The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1848-02-24

up thst Eve millious to Mexico for that strip
q our side Of the river that you sent Ger.
Tay lor TO take without her leave, jest she,
your mouth up.
lfthey ask you ifM Mr.. Trist didn't offer
to give up that five millions to Mexico and
pay her twenty millions more fshe would
MOI try to yet back California and new
Mexico, that you had taken from her with
out her leave, Jest shcs your mouth Up.
II they ask you What upon earth you
want nov Of hundred thousand SOLDIERS
ia Mexico, and hundred millions ofdollars
ycar for spending money, jest open your
lips carefully a little ways, and tell EN- you
are digging your way into tho vital parts
Of Mexico to get the FIVE millions she owes
10.
Then shet your mouth right up again and
keep il shet, and ! gucss you'll be safe
Don, be afraid Of 'em; they cans PRIV your
mouth open ifthcy should try; aud guess
that answer will satisfy cIn till VIC get the
work all done and Mexico all annexed
Then sou can step up to them boldly md
tell cm you have made the greatest bar
gain that any body ever made OF this airih (;
you have got the whole oil Mexico, people
and oil, for Eve millions Of dollars, which
IL only about fifty cents head for the peo-
ole, and the lands and gold mines thrown
in fos nothing.
I'm persuaded that il will make the great
est mnm o( you that ever lived yet; greater
than Washington, or Jackson, or my body
else. The world will then say, swim,
great things was Washington! lie only
defended his country and built up n Repub.
lie; but there was Col. Polk, he conquered
country and annexed Republic" l'm
20 sure il will come to this that wish you
could stop their setting up tina. grcut Wash
ington Monument there in tho city Of
Washington, for that monument oaeht 10
be raised to you yet, and the monoy should
DO saved Tor that purpose. ! don't know
how you can stop tho work goin on, unless
you can make il ont that Il comes under tho
head Of internal improvements, aud then
you can stop it consti,utionally. Al any rate
il's worth trying Tor. Never mind the pra-
ting of them scarccrow folks, who make
such fuss and say it will be the desiruc-
ton Of the United States if you annex Mex
leo. What il il sl,ould? You would still
stnnd above Washington and be remember
ed longer. Oar history books tell US that
the name of tho man who built tho great
temple to Diana At Ephcsus is lost and for
gotten; nobody knows who hc was;-
but the mime of the man who set iirc 10 il
and burnt il down is found in Nil the hisio-
ries down to this duy. So in this grand
snncxin business Of yours; it sou should
set FIRE 10 the grca. temple that Washing
ton built, and burn it down, dom. be afraid
but whnt your name will live on the pags
Of history full ns longas Washington's.
But Two writ so much already, that ]
l,avnt room to say Int word or two
about matters here. We keep pushing
the business here; we've got pretty well
through tho vital parts of tho country, and
the army has now commenced spreading
out aud turning squat,ers. Bat wc havn'l
near enough 10 spread all over the country
yet, without leaving them tho scattering.
! hope you will hurry on the thirty thou
sand men that you promised, as fast as
possible; that would make US near hun
dred thousand strong; caough TO spread
out sguattcrs into all parts Of the country,
mud the anncxin business would be pretty
much over. That Is, tho nnncxin Of Mexi-
co; and take il you'll give Us u hol, day,
and let us rest few months before we
hitch on TO the next country down SOUTH
And, besides, we shall need that hoIyday
to zee about clecting you President anoth-
or term; for you'll have TO be elected in
the common way once more, before you
will DO strong enough TO s,and President
all the time without any election. ] zee
things Is goingon very we'll for your cleo
ton this time. The more candidates there
il on both sides, the better il will be Cor YOU;
and i appears now ns though there was
going TO be lots o. EN-.
rcmain your faithful friend.
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.