The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1849-08-24

anu r"u e"ihs 10 sup tue mask rom
me J" Why, IN, dear friend, # you couid /
ouly be up here FIVE minutes ON our new /
platform, On Mason aud Dixon's side Of
Salt River, and jes, lift the mask of Of my
face one minute, you'd know me les, as
easy as the little boy knew his daddy. |
Your head couldn't be so turned but what
you'd know mo for you'd see then The We.
~ same old friend that stool hy YOU and
Gineral Jackson fifteen, sixteen, aud eigh.
teen years ago; the same Old fiiend that
coaxed up Gineral jackson and made him
iorgive you for calling him such hard names
be fare he was elected. It's very migrate.
in tnf you TO forget me now, that is, II you
va. in our nigh, mind. For I'm tie same
old friend, The same Jack Duwniug, thai
was born aud brough, up in Downing, lie,
away down cast ia the State Of Maine, and
that drove down 10 Portland insJlnneIwa.
~, 1880, wi h load of ase.handIes aud
bean.poles. and found the Legislator in
dreadful snaIle, all tied aud tangled, aLd
see-sawin up and downa whole fortnight,
nnd couldn't choose their ,flicers. found
my axe.handics aud bean poles wouldn't
sell, So took 10 polytix and went 10 wit
IN letters. The Legislator foul and fout
all winter bu, kept wriiin, aud a, last
got 'em Strengthened out. kept on y rit.
/ IN for whole year. and got the polyiix Of
Maine pretty well settled. Theu see
Gfneral jackson was getting lnio trouble,
and footed IL on 10 Washington 10 g,,o
him lift. And you know AWAY stuck
by him afterwards as long as he lived. |
h,lpad him feh, the battles wr;b Bodies
monster Bank I'LL we killed il I'll. lip.
ed him put down nlll'fcGiion, aud showed
exactly how il would work If II got the up.
per hand IN ny letter about carry ing he
ralt Of logs across Sebago Pond, when Bill
johnson GOT mad and .aorc he'd have his
I log all 10 himself, and so he cur the lash.
ings and padded ,f on hi, log alone aud
then his log begun to roll aud be couldn't
keep II steady, aud he got d0cked head ov.
er heels halt dozen times, aud come pes
Ky near being dro~n'd. Ard lhat wasn't
ALL did to keep Il notification, aud help
put /, down. ] btongh, OF my old com
pany Of Dowuingville MALTA 10 Washing
=
} iei, and kept EN- thee with lheir guns
all loaded Ill The danger WAS over. Aud
! used to % % top Of the Congress house
every day, aud keep watch, and listen off
in"ards South Carolina, so as 10 be ready,
the FIRST moment uulticaiua bust up there,
10 order Sergeant joel to march and iirc.
The Gner4l Away said the spaah show.
cd was what cowed nullifcalion down 81
quick and he always fell very grateful to
me for II. Well, | stuck by the G,uefaI
all weathers; and kept wrlIn letters
from Washington IN my old friend. the CT.
tor Of The PolilaHd Courier, aud kept old
lIickory's popularity alive among tho PEG.
pie, and dldn't let nobody NEEDLE with his
Administration TO bur, IT. Wei, then Won
know, the Glaeral, in the summer OF c32
started of on his grand tower down East
and weUt with him. You remember,
when We got 10 Phladelphy, the people
swarmed rounj him SO thick hey almost
smothered him 10 death aud The Giucral
60, so tired shahin hands that he cou'dn't
give another shake, and came pretty near
fanln away; and then | put my hand
rouui under his arm AID shock tor him
bali an hour longer, and so we made CD; -
get throu.". ! seat the Whole account Of
+ II TO NV old friend Of the Portland Cour.
er. Well, then We joeged along 10 New
York and there you remember We come
pesks near getting a 6ucklng when the
bridge broke down al Castle Garden. |
sent he hole aCcount OF il 10 my old
Portland friend. Wei, the neat dav the
orisina! M,jpr D1wning published his
fist original letter IN a New York paper,
givin. account Of the duck 10 at Castle
Garden. Nobody couldn't dispute bu,
what his was the True genuine original "
Owning Document, although my vile
limitations of II had been going on aud
published almost every weekior two years.
| say nobody couldn't dispute it, because
twas proved by scripture and poetry both.
For the bible say :, :" the frs, shall he last,
and the last FIRST; )" aud poetry says, "com
lng events cast their shadows before. -
So The shadows, The "stie limitations" had
been flying about the county for mole
than two yrars before the original event
got along. hope your head viii get set,
tied again, SO you can see through these
things and understand em, and know me
les, as you used to. can't bear The idea
Of your not knowing me, aud thinking I'm
fictitious"
DI Try TO refresh your mind litle;
think how | stood by YOU and Sir. Polk,
and helped you along through the Mexican
war; aud how | carried out di>palehr
from Mr. Polk to MIR. Trst in Mexico,
and how | carried private message from
YOU to Giueral Taylor, to Try to coax 1t I
out of him which side he was coming out
on.
Good bye, my dear friend hope mex,
time hear from you you will be recover.
cd and in your right mind, so as to know
me and see that amt fictitious = for
YOU havn't 90, a truer friend on Mason and
DiNon's side Of Salt River than your old
friend,
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.