Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1852-12-16
From the National Intelligencer.
From Major Jack Downing.
DowNINGvILLE,STATE OF MAINE, J
s.... November Is, 1852. (

ohu uHtiC SoShud 10 u Sfcut ucdt UdpplcE.
And as for aunt Keziah, about the Sec
ond day arter the election. when New
York and Pennsylvania, and Ohio, came
rolling in for Pierce and King, she was
so completely ovefflowed with oceans OF
happiness that she fell into conniption
fits, and has had 'em more or less ever
since. And as for cousin Sergeant Joel
Downing, he don't hurrah for Gineral
Scott no more; but ever since the election
he hurrahs for Gineral Pierce day and
night, till he's got TO be so hoarse he
can't speak above a whisper. You re-.
member told You in my last letter how
uncle Joshua and | found Sergeant Joel,
some time before the election, out be-
hlnd the barn, standing on stump. and
swinging his hat. and hol.erin' "huriah
for Gineral Scott" with all his might
Arler that he did j, openly, and said he
didn't care who heard il. And he kept
i, up Till the day arter election, when the
telegraph wires brought in the thunder
and lightnin news that all creation had
gone for Gineral Pierce, and. then
cousin Joel chopt rouud quicker than
you ever see a norwester set in arter q
southeast storm. Cousin Joel is cum
min dog; he knows which side his bread
is bustered. and you may depend he will
be on hand IN Washington next winter,
and if Pennsylvany avenue don't ring
from one end TO tother with his hurrahs
for Gineral Pierce, won't guess again.
| don't know what Gineral Pierce will
do for cousin Joel when the time comes,
but he will be bound TO do something
pretty handsome for him. for no man
has hurrah'd louder and heartier for him
than cousin Joel has, especially since
the election.
And as for uncle Joshua, he seems TO
be in kingdom come. 1t does my heart
good TO look at him, he seems so salts
fed. He says the good old jackson times
is coming back again, and the Bank and
the Tariff, and Internal Improvements
has got to stand from under, or else be
swamped. .e ....-
But" says /, "uncle Joshua, we
hain't got no Bank now, so it can't
stand from under, nor he swamped nei-
ther."
"Well. that hain't nothing at all 20 the
argument" says he; "supposin we had
Bank, il WOULD have to stand from un-
der, wouldn't it?"
"Well, uncle joshua" says l. "you
ask me as puzzlin question as Bill
Johnson did 'tother day."
"What was thai?" saws ne.
"Well," says l. you know Bill is al,
ways bantering every one he meets to
swap watches. So he come up to me
'to,her Gay, and says he, Major, how'll
you swap watches! Saws |, Mr.. John
son, hain't got no watch. Says, he
no matter for that, supposin you had
one, how would you swap! Now.unch,
if | had only had watch. could told
Bill how would swap. And so if we
had only bank. may be could answer
you your question too. For if it was a
Wing Bank. shodld say pretty decid-
edly, it would have to stand from under
or be upset. But Gineral Pierce has
killed the Wing party. Ii has always
been your doctrine, that the Dimocralic
principle is to fgh, agin the Wings. Blu.
now there ain't no v hig party. nor no
Bank. ! don't for my part know wha,
Gine.al Pierce is going to do; for of all
the hard things in this world. there amt
nothin harder than TO kick agin nothing.
And, uncle, | shouldn't be at all surpris-
ed ifGineral Pierce should go TO work
and build up new Bank, and | don't
know but | almost wish he would"
Uncle Joshua rolled up his eyes, and
says he, "Major, you ought to be the las.
man TO say that arter workin as hard as
you did 10 help Gineral Jackson kill the
olu Bank monster"
81 know that" says ], shut circum-
stances alter cases. |, is beinga WING
Bank thai makes Bank bad, and does
all the mischief. A Dimocratic Bank
might be very good thing, and | hope
Gineral Pierce will try the experiment.
The Bank Of England has worked we'll
for more than hundred years, and why
shouldn't the Bank of America, if there
wasn't no Whiggery mixed up with ii!
hope Gineral Pierce will 60 in for a
tue Dimocra,ic National Bank"
"Well. Major" says uncle Joshua.
IL spose you see deeper into statesman
ship than do, and don't know but you
are about right. think G ineral Pierce
ought to take you for one OF his Cabinet
ifhe wants to ge. along safe; and think
if you would sit down and write letter
TO the Gineral. giving him some Of your
notions about things, it might be help
10 him. and think, Major, it is your du-
~ to do it,"
l couldn't help thinking about this las,
remark of uncle Joshua all day, and fin.
ally l begun to feel as though twas my
duty to write to the Gineral. But see
something in the papers about his going
to Virginia, or somewhere off South, and
| don't know where my letter would
find him. But suppose Mr.. Gales
and Seaton, you keep the run of him, SO
! will inclose the letter to you and ge,
you to send iton. BY so doing you will
much oblige your old friend,
. MAJOR JACK DOWNING.