Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-08-15
From the Southern MISCELLANY.
Major Jones Letter.
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| 10 COLONEL HdnleltSr:
DEAR SIR owe you an opology for
not writin to you before now, but the fact
Is I've had monstrous sight of bother
ments TO prevent-the baby's been sick,
and the craps been in the grass, and the
niggers has all had the measles. which
has kept me in periec! Illustration all the
time, But I've got things pretty consid-
cradle strate now, and I'm glad to inform
you that we is all very well and ihrivin,
and hope that you enjoy the same bless.
ing.
wanted to go to the Baltimore Con-
venlion, 10 nominate Mr. Clay, but Mary
and old Miss Stations tuck OH so about it,
and was so afraid some of the steamboats,
mought bust their bilers and spill me in
the sea, that staid home just TO humor
'em. amp ever sense, seein as how things
was gwine on slick and smooth, I've sort
o. aropt out of politics and tended TO the
plantation. But l can't stand it no longer
Il feel like would be no better nor u
tory TO thy country i'll was 10 stand idle
now, AID do nothing TO help put down the
treacherous rascals that is tryin TO destroy
the government and sense I've hoed all
the grass out of my crap and laid ii by,
I'm jest gwine to turn IN and help to hoe
Locyfocypokyism out Of Georgia by the
roofs, and never stop ill we lay the good
old State by next November, safe and
sound for Henry Clay never did have
much opinion of these big democrat lea.
ders that was always tryin 10 make divis-
ions among the different classes of people
in the country-always ;ryin to SET the
pore agin the rich, and the planters agin
the manufacturers, and the South agin the
North, and even the unreligious agin the
religious people. | never did believe
they was what they pretended TO be, but
always thought they was friends to Their
country. though they tuck monstrous
pore way of shown it. thought they
wanted Office. and was tryin to fool the
peoDle into voiin for EN-, bnt never be-
gan TO think they was mean enough to try
to bust pp the Union fthey couldn't have
their own way. But now see into 'eIn,
domination take their Internal picters, and
| 60 in for sqnashing 'em into the yearth
bowdaciously, so they can't raise their
heads as party 10 this country agin.
They must certainly think the peoples
got no more sense than they has honesty,
or thew wouldn't dare to try to bamboozie
'em in the way they do. A little while
ago, they told the people that the worst
hing that they had agin the Wings was
the domination Tariff, as they called it
--now they is running ring,tail stub
and-twist tariff man from Pennsylvany for
Vice President. A little while ago, the
worst feature in the domination Wing ia.
riff was discrimination" and "reasona-
Bile protection" and they cussed Mr. Clay
for that like he was pirate, and swore
all protection" was "IegalIized robbery
end plunder." and now their candidate for
President ses in his letter to Mr. Kane,
that he goes in for discriminating duties,
and reasonable protection to our home in
dustry." A little while ago Mr. Martin
Van Buren, was the greatest man Twin, af-
ter Gen. Jackson, and the I" integrity of
Their principles" demanded that he should
be elected again-and now he's SO pisen
mean that salt wouldn't save him, and
they wouldn't vote for him not for no con-
sideration. A little while ago. they void
not touch Texas, with forty-foot pole
lit would be unconstitutional and dis
honorable to 90 into annexation then
but cow il is the only hope of salvation,
and they're determined 10 have it if they
have to steal it. A little while ago. they
was all Union men, and was gwine to
hang Mr. Calhoun )" as high as Haman"
cause he wanted to nullify-now some of
'em is for Texas and disunion, some for
Texas or disunion, and the balance for
Texas any hop. A little while ago, they
was agin division of the public lands and
assumption Of the debts of the States
now they is for maxim the government pay
the debts of Texas and dividin out the
land in lottery. A little while ago,
they had more principles than you could
shake a stick at--now they all preach
from only one text, and that is " Polk and
Ierds, or bust "
The truth of the bisness is Just this
they saw The people was gwine throw 'em
in the next election like they did in 1910,
and they tried every way they could IN
the last Congress to pump up some new
capitai--some NEW dust to threw in the
peoples eyes--They tried General Jack.
sons fine and every thing else they dared
to touch. but they burnt their fingers with
the tariff, and they was fraid to raise the
ghost of the bank, so they had TO just steal
old Ty!er's thunder, and make the most
they could out of it. But mind | tell you
I its gwine to blow 'em all to everlastin
smash before they're dons with it. That
annexation question come wheelin into
the political sky, all Of a sudden, like some