Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-07-01
Letter from Ma jor Jack DOW
ming.
Washington, April %. 1850

Tor war moose. Linkin gets up some times
In the middul Of the mite to hear dispatch
received by Sekratary Stantin, and as
much OF 1t as is thought good for the health
OF the pepel Is sent to the papers. The
other mite Linkin called me. This was
very unushul for him, for be giuerally tells
me IN the mornin at the breckfas. label
and axes my opinion, but he sent for me
that mite and said that l must get up and
read the moose. So went down and he
showed me the dispatch that Gineral
Mitchell got of Bowregard. Now" ses
the Kernel, you see, Major we've cot the
raskils in a korner. They've got TO fite or
run, and if they fife they're licked. We
shall soon have Mamfus, and that list mems
up JET. Davis in Virginny. You see.
MAJOR, Bowregard sees be ain't got hut IS
600 troops. SEES II. Kernel, let me take
look at that despatch / nut on INV
] specs and read it over twice or three times
very kerfuliy, and then ses /, Kernel, /
don't think yOu ortar put crate faith in
that. As Elder D1olittle used to saw. 1T
may be bee and then agin it NAV be
wasp. That Bowregard is a great Teller
at Strategy, and it might be another dodge
OF his. And then again, Kernel, that was
| afore you signed the bill abulishing slavery
IN the District of Columby. As sure as
your born that will be worth hundred
thousan sojers to JEFF Davis WALL ses
Llnkin, let it who cares? The truth is.
Mayer, we Republicans have been ta!kin
about the great principle of the equality Of
al! men, including Iniins, niggers, Chi
nees, aud so on, and now they want me TO
apply the principle, and I'm going to dc
1t. think there is some humbug in it
sumwhere, but don't exactly see where,
and as they will give me no peace, and
VIII never be satsfde enyhow until it is
dun, I'm goin to put it thru WAL ses
L, Kernel. 90 ahead, but look out for
squalls. Perhaps ses you never beer.
ed the story about Zenas Humpson 'apply-
10 the principle l hope you WON'T hey
as bac luck as be did, No SEES Linkin.
I never heerd that story. What was it?'
Wal ses /, 'Zenas was good natured
teller, who lived in Dowuingvi!le. and a
wonderful Inquirin sort of chap, alters
ana forever pryin into things If he got a
clock he'd take 1t all apart with his lack
nile jest TO see how it went together. So
about the time the telegraph was started
auu an olns was set up in our town, Zenas
was eenamost puzzled to deth TO get the
bang OF the critter as be called il. One
DAY he went to the offs and asked the feI.
Ter to show him about it, The chap was
very periite, and explained to him the
great principle on which it worked, but
Lenas didn't exactly see through it, and
Kept AKIN questions and botherin the Teller
'iii ne got clean out OF pashins. Finally
ses ne to Lenas, Perhaps you would like
70 see me apply the principle Zenas sed
ne would, OF course. Wal ses he, then
you jest take hold of them brass nobs and
stuck TO ,em tight So Zenas grabbed hold
oil them like all possessed, but he hadn't
more than fairly got hold tefpre he Iay
sprawiin on the floor. The principle had
knocked him clean over. Now, Zenas
was terrIbul Teller to smoke, and alters
carried ms pockets full of lusifer matches
to lite his pine with. IL sn hannaned that
ct as he keeled over on the floor, and as
be fell they scratched again one another SO
strong that they ali got afire. 1t warn't
but little while before Zenas's coat was
all liz blaze, and before it could be put
out had burnt an awful big hole in the
seat of his ;rowsers, and scJrched him
Whereabouts amazinly. Zeoas yelled and
hollered awful, and sed he didn't want to
know enything more about applyin the
principle. Now ses Kernel, | hone
you Won't hev as bad luck as Zsnas did.
but depend ont, this applyin principles
you don't exactly understand, is danger
Gus business. 1t you don't get burnt some
where It will be a wonder
Wal, SEES Linkin Major, you are a cute
chap IN tellin story, but now tell me, do
you think the Niger and the white man,
didn't come from the same parent p
Now ses l. Kernel, that's akin a decp
question. You see its impossible 10 tell
what the Creator may have done. He
might have made only one kind of man at
fust, and then altered their constructions.
and compilations, and brains afterwards.
You see everything is possibul to the Gre
ate.. Or the niger may have come from
Ham. who was cussed for his sins, but then
don't see that it is enything agIn the
scriptOrs to believe that the kinds of men
were made at the beginnip Jest as they are
now. But 1t don't make emmy difference
how they cum so, so long as they are diff
erent. You can't eny more make a white
man out OF niger now than you can
breed lion out of polecat. You see, its
ciar agin natur to expect to make the mig
ger anything but niger. You can't get
a peach out off crab-apple, nor O pumpkin
out OF watermelon nor eagles out of duck 3
| eggs. You can't raise chickens from egg
plants,or produce goslins from goosberries.
You see, Kernel, everything in natur mus,
| go according to natur. If the niger had
been intended to be equal to the white man
and the very fact that he amt made so, is
proof positive that he warn'i intended 10 be
put IN white man's place. Irving 10
make niger act like white man is lust
like old Sol HOPKINS, one year harnessiuc
his old OK and his horse together to plow
corn. The OK was lazy as he could be and
the boss was young, high strung animil,
and such pullin and Eaulin team you
never did see. 1t almost killed both. Ynn
see 1t was workin agin naiur. 1t was try
in TO make hose an OK. and an OK a h So.
neither OF which things can be did. YOU
see, Kernel, ecerything i1I natur must 90 &C
cOrding to Rdtur'
WAL ses Linkin, there is a good deal
in what you say but then the pepel don,
teiieve It, They think the niger was
only accidentally black, and If he lacks in
mind and capacity, it is all OWN to slave
~, and they won't believe eny other way
until they see for themselves. / tell YOU
Majer the principle has got to be applied
no matter how many coat tails or how ma
ny trowsers are burnt
But ses !, Kernel, can't they see how
the thing has worked in places where mig
ger equality has been tried p That don Z
settle the question, Majer. Pepel are jes
like hogs in that respect. Did you ever
see a lot OF hot swill put in a trough, anC
every single hog in the pen would 90 and
stick 10 his sDout and get it burnedl No
one would larn from the others. Afte
we've tried niger equality, we'll know
what it is, and how we like it. We mu
apply the principle. and in some way. We,
may depend upon it, Msjer, all the niger
down South will he sot iree.'
Llnkin says he wants me to study ul
the finances for him. He says the debt i
getting fearful. and as am good at cyler
in, be ses [ must try to help them out OF
that subject. He wants to put it u hi
next message. 1t is some time since
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