The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-03-02

We'll, now, dear Governor il you shouon' I
think il best TO accept my offer about tho Pres
idency. and should rather 20 back and run
your chance in Hungary, the next question is,
to SEQ what can be done in that score. You
saw, you want that we, that is all America and
the universal Yankee nation. ahonid say ynn
have fair right to be called Governor of Hun
gary. I've already proved that you have that
right, and shall hovo it as long as you live =
There wont DO 10 more trouble on that score.
That question is disposed of forever, hope.
In tho next place. you want us To say that
Hungary got her independence Of Austria fair.
~ and ought 10 have II. Agreed TO that too
We say it, and will stand 10 il. all wcathers
Hungary fit il out like a man. and ought to oe
free forever and thousand years afterwards
md the traitor Gcorgev ought 10 have his neck
stretched, and the Russian Bear ought TO have
his toe nails cut and his nnse muzzled, so that
he couldn't bite aud scratch any body agin nor
interiors in other folks domestic affairs.
In tho next place. YOU say Won want 'somo-
thing else which as near rs can find ont by
thu papers. means money matters. and food
and ramcnt, and few guns and the like
Of that because you nrc going onck to have
another tussle with Austria and Russia A.
greed To that too. You shall have all you want.
Jest hold your basket and wen fll il. If it is q
dozen times day. see money is beginning
to pour in upon yon ih thousand little streams
and somc pretty large rivers. /. wont be long
before You'll have whole mint of il. besides
guns and knapsneks and cartridge boxes =
When | read some of your speeches to our
folks, nbont your poor down trodden country,
il mndo the tears come, tell ye. Cousin Nab
by said she would knit stockins all winter and
send EN- over for your sojers, so they shouldn't
havo To &C barefoot as ours did in the revolu-
q 1. al. s..l.,,
es, that she was going TO buy silk gown with,
she would sell them for money and send it to
the Kossuth fund in New York. Uncle Josh
ma said he would sell his three year old steer,
for he conld do his blowing next summer with
the old oxen and send the money To you.
|. Cousin Sargeant Joel sot in deep study; at
last SAYS he don't know as I've got anything
TO send but that little piecc of 'remonstrancc,
and he pointed 10 his old rifle that hung up a
ganst the wall; says he IN send that over to
Hungary to shoot the old Russian Bear with If
he comes around again And then he sot think
ing minute longer. and 10 jumped up and
smit his fists together, and says he, no. won't
send it, I'll 90 and carry it myself So you
see dear Governor. there isn't much danger
but what you'll get something else.
In the next place when you come to the
scratch. you want onr Government and this
whole nation to hold the Russian Bear back
and not let him meddle. while Hungary and
Austria have fair tussle. And you want we
should give him fair warning before hand, and
tell him he shant meddlo no how: and if we do
you think he mind US. May be he would, and
may he he wouldn't; and il he wouldn't. then
what! Then ycu want us 10 60 right at him.
and fight him down, and make him mind. be-
cause it's right and just: and now we've got
10 be n great and powerful nation. il is our du-
~ 10 look round and take care of the world, and
make folls do right everywhere.
Well. now, dear Governor. as 10 that, don't
know but we ought TO stop and think about il
little. In the first place VIC have n rule here
that "a just government derives its powers from
tic consent Of the governed So. if we've got
To lock round and govern the word, hadn't we
ought to get the worlds consent frstl And
as YOU want MS to take hold of Russia first,
spose she is the first one we ought to ask con-
sent Of. And if the Russian. will consent that
ne shall hold him back. wen ho,d him back
and run the risk Of IL.
And the next place, dear Governor, it might
be very well for us to take care of the world.
nd cary ont the laws of nations. and make
every body right everywhere, If there wasn't
no danger of our getting our hands full But
only look at it. Suppose when Hungary be-
gins he, tussc the Russians should show their
teeth and grab hold of her. Then we should
have to send over an army and ships to help
drive him back. Then suppose Poland should
start up and want TO be frec--and she has
bloody right to be free any nation in the
world-then we must send an army TO take care
Of Poland for the Russians will fight most aw-
fully there.
And there's France too. You say the Gov
ernment of France is on the side of oppressors,
and the nation of France is one of the oppress-
cd nations Then, of course, it will be our
next duty 70 send att army aud put down the
Government of France. and let the nation GO
free. And then besides the East Indies. and
China, and Circassia, and lots of other places
the geography tells about there's good many
things that we should have 10 look after nearer
home When Fiibusters go to upset Cuba
we must send our ships and armies to take care
Of that. And, then, in Mexico aud South A.
mcrica there's trouble all the time going on.
that would take about half dozen of our arm
les to keep matters straight there.
fow. don't you think, dear Governor. there
might be little danger of our getting our hands
fulll Bnt como what may. dear Governor,
shul remain ycur friend forever.
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.