Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-11-25
From Major Jack Downing.
DowNINGvILLE, State of Maine,
November l5, 1852. {

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And as for aunt Keziah, about the second
day after the election, when New York,
and Pennsylvania, and Ohio came rolling
in for Pierce and King, she was SO COM
pletely overfowed with oceans of happi-
ness that she fell into conniption fits, and
has had 'em more or less every day since.
And'as for cousin Sergeant Joel Down
/ ing, he don't hurrah for Gineral Scott-no
more; but ever since the election he hur-
rahs for Gineral Pierce day and night,
till he's got to be so hoarse he can't speak
above a whisper. You remember | told
you in my. last letter how uncle Joshua
and | found Sergeant Joel, some time
before the election, out behind the barn,
standing on stump, and swinging his hat
and hollerin' hurrah for Gineral Scott
with all his might. Arter that he did it
openly, and said he didn't care who heard
it. And he kept it up till the day arter
election, when the telegraph wires brought
in the thunder and lighnin news that all
creation had gone for Gineral Pierce, and
then cousin Joel chopt round quicker
than you ever see norwester set in arter
a south east storm. Cousin Joel is cunin
dog; he knows which side his bread is but
tered, and you may depend he will be on
hand at Washington next winter, and if
Pennsylvania avenue don't ring from one
/ end to toher with his hurrahs for Gineral
Pierce, l won't guess agin. | 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 to be salts
fed. He says the good old Jackson times
is coming back agin, and the Bank and
the Tariff and Internal improvements has
got to stand from under, or else be swamp
! ed.
But, says I. uncle Joshua, we hain't
got no Bank now, so it can't stand from
under, nor be swamped Mother
well, that amt nothing at all to the
argument says he, 'supposin we had
Bank, it acouM have to stand from under,
wouldn't it,
well, uncle joshua says I, you ask
me as puzzlin question as Bill johnson
did the other day
what was that?' says he.
'Well, says I, you know Bill is always
! bantering every one he meets to swap
watches. So he comes up to me tother
day, and says he, Major, how'll ye swap
watches? Says l: Mr.. johnson, l hain't
got no watch. Says he, no matter for
that, supposin you had one, how would
you swap! Now, uncle, if | only had a
watch, could told Bill how | would
swap. And SO if we only had Bank,
may be could answer your question too.
For if it was Wing Bank, should say
pretty decidedly it would have to stand
from under or be upset. But Gineral
jackson killed the Bank, and now Giner-
al Pierce has killed the Wing party. 1t
has always been your doctrine, that the
Dimocrat principle is to fight again the
Wings. But now there amt no Wing
party, nor no Bank, | don't know for my
part what Gineral Pierce is going to do;
for of all the hard things in this world
there amt nothing harder than to kick
agin nothin. And, uncle, | shouldn't
be at all surprised if Gineral Pierce
should 90 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, Major, you ought to be the last
man to say that arter workin as hard as
you did to help Gineral Jackson kill the
old Bank monster
/ 4 know that says [, but circumstances
alters cases. 1t is being Wing Bank
that makes a Bank bad, and does all the
mischief. A Democratic Bank might be
a very good thing, and l 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 it! l hope
Gineral Pierce will go in for true Dim
ocratic National Bank
well, Major, said uncle Joshua, Il
spose you see deeper into craftsmanship
than l do, and l don't know but you're
about right. think Gineral Pierce ought
to take you for one of his Cabinet if he
wants to get along safe; and l think if
you would sit down and write letter to
the Gineral, giving him some of your no.
tions about things, it might be help to
him, and | think, Major, it's your duty
to do it,
| couldn't help thinking about this last
remark of uncle Joshua all day, and
finally | begun to feel as though t,cas
my duty to write to the Gineral. But l
see something in the papers about his 60
ing to Virginia or somewhere off South,