Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-08-23

you'd khow me Just a the liile hoy knew his
daddy, Nonf head couldn't be 81 turned but what
Non'd kna" me inr you'd ace then ihe very same old
ilend Tint stond by YOU and t,neri Inct am 6lrnn
sixteen and eighcen years au, the same oil friend that
enaNrd up Glneral JicEsn aud made him forgive yuu
ln celhhg him such hand names before he was elecird
lsNery nngrealil Tor you Ia tnget now that a. II
yon was In Your tiphi mud. Far I'm the sam. old
taend. The jack D1wnine that was born and
branph up IL Dowungvle, away down ems, IN the
Niao OF Noinn and that drove dowu 10 Portland Ia In
netwaty, 1880, with Lad of nNe handlrs and bean
poles, aud found tho Legislator in dreadful snarl all
tied and tangled. aud sawin up and duwn n whole
fortnight, and udn't chose their officers found my
axe handles and bean poles wouldn't SELL 81 took 10
polyuN aud went 10 wrin letters. The l.egisla
ter tout aud lout all winter hui kept wdu. and at
last got om Strengthened out. kept ON wrilin for
whole year, aud got The pyliS Of Maue pretty vel so
cd Then SIRE Gnenli Jackson wls pctiinu In trou-
BILE, and ooled il to Washington 10 give him lift
And You know always stuck by him Afterwards loug
as he lived lhtlped him fight the battles with bid
dos munster BaHk I'LL killed It Of | he ped him
PM down ndiiticdtion aud showed exactly how il would
II II got the upper hand In my letter about carrying the
rat If Egs across Senga Pond. when Bill 1ohusnn got
mad aud swofe he'd have his Iat al 10 himself and 81
he cut the nshnQs and padded I'll ON his lw nluna aud
then his 10y begin roll and he couldn't keep steady
and he got dneked head heels half doaon times
and come peahy near hcins draNn'd Aud that nasn'i
all did TO keep oil publication aud hep put down
brought On my old company o Downna vile malta Ia
Washington. under the communal vt cousin Sergeant 10
el, aud kept em there with guns all Loaded nh the dan
yer was over And used In 90 up Top Of the Conpres.
hnnso every day, AMI keep watch. aud listen oil t,Nat
South taro'na AS b, be ready, he FIRST moment nul
h alian bnst there, To order Sargfau Joel marel
aud o, The Gned always said thu npnnk shove,
WAS what cni"ed nullheann down qu ek and h
Away felt very grateful me fa, it " ell stuck b.
The Hheia all woahrfs and kept wdlin letters lrun
Washing On 10 old friend. Tho editor Of the PORTRAYED
Courier, aud kept nld Hickory, popularity alive nm,up
thu people aud didn'l let nohuly mrddle with his Al
nluslmioni 10 hun II. Well. then ypu know. the Gln
efa In The summer ol $50. started of On his grand
81 do"n Ensl, and went with hun You roneab =
when We Gai "a l'hldolphy Tho people sWarno II
nm 50 thick lhry ulnual smolhercd hun death and
the Gneml pot trrd shakin hands thai he eiuldu'
give another shake, and como pretty near hiul,n away
aud whom put my hand round under his arm aud sh1ul
i1r linn hnli an hour longer, aud we made q.
through, sem the whue account ol II tony old tfcnt
OF the Portland Courier. Wc then we iipprd anng t
n York; aud there you remember pes,v neal
getting duckng whom the bridge 6ruko down Mt Cas- Il
Garden sent thu wheln account of II my old port
hand friend. Wei. the next dry the 'origual'' Mna
DuWnn9 published his first original nltot Ia New Nuf
hprt q VIM and account ot the duoklng n Castle Gar
den. Nobrdy cooldn't dsrno bni what this wns IT,,
true gnnlne "orlgnti" Downing document, ahougl
my "vlle mutations of 1t had been going On aud pub
published almost every week for two ycnfs. say no
body eau'dn dispute IT, because wns proved by scrip
inro aud puetfy both, For the Bible says, 1.-THE hs
shall be last and the last first" aud poetry SAYS. com
ing events east their shadows beic' So the shadows
the vile laions,' had been ily,ng about the country
ipr more than two years before the original got n
long hope your head viii get settled again. 80 yn
can see through these things aud understand 'em, an
know me Icst ynu used TO- cam bear the idea u
your mol knowing no, and thinking I'm "folltinus
Da try 10 refresh ur mind little ihn. how
sluod by yon and Mr. Polk and hrlpol you aonl throrg
the MsNicnn war aud how | carried oll dlspatcle
from MI Polk Ia Nh rst in MeSea nnl how earn
ed private message from yonto Gnenl Taylor Il
Try to coax IL cut oi him which side bo conn L
IN.
Good bye. nv dear friend hope next time hea
from y"n You will be recovered and IN your II ,ht mind ~
rs 10 know aud that amt "hHion.;" flf yo,
havn'l gol trner friend on Mason and DAon's sulu o
Salt River Than your I'D friend
MAJOR JACK DOW NIN(.