Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-07-20
From the National Intelligencer. |
Posr OFFICE, Downingvile, State of Maine I
June 30, 1913.


DEAR NEpHEw:-Bein our army is about
breakin up in Mexico and coming home,
thought the best chance to get letter 10 you
would be to get your old friends, Mr.. Gales &
Seaton, to send ii on that way, and may be it
might come across you somewhere on the road
if so be you are still in the land of the living.
Your aunt kezlah is in great worriment about
you, and is very much fright ened for fear some
thin has happened, because we haven't heard
nothing from YOU since your last letter. | try
TO pacify her, and tell her the fighting was all
over, and nothin 10 do but to finish up the
court martial the last time you writ, and that
there isn't agoing to be no more annexin till
Mr.. Cass comes IN President, and you'll soon
be along. But all wont pacify her, she's as
uneasy as fish out of water, and says she lays
awake half the night thinking of them garillas,
for fear they've got hold of you. So hope
you'll write home as soon as possible, and let
us know whether you are dead or alive, and
set your aunt Keziah's heart to atsrest.
| For my part, hope you will hurry along
back as fast as you can. Our politics is very
much mixed up and in bad way about the
Presidency. 1t would puzzle Philadelphia
! lawyer to tell how it's coming out. 1t was
very unlucky hit when President Polk sent
old lack Taylor down to Mexico. He wasn't
| the right man. But, then, 'spose Mr.. Polk
hold of. 1t 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
I begun his Pally Atty battles; and now we are
all shiVerin as bad as If we had the fever and
agay. don't know after all but this annex
in Mexico will turn out to be an unlucky blow
TO the party; for what will it profit the Demo-
cratic party if they gain the whole world and
loose the Presidency We see, the Wings have
put up Taylor as President, and it mas COM
pletely knocked US into cooked hat. There
isn't one half of us that knows where we stan
or which way we are goin; and there isn't
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 1t
old Hickory had got back again, and they were
all running TO vote for him: The Wings laugh
and poke fun at us, and say they have got as
good right to have Hickory as we Demo-
Gratis have. We put up General Cass first, and
thought we should carry it all hollow, for he's
strong man and took good deal OF pains TO
make the party like him all over the county
If the Wings had done as they ought to, and
put up Clay, or any one that they had right
to put up, we should carried the day without
anv trouble. But the conduct Of the Wings has
been shameful in this business. Instead of ia :
king man that fairly belonged to EN-. they
2 have grabbed hold of man that got all his
popularity out of our war, and was under the
/, pay 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
2 the man in the moon. But, for all that, the
: Wings had the impudepce TO nominate him.
8 Well that riled our water all up, so wa cou Id
MT see bottom nowhere. But We soon found
1 there was shillin and whirlin of currents
/ and the wind and the tide was settia us on tc
Y the rocks, in spite of us. We soon see that ole
: Rough and Ready as they call him was agoipE
o to be too much for Cass. But, as we was al
: making up our mind that it was gone goose
: with US, MIR. John Van Buren, of York State
d he's a smart Teller, son of President Van Blu
Y rem, and chip of the old block-he sings out
v eDon't give up the ship yet; if one boss ain
= enough to draw the load, hitch on another. p
i Well, the idea seemed to take, and they stirred
round and got up another convention at Utica
in York State, to see who they should put up
and they all pitched upon President Van Blu
: rem. Mr.. Van Buren, patted them on the bacl
o and told 'em TO have good courage, and e
: ahead, for they was on the right track, but the,
must hitch on somebody else besides him, TO
n he had made up his mind four years ago not t
h take hold again. But they stuck TO him will
st tears in their eyes, and told him there WASH
y another man in the country that could draw
d like him alongside of Cass, and if he still hal
e no. And they worked upon his feelings 81
$, much that at last he didn't say no. So now
l. we've got two candidates, Cass and Van Burel
y and good strong ones, too, both of EN-; and ]
l. we can't whip TAYLOR, think it's a pity.
" know as we'll as | want to that we shall Civ
d him pesky hard tug. Some are afraid w
amt hardly strong enough yet, and they've cal
= led another Convention TO meet in Buffalo tn
n 9th of August, to put up another candidate
4 But others are faint-hearted about it and say it
e. all no kind of use; we may put up twenty car
a didates, and Taylor will whip the whole lo
b. it's a way he has; he always did just so in Mex
y ic6. If they brought twenty TO one agin him
Y made no odds; he whipt the whole ring irof
Of Paly Alto to Bona Vista.
So you see what sort of pickle we are IL
a. and how much we need your help just now
D. But there's one thing have on my mind prett
Sc strong. You know this apI ointment in tn
t. DowningvilIe Post Office, that you got Giners
IF Jackson to give me, has always been grea
4 comfort to me, and it would be a sad blow
= me to lose it now in my old age. wish 70
e would make it in your way to call and see Cir
e Taylor as you come along home, and Try
l. find out how he feels towards because, II ne
is SO to be elected any how, can't see any us
h there would be in my biting my own noes o
for the sake of opposing his election. And
don't think that patriotism to the party II
I'd quires it; and am sure prudence don't
e When you get TO Washington, call and Sc
at Mr. Richie and try and comfort him; I'm tel
n the dear old gentleman is workin' too hard IL
n. his srength-out nights in the rain, with
lantern in his hand, heading the campaign
d, Try to pursuade him to be calm and take goo
care ofhimself And be sure and ask him ho'
the Federalsts are goin this election. for W
K can't find out anything about it down here:
at used to know how to keep the run OF the Fec
III eralists, but now there is so many paftles. ii
ce Democrats and Wings, and Hunkers, and Barr
tn burners, and Abolition folks, and Prcviso toll
OF all cris cross one another till have ms matc
ne TO keep the run af em. But your aunt kezia
Us says the clock has struck, and mnst close II
n mail.
or So remain your loving uncle,
m JOSHUA DOWNING, r. M
- INDIAN SKELETON ExHUMED.--Some worl
y, y, men during the first part of this week viii
~ ~ engaged in digging, preparatory to building
80 large Warehouse on the river bank, where ont