Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-07-27

think they Will publish It-iho' Il Is remarka-
BILE periie. Your friend,
]. DOWNING, Maj, etc, ETC.
Captain Solomon Jumpers address on
board The IDo Politics.
GINERAL: The happiest day of my life
has come at last, and and Major Downing
welcome you on board the Iwo PoUies.-|
This IS no common day, Gineral-twenty-
five mllions of folks are all awake-to say
nothing of The ship loads or other folks now
coming from other countries. seeking safety
and prosperity here among us-all turn an
eye this way and look on us jest as vessels
in storm look for light hopse-to tell
them where they are and how 10 get into a
safe anchorage. When folks have been in
a storm and catch sight of light house
they don't stop TO ask if it is built Of wood
or sinn-or If it is lighted by lie or gass-
it is enuf 10 know il is the light they are
looking for shape their track accord
| inly.
1t is now, Gineral, pretty nigh half a cen
Jury since you first trimmed your lamp in
the public services-and we haini hearn of
a night yet, however stormy or dark, thai ii
it who had need on'i-an old sea-dog like
me knows how to valley this Some folks
like new light-frshers and revolvers, and
all that sort Of thing. don't want To say
nothin sgin 'em-but let me put my eye up
on light that has the bearins and dist ances
we'll tested by expenses-an | don't care
how The wind blows know where | am
and thai the Two PolIies is sale too.
| 10 welcoming you, Gineral, on board the
Two Poiles-we DOM stop 10 ask how you
| Ike a leetle New England better than Moa-
ongahela-or prefer water 10 any one on
! 'em-
| All we know is, and history dom, tell
nothin' else, that when you have been call'd
on TO do duty, yon have done ii--and if
any difficulty stood in the way, and there
was no getting round il you have gone over
it.
Gineral, The hlg that is flying al the mas
head Of the Two Pollies lis The same fig
] that waved over the battle field of Lexing
ton, Bunker Hill, Saratoga. Yorktown, Lun
dys Lane, Fort Harrison, PaIo Alto, Monler-
ey. Bony Vasita, Vera Cruz, Cerfo Gordo
and good many others, It'll il go, right on
top of the White House in Mexico--il is
The same fl e ,ha, Ginera Washington lov'd
and honor'd and handed over 10 US 10 honor
and TO love too, as our banner of union 10
all eiarniiy-il never has been ick'd yet.
and never can be so long as we keep it fly
| ing honorable aud honestly. And as you
;old Gineral Wool after that hard fight al
! Bnnv Vasiia, with five 10 one again you,--
! there is no beaten on us Dhcn ICE all pull
together" and Major Downing says, and lie
knows Latin as we'll as he Knows Hebrew.)
that there is no better ira nslalion s'E Pin
ribns Unum" into Plain American lingo.
The Two Poliies has no, come here,
Gineral, arter an Office; she is well provided
with everything; the friends OF good govern
ment has given her all she requires, and it
amt more than an hour ago we got a supply
of the best picked pork | ever see. from my
old friend Thomas Downing, away up in
'Terry Hou, lin Indiana, and he writes good
deal better too, and tells me and Msior
Downing, that ell the folks in that State are
digging out canal for the Two Pollies, and
hopes she will pass that way in her inia.nal
tower. He mas cent us, too, map of all
The Western canals, and tells us how and
where we may go, by natur and by human
| ''h'fs Cuio HV y % tao' ouf 'p'
that there are some,iew prorisos yet TO dig
oni-by November, the Two POLES can
visi, the heart of every Western Siaie, and as
all The atlantic States, including old Penn
/ syIvania, are already dug out, we can make
a clear intarnal tower, and see things as the
good old Constitution desired them to be-.
and which says that it was made s'to estdb
fish more perfect union" il union
means anything Gineral, my notion OF il
means mlxin up OF matters, and clearing
away distractions; il there is bulk head
lacross-deck betwixt the forecast lie and quar-
Ter deck OF the Two Pollies-it ain, union
and if put my helm lee and they dom
ease the lib sheet, the Two Polies wont
come round. So we must cut through these
bulk heads, and III en- the quarter deck and
| force astle are in union, aud the Two Polies
can tack and go ahead.
| We have come here Gineral to do our
| share OF honor to man who has done all
that a man could do to advance the honor
and popularity Of our country. And we say
ihata man who has for over forty wears done
nohin else but work for his country and lis
honor and reputation, deserves a boost up
ward into the highest honors that grateful
people can put him.
The Two Polles is at your service Giner
al, hammock will always be found ready
for you The bread locker and harnass cask
are full aud unfastened, and you shall al
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