Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1840-05-16
SoAAAN W. oOLEO
To Nelson Poe, ESQ. and others.
From the New York Express.
Al THE CABIN ON THE NORTH BEND.

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w-citizens-I'he Ohio has riz, and s.
: has the whole Western resarve, one by har
rain and t'other by hard cider In all nv borl
days | never have seen anything like it. A.
for business, the folks in all this quarter sa,
there is no use in trying to do any kind of bus
ness-as the present office-holders git prett,
much all the money that trade puts in circula
ton, and change it right off for hard money
and put it in their pockets for their wages Sc
there is no use to do anything, unless the wages
OF office holders is cut down to hard money pri
ces---jist as flour and grain d.cotton is.
| The Office holders and other government
folks out here are making great calculations on
Eastern Elections they say that old Connect.
icut will go all hollow for Z" Sub Treasury and
| No Credn"-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 and State
go that way, and don't wonder at their feel
ing leetle indiflerent-for folks living on the
edge of salt water, and never having been in
the great Western country can have no idea
ont 1t amt here as it is in some countries,
don't know much except digging, and hoeing,
and loahng, and are easily bamboozled 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 who are consider
ed considerable politicians tn their vay, and 90
round among the people there, and get up pro-
cesslons, and banners, and other night work,
and humbug 'em with notions about the import
dnce of carrying this tcQrd, or that ward, and
"as goes sich and sich and sich a ward so
goes all creation" | wish, say, they would
come out this way, and see the inside of the
great national pudding, they would feel pretty
small tell ye. Why till folks get on the Wes-
tern side of the Allegany Mountings, they haint
got more than leetle artcr breakfast time into
the Union. Every man knows the Constitution
here jst about as well as he knows how to plant
corn and though, for a time the men at the
helm at Washington may git the old ship on the
wrong tack, and succeed by aid of fogs to keep
the matter quiet, but as soon as trouble comes
as come it must when the wrong tack is ta-
ken----then look out for a regular raccoon
hunt
There is no place like the Cabin here, to
know what is going on-EaSt, West, North,
South for pretty much all creation coming and
going stop in to seethe Gineral-to say nothing
of special meetings 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 eyes on new
light, or jack-o'- lantern, which leads them into
the mush, and then they git back agin if they
can, and place the old and neglected Veteran
at the head.
1t does me good to see how kindly the Old
Hero treats every body who comes to see him,
and no matter what they want to talk about,
he's ready for 'em for, in his lifetime he 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 or that question when he
is elected Presdent---he refers them to the con-
stitut;on 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 Washington-whether on
horseback at the head Of an army or on foot at
plough-tail-- sword in his hand, or a
hoe in his hand---its no odds he knows no other
political guides.
The Gineral says that jist as the people have
made the Constitution and the LdmS, jist so it is
with his barrel of hard cider. There is no use
of promising one man glass of sweet cider, and
another man glass not quite so sweet---anoth-
er man glass of hard cider and another lee
tie harder---they must all take it as it comes
from the same barrel, and no use in favoritising
and if it don't suit 'em he can't help it-it is his
business TO keep the barrel still and quiet, and
full, and bung upland the spigget about as nigh
the centre as possible, SO that the cider will
run clearest and no man will get dregs or
scums.
There was chap come along through this
way tother day from Washington, on his way
west with an appointment from the government
as /" a receiver of Public Land Money ,'----and
of course come along electioneering. Whence
yer he got among day laborers, he'd take out a
hard dollar and an old ragged paper dollar---
There says he, fellow citizens-look at this
and then look at that" Here says he, is the