Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-01-10
For the Sentinel.
Wooduille, Jan. 1S44.
DEAR JrNERAL.

DEAR JINERAL.
Some how the "SenIinel" has straid
way down here to Weodville. Now
uncle Josh is down here on yiset, and
last mite, says uncle, here's bran new
paper called the "SentineI,' printed by
Wolvereen, and may be you'd like to here
what he has to say. Yes SEE uncle, |
never seed one Of them critters, but I've
herd say they're mighty Gurus animals
and very noin chaps too, jist reed us bit
Of his rten. So | opened the Sentinel.
aud seq / here's rit over a long peas,
" To the Public, reed that seq uncle
Josh, that'll give us noshin of the crit
ters karacter and if that's rite we'll reed
the rest on't. So red the peas ali thru
and. thru, SEE what do you think on't7-
What do think on'I seq he, why when
was that paper printed ? las, week sez l,
can't be seq he; that seems like old times,
thaps genewine republican doctrin; tru.
eyry word ont; Washington or Jefferson
rii that, its their sentiments, Its too good
for these latter day dmocrats; they never
rit word ont; who has sined his name
to that seq he. The Editor to be shure
seq /; he r;t it, and sined il and SEE he'll
sIicI, 10 It.
Wei! who's the Editor? seq he. The
Jinral 10 be shure sez |. We'll seq he
here's $500 Send them to tho Jinral and
tell him to send me the Sentinel. That
I'm an old dinocrat and when l find a
Fel'er like him, that's got the rale grit in
him, III always give him ahist,-30 years
ago the dimocrats was for maxim our own
bred and cheese, and coats, and shoes, and
hats and all SIGH things as we mite want,
and ] can't see why we Student make um
now. We've got big country and heaps
OF folks in it: and there is jist as much
sens lnbyin our bred and cheese and pork,
from loren parts as there is in byin cloth
and calico; becaws we can raze sheep
and cotton, just as well as we can Wheat
and cows and hogs. Jlst tell them for
eners to hold-on Bit till we get the hang
of spinner and weyen, and maxim picters
and SIGH like on cotton cloth, and then let
um cum on, and ifthey can beat US arter
we get farely agoin then we'll give it
up and let them spin and we've and print
for ever arter. now if an lnglishman can
make the iren for plow cheper than we
can. why then he can make the plow che
per, Sc we ori to by the plow insted of the
Iren; and in order to have all our work
done chepe jist hire the forener 10 do our
Plowin for Cd or l0d day insted OF
payln our own countreman or 5 shilens.
But chepe as all this is there's no dimoc-
racy IN 1t. The rale dimocratic doctrin
is TO make the most of what we have, not
give cotton or WOOL enuflo $50, to make
500, worth of cloth and then by the
cloth back; Blu! jist put little more labor
to the cotton and WOOL and make it worth
The 500, ourselvs and then we don't
owe in loren parts $50 for what we mite
have better dun ourselvs.
Now as TO iren, we've got mountains
ont and Of the best kind too, and what's
The use of payin our money to foreners
for iren and let our mouniins of ore rust
down, when we can make it better and
cheper ourselves as soon as we git the
hang Of " orkin it little better. Besides
you see, when we bid CRATE town full
IF folks workin in iron, we make the
arms in them parts worth SO or 40 dol
airs an acre, when without the town they
wood only be worth S or 10 dollars an
acre. Jist for example for that's the
BEST way ofiryia thing in the world