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HThe following letter from Job Mantle,

Is The following letter from Job Mantle,
was found in town unsealed, and as it relates tc
that very sbstruse question Of the Veto, we give
it a place in our paper. 1t is marked confden.
tial, but the envelop is torn of. We publish il
THAT the owner may know where the original is
BLuEDuReH, Mo.
DEAR Epw1N:-I discover from the papers
THAT you have got into a terrible snarl about the
veto power in your city, and being an old friend,
I am confident you will be pleased to hayea word
from me in relation TO the matter. ! am will
Iyou entirely in. your views, and think you very
seldom get wrong in your positions! As regards
the veto power, / must say l hate 1t as l do the
devil, (excuse me for using the word, as we are
not now in Church.) think General jackson
ought 10 have been hung, when he vetoed the
Bank. If he hadn't done that, l could now have
been a rich man, and your pork house would
have been a more thrifty establishment than it is.
| was a Jackson man up TO that moment, but the
way l did swear when | heard of it, was aston
ishihg 10 Davy Crockett. But thank God / have
Joined the church now, and never swear right
ont in company, though get mad enough TO do
it mighty often. John Tyler, too, that Internal
hu WIclCH, i Npteu lUI HUI, anu i s"ciL ukC q
porpoise whenever think Of him. Pm mighty
glad you've got King Veto, a, you call him, kill
ed in one place any how-the little city Of LOU
~;isiana. Nav be from this little beginning we
shall finally be able TO e~xtirpste it every where.
What think you Edwin? told my wife the
other day they called you "Old Bally," and she
laughed heartily and said it was quite appropri-
ate, but that you would be fast enough for them
in ell their cute tricks-that you were a mighty
shifty boy, and she would be bound the hair had
all fallen off your head whilst you were studying
low cunning.
Well, Ed, I've been. reading the Record, and
there saw how you sailed those fellows. That
first article you wrote was a mighty fine thing.
When we were little chaps together, l thought |
was going TO make a. smart man as you but
you've got so now you could take the socks from
me mighty easy. l always hate to get into these
little paper q~uarrels. The fellow always gets me.
| get mad and abuse every thing around me, and
sometimes without cause. When he don't act
to please me, my passion runs ahead of my judg-
ment and makes me say things that I hate very
much when get in a coed humor. II there is'
nothing truthful that is bad TO say against him, y
thunder down on him with the biggest lie / can
think Of. He then comes out and pins me down,
land that is the way he gifts me. Some men have
Ian admirable tact in getting ont Of a fix Of this
sort. They smooth it over with sophistry and
tell another ~whopper, and keep on so til every
body forgets the old one. Now that's the sd-
vantage you have over me. really thought you
had laid yourself open in that first article, and l
was afraid that fellow "Ex" would get you
You wrote it when you were mad, and you didn't
think. You used to be very quick and p~eeyish,
and recon you've got some Of the old ddnder yet.
You see that editorial came ont in the Record be-
fore any thing was said. ] presumed that II had
been written by that archaeological fellow that
used to teach arithmetic on the telegraph princi-I
|ple and got stalled in the single rule OF three
Dear Ed, he is a mighty commo man 10 be our
Wing editor, and every time lie comes 10 our town
I'm fearful he will talk too much and lose usI
some votes. But ! hold up for him, and tell the
boys there is nothing in looks.
But to return, you know when the article came
out in the Banner you fired away a little before
you took sight. Now l do think the public pa
ers have the right to comment on public affairs,
and your being hasty might make people think
Iyou wrote the editorial. Any how they would
say you were not exactly justified in saying all
you did in that communication. The fact is. youl
got a little too high up in the pictures for a chris
ltian. That Mayor, l don't know much about
him, but he got down on you terribly hard with
his sockdOlagers, ! tell you. / understood from
your last article that that fellow SEX has been a
Locofoco candidate. If that be true, and he is
a l~ocofoco, give It to him. l wish I could get in
power once, I would hang every devil of them
high as Haman-(excuse me, l get mad when
ever / think Of the cursed creatures.) You know
lou and / talked Of il once, and we then agreed
that q law like the Spanish inquisition, to try the
internal wretches would be first rate. All that
blame you for is, that in your second article
you assured the scamp you had no other than
kind feelings towards him. I never saw him,
and never heard a word against him. but still !
don't like him. But in truth the fellow got some
scripture against you that was powerful strong.
You know we stick to scripture and acknowl-
edge its correctness. though we sometimes err,
and people catch Us in dirty tricks. We can then
say the righteous sin nine times a day-put on a
solemn look, and call it penitence-sackcloth and
ashes. ..-r
Dear Edwin--I am sorry you said anything
about your own merits--others awaiting them.
selves of your Iabors, and standing in borrowed
plumage, and about your being always success
Ifnl when you run for Office. It is very true that
lyou are amuch better and greater man than the
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