, viii kn""
. ! us duties and obligations, and II found
using the influence Of said office TO retain
L. the station, should nt once he irea',d