Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1847-08-26

! AUGUST -, lS47.
! Mr.. GALES & SEAToN:
Ny dear old friends: spose you'll be ANA
zinly dlsapined 10 find lm away off here, push
in on 10 The seat of war; and didn'. call TO see
you when | come through Washington. But
YOU mustn't blaine me for it, for couldn't help
III; The President wouldn't let me call: he said
| was getting quite too thick with you, writing
sle,,ers TO you and all that. And when be spoke
abou, the letters; he looked kind of red and
showed considerable spunk.
Says he, Major Downing, have pu, good
deal of confidence in you as friend of my ad-
mnislration and if you are friend to it, you
must let Gales and Sea,on alone keep out of
their way and have nothing 10 do with them :
they are dangerous, misunderstanding fellers.
eternay peckln al my administration, all wea
lhers Let me try to keep things ever so snug,
and lay my plans ever so deep, they are sure TO
dig them all up, lug them into the lnlellgencer,
and blaze 'em all over the country. Confound
their pictures, they are the most troublesome
customers an administration ever had they've
come pretty near swamping me two or three
times So, if you are my friend, warn you
not TO be so thick with Gales and Seaon.
Well says I, Colonel, you know am a
friend to you and your administration, as much
as | ever was TO the Old Gineral and his ad-
mnistra,ion and shall stand by you and do
every thing can to help you out OF this scrape
you've 90; into about the war. But | don't
know as tha, need 10 make me break with Gales
and Sea,on.5 We've been old friends so long,
it would be kind Of hard to give 'em up now !;
and don't hardly think they are quite SO bad
as you think for. They may not mean TO do
you so much hurt when they put these things
into their paper, and only put them in because
,hey think folks want 10 know what's goln on.
Mr.. Richie sometimes puts things into has pa
per that folks think don's do you no good.
The President give two or three hard chaws
upon his cud of tobacco, and says he, Yes, Ma
;or. that's loo true, it must be confessed; and
i. annoys me beyond all patience. But then
have 10 forgive it and overlook ii, because
Mr.. Richie don't mean it. The old gentleman
Is always sorry for il, and always willing TO
take il back. And then he's such tuff old fell
Ter 10 fight The federalists, can't have heart
TO .cold al him much about his mistakes and
blunders.
Well, says |, Colonel, being you've named
federalisis, want to know if any OF them AMI
mails is really supposed 10 be alive any where In
the country nowadays. Seeing sch awful ac'
counts about 'em in the Union paper all The
time, inquired all the way along through New
England, where they used 10 be the thlckest
and couldn't get track on one; and when
asked the folks if there was any federalls.s any
where in them quarters, they all stared at me
and said they didn't know what sor, of critters
they was When | got to Downingvllle
asked uncle Joshua about it. He said, in his
Younger days there used 10 be considerable
many of EN- about but they wasn't thought tc
be dangerous, for they never was much gwen
TO fighting. Blu, he said he guessed they'd all
died ou, long ago, for he hadn't come across
one this twenty years. So now Colonel, says
|, how is il they are SO thick in Mr.. Riches
paper all the time
AT ,ha, he give me very knowing kind Of
look. and lowered his voice down almost 10 g
whisper; and says he, Major, I'll tell you how
tha, 49, When Mr. Richie was a young mar
he used 10 fgh, good deal with the federalists
and took good deal of pride in it; and no"
the fancies and scenes OF his youth all seem to
come back fresh TO his mind, and he can't think
or talk abou, any thing else. You know that's
ofen,imes The way with people. As he always
used 10 have the name of a smart fighter, give
him lhe command of the newspaper battery
here 10 defend my administration. But twa'
mistake as twas when | sent Taylor into
Mexico; didn't know my man. No ma'tel
what forces was gathering 10 overthrow my ad
minis,raiion, Mr. Richie somehow didn't seen
to see em no matter how hard they fired
me. he didn't seem to hear it; and when
called 10 him TO fire back, he would rouse uI
and touch off few squibs with about as good
aim as the boys take when they fire crackers
on The 4,h of July, and did about as mucn exc
cuiion A, las, found out way tha. coult
make the old se,eran fight like Turk and hold
on like bull dog. Il was by giving him no
iion at any time that he was fighting with fed
eralists. Since made tha. discovery he's beer
more help TO me. Whenever see the enemy
en,renching hirhsolf around me. and bringing
up his batteries TO fire into my administration
all have 10 do is 10 whisper in Mr.. RICHES
ear and say "Mr. Richie. the air smells OF fed
eralsm you may depend upon it there is fed
| eraIis,s abroad somewhere" In minute
you've no idea with wha, fury the old gen'ei