The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1848-07-19
PRIVATE LETTER TO MAJOR JACK
DOWNING.
Post Office, D0waingrille, State of Maine
June 80, lS4S.

Pos, Office, Douaingrille, State of Mdine,
June 80, ls4S.
DEAR NEPHEW BEN our army is abou,
breakn up 10 Mexico and coming home,
thought the best chance TO get II letter to
you would be to get your old friends, Mr..
Gales and Seaion, 10 send ii on that way,
and may be it might come across you some
where on the road, if So be you are still IN
The land Of the living. Your aun, keziah
Is in a great worrimen, about YOU, and Is
very much frightened for fear somethin has
happened, because we haven't heard uoihln
from YOU since your las, letter. try to
pac,fy her, and tell her the hgh,in, was al
over, aud nothn TO do but 10 tiolsh up the
court martial the last time you writ, ant
that Ihara isn'i apnino 10 be no more an
ynn'l soon be along. Bot all won'i pacif,
her; she's as uneasy as fish out OF wafer
and says she lays awake half the night
lhiLkiog of them garilas, for fear they've
go, hold Of you. So hope you'll write
home soon as possible, and lei us know
whether you are dead or alive, and sci
your aun, kez abs heart 10 rest.
For my part, hope you will hurry along
back as fast as you can. Oar politics are
very much mixed up and in a bad way
about the Presidency. 1t would puzzle o
Phlladelphy lawyer to tell how IT'S comm
out. II was very unlucky hi! when Pre-
siden, Polk sent ole Zlck Taylor down to
Mexico. He WASH. the RICH, man. But,
then, | 'spose Mr.. Polk had no idea Of what
sort of chap he had got hold Of. Ii can't
be helped now, but it's like TO be the ruin
Of our party. The Democratic party haint
seen well day since Taylor first begun his
Pallv Alto battles and now We are all
shiverln as bad as if we had The fever and
agay | don't know, after all, but this an
nexrn' Mexico viii turn out TO be an un.
lucky blow TO the party; for what will 1t
profit The Democratic party if they gain the
whole world and lose the Presidency le
see, the Wings have put up Taylor for
President aud it has completely knocked
us all into a cooked hat. There isn't one
half of US that knows where we stan or
which way We are goln; and there isn't a
party fence in the country that is high
enough TO keep our folks from jumping
over. They are getting kind OF crazy. and
seem to feel as if old Hickory bad go. back
again, and they was all running 10 vote for
hun. The Wings laugh and poke fun at
US, and say they have got as good right
to have a Hickory as we Democrats have.
We pu, up G,neral Cass first, aud thought
we should carry it all hollow; for he's
strong man and took good deal Of pains 10
make the party like him all over the coun'
try. And If the Wings had done as they
ough, to, and put up Clay, or any one that
they had right to pu, up, we should
carried the day without any trouble. But
the conduct of The Wings have been shame.
rul in this business. Instead Of taking a
man that fairly belonged to EN-, they have
grabbed hold of man that got all his
popularity out Of our war, and was under
tho nav of our Administration, and has
been made and built up by our party, and
the Wings had no more business with him
than they had with the man in the moon.
But, for all that, the Wings had the impu
dence to nominate him. Well, that rlled
our water all up, SO We couldn't see bottom
nowhere. But we soon found there was
shlflin and whiilun Of currents, and the
wind and the tide was settin Us on to the
rocks, in spite of US. We soon see that
old Rough and Ready, as they call him,
was agoug TO be too much Tor Cass. But,
as we was all making up our mind tina, II
was gone goose with US, MIR. John Van Bu.
rem, Of York Stale-he's smart Teller, a
son of President Van Buren,, and chip Of
the old bock-he sings out, Don't give
up the ship yet; if one hoes ain. enough 10
draw the load, hitch on another" Well,
the idea seemed to take; and they stirred
round and got up another Convention al
Utica, 10 York State, TO see who they