Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1846-06-06
DEACON PICKLEBY'S LETTER.

DChCON llChLGDl y LIZ 4 LIN
The following le,teris worth years sub!
scription TO any newspaper in the country.
1t relates to the career of young man,
born in Li,chfeld, CT, who emigrated TO
the far West, pedagogical there awhile, be-
came a lawyer next, was subsequently,
Joined in the holy bands of wedlock with
Miss Fawn Greenbrier and plantation and
seventeen negroes, afterwards served two
sessions in the legislature, and finally made
long stride into Congress. When old Dea-
con Pickle Pickleby was advised of this
LAST good fortune of his hopeful son, he de-
voted an entire day 10 writing the follow
ing letter.
TO the Honorable JADE. Pickleby:
DUTIFUL SoN:--By the blessins Of provi-
dence you he despotly prospered in the
world. Your poor old daddy, when he
was boy, had but little sculin, but good
moral instruction was meted out to him. !
was taught tu train up child in the way
he should CO. and did it, bu, never ex-
pected tu see him in the Federal kongress.
Jabcz, my son, don't be proud and lifted up.
for there is no KNOWN what you may cum
tu You have heard tell of Aaron Burr
and Benedict Arnold. Your mother'srumi-
ty pains is better, and have put new
hu,ter wheel into the mill. Seth Phelps
has married Nabby Dobbs; he had ,u du it
tu avoid costs. There has been fine crop
of garden sass and buckwheat this year.
must admonish you agin temptation
in the Federal city. They dew tell me i, is
Babylon Of place, and that kongress
men never mind pains and penalties, and
drink nigh on tew gallons of blackstrap, or
smmthin stronger, every day of their lives.
and go tn theatres and other carnalties.
Dew, for mcrcy's sake, Jabez, eschew evil
company. bought a new cal skin queue
as soon as heard you wasmarricd and 60
| ing tn kongrcss, for kalkilated you would
bring your rich maum hum tn see our folks.
Your mother has put up bran new curtains
tn the spare bed in the parler and squirmed
ribbns all around among EN-. She has got
tew strings of blue and white birds eggs
hanging under the lukins glass, and the brass
handirons skowcred up so that you can see
your face in UNI.
When you git to the Federal city, dew
try tn give sumthn tu the widders and or
fins of soldiers and sailors that fout again
the Brittons. have got your granfer's
three-cornered scraper, blue coat and buff
facins, his tew edged sword, and you ken
nave EN- u wear III kouSTcSS. our InolncE
has darned up all moth holes in the coat, so
that she thinks it looks jest as new as it did
when !eftenant Pickleby wore Ii tu the bat
tie of White Plains.
l shall send by male, new pair of blue
mixed stockens and also pair Of knit sus-
penders that are kinder easy for pollyti
shun to tuin about in. Your mother would
; send you pot of pickles and cheese, but
; the Stage, driver says it isagan the law.
Read your bible, Jabez, study the laws OF
Moses, and don't repel any on EN-; mind the
ten commandments and the 'leventh Ike
: wise, and don't sell the birthright Of The
!, Yankee nation for mess of potash; ant
the day may KUN when you will be minis
: ter of a peritentiary, or secretary of leg
! alton. am your dutiful father,
T PICKLE PICkLEBY.