Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-25

| is letter I've written and want TO send to Uncle
Sam. lift is put inthe Post Office don't believe
he'll stand any chance ofgetting it. Letters don't
80 very sure to folks they're meant for anyhow,
and seeing that Uncle travels about so much on
business, II would be certain to miss him. and gel
amongst the letters they call dead ones and be
finished up in the old heather fashion with ire
SO the only chance Of his getting It Is to have il
/ printed In the newspapers-then he'll be sure ia
get for nc always reads the papers. Now, II
you win do me the favor to print 1t In your paper
know Uncle will thank you for It, and
With much respect viii be,
| Yours to serve,
| p. II. of II. II.
| HILL HOUSE,, OH HoMEsrEAp,
April II, 1855.
DEAR UNCLE SAN: You will pardon me, hope
for my long delay in writing. think there's
pretty good excuse for It. You know you gave
me good many directions in your last letter
about new arrangements, &C., for the summer
work and made great many inquiries about
agents and contracts, and all sorts Of transactions
at your city Office, down on the Potomac. And |
tell you it's slow business to get the facts down
there. ] couldn't leave home more that two or
three days at time, and so had to 60 down to
the city about fifty times before could find out
every thing you wanted to know.
| The first thing / have TO say is, there's need
enough for you there. You must pack up your
portmanteau and come straight home as soon as
| possible. a'h
We know you've been very much taken up with
farming afairspushng on in every direction with
the frontier boys--seeing about moving the fences
! back all around, SO as to take In the adjoining
land, and really you havn't had much time to look
after the old homestead; nor your business Office
and city residence down on the Potomac, and see
how the agents and bosses manage things in and
| out of doors.
We know also, you arc pretty busy nowadays,
whisting up volunteers to help you fix up matters
all around, by and b.; ; but depend upon it, If you
don't come home pretty soon, and see about mat
ters yourself everything will go to wreck and
| ruin T'ts.at
We can't find any fault with the boys you brought
up to work, nor with most Of those you sent to
college. They've improved the old homestead,
and raised great crops on the other places out
West and South. They've invented machines to
| make every thing we want, and steamboats, to
bring the crops home. Made railroads every where,
through nearly all the hrms-found out all the
coal-beds and orc-beds Of every sort, and made
cotton enough for all mankind. One of them has
found out how the winds blow every where and
every day in the year and made charts Of the best
tracks for the merchants to send their ships n to
every part Of the world and another has invented
| q way for them all to send letters all over the
without the need Of my writing; but there Is one
thing which think you ought to be told about.
The fact Is, great many of your boys who didn't
like TO work nor study either, have some how got
to be bosses and managers Of your public afhirs,
especially about your big office, and little Offices
and city residence down on the Potomac and for
some reason or other-perhaps, SO that you shant
know how they manage things, they get people to
help them, who speak every language but Anc-
rican
I've thought over the matter good deal, and
come TO the conclusion that It's about as much the
fault of the Heterogenii as the managers You
see we've worked pretty hard about forty years
ever since the war of lsI2-to establish protec-
i've system for our material interests, SO that we
might be really Independent when great wars come
upon US. Well, thanks to your cousin, Harry Clay
and the strong men who helped him, you got II all
right at last and guess you could live without them
ayear or two, you had ever many battles to fight
You see In that respect you've got them on the hip
but they're determined to break you down some
way, and they come over In great armies-spread
themselves about and ooze ID where there's any
sort Of chance 10 weaken your BRAIN by doing your
head-work themselves
They Get up newspapers, and would make the
people think they're genuine Uncle Sans men, and
the way they make up what they call public opin-
Ion for their own benefit is caution to you Uncle,
and the sooner you take II the better. Why nearly
revery word that's written In all the papers against
you, and your principle Of doing business Is writ
ten BY these same Heterogenii, although your kin
may be the owners Of the steam presses that do the
printing.
Sometimes when these writer's want to get some
high place 10 do head work for your oyerseers,
they write very fattering things about them; and
II that don't do they write very bad things, and
sometimes git the place they want In that way. OF
course they stop writing bad then The truth is,
most Of them don't care copper for you any way,
only they want TO break you down-get you on the
hip-and then have every thing in their own hands.
In my next letter IN give you some information
about the different ways these people work into
affairs. In the mean time, know youTn have the
matter in mind; that IL protective system Is me-
cessary 10 give you material Independence, some
thing may be necessary TO save your intellectual
existence from Humiliation, and the blessings and
hopes that depend upon It's independence from
being scattered TO the winds.
know you'll always remember, IL some do for
get IL that your existence depends upon preserving
in their purity, principles that our fathers estab-
lshed by overcoming those Of different kind, and
you wont forget tho lesson Of the fable, and warm
the old serpent too tenderly in your bosom.
You have had million Of letters, / dare say,
about affairs in town; and yet you won't be pre-.
pared to see things as bad as you'll find them.
don't think you'll believe yourself at homo when
you get there, and take your morning walk through
the buildings and grounds. You win think your
self in Babylon, or some such cosmopolite place
and win need at least half dozen interpreters
to get answers from the men who are doing the
head-work, and to have the answers in plain Eng
sh. This win be needed in all tho offices, and
especially whore mechanical, artistic, and scientific
work Is going on.
1t makes me sad TO think how you'll feel when
you 90 down to see the parks you sent Mr. Down
ing to design and adon with fountains and groves
for know how disappointed you win be. In
stead Of finding something grand and beautiful
in It's just blendngs Of nature and art, you will
see acres Of petty triAings-infnite extensions Of
that kind Of senseless flourish in partere work,
which the old-fashioned gardeners are forever do
ing as they saw Il done before.
Mr.. D. unbsppily for you, had only matured
the plans and begun the work, when he was called
away TO the gardens above. His place has since