Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-28
4 ester From EEajor5acaS Downing
Gs OSeenG.
OsrENp. Oct. Is. 1884

OsrEsD. Oct. Is, 1884.
Dear GeneraI: we are prowlin al
round here. and doing the best we can
though we haint made out TO fetch mat
ters to head yes; but guess we are IL
q pretty fair way for l.. Our teams 60
gti, caongh and. Sy lingo, they'i! haul the
lead they hitch on 80. or mething's got
20 give WAY. Mr. Buchanan and Mr.
Mason isn't quite spry enough; they are
q little en- the cid fogy fashion. aud mo-
always ready TO cone up 70 the scratch
but with Mr. Sickle. spirrin on one side
end Mr.. Sanders spi:rin on ,he other side,
ard Mr Souly dsirin up behind. we msee
out so get pretty eood pull ont Of them
som etimes. We have got things SO far
a head here. that Nr Sickles and Mr.. San
ders THINKS had better write a despatch
TO you and .he Cabinet to home and give
some instructions how 60 60 on.
| I'll tell you what tbs. General vhen I
call you General I sometimes eenamost
feel as IL vas vrsin &c General Jackson
ngain). say. General. III cell you whs.
'sis, them three SIS (Sickles, Sanders, md
Soulr,) nre the three smar,ess chaps that
ever srove1 in North America. They
make Europe stand around. ond no mis-
take. Mr.. Souley holds old Spain be.
tween his .humb ana fnee9. and .shi,ks
her about Jest as he's mind to. Queen
and nll; Mr. Sanders lays down she Dem.
ocrntic lay TO France. and eicns pretty
fair chance TO be chosen President Of the
new French Republic AFTER Ma po,eou goes
ou;; and as for old John Bull. I'll be
licked If think she critter dares 20 etir
~ inch while Sich,es holds him BY the
horns.
1surno.o vouve sten thcD letters
how Mr Sicklcs snuhsci Mr. Peabody the
great merchant banker, nbou, the 4,h Of
July dinner. Capital, wssn'tii ii' 70 see
Mr. Peabody gin 4,h OF July dinner
He's always doin' such things. Or giving
rnonev uwav for something or other, for
they suy he's got rnorey enough 20 buy a
Kingdom. Well. he in'ii Mr. Sickles
10 como nnd jino the rest OF US md have o
good set down. But, ve see, Mr.Pea5ody
didn'. know how much patriotism and
real Democratic gin there was slowed
away in Mr.. Sickle's breast, no had 10
idea ONT. and ma: was the rock ne split
on. You'll hardly believe mo. General,
when say It. but rs . fact, Mr. Peabody
had Englishmcn there 20 help him eat
ihni dinner lis 4 melancholy fact, but
its truo. Tr nc had had halfa table full
Iofcannibais we could oil stood i:.and ii.
our wny through; BIZ! Mr. Sickles could
not stand Englishnen. IIo had too much
Democratic blood in hir, for that. To
mix up Democrats ana EuslisaT1on oi no
Same table wns awful. Bu. ehce wasn'i
tho worst Of 4. When Mr. sicklcs 60.
,hero 20 coul1n'i hardly 5eloive his own
eyes, for ;herc was portrait Of ,hc Queen
hung right Up in the nane room with
General wsshins;oni Wash. shni O
s,un,per7 No wonder Mr. Sickl.s Dem
ocratic blood bilcd over. Bu, that nsn'i
the wors, OF il. When they come 70
give tho tonsis. they tousied shs Qucon.
The res, of the folks stood up 10 drink
tho toast, bu; Mr Sickles grit his teeth md
sot down "a hord as thousand of brick;
and he felt so disgustod no couldn't oai
another nnou:hful. And when tho music
10 increase the insult struck up"God save
tho Queen" Mr. Sickle took his hat and
marched out. There .was spunk thu,
Young America ought 70 DO proud Of
That Mr Buchanan didn't iako his hat md
march out TOO. only shows that no is on
old fogy.
We're held our Congress. enl got our
things in middling good train; though,
as said before, we hnini brought matters
TO n head vet. We managed better than
your Congress does, We didn', stop 10
make so many long winded speeches. bu,
talked figh, 10 tho point. and got through
in few days. The e.membcrs chose me
President ofthc congress the first thing;
for they said | was nearest kin 10 Gineral
jackson Of any Of EN- and the honor be-
longed to mo; so had 10 take tho cheer.
| returned thanks for tho honor of course.
md then proceeded 10 business. begin
ned ~ calm for tho reports OF the com
mittees that had ihe business in hnnd nfere
we met.
called for the report on England frs,
on, OF respect to her being our venerable
old mother. Mr.. Sckles, who was the
head of that comrii!oe,reportedt tia, John
Bull was en obstinate old fogy, and had
found j, very hard 10 mako any impress.
sion upon him. The people Nil seemed
tied TO tho Queens apron strings, and did
mt seem to care no more about Democra-
cy than horse does about its grandfa,h-
er. Still he had faith TO believe that he
could be mnde 10 take il, and when the
time comes hs was ready TO of coat and
roll up sleeves and whip it into them
| (Chesrs.)
Upon the question accepting Mr..
Sickle's repor;. Mr., Buchanan rose and
said he objected to the term old fogy: he
never did like the term, and he thought it
would do moro hurt than good in the re-
port and he moved that il DO struck OUT
Mr.. Sanders said no; that was the cream
Of The report, and he objected to Its being
struck out. /, was then pu. TO vote. and
Mr.. Buchanan and Mason voted to strike
il out and the rest voted TO keep /, in; so
old fogy sIons in tho report By strong
majority.
then called for the report on France.
Mr.. Sanders made a long report; but
the substance Of twas that the Democrat
ic crop in France wasn't quite ripe enough
TO harvest. Napoloon:hnd filled tho peo-
PIES heads no full Of the Eastern war and
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