The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-02
DowNINGyILLE, State of Maine,
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June, IO4U.
To Gineral Duff Green, that prints the Pilot
away off to Baltimore, pretty near to Wash
ington.
DEAR SIR: hspe you won't think strange nor
nothin, because l send this ere letter to you-
/ used to take considerable of a liking to YOU,
when you and 1 lived together at Washington,
and fit under Gineral Jackson; but didn't know
what had become of you late years, till few
days ago was in uncle Joshua's post Office, and
found the Pilot, that you print away off there to
Baltimore; and sot down and chawed upon it
awhile, and liked it SO well, l told uncle Jo-
shua meant to set right down and write to you,
and try to scrape acquaintance again.
wonder if you remember what become of me
when Gineral jackson went out of office; if you
don't, I'll tell you. When my cousin, the Ma
jor, lay on his death bed, here in DoIvningville,
jest before the Ginera1 finished his presidency,
he writ to me at Washington, to stick by the
Gineral, and take care of him as long as he liv-
ed, and when his presidency was done, to 90
back with him to the hermitage, and comfort
him: for he knew he must be lonesome, and he
couldn't bear the idea that he should be left
dlouo, HllHoul any Ol his Olu MIN.
So did as cousin Jack wanted me to, and when
the Gineral went out of Office, l went off with
him clear to the hermitage, and lived with him
since, till this summer; and used to+sslR his
fires, and light his pipe, aud take care of his
garden, and go TO the post office and get the pa
pers, and read the news to him, and so on. And
we lived pretty quiet, comfortable sort of life
~ go sicba f,tee oil
over the country, about Gineral Harrison, or Old
Tip, as they call him.
At first, the Gineral used to laugh about it
and said they might as well set out to make :
president of his old hickory cane He said, if thu
wings had mind to take up Webster or Clay
or Calhoun, they might get two or three State
for either of 'em, but if they went for Harrison
they'd be etarnally dishd, and wouldn't get
single State. But as the papers grew more full
of the matter, the Gineral grew more airnest t
see EN- He used TO send me to the post Office
every day as soon as the mail was in, and make
me set down and read over all the news about
the presidency, and when | got hold of a new
paper that come out for Harrison, he would catch
1t out of my hands and clap on his spectacles
I
slat it on to the floor and say, there was another
editor had made fool Of himself. And then he
would take his pipe and go to smoking, and tell
me to read on; and the more | read, the faster
he'd smoke And when the accounts come ou
pretty hot for Harrison, he'd start up out Of hii
chair, and walk back and forth across the room
and make his pipe go like steam-engine AND
once when was reading a paper that praised
Old Tip up to the skies, and told all about tn,
Battle of Tippecanoe, and Fort Meigs, and tn,
Thames, and said Harrison had done more fo
his country than any other man living, the Gin
eral threw his pipe out of the window, as mucl
as six rods, and dashed it all to pieces.
Now, says l, General, there's no use in that
Ii the folks take notion to choose Old Tip 70
president, they'll do it, and you and can't hei
it, no way we can fix it.
Says he, Sargent Joel, you're fool. Didn
/ put MIR, Van Buren, into the presidency to sta
there eight years? And didn't he promise to fol
low in my footstepsf And hasn't he got fou
years more to serve after this year is outa And
by the Eternal, he shall do it, too, if have t
30 TO Washington myself to see to the bushes.
nus talking about making Harrison president
= no'ning but etarnal stupid nonsense
nc morning we expecting the mail +
BRING the account of the great national ,yb
convention that met to nominate a president a.
Gineral got up rather anlier than eo,,,,o,. :.
see he locked kind Of fdgety and onea 81 -, ~