Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1840-05-02
From the New York Express.

We are glad he is where he is-though he is |
seldom out of place anywhere. We congratu-
late the country genearlly and the Old Hero, in
particular, (Who has been designated as the
standard bearer at the head of the great Demo-
cratic Wing Column) that he has at his side a
valuable and trusty friend-and have little doubt
that the Majors Letters from the /" Cabinet.
of the Cabin will traverse, trumpet-tongued o.
yer the lsnd and infuse new life in the pres
ent palsied, chained and trameled energies OF
the country
MAJOR DOWNING AT THE LOG CAB
IN NORTH BEND.
LOG CABIN, North BEND,
March 90, lS40
To the Moderator Of the DOwniagUslIe COnUen-
tgOn.
Respected Sir--I got here yesterday safe
and sound and as happy as clam at high wa
ter My Journey from Washington TO this place
would take about quire of paper to describe,
so | wont undertake it !; but never was man
had such time, it was one etarna hurrah
from the time crossed the Potomac till struck
the Ohio | didn't care the first go off to let
folks know who | was and where was 60
ing but one chap looked into my hat and see
ing my name, slept uptome at the dinner table
and asked me if was Jack Downing tell
ed him when | was boy folks called me Jack
but when | rz in the world vas entitled to
be called John Downing. " Well" says he
care you Major Downing % " Jist so," says
&c Is that your Az" says he, '' lashed under
that bundle cit Isl" says I. That's enuf,"
says he j; and out he went and from that time
till got here | needed neither hard money or
paper currency; there warnt a stage or tavern
that would let me pay cent and if | could
have eaten all the I" Barbaqus," offered me
guess wouldn't want to eat agin for consid-
cradle spell.
don't think there is any use in keeping the
Convention together at Dewningville after you
get this letter the work is pretty nigh done.
There is only one notion now all through this
everlasting and etarnal country--and the pres
ent administration stand no more chance than
stump-tailed bulls in fly time. The only diff
Guilty is, folks begin to swarm over feete
too fast----and there are so many on 'em
claim the honor of being on the right
side that the hero will have to say as Glneral
Wellington did at Waterloo---when so many
have done their duty | can't discriminate.
! | got here yesterday and inquired for the "oId
nero and was told he was out attendlndlng to
ploughing some bottom land, and | went oil
| looking for him; and sure enough | found him
! busy as a bee in a tar-buclSet and twice as sHry
| | hadn't got my regimentals on and he took me
for settler, &c Well, stranger said he, how
do ye do o. Right smart says l. GLOW IS it
with you?" "From the East" says he sand 60
ing West?" "Yes, and no." says |. "Welr' says
he, ." that sounds, right and makes me hope
You will step in these parts" | had never seen
him before and as | had measured him through
and through, | got eying him, and We had con-
siderably conversation afore let on who | was
land when did tell him guess all Down
ingvilIe, and especially our family and name
would like to see the right down hearty shake
of the hand the old Hero gave me. "Why,'
! says he, 'sMajor, arise in the Ohio arier long
!, dry spell was never more pleasingto me than
to see you"
'sCome," says he, s'come along to my cabin,
! as for your stopping any where else, it amt in
the book, and remember that jist half ont is
yourn" And so back we went-and he Sent
off to town and got my bundle, and show'd me
my room; and as soon as supper was ready
was ready for it too. And then we had reg
ular set-too, and had raal talk about most mat
ters-and wound up with leetle hard cider
and went to bed.
1t would make this letter too long for mar
5 who haint got "the franking privilege" to tel
you what we talked about; nor will |, in thi;
, letter, give you, my notion about the old Hero
: for it aint one supper, one talk, one nights lod
: ging, or one glass of cider, that gives man ;
right to speak Of another, Knowingly, especially
: a IAN up for the first office in the country.
: haint forgot yet that letter tother old Her
f wrote to Mr.. Monroe; but what have said o
this one thus far, and knowing tother one a
: well as do, think there is this difference
: both on 'em are raal grit, as their military his
# tory shows, and both on 'em have had consid
cradle to do with the Ingins. Now whilst on,
Y carried Ingin notions to Washington and sprea
that doctri into his party, think tother on
e will only apply it to lngins, and give civilize
folks share that belongs TO civilizaten ). bu
d as to this | don't S; y positive jist yet.
1t There are some things like to see here i
I, 'tAe Cabin" and which look about right Their
1t four pioturs hanging up here, which the ol
C Hero says ought to hang in every cabin in tn
l. country, and that Congress ought to have priI
,f ted and framed, and sent round TO every cabi
al that can't afford In blIv 'eT fand n Iao,la 81,