Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-29
LETTER FROM MAJOR DOWNING.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1857.
To Ey old frisaIs, the Editors Of tie Wheeling
Ihavej Just arrived way out from Kansas, where
the President sent me to fix up matters there.
Our party has got into a considerable snarl
about this tarual Kansas question. Old Buck
wanted me to go under particular instructions
from his Cabinet. Says /, Gineral l can't go,
with a bushel of instructions, they won't stay
in my head. But, says the general, Major Dow
ming you must 90, no one but you can settle
this matter. SAYS /, Gineral III not 60, unless
II go with the instructions ,Ginerai jackson
used to give me; and that was: Says he, Major
| know you have prudence and determinatiOn-
want you to go to - and fix up that bust
ness. And 1 always did it That was the way
with the old hero. Well, says Old Buck, Major
StructionS. So, Mr. Editors, of | posted, with
the Two POIies and the Downingyille Brigade,
On getting to Kansas I felt a litle riled, because
things didn't look like as they used to under
the old hero = and it's jist because the old hero
amt President. Well, soon as l seed Governor
Walkers instructions, then says ], Governor,
that looks like If Old Buck was a chip of the
old block mean the old hero-SayS ], Cove
nor, I'm thinking that with these Instructions,
particularly that which gives TO all the people
the right to vote on the constitution, that there
will be no use for the Downing Brigade. Major,
says lie, | have just received dispatches from
President Buck. III hings, says he, are so
settled that -Hdj0r Dopning's ~ser5ices are not
vaHted, my desire Is that he return at once, as
matters IN another quarter requires more mr.
gently his ssreiees.' So that Is the reason that
I'm now at Washington. Since 1 left Kansas, l
find things amt going right there, and I'm
afraid Old Buck has been playing shinney sides,
and instead of having the people to vote for the
constitution, they amt to vote for only a part.
Now, that amt law in the times of the old
Hero, and if he was alive he would saw, by the
eternal it amt. In this Kansas question Gin
eral Pierce didn't begin right, and told him so.
| told him it would never do to appint a free
Soiler Gov. of Kansas, and a slavery Gov. for
Nebraska; but vice versa But the advice of
Sinator Douglas prevailed, and you see the fuss
it has produced. 1t was not only Gin. Pierce
who got hold on the wrong end but our party:
they did IL III repeating the Missouri compro-
mise, and the whole party have been topsy tur-
W ever since Our democratic papers, in some
portions of the Union, are making bad worscr,
getting riled at one another, and with their for
eign allies. One democratic paper says, that "In
the midst of universal prosperity, riot and
revolution are become rampant, and the Mayor
of New York offers to open the treasury Of the
city to buy up the vagabOnds." Who are these
rioters, Ito be bought by Mayor Wood, demo.
cratic candidate for re-clection,D the entire batch
of them foreigners, our allies in all our Presi-
deutiGl elections, yes, all foreign Democrats, but
now called by a democratic paper VagabOndS.-
I'd like to know if the old hero Gineral jack
son, Martain Van Buren,, Gineral Polk, Gineral
Pierce and General Buchanan, had not had the
aid of them, our allies (now termed VagabondSJ
would either ever been elected President. 1t
won't do to honcyfugle these bread rioters for
their votes and then term them "TagabOnds."
Wasn't Mayor Wood a good democrat aud are
not his foreign allies good democrats too, es
pecial!y when their votes are wanted. As | said
before, Gineral Pierce began at The rong end of
the rope, when it should haze been vice versa.
Let's see, first he appints Billy Reeder, then
Billy Shannon, then Billy Geary, al good demo-
Gratis, from free soil states and tendencies, but it
was all no go, all had to leave, and about this
time Ginernl Pierce had to leave too, all Kan
sas in a stew, hot enough to boil Aunt Abigal's
dumplins. Well then comes Old Buck, jiSL
elected President, by the aid of his foreign allies
off they are vagabonds") and after Cabinet
consultation, off goes Robt. j. Walker, half
north and half south, as Governor of Kansas,
and with hat shock full Of instructions, This iu-
stTuctiOns, however good, didn't tally with the
powers that be in Kansas,) he too leaves, not as
Ex-Governor, but he is sohu made one on his ar
rival at the White House. Whether President
Buck will now take a fire-eater, after all other
efforts have failed, or let Kansas settle her own
affairs, time, and that shortly will tell. The first
aggitator, now, as then, has made a move, il
not for the settlement, at least one for the White
House. MAJOR JACK DowNING,
OF the Downingville Brigade.