New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-04
Letters from THE Old HAN of the Mountain
NUMBER yIGHT.


bis I'm horn up to his mou,h-one ofthese stage horns
told you Of they used TO blow when they first run
stage through The Notch--pot it up to his mouth
and poised it up the mountain, and blowed blast
seemed as if the creature meant wake up the dead
L came within Of turning round. as il were, it
rung p by me sudden, sharp. and 81 alarming
like as if there was roujle and il was n, second
after seemingly. he holiered with all his might, as
ii ne was holiering 20 me, or 10 the top OF the
mountain and he said says be, as o1d and high as
he could scream it" THERE'S WAR Is THE CoUS-
TRY 80 Tba, 8 the words he said, and all he said
and he gathered up his straps in his hand give his
whip crack, and short toot his horn, and
started his horses. and off. He never said
word, who the war was with, or Whist it was
about.
War in the Country friend Trbune Is 1t
possible the creature told me the truth | call him
creature, he startled me 80. L like these Drivers
They tell me pretty much all | find out, now a
days, since the Teamster stopped teaming, and
Uncle Cutler carrying the mail There nj like
lier set Of men than the Stage Drivers. But is i,
true there is War with you2 Why the sound of
the accused old word startled me here among the
clouds, and would have started me, for what
know if ! had been q man 10 be moved. Not that
| was scared-of course not. | am up here out of
reach of their guns and blunderbusses and il
want, | was nj brought up as you may say. on
thunder 10 be scar, at a gun. m too used TO be
struck with lightning, TO be afraid of your small
shots But ! was hurt-grievcd-l was angry,
shamcd and mortified TO think | belonged TO the
same parcel of crcation-that was part and parcel
of the same granite and face Of the earth with folks
protesting to have brains in their heads and bowels
of any sort in them and only ttcO feet, and yet be
ca,ched in such scrapc as War, here the upper
side OF the world, and at this time OF the worlds
day. Friend Tribune, it made me so shamed, 1t
made me almost mad.
War Who with and what about? What are
you at war forl You want to get shot! You
want 10 be killed You wont make out-more than
half of you or may be not q third. lfyou all could
that went there would be more sense in it. But
YOU won't, third of you. You may get killed, by
inches nlong-but what mean, not outreht-shot
down square-so as to lay put. The object is,
suppose, to kill every one dead on both sides, and
if they could it would be worth while. But they
ca Mt half Of them, get hit Some OF you have the
luck to- and come home, Tor what used 10 be home
with one leg less than you went the other lett be-
hind somewhere, for the dogs TO gnaw, or the crows
TO pick al hobbling along the rest Of the way you
have TO walk, on one leg the other trowsers-leg
hanging loose with nothing in il, or else stick OF
wood Handy, for such Of you as have TO work for
a vng-or is MT it the working people of you that
do the fighting And one arm-the other shot OIL
or hacked of:-splintered up first. may be- by shot
aad then sawed of by the Surgeons you take round
to mend up and finish oil. Sometimes an eye gone.
| should think You d see all better with couple
And jaw shot of. And then you have 10 lay out
nights where you can't all get lodging, and lay on
the ground. and get colds and rheumatic and the
tysicks-and get broke Of your rest,-and when you
get killed, lay sometimes all day, and may be
night, before you die. Some Of you, they tell
me, not fairly killed. but what they call MORALLY
wounded, lay sometimes hours and hours before
they can die-and sometimes, vixen the weather is
hot, are apt 10 be dreadful dry. Dry for drink
when they re shot down-hear;y people and blood
circulating-apd especially when they d 0een STIR
ring before they were shot The sun out hot they
cay they re dreadful apt 10 be dry-and they cant
always get water handy. Time must seem long
friend Tribune. when any body's shot down so,
and has 10 lay some hours-sometimes dead horse
laying partly on you and you terrible dry and no.
body yoa can call on,-and lay there, thinking Of
your tolks, don't know. Fit isn't rery neces
sary and thing YOU can't get along t''th0Ht, l
would try get along without it.
And who are YOU al war with. friend Tribune =
Is it lndansi l thought you had got the Indians
civilized up pretty much by this time Have nj
YOU remored some considerable Of theml heard
you were 'e.s,inguishtns their titles somehow,
SO as to otca their lands yourseves-and that You
had .Chrisliani2cd some with ram and 80 on, so
as YOU d got them pretty well ,hinned Oft And
some removed into The woods yonder toward sun.
down, you was sending Missionaries among, with
an idea of erlIngaiShins their titles there when
the settlements got along TO where they were, and
give EN- chance. what there was Of en- 10 Try
their canoes when you had annexed the land, all
of it. and hunt EN- up some islands, if there was any
that had nj been diScorered by any body. Il can't
be the Indians you re al war with, l think.
Is it the black people! You We got some black
people they tell me, down Sou,h-a dark compieci
people-,he people they call SLAVES. ddn' know
but they might be getting "neasy. suppose you
check EN- up q little, in some instances We
heard YOU did, ana VIC NlpuSAl "hSAH~A Va "S 49,
would nj sc, restless after while and Sci some OF
YOUR buildings q fire, especially if they were any
thing of jeaicas make. 1t is lr'e resSy friend
Tribune. 10 keep people short Of their risAss II
Won do allowance these dark people allowance them
Of their rights aud liberties You better be little care
full They II squrni by and by, when there gets 10
he q number OF ems number Of thousand Friend
Tribune, 10 tell YOU the truth You We GOT any PEG
nile among you hatyou keep S!ares, shoudn :won-
der if they made you trouble. lshoud NJ have WOE
dered 10 hear your war was with Them. Are there
any black people handy by you, thai sre not Slcres
ANY ISLANDS of emf Your States amt at war, sre
they - dissolving the Unon'7 Understood come
people among you were getting up Dissolution
between the North and South States shout this
Slavery. People that were peace people and thai
went so far they did n, train or do any rot.as,
,bs, were advising some OF the States, Msssachu-
set,s State, for instance, 10 have Dissolution
with the States that had Slaves in them. Now