The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1849-09-07

poles W0ulun't sell, SO look 10 pOlytlN ana
went to writing letters. The Legislator
fout and fout all winter; but kept writin,
and at last / got 'em Strengthened out.
kept on wrtin for whole year, and got the
polytix of Maine pretty well settled. Then
| see Gineral Jackson was gettin into trouble
and | footed it on to Washington to give
him lift. And you know ] always stuck
by him as long as he lived, helped him
fight the battles with Biddle's monster Bank
till we killed ii off helped put down aul.
f!fcattOn, and showed exactly how it would
work if it got the upper hand. in my letter
about carrying the raft Of logs across Seba
go Pond, when Bill johnson got mad and
swore he'd have his log all to himself, aud
so he cut The lashings and padded off on his
own log alone; and then his log begun TO roll
and he couldn't keep it steady, and he got
ducked head over heels half dozen times,
and come pesky near being drowned And
that wasn't all did TO keep off notification
and hel ped put it down. brought on my old
company Of Downingville militia to Wash
ington, under the command of cousin Sar-
geant Joel. and kept 'em there with their
guns all loaded till the danger was all over.
And used to go up to the top of Congress
house every day, and keep watch, and listen
off towards South Carolina, so as to be
ready, the first minute nullfcation bust up
there, to order Sergeant Joel to march and
fire. The Gineral always said the spunk |
showed is what cowed notification down so
quick; and he always felt very grateful to
me for It. We'll, l stuck by the Gineral all
weathers; and kept writln letters from Wa.
shngton to my old friend, the editor of the
Portland Courier, and kept old HCkory's
popularity alive among the people, and
didn't let nobody meddle with his Admins
tration to hurtit Well you know, the Gin
eraI in the summer of 1882, started off on
his grand tower down east, and went with
him. You remember, when yon got to
Philadelphy, the people swarmed round so
thick they almost smothered him to death;
and the Gineral got so tired shakin hands
that he couldn't give another shake, and
come pretty near faintin away; and then
put my hand round under his arm and shook
for him half an hour longer, and so we made
out to get through. sent the whole ac-
count of ii to my old friend Of the Portland
Courier. Well, then we logged along to N.
York; and there you remember we come
pesky near getting duckng when the
bridge broke down at Castle Garden. sent
the whole of it to my old Portland friend
Well the next day the "orignal" Major
Downing published his first original lettel
in New York paper, giving an account o
the ducking at Castle Garden. Nobody
couldn't dispute but what this was the true
genuine "orginal." Downing document, al
though my vile limitations Of it had beer
going on and published almost every weel
for two years. say nobody couldn't dis
pute it, because twas proved by scriptur,
and poetry both. For the Bible says 'th,
FIRST shall be last and the last iirst;' and Lh,
poetry says, coming events cast their shad
ows before" SO the shadows, the vile i'm
itatons,' had been flying about the couutr
for more than two years before the origina
event got along. l hope your head will
get settled again, so you can see throug
these things and understand 'em, and yo
know me jest as you used to. can't bea
the idea OF your not knowing me, and think
ing I'm "fcticious,"
Du try TO refresh your mind little; thln
how stood byyou and Mr. Polk, and heIpe,
you along through the Mexican war; & how
| carried out dispatches from Mr.. Polk, t.
Mr.. Trist in Mexico, aud how carried
private message from you to Gineral Tay
Ior, to try to coax it out of him which sid
he was coming out on.
Good bye my dear friend, hope mex
time hear from you will be recovered an
in your right mind, so as to know ME an
see that amt "ticticious;" for you havn'
got truer friend on Mason and Dixon
side of Salt River than your old friend,
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.