Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-03-24
From the New York Express.
MAJOR DOWNING.

| England and the United States, the action OF
Government must mainly depend on public SEN
timent.
A large portion of the present generation of
both countries know little personally of the hor-
rors and crimes of war, and this fact may ac-
count, in part, for the light and careless man
ner so grave subject is treated by many.
We approve of the majors temper in discus
sing the matter, and hope with him to live to
see the great Anglo Saxon race spread far and
wide, improving, as they extend, with good
laws, good morals, and general dispensation
of human happiness
WASHINGTON, March 8, l641
To John BuH Esq.
Sir-l see, in reading the newspapers, that
YOU are the man most folks out of office write
TO, who have any business with your Govern
ment In foreign matters. | did think, at first,
would send this letter to the Queen herself, SO
there would be no mistake about it, as find the
best way, after all, is TO go right to the head of
the family-but it is now going on thirteen
years next grass since wrote letter to any
kind of women folks, and the last was TO Miss
Hepsy Ann Appleby, who kept school at SSa-
CO, about little courting matter; and | riled
her considerably by calling her an angle instead
of an angel, and she sent me back about as sharp
and sour an answer as ever man got-there
warn't bit of that paper that wouldn't turn
pan of milk as quick as piece of runnit-and
all owing to that accident in my putting an l.
before an E, and she having leetle crook IN
the back which never thought on-but wo-
men are particular folks in such things, and if
you touch 'em on soft spot, the fat is in the
fire right off--and so said never would again
try my hand in writing any on 'em letter
again; AID that is the main reason why | don't
send this letter to the Queen instead of to you.
| have been considerable about this country
from East of sunrise to West of sunset and
from the North where the wild geese go in sum-
mer, to the South where they pass the winter,
and have got notion that know pretty much
how folks feel and think here about most mat
tiers; and there is no way in the world to get
folks, and talking politics, and farming and log
glng, and steam boating, and rail roading, and
matters of that natur, and no man can tell exact
ly how things are likely to work in this coun-
try, unless he has wet his feet and watered his
Ticker from the Penobscot TO the Mississippi
and supposing you would like to get the hon
est notions of such man, and seeing that there
is some matters Of misunderstanding getting up
twixt the two countries, thought it best 10 send
you letter; and that you might know it is gen.
uine, let my printers print it, and put my fig
ure head at the top on't-so if one mail miscar-
rvs the next may reach you.
! In reading over the newspapers and the pro-
ceedings of your Congress, see that there is
a notion in England that folks in this country
want TO take Canada, and to prevent this, re-
ports say you are going to push more troops
with red coats into Canada, and are going to
build war steamers on the Lakes, and also to
organize troops with black faces in the West
Indies, and SO forth If these reports are true,
you are making about as great mistake as if
you was to put on your shirt tail eend upper
most unless you want to bring on difficulty,
and if that is the case then you are doing ex-
actly right.
| The truth of the matter is, that excepting a
few unruly scamps, chiefly from Canada, along
the lines, there amt corporals guard in all this
country naturally disposed to disturb the power
of Canada, much less taking possession of it.;
and the less able Canada was TO oppose con-
quest by the States the more secure she would
be from it, for our folks would go right in and
help thrash out any set of scamps who should
go in there to disturb the peace. But if you
don't believe in this state Of public feeling and
on the contrary go on and crowd in fighting
! folks, and build war steamers on the Lakes,
our folks, must do the same to keep an eye on
| you, and when we come 10 calkilate the ex-
pense ont, we may come to the notion that your
folks are expensive neighbors, and the best way
would be TO git rid of such neighbors, and then
will come bad blood and fighting and ifthat be-
gins it won't esnd till one or tother knocks I'M.
der, and you can guess which is the most like
ly 20 do SO as well as can. War is bad enuf
between foreigners, but it is shocking unnatural
and ugly between folks speaking plain English.
Isee also that some of your folks in England
think there is nat'ral anmosity growing up
betwixt the two nations of late. If this is so
it is owing mainly to yourselves, and it will
keep growing jiss as fast as you take the meas
ures you do to protect, as you say "her majes-
ty's domnions" But this animosity, if any
there is, is not because Canada is English
for, if the folks along that line had any other