Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-09-06

and then his log began to roll and he couldn't keep
1 it steady andiie got ducked head over heals half
/ a adozentmes,and come Pesky near beingdrown'd
I A nd that wasnt all | did to keep off nullifcal
ton and help put it down. l brought on my Did
company Of Downingville militia to Washington,
unde, the command of cousin Sergeant Joel, aud
kept em there, with their guns all loaded till the
danger was past. And used to go up top of the
Congess house every day, and keep watch, and
listen off towards South Carolina SO as to be ready
the first moment notification burst up there, to
| der Sergeant Joel to march and fire. The Giner-
al always said the spunk / had showed was what
cowed qualification down so quick; and he always
felt very grateful to me for it. swell stuck By
the .Gineral all weathers and / kept gwritin my
letters from Washington to my old friend, the ed
tor of the Portland Courier, and kept old Hicko-
rvs popularity alive among the people, and didn't
let nobody meddle with his ADMINISTRATION to hurt
it.. Well, then, you know, the Gineral, in the
summer of 1892 started off on his grand tour down
East, and went with him. You remember, when
we got to Phladelphy, the pesplel swarmed found
him so thick that they almost smothered himto
death ; and the Gneral got SO tired shakin hands
that he couldn't give another shake, and come
pretty near fantin 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 account of it to my old friend of
the Portland Courier. Well, then we logged along
to New York and there you remember We came
pesky near getting ducking, when the bridge
broke down at Castle Garden. 1 sent the whole
account Off to my old Portland friend. Well, the
next day the original Major Downing published
his first original letter, in New York paper, CIV
ing an account of the ducking at Castle Garden.
Nobody couldn't dispute but what this was the
true gnuine original Downing document, al.
though my vile limitations of it. had been going
on and published almost every week for two years
l say nobody couldn't dispute it, because twas
proved by Scripture and poetry both. For the
Bible says, the irsteshall be last; and the last
first;' and poetry says, coming events cast their
shadows before So the shadows, the vile imi,
tatons' had been flying about the country for more
than two years before the original event got along
j hope your head will get settled again, SO you
can see through these things and understand 'em,
and know me just as you used to-. | can't bear
the idea of your not knowing me, and thinking I'm
: fictitious.
Dotry to refresh your mind little; think how
stood by you and MIR. Polk, and helped you along
through the Mexican war and how | carried out
dispatches from Mr.. Polk to Mr.. Trist in Mexico,
and how l carried a private message from you to
Gineral Taylor to try to coax it out of him which
side he was coming out on. ahi f1a.H 7!
Good bye. my dear friend hope next time II
hear from yon, you will be recovered and in your
right mind, so as to know me and see that amt
fictitious; : for you haven't got a truer friend on
Mason and Dxon's side of Salt River than your
DID friend, MAJOR JACK DOWNING. i