The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-07-29
Ensign Spooner to Gen. Scott.-Letter No 8
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State OF New Hampshire, July the 2sih, 1852.
DEAR GIsERAL I'm konsderably rejoyced at the idee
Of the Lundy's Lane manewver, and so, bekaws
you have detarmn'd to keep away the advice OF yoM
trew frend The senator from New Yawk. You see, the
lokyfokys won't go thare, so speakers and oraus
can say Jest what they want ioand you may depend ont
that that senator will give all Of em hint wha, say
see as plane day. gineral, that you have konfdence
in that senator and that you feel parfeckIy resned
keep kwiessent and let him mange the campayne.
dare say ginera, that you sumtimes feel your hart
swell and your immaginashun team with crate feans
and senyments that you want to let out; but, the
whole, perhaps it's best not to speek rite nohin until
the has gin his opinion what you want to say
or rite Ev'ry bis trade, gineal, and tho you've
uyed your hand leelle in the Polyke-demmygo way,
yet It's plane hole in ladder, that you can't 10 that
line oil bizness hold candle to The senator from New
Yawk In fack gineral, evry body, even Aunt Nabby,
must and does acknowledge that you haynt show'd more
tacklcks and gneralshp eny thing than in chusn hi
senator from New Yawk and the senator from the anen
State OF Connecticut the fust TO dew the pefouud or
head work, and the u,her to dew what cousin Eb stiles
the nasty ieete jobs.
Pm considerably glad, also. to see, gneral, that our
managers gneray and specially Greeley the eddyiuI
of the New Yawk trybune, and your Repubck paper
have fell in with the idee that the eend
justyfys the meens and that they goin ntirey
on that principe-there's CRATE advantage iat-ioi
they go sayin and prnun jest what they wish tot
the fact tho it isn't; and keep sliekin TO il, tho The
loky foxy printers prove thousand that tisut irew-
for you see, hares CRATE many chances aEn one that
the people who reeds Greeey's tr bune and your Re
publick won't noihn oil the lokyfoky papers and
dockyments that shows the kontrary. few year
ago, gneral il would a made feel leetle sreaksd
to foer out SIGH principles to gain lection, but I've
sarched the skrpters sence, and find we're commaaddo
be cunnn sarpints and the skpters is silent
A. L..I L.. Lulk ,nfA ain hnEQ n
pcytickle existence is AT stake. we have rite to I'M
mytake the "lyin sarpnts' I'LL lection is Overland
in DUN this well on'y foller the egzamp!e OF ess
Teller citizen who prints paper on our side in Albany
staff of New Yawk who, sariin tine, found in The
warters OF The roren Ny.a-gay-ry "a good snpf Nor
gan M nrfsr ds lection"
spose gineral. that The 'ew senators and luther
myers don't let you know hardly eny thing that's agon
on fearin that that nice Of honor which mir
tary alters less have woull be a lceue
sprained by the 'nodge and 80 tho best, for fear
OF axdents in the way OF dskvery your part to al.
Jude TO scripter Authority to save your feelins.
I've ony Jest writ this to ntermale that the iew sena.
and the uther managers should be enkurdged BY
ben put in the nep gneral orders, which should be read
on parade
With sinseer Teller fean, I'm your'n to sarve,
ZEKE SOONER,
Ensign A. X. Nj. NJ H.
p s. II had room my paper to put q noty beny
would jes, try to make you smile in dgnyhed way,
by ,en you how onu mad MacG got the uiber
day the story in the horse and-roo-pin anf about
your ien the rishes that prisoners what TO do 20
the British couldn't find 'em out 10 be Inshers Mac
ackiay swore twas a he--"bc the token tina, iverJ
mothers OF the Imerald Isle that fout Tor Amertl
in the of 1912 had sinse, and didn' need
advice how TO chate the inimy." But be the mad
des about the piokter shown of the rsher neen 10 the
mud and kissen your hand on landin in New Ya~k.
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