Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1842-05-06
From the N. o. Picayune.
LETTER FROM PARDON JONES.
UP THE coAsr, ArRrL the 10,

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My dear Pic-Its SO long sense writ to
you that guess you begin to think I'm dead,
or gone to Texas-but amt, nither. I've ben
hard 10 work, rreparin for war. I've been bug
gIed half to death, tryin to find out who we're
handsome says Mexico, and some says the
Injuns, but it don't make much odds TO me,
o'st we fight ia good cause. One thing I'm
determined on, and that is, that we must fight
with somebody, or else give it up, and say no
more about it. One thing is sar,in, ither we
must come out and slap old John Bulls jaws
for him, or else let him du just about as he
pleases, for the sake Of keepin out of fuss,
but I'm for slappin his jaws, and then takin
the consequences. We've licked him twice,
and got the best Of the bargain when we made
up friends. and we can du it again. and ought
tn come right out, tn once, and push him of,
and give him kick, afore he gifts us into such
smart that ma hani know which way 10 itsrn.
Every body knows that England.is bi.in at Us,
in every pint Of the compass. she is tryin tn
make other nations hate US. She is tryin to
steel our territories and niggers. See is irwin
to drive our ships from Afriky, and every
where's else where we can make money. She
is foolin with Sanity Amy, to make him get
into scrape with US, SOS, to git chance tu
help him out, and then git holt Of Mexico and
Texas. She is pnshin on the embellishments
and the niggers and Injuus agin the South.
She is tetchin up the Yankees down in Maine,
so'st TO make 'em rantankerous in that pint.
She's got niger soldiers up to the Kennedy
frontiers. She's kivered the oshun on our sea
costs with her shippin of war. She is sendin
steam packet ships into our unsuspectin har-
bors, is loaded or ballasted with guns and am
mernishun, and commanded by naval officers
She has done and is DUN all this, and good
deal more; sA5 yet SIZE says she han't the leas,
idee Of quarrelin with us!-This makes me
think Of ''old Pulzy," as we used % cal him,
and his neighbor, old Gaping Potter, that
you've heerd SO onedn. "Old Pulzy'' was a
reg'lar skinf1int, and had bout dozen skin.
flint sons, every ore on 'em the perfect picter
Of the old thanksgiving Potter everybody
knows to be one of nater's gentlemen, every
inch on him. The Gaping he'd a good deal
Of land lyin ronnd Dead Cow Brook, in small
farms and so on, and alwers growed a leetle
richer every year, though he gin away most OF
his surplus income to the poor.
Old Pulzy begun by buyin cheap farm in a
swamp, and rec!aimin it with hard work. He
Civ away nothin-half starved himself and
wife, and laid up every cent he could scrape
together. A wilder and ten children lived
next tn him, on nice little farm that was all
their own. Old Pulzy got his eye on tina Wild
der's farm, and by pretendin to be great friend
TO her, he got the management Of her consarns,
and afore three years he turned her and her
three children out Nv doors, without a cent in
the world! He put his oldest son .Tunk, .
to live in the poor widder's house. He got
holt Of another neighbours farm by geltin the
poor man hung for kiIlen his wife, that somebo-
dy else killed; and the children was left on the
town! And so hept on, chea,in and grindin
the poor. till he owned near about all the farms
tween him and Gaping Potter. He could mt
bear 70 see the good old Capting; living along
SO nice. and beloved by every body, while he
himself was 'bliged to work so hard. and give
his soul to the Devil for riches, and be hated
by every body in the bargin. and 80 be sot tn
work tu ruin the Gaping, and git holt Of his
Lands. The fust thing he did was, tn dispnte
bout the dividin line tween some Of his land
and some Of the Capting's and they went to
law bout it, but the Gaping beat MIN. Then
he bought all tho land round one Of the Cap-
ting's farms. and fenced the farm in so'st the
Gaping wouldn't get tn it. no ho.o. Then he
turned tn and got some mad dogs and put 'em
in sIyIy among the Capting's sheep, and cattle,
and though some on 'em got bit the Gaping
soon cleared 'em out without serious damage
70 himself. Then old Pulzy claimed every
black sheep Of The Capling's that jumped over
into his pastures, and wouldn't give 'em up
bot arter the Gaping had lost few, he put
tho rest into a pasture, where old Pulzy
couldn't get at 'em, and got along without get
I'm into q lawsuit. as old Pulzy wanted III.
Then old Polzy took it upon himself 10 60
into the capling's pastures and stables and
search after sheep and cattle that didn't have
the CaP.ing's mark, and take 'em away. This