Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-10-12
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Letter From Major Jack Downing.
DowNlNGvILLE, STATE OF MAINE
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% r IS: Saturday, September l8,sl852.
"a Mr.. g5Atss g. iSEAfoN. MY dear old
friendss 1 wish I had better NEWS 70 write 10
you. I'm .pesky afraid Ginerel Scon is
coming in. And, er,er all, ! dop,l see why
| should Ieest SO much afraid Of i, especially
on nv own account Tor | don'i spose he's
very bad naan. Buiol Gel sbadgior Uncle
Joshua. swhole-hsar, IS bound up in the
post.office,, and, if he, sheuld lose il, I'm
afraid i. would almostbe the death OF him;
He's had itlnow more than twenty years.
aud .he e's.more londiu6ecaube ilawas given
70 him by,dea old Gineral sJsckson.sa tie
loves it.now,lika opa ,of hint6 hisGeYns IAN,
iIy. ard ibink il would, bs the hardest one
Of the family Il part With, unlesss'ds Aunt
Keziah. TIf he we're 10 ldse ary one OF 'en,,
,ha, is, Aunt Keziah or The pusrof6ce, /
know it would break his heart And that's
what makes me feel SO bad at the turn things
has took down this way in favor of Gneral
Scott. If any way could be con'riyed to
keep Uncle Joshua in the pos!.ottice, l
wo6ldn', care apii Gineral Scott did
come in. And | guess there's d good deal
of the same sort of feeln' amongst n
good many Of the Democracy. III just
give you a sample Of it.
There's Cousin Sargent Joel, he cant
live without hurrahihg for somebody as
much us TWO or three times a day. He goI
in habi, of i. in Old Hickory's lime, and
he couldn', never leave it of since. Two
or three weeks ago Uncle Joshua and was
in the barn, planning little about gelling
out The voters 10 the election, when all 10
once we heard somebody back of The barn
holler with all his might "Hurrah Ior Gin,
eral Scott" We both started andrun round
The corner of The barn as fast as we could,
and who should we see there but Cousin
Sargent Joel, standing on stump, swinging
his hat all alone, and holering at the very
top of his voice, "Hurrah for Glneral Scou'
Uncle Joshua looked as cross os thunder,
and Cousin Joel colored li'te as soon as
he see us, but he swung his ha, again. and
sung out once more, "Hurrah for Glneral
Scott, and dom, care who hears it,"
"Whal's that you sayi" said Uncle
Joshua.
IL say, hurrah for Gineral Scott, and
dom. care who hears it," says Cousin Joel,
putting on his hat and jumping off the
stump.
"We!, this is n pretty piece of business
said Uncle Joshua, "se,ling such examples
as this 10 The neighbors. There's many a
word spoke in jeesl that's turned into arnes'
before i,'s done with; and you ought 10 he
carerui how you Sc, such hurre"e es"'"-v---lf
you once gel 'em started, there's no know
ing wha,'ll be the end on'..". ......
ii don'l much care wha,'ll be tho end
ONT" said cousin Joel. .....-......
"Why. Joel, what do you mean?" sale
uncle Joshua; iii you are going 10 lurr
Whig say so, and lei us put you out of iht
synagogue at once, and be done with it,
want plain righ, up and down answer
are you going for Gineral Pierce or notT'
81 spose / SHALL" said cousin Joel.
"Then, why in The name of common
sense don't you hurrah for him!" said uncl
Joshua, "and Try and gel up some enlhusia
musy. You ought 10 be ashamed to throw
your hurrahs away on 'tolher side"
"Now, Uncle Joshua, III tell you wha
'lis," said Sergeant Joel, slraightening him
self up Just as he used 10 al the head Of IN
company in Modification times. says he
"I'li tell you what Ills, Uncle Joshua, In
willing 10 vote for Gineral Pierce TO hel
you keep The post.office. and mean to; bu
you needn't ask me TO hurrah for him. Tor
can't stand no such tom.loolery as that
Eve Tried il, and it won't 60 no how,
makes me feel SO much like digging smaI
potatoes and few in q hill. But when | &c
right hungry for q hurrah, give 10 Cine
raj Scott, and find there's relreshmen. an
nourishment in that, something like re'
meat; i, makes me feel as it used to whe
we gin the loudesl hurrahs for Gnerel jack
son." .
Uncle Joshua turned away, looking ratf
er down in the mouth, and saying, "h
ddn', know wha, The world was comm
to-"
AS near as can find out, there's gre,
many Democrats in this State, and olhe
places 100, that's in The same fix as Cousi
Surgoan. Joel Downing; ihey've tried
hurrah for Gineral Pierce, and can't. Owe
TO The raisln of Squire Jones' barn 'tolht
day, ar,er they got through, Squire Jones
who is a great Democrat, called out, 'no
let us give three cheers for Ginerul Pierce!
| As quick as look they all swung their hat
and about ,hres.quarlers Of 'em sung out {
loud as they could holler, "hurah for Gin
raj Cass." At that Squire Jones flew in
rage, and told 'em they was traitors 10 II
parry, and no true Democra, would hurru
, loy any body but Gineral Pierce. Th
touched the dander of the resi- OF EN-, al
about twenty swung their bats and cried o
/ Justify. "hurah for Gineral Scott" al
5 asked Squire Jones II he liked that any te
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These things has KEEP, Uncle Joshua We
uneasy along back, and before our STA
election which come along last Monday,
S got quite nervous; and he aint no better y
y We've been in quite state oil. conbobel
y ! ZION all the week, trying 10 6Cd on, how /
/ elections gone, but il's a hard sum 10 wo
I out. Iwent over this morningto help y
Icle Joshua figure up! lie was siuing a. I
table with his specIacles on, and the papt
g spread all around him, and q penSi in
n hand. and dark scow on his brow.
n was thinking so hard he didn't seem
Il know when come in. Says Aunt Kesil
7 says she, ii am dreadful glad you've col
i in Major, your uncle will make himself 81
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