Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1841-09-18
MAJOR DOWNING.
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ter rom tho White House since has return He
mas not been long enough IN station to give mucn
news, but as ne and the Pres,d have had one
Srtnd,we expect the axe will GET IT'S edge shortly
To the Editors Of the y Express-,ho Same
paper my OLD friend Mr.. DNigh, printed a spell
ago.
WASHINGTON, - Sept. \ d. 1871.
SlRsa-l suppose You began to think that was
never coming back from the Mort! Bead-where
went 10 the body Of our good old General
snuglv laid down along side Of the OHIO But
nearing that matters had got in a tancle at Wash
ihSton, puShd Oft and arrived here pretty con
siderable beat out. | was little staggered at
first 10 know where II was best FIR me 10 90 Ia
enquire INTO matters, 10 know the hest wav
OF taking hold on 'em, for all along the road was
hearing all kinds of stories Some SAID .fhc 90
rernment' warn't IN the White House and some
saio that there eorsrnmcnt than there
ever had been since Gent jack sons tlmes-but
what scared ne more than ANYTHING else
meeting -Tr. Nye,-who first mlte under
Capt Jumper of the Two Paltes,"-who had
quit gong 10 sen and was going West 20 buy "a
quarter section he had come thro' Washington
y no telt'd me tha, things there pretty much
like the old story he once tod me about a sailor
gong on farm and undertook to drag stone n
sled wsth Two oxen and an old mare ahead-and
the flies biting pretty sharp, the somehow
turn q their yoke and got wrong oend first and
that old Briadie, The 'arboard OK Q the star
board silc,--and Bucl,. the long horn md the star
board OK. got tie IA :baard side. and the old
mare got tangled IN the rigging and was kicking
up ahd iiouGcng about and The whole consarn 90
/ Tug TO everlasting and eiarnal smash "Wei,''
thinks |, at any thing like these reports is going
at Washington. IL is high time for 10 be there,
+ ana bHckled to and pushed on about the spryest,
! and ! said alore. was "A Icetlc staggered
where to % to Grst,--hut there Is way
sure TO find fresh loaf, going right up o tho
OK en,--so made pretty strait track 10 the White
House, aud when the President heard that had
come, he was about much tIcacd when he
FIRST heard folks all about creat sing the song
Of "Fppecanoe and Iylcr too, HE took me by
the hand and nigh upon shook my arm of, and
Chackled and sprung round sprv $ n boy,-and
called out TIA Of his help to "totc' my napsacls
aud axe right up chamber and afore knew wha,
was going on ! was about as snug to hum as ever
! WIS IN old times.
'Now," says he, "Mnior, ii there over
time when wanted To man fresh from the
People, this is that iime,-ant il YOU and can't
hammer crooked matter strait. they must remain
crooked, that's alb And iIst then
drift OF folks, some knew and some didn't
and some was quite glad 10 me, and some
LOOKED considerable sour. bet hope - be able 10
sreefca em all afo;c long. After we got alone
the Presideu, nsl'd what folks said along tho
road about his Veto. "Wcl,'' says |, ssome folks
say good deal about it,--bgt great many
folks don'f Say nothing at all about -, hnd rs
plagy hard guessing what some folk think, when
they don't say aothing, bat scratch their heads
Coming to think ont SAWS |, "have YOU gr d.
sumo Huy "Hefo anout uGrc tor on nv Journey
got tangled among the vines and briers, and
mao 10 use IN? nx considerable To chop my way,
and Al IS somewhat # It's edge and | some how
can't sleep sound without dr. aiming about it all it
Is pat III complete order''-aud he hussled round
and got an oil ,griad4tua in order and as ho
wanted a Iittlc exercise; he insisted On turning
II spell tor me. and III sch matters always give
IN, and sch turning and geiuding as we have
had have never head the beat 90; aud he md
talking politics md state rights and currency
matters, ard Baak Bills and RanLrlpt Bills and
RfeeaEc and L3nd Bills all the while. .'Wo
Virginia folks Nj ior. SAYS he ALWAYS like 10
keep close cI to the constitution. Congress
has no rlgE1 to put I. 5. Bank agent - or sfs-
cal "gcHi' IN any state without the consent Of
thht siate--lt ANA IN The constitUtInu.' That's
true enul, says |, ''and see nothing in The con.
stltutfon tbout Sui Treasures. and yet Mr. Van
bu:en ordefd Il COCO many of made of IRON
and stuck all about cv'rv STA 70 u hcrever he
pleased aud without asking sstatc consent -
NOR, says IN one congress chuses TO collect
and transfer the public money in one way and a
mother congress thinks ii suits tile people better
TO collect aud transfer II in another, what has
the constitution TO 90 with il, long as il is done
~ way people like best? That's what puzzles
me-" says here the old grindstun went slow
and saSs be, Mai or. that is shocking dali ax''
Ill IS So, says L. .bu III make it split hair be-
tore we sleep" 50 he changed hands md took
another bout at IL. I'LL we both got considerable
tIred and broke of-e..4 ~ we are 10 have anoth-
CT grinding spell shortly, I'll .ell YOU about
IT. rs Tor news, there amt half as much stirring
here as YOU fad hundred miles off; and
what IS very curious, have been nble TO tell the
President tho"sand things that folks say took
place right under his nose. and chat he never
aeard word before. The people away IF
know more Of what IS going here in the Coz
"ernment than folks know here themselves, and
It i Il should be- and comes frona spry guessing
and quick steam and rail roads; and N rcpubli-
can government the people always should know
more than the government itself
Yours aiore.
j. DOWNING. Major, &c. &c.
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