Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-20
FROM MAJOR JACK DOWNING.



DowsSavILLE, STATE OF MAINE, Nov. is, 1852.
Mr. GALES SEAToN My dear old friends
| am as happy as happy can be, and uncle Joshu
is great deal happier And as for aunt Keziah
about the second day arter the election, when New
York, and Pennsylvania and Ohio come rolling il
Tor Pierce and King, she was completely over
flowed with oceans of happiness that she fell int
compton hts, and has had EN- more or less every
day since. And as for cousin Sergeant Joel Down
ing, he don't hurrah for Gneral Scott no more
but ever since the election he hurrahs for Ginera
Pierce day and night, till he's got to be SO hoarse
he can't speak above 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 "hurah for
Gineral Scott" with all his might. AFTER 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
ghtnin that all creation had gone for Gineral
Pierce, and then cousin Joel chopt round quicker
than you ever see norwester set in arter south
east storm. Cousin Joel is cunin dog; he knows
which side his bread is buttered, and you may de-
pend he will be on hand in Washington next winter
and if Pennsyvany avenue don't ring from one
end to tother with his hurrahs for Gneral Pierce
won't guess agin | don't know what Gineral
Pierce viii do for cousin Joel when the time comes
but he will be bound to do something pretty hand
some 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 king
dom-come 1t does my heart good to look at him,
he seems to be SO satisfied. 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 swamped.
Blu" says l. " 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 heargument,"
says he; "supposin we had Bank, it ,oouM have
to stand from under, wouldn't it?"
"Wel, uncle joshua" says l, !" you ask me as
puzzlin question as Bill johnson did tother day."
"What was that 7" says he.
"Well," says |, "you know Bill is always ban
tering every one he meets to swap watches. So he
comes up to me 'tother day, and says he, Major,
how II ye swap watches Says l, Mr. johnson,
hain't got no watch. Says he, no matter for that,
supposn you had one, how would you swap? Now,
uncle if had only had 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 Gneral
Pierce has killed the Wing party. 1t has always
been your doctrine, that the Dimocrat principle is
to fight agin 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 nothn harder
than to kick agin nothin. And, uncle, shouldn't
be at all surprised if Gineral Pierce should 60 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"
/ know that" says |, " but circumstances alters
cases 1t is being Wing Bank that makes Bank
bad and does all the mischief A Dimocratc Bank
Pierce will try the experiment The Bank of En-
gland 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? /
hope Gineral Pierce will 60 in for true Dmocratic
National Bank
"Well, Major" said uncle Joshua, " spose you
see 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 if
he wants to get 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 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,oas 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 spose,
Mr.. GALES and SEAToN, you keep the run of him,
so will inclose the letter to you and get you to
send it on. BY SO doing you will much oblige your
old friend, MAJOR JACK DOWNING.