New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-04

land and the first thing always Is 20 take Canada-
| remember the guns up about the Lakes ard
place called Quebec. one Wolfe got killed there
and man By the name Of Montgomery. Smart,
active men. they were. And there was Que Ar
mold and yoang hawkeye by the narne OF Bun
Aaron Burr He went through with them out East
here 10 take Q1ebec / did n, know but they might
be getting into difficulty with Old England about
the pine timber down East, though they told me
Dan Webster had got them together Oh bota sides
and agreed upon division line. Somebody going
by ot me they Were Try ing to rip the settlement
in Congress that Webster had made, and have
War 10 settle il over again. One lngersoll aud
some Others, and Dickinson. Bot tell you, friend
Tribune if you We got line settled. you better let
i, stand ra,ter than have War. War never get
ties lines. l, is more apt TO star up than 10 seize
anything. II settles folks for life" was going to
say, but longer than that, with q final settlement
Built uqse,ies every thing else. II unae,!es bounds
and the lands on their borders. and sometimes I'M
settles q country and unpeoples 1t. Il makes new
lines sometimes but is no help finding old ones, or
finding out the right in any matter in dispute. You
fight, and Kill, and lay waste; tear up fields and
tread down harvests, and scatter the people. And,
along after your track travels Famine and bard upon
that, Peslicnce, as you call II. Bard customers,
these three, and trying 10 country-War, Famine,
Pestilence And Tidow-you Il find widows after
War as thick as these little toads after a thunder
shower Hard working women, in general way,
with large family OF small children. Thei, hus-
bands, working men, drafted, as they call It, away
from home They never draft the idle people
The idle people declare the Wars and set en- ago
ing bat believe, general thing, they leave it
to the working people 10 do the fighting and pay
the bills, one way and another. II al comes out OF
them finally. And it is their wives you II find The
widows And fa,herless chdren-brght little
children-no fathers. Their fathers shot down and
thrown into hole, whole neGhborhood of them,
sometimes just as they shot down. Ii makes 1t
bard for tie widows. And the times grow hard,
which makes il worse widow woman with a
family Of children that depended on her husband TO
get them bread by his labor, and he gets killed, and
times come on hard, she and the children has
hard time on I. But. as was saying, it can't be
England that you are ell War with, and | hardly
know who il can be. There was talk Of Multi
cation some years ago friend Tribune Some OF the
States wanted it believe, instead OF having Tariff
that some others wanted. and they talked OF having
War about it then to see if they could find out by
n War which would be the best for the couHtry-
the Modification or the Tariff Ii was the time old
Mr. Hickory was the President. They tell me one
of his children is in now" Young Hickory" a
tough name enough. Why they did nj have the
War, do not know. There was other things talk
ed of; l remember hearing, seems 10 me, Sub Treas
ury. But did nj make inquiry. They hs'n't got
the Modification up again, have they | tell you
friend Tribune. you can't tell by war. II don't
learn you anything only TO hate work afterwards
And " hat do YOU get by il! You get you land ma
nured But then manuring it with your own bones
is costly They tell me bones is good for the land
man.bones better than any. They tell me some
farmers in England went some ways after load OF
domestic place called Waterloo. where there had
been tussle and some got killed. They went clean
there from England after their bones TO dung the
land with, and some of the bones was English If
you want to dung your land, there may be some use
in having War Though they say coating Of
some kinds of fish is better, | don't know. Take
laying of men. young men, kill EN- and spread EN-
over the ground and let en- lay in the sun awhile
sun.rot en-" ro,tng in the sun" as the Teamsier
usd TO cay They had War al place called
Benheim, one Marlborough was Captain NV hat
they killd each other for puzzled people, but since
they have found out that man bones make the best
dressing for ground it must have been for that
And many thousand bodies there lay ro,ng IN the
sun" Spread-to rot, likely, before they powed
EN- in. l should think they ought TO be spread
Putting them, many in hole would nj be so we'll
They say dunsing in the hole any way isn't so
good for the land. Costly dressing friend Tribune
| should think, farmers bones. Boning down TO
il" at hard rate But l don't know I've no
farm But who is the War with There was
talk about Texas off yonder. Some people were
saving you talked Of anneXing place by that
hume don't know as have a right idea of this
"annexing" took il. i, meant taking some
way besides buying. l hope it isn't tina; kind
OF taxing you call stealing, where one OF you
does it alone. That Texas, if l understand II,
was par, OF place called Mexico. usd
10 hear about it. How one Cortes went there
from some Of the old countries long lime ago, and
undertook 10 snnex' the whole OF il TO The coun-
try he came from And did annex il, the whole OF
il. But somehow or other il did nj finally keep
annexed" though il did for some time. II got back
again and believe Cories and bis country were
unlucky ever after. And some laid il 10 what they
did-annexing Mexico. If was that friend I'll
bune, YOU better be little careful about getting
par, of this Mexico in lha, way Ii You haven't
got land enough and want more, you better get Il
some way fairly. would nj annex IT, If annexlng
is what name Some said il would ger You into
War with these people if you annexed any oftheir
country. Ii you did annex that Texas, friend Tri.
bune. should ut wonder to hear your War was
about that and with Mexico. Now tell me if it is
If Won We annexed Texas the War is with this
Mexico. And if il is, tell you you won't prosper
in the long run, in my opinion. Did you ever hear
how i, came out with TIA; Spasia,d's counuy-be
was spaniard from. Span--a grand cid country,
they tell me. wonder whether it done well afIer
ii annexed Mexico! The more l think OF ii, the
more an inclined 10 think your war is with Mex
leo, and about this Texas. The Spanisrd annexed
Mexico, they tell me-, TO sc, gold. There was
Norts-nms living ;hera and had fine Eal in ais