Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1840-07-23
MAJOR JACK DOW MING.
LOG CABIN, NORTH BEND, }
July =, 1910.
10 The Editors of The Express:

\ i have Just got your letter telling me
that you had received from Ohio big
arm chair for me made out Of the Tale
chuck eye"-and that the folks VINO
sent il tell you if ] have got one, when l
am there To put II into one oi inc log
Cabinsn in New York. III had time
would write them a letter Of thanks
Itbut haint got time cnufT TO shave my
sell more than once a week, beng so
busy lending Gen. Harrison hand in
copying letters and taking care OF folks
calling here in droves TO see him, Tor il
he did it all himself his farm would pretty
soon be oil IN weeds.
! suppose the good folks who send me
that arm chair think the time uint tar of
when ! can sit down in it at my ease
but they are misiakeu--the Gineral and
| will have our hands full after the 4th OF
March next, when we take possession oi
the White IIouse-ior il ! aint mistaken
il will take full year after that to "clean
House" Ilowsever am mig hIily tick
led with the complment-and will take
that chair from tho Log Cabin at New
York TO the Cabinet Chamber ut Wash
ington, and folks will have more ONT
alore have done with it.
/ You began suppose to think was
dried up, ink-horn and abby not hear
ing any thing from me since the hog
chase story teIl'd you spell ago-but
haint been idle-tho' the Gineral SEEM
cd To think it want best for me TO write
letters from his Cabin, as folks might
think | was eleciioneering for him, and
so l kept at work aiding him in keeping
all his own matters snug and lending a
hand in doing up Chores and getting all
things ready for move on the 4th Of
March next.
We got here few days ago letter
signed Andrew Jackson-tellng folks
hat he goes for MIR. Van Buren-and
ngin Gen. Harrison, and calling OH eve
ny body TO do the same. When | read
this letter tuned as red rs beet, for
| was rally down right ashamed ont
And thought when Old Tip come to
read ithe would fly right of the handle,
but il warnt so, Tor as soon as he read II
says he, "Nlajor, who IN the world has
been foolish enui to write this letter and
sign it .4sdrrw Jackson- did they sup
pose folks foolish enuf to believe il come
from that gallant old Soldier" "No,
no." says he, "thut won't do, and now,
do you sit down aud present my respects
10 my old brother in arms, and tell him
that whatever other folks may think ont
that never can believe that one old sol.
der is capable Of writing such letter
against another old soldier who, like him,
did his best 10 serve his country, at II
time when rougher work than writing
electioaeering letters was demanded by
the country" Well, thinks |, if that
aint putting pepper and salt on scraped
skin, Pm mis,aken-but | wrote the let
: ter, and il it rally does turn out that
Gineral Jackson's letter is genwine, it
/ will set him hopping mad, but if ii turns
out that the letter is kounterlit, ns |
, rally believe it is, pity the man who
I first printed IT,.
There is one thing tickles mo here
considerable, and that is in seeing the
old soldiers calling upon their old Gene
raj and talking over old times and battles.
5 And when they 60 of home the Gineral
a says, swell l suppose there are some
, folks who count up the killed ard wound
ed Of the battles we were in and say
this and that, after all was small fight,
!. and the Commanding Gineral must be q
/ small Hero, when If the list OF killed and
wounded was large, they would say that
, was a glorious fight and the Commander
: WAS great Hero. Now the fact is il ]
had been lighting for my own glory and
nv mo- far / had
numerous chances Tor such lights, but as
every man under my command had a
life as valuable to him as mine was to nc,
and we were fighting against 81 Is cd
men with no coats, and poor deludod In
dians-my plan was TO keep them in
check till l worked them in corners and
took them all prisoners with the least loss
OF life poss blc ot my men, who l wanted
to preserve and to be able to return TO
their own Log Cabins, and to enjoy with
+, me the pleasures we now ENJOY. And
:, that is just my notion Of the difference
! between the fights for glory of com
mander OF an army OF his own neighbors
and friends and that of IA military chief.
tain who says, that by the loss OF ten
thousand men | may put feather in my
cap"
II would tickle you most desperately
TO hear some Of these old Log Cabin SOL
diers, who have rough'd it through the
wars under old Tip, read and laugh over
the stories set afoat that Old Tip was a
coward. | would like 10 see commit
tee from some Of your Loco Foco meet
ings come here to report resolutions TO
that eend.
y, don't know much what is going on
OF your side Of The AIegany mounii,gs,
A all know is that on this side there is no
mistake. The cry is that the times are
! out Of joint, and must bo put straight
! that the country is brought to the brink
Of ruin by bad men, and they must quit
that the people arc entitled 10 the SER
vices Of the best men in the land, and
won't have any other; that whenever
tho present men IN power succeed by a
majority Of votes, it must be by the use
and abuse Of Executive patronage-and
that can't and won't be submitted TO no