The pilot. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840, 1840-04-23
From the New York Express.
At III sCabim on the North Bend,
Ohm Anil 8. 1910.


6tM sCaBiqs on the North Bend,
Ohio April 3, 1910.
To the DowningrilIs folks at home Sata eIsso@Sre
Eallov CitiZens-The Ohio has riZ, and SO
has the hull western resarVe-one py hdi9 ram
and tother by hard cider. In all my porn days
never have seen any thing like 1t. AS Tor DUST
ness The folks in all this quarter say there Is no
11se in irving to do any kind OF buslness-as the
present officeholders git pretty much all the mon
~, that trade puts in circulation, and change II
right off for hard money, aad put II IN Iheif pocA
cts for their wages. So there IS no use 10 40 any
thing, unless the wages OF ONCE hoIaers IS GU
down 10 hard money pTlces-Jls' "S lto"i' anu
grain and cotton is. I'll,
Tine office holders and other government 1olKS
o1t here are making great calculations on East
ern Elections; they say that old C0nnecSecae VIII
90 all hollow for " Sub ITszsWry @"@ no Cre@t."
and that New York will iolio" anu 50 Ao o,s
We'll. don't know how that is-but other folks
outthis way don't seem to care ii all East, and
New York city and State go that way, and |
dont wonder at their feeling leetlc indifferent
for folks living on the edge OF salt water, ana
never having been in the everlasting western
country. can have no idea ont 1t amt mere as IL
;e in some countries where folks who 1--we IN
small cabins don't know much except a9Shg,
and hoeing. and loafng and are easily pa1ooo-
zIed-but here every man stands straight on his
hind legs-when trouble is upon the country,
and sashares the cause ont most awful.
are considered considerable politicians IN their
soav. and 90 round among the people there and
Get m possessions and banners, and o'ner naght
work and humbuE cm with notions ABOUT Me
iDaportance Of carrying this WGfd, or mat aoSTG,
and that Gas poes SIGH and SIGH ward 50 goes
all cieatioA" wish say, they woula come
out this way, and see the inside OF the Sfeat ma,
sionaL pudd5ag, they would feel pretty small.
cell We. Why till folks git on the Western SIDE
of the Alegany Mountings they haint got more ore
than about leee arter break1ast une iliao .ne
Union Every man knows tic ConstIt1ttt0H mere
list about as we'll as he knows how to plant corn,
and though for time, the men at the helm al
washington may git the old ship on the wrong
tack. and succeed by aid of f0gS to keep the mat
ter quiet but as soon as trouble comes, as come
it must when the wrong tack is taken, theh looA
owt for a regular raccoon hunt
There is no Mace like TIE Cabin here, to know
what is going on-E0St, Vest, North, and SCUM;
for pretty much all creation, coming and gong,
stop to see the General Ito say noihing OF Inc sPe
ciai committees sent from all quarters and about
Two bushels of letters every day; and the way the
General gifts along with matters convince me
more and more that he is one OF them klnu Vi
folks we read about, who, arter dong gooo ser
vice, are pushed aside by the crowd a SpeIl' VINO
cit their eye on a new light, or lack-o,-iantern,
which leads them into the musk, and lhen they
y;t back agin il they can; and place the old ana
Neglected Vetran at the head.
+ does me good to see how kindly the Old He
70 treats every body who comes to see MN, ana
NO matter what they wantto talk about, he s ready
for ,em: for in his lifetime he has had consider
able experience in pretty much every thing but
when folks come to'somnd him, or write TO hlm,to
know what course he will take on htS question or
that question: when he is elected freSiqeht-
he refers them to the Constitution and the Laws,
and saws that they ever have been and always
will be his guidcs-ne matter what station ne is
in-whether in his Cabin at the North Bend, or
in the Cabinet at the White House at w ashlnS-
ton-whsther on horseback at the head OF an ar
INV. or on foot at the plough-tail-with sword IN
his hand, or hoe in his hand-it maks no oods
he knows no ther political guides.
The Gineral says that jist as the people have
made The Consultation and tie Lars, Jist so it is
with his barrel of cider. There IS no use o.
,ronnising one man glass OF sweet cider and
another man glass not quite SO sweet-and an
athar man a GLASS of hard cider, and another a
class leetle harder-they must all take 1t as il
Comes from the same barrel, and no favor
itising. and if it don't suit em ne can't heip II
II is his business TO to keep the barfei sui ana
quiet, and full, and bung up-ana the sP!ggo. a.
bout as nigh the centre as possible, SO that Inc
cider will run clearest and no man get dregs or
skums.
There was chap come along through these
rarts tother day from Washington, on his way
west, with an appointment by government. as
en- receiver OF Public Land Money,'-and of
course come along eectioneering. Whenever
he cot among day aborers, he'd take out hard
dollar and an old ragged paper dollar. "There,"
saws saws he fellow ctizens-'sook at this and then
look at that Here" says he, sis the kind OF
money the bank ruiFians' want you to take Tor
vour lahor-and here is the kind of money we
honest Woodworking sub-treasury folks want
Won TO have" Well, he work'd his way along
1,rtv well, though good many folks he tak'd
I, told him it was purity difficult nowadays TO
rit hold of bank money or hard money,-but
he told 'em TO hang on, and vote for the SUD-
treasury foks--and no doubt in time the most