Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1852-11-25
0be pailp Direinial,.
From the National Jntol ligencer.
From Major Jack Downing.
DowNINGyILLE, STATE OF MAINE, |


nun eziah. about the second day arter the e
lection, when New York aud Pennsy wanna,
and Ohio, came rolling in for Pierce and King,
she was so completely owe flowed with oceans
of happiness that she fell into compton hts,
and has hud'em more or less every day since.
And a. for cousin Sergeant Joel Downing, he
don't hurrah for Gineral Scott more; but
ever SINCE the election he hurrahs for Gineral
Pierce day and night, till Les got to be so
hoarse he can't speak above whisper. You
remember | told you in my last letter how un-
Gle Joshua and found Sergeant Joel, some
,ine before The election, out behind the barn,
.tandng ona stump and swinging his hat,
aud hollern" hurrah for Gineral Scott"
Ieih all bis might. Arter that he did II open
/ w. aNd aaid be didn't care WHO heard IT, And
! be sept it mp I'll tho day arter election, when
/ the telegraph wires broughti in the thunder and
/ Iigh.aiu news that all creation had gone Tor
/ GiaaraI Pierce and then couein Joel chopt
roal4d quicker tnan you ever geo norweser
set IL 4rter n southeast storm. Cousin Joel IS
! o cunan CO..; he knows which side his bread
! is 0ticred. aud you may depend h viii be on
| hand in Washington next winter, and II Penn
syvnny avenue don't ring from end to tother
with his hnrrahs for Gineral Pierce, | won't
guess agn don't know what Ginera Pier
cc will dojfor cousin Joel when the time comes.
but he will lie bound 10 do something pretty
handsome for him, for no man has hurrah'd
ouder and hcartier for him than cousin Joel
has, especially since the election.
And as for uncle Joshua, he seems TO be in
kingdom come. 1t does nv heart good to
look nj him, he seems satisfied. He says
the good old Jackson times Is coming back a.
GIN, aud the Bank aud the Tariff and Internal
Improvements has got 70 stand from under, or
else be swamed.
But says |, "uncle Joshua, we han't got
no Bank now so it can't stand from under, nor
be swampcd neither"
"Wcl tina, hnint nothing at all To the argu-
men," ssys he; "supposn We had Bank it
uoud have 10 stand from under, wouldn't
! it,"
Well uncle Joshua" says ], "you ask
nc us pnzzlin question as Bill Johnson did
tother day
'Whnt vas that" says he.
well, says |, you know Bill ia always
b1niering every one he meets to swap watches
SO he CONES up TO me 'tother day, and says
hen Major, how'll ye swap watchcsi Says |.
Mr. Johnson, han't got no watch Says he,
no matter for that, supposin you had one, how
would you swapl Now uncle, if had only
had watch, could told Bill how would
swap And so If we had only bank, may be
I could answer you. your question too. For il
it was Wing Bank, should say pretty de-
cidedly, it would have to stand from under to
be upset. But Gineral Jackson killed the
Bank, and now Gineral Pierce has killed the
Wing party. 1t has always been your doc
trine, that the Dmocrat principle sto fight agn
the Wings. But now there amt no Wing par
ty. nor no Bank don't for my part know what
Gineral Pierce is going TO do; for of all the hard
things in this world there amt nothn harder
than to kick agin nothing. And, uncle, /
shouldn't be at all surprised il Gineral Pierce
should go to work now and build up a new
Bank and don't know but | almost wish he
would"
Uncle Joshua rolled up his eyes, and says
he, "Nlajor, you ought to be the last man to
say that arter working as hard as you did to
help Gincral Jackson kill the old Bank mon
ster."
Il know that" says |, "but circumstances
alter cases 1t is being a Wig Bank that
makes Bank bad and does all the mischief.
A Dimocratic Bank might be a very good
thing, and | hope Gineral Pierce will try the
experiment. The Bank of England has work
ed well for more than hundred years, and
WHY shouldn't the Bank of America, if there
wasn't no Whiggery mixed up with III L
hope Gnera Pierce will go in for true DIM
ocratic National Bank"
"Wel Major" said uncle Joshua,"I spose
you sec deeper into craftsmanship than | do,
and don't know but you're about right.
think Gineral Pierce ought to take you for one
Of his Cabinet ifhe wants to get along safe;
and l think il you would sit down and write
letter 10 the Gineral, giving him some of your
notions about things, it might be help to him,
and thing, Major, it's your duty to do it.
couldn't help thinking about this last re-
mark of uncle Joshua all day, and finally be-
gun to feel as though 'taoas my duty to write
to the Gineral. But see something in the
papers about his going to Virginia or some
where off South, and don't know where my
letter would find him. But spose, Mr.. GALES
and Seaton, you keep the run OF him. SO l
will enclose the letter to you and get You TO
send it on BY SO doing you will much O.
II: Iii fr;and