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MAJOR DOWNING TO GOV. KossuTH.

MAJOR DOWNING TO GOV. KossUTH.
~ DowNINevILLE, aiooy Dozen East,
g C State of Maine, Dec. D, 1851. !
Dear GoUernor-I hope you won't feel
siighted because haint wit to you
afore The truth is, | haven't had no
time. Pve been so busy for about a
month past, 4 couldn't get no time to
write no how. Uncle Joshua and
have been hard to work all the time,
day and night, reading your speeches
and the duius of the meetins in New
York and England. We begun week
or two afore you got to York, and have
been at it ever since. We commonly
get up and go at it afore breakfast, and
take turns reading, and keep it up till
bed time that is, till nine o'clock in
the evenin; for that's the time we
Downiugville folks go to bed. So |
hope YOU won't feel slighted because [
haven't found time to write 10 you afore
now, and hope you haven't felt lone
some since you've been in York. see
you are on the way to Philadelphy and
Baltimore and Washington. and if yon
should feel lonesome in them places,
lest tnrn about and come down here 10
D0Wningville, and we'll try to cheer
YOU up and make yon feel at home.
>ay this because | have took a great
liking to you, and always mean what
1 say. I've took greater liking TO
you than anybody else since | lost my
dear old friend Gineral Jackson. May
be because you are so much like him.
:; /, f1 a,
you are jest like him. Old Hickory
was the man what "teok the response
bilitya when he wanted to do any
thing; and see you are jest so-you
aint afraid to take the responsibility !;
and what's better still, YOU are trying
TO encourage other fSiikks to take the re-
sponsibility tu Old Hickory was a
great hand TO make principles and then
fight 'em through. And then agin |
think you are a good deal like him
And. BY the way, begin to feel quite
u liking for President Bonaparte of
France, for ] see he's took the respousi-
billty at last, and been maxim princi-
pies and figntin 'em through. There's
some smart folks in the world yet, and
it's we'll there is, for it's pretty likely
there'H be use for 'em before another
year is ont And then another thing
which makes me think you are so much
like Old Hickory is the hoorahs. Why,
Il seems to me can hear 'em all the
was from York to Downingville; and
1t carries me right back to old times.
Ghen the country was ringing with
s. hoorah for Jackson J"
Z think, dear governor, yon better
stop here till next summer, and not go
hack to Hungary. We shall have to
make d new President next summer,
and you might get in to be President
Jest as easy as cat could lick her ear
-and president you know is higher
than governor. Hadn't you better take
its know you can get it if you ouly
say the word Our parties in this coun-
;sfy have been so broke to pieces and
fiiixed up lately that nobody could tell
who to pitch upon for president; and
we've been so worried for fear We
shouldn't make out to choose any presi-
dent Al ali next summer. And amt
sure but what you've got here Jest in
the mick of time to get Us ont OF this
sssfape. For if you'll only stand as can
alidafe you'll 20 in all holler. ! never
kneRi il fail, when the haorahs got up
20 strong as they have been since you
: not TO York. We've got about twenty
paFfies in this conntry now there's the
diving party. and the old democrat
spaFty, and the wooiy-head wings, and
che silver.grsy wings, and the bunker
sdsmocrats, and the barn-burner demo-
.cfats and the Ssward party, and the
.Uaion safsty committee party, and the
aibesty party, and the Fegnlar free-soll
party and the regular votesyourself-a-
farsa party, and the old abolition party,
and the old secession party, (which
nspsouted up out Of the old notification
,saFty that and Old Hickory killed off !
znd the lco-operation secessionists, and
,shs nus and out 60 alone secessionists /;
aua nov thers's two new parties added
4has ain't hardly three weeks old yet--
she intervention party and the non-ih-
saeFseaEim patty: and ! believe thess
ore divided again into the party for in-
sssveBesoH aeifk0Ht tCay, and the party
Soy Intervention. wuy Or no srar.
- Il was lucky you took : stand and
put yonf foot down whom VOC sfIrsf soi