The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1863-11-18
FROM MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
nowN1Nav1I1.E. ocl. 26. 1863.

from me lately, spose they think I'm ded
or gone over 10 the Abolitionisls, which is
tarnal sight wus but hain't in neither
fix. Pm pretty well jest now. The hot
~ethef, durin' the summer, kinder tried me,
but carry eighty years just about as well
as any man ever did. The resin you ain Z
herd from me is This I've been oncom-
mum gloomy aud down spefited all sum
met. Everything seemed to be goin from
bad to wus. Linkin wouldn't take my ad-
vice and cum out agin the Abolilionists,
issued his free niger proclamashin rite
agin the law and Conslitushin both. Wal,
things have gone down hill rapid since
then. The Demycra,ic party didn't cum
out bluntly agin this proclamashin, but
| kept on sopportin' the war, an the conse-
quence is, it has been whipped all around.
Politics are ge,tin' down TO first principle s.
The DemYcralic party reminds me OF old
deacon Dooliile's youngest boy. Bob
When Bob was about fifteen years old, he
was the most awful liar ever new. An
he would not only lie, but he used TO steal
the other boy's dinners cut of their basksi :.
( One day at school, the teacher undertook 10
whip him, an Bob jumped out OF the winds
ow and run hum across lots, frightening on
his way old Sol Pendergrasse's bay ilafe so
badly that she broke her leg in iryin' 10
! jump over the fence, an died next day
The old deacon called Bob up. an gave
him terrible whippin'. AS he wus aboul
cIosin' up the job, the deacon, ses he, Bob.
why can't you behave yourselfl' sWal,
! Pop says Bob, drawin' out the words be-
tween the bubberin,' the resin is Jest this:
Iean'i bahaUe unless am liked = Aud ies:
so it is with the Demycratic party. u can't
behave itself unless it's licked. should
think it's aie thtashings ought 10 put it on
good behavior.
| Things are now jest as bad as they kin
1 be, and that is what encourages me.
shall never forget Hezekiah Siebb;ns, who
lived away up in the upper part of The
Penobscot. One winter it had been awful
cold whether, and 'Kiah had had wocderful
baG luck, and towards spring il seemed 10
get worse instead of better. He had lost
! his horse and bis COW, aud his chickens
aud all his pigs but one. Finally that died,
and the next day happened 10 go mp 10
{ b.s house TO see how he was getlin along
found the old man happy as lark. He
was singin' aud shoulin' as il nolhin' had
happend When went in ses |, 'Kiah,
what on sirih is The Tatierp oh ses he,
the iasepig is dead and ne went 10 jump
in and clappin' his hands as if he was the
happiest man in the universe Ses !,
! what possesses you TO acI SO 2 wal, ses
| he, things ean't be no wus. The last pig
is ded, and anything that happens now
must he for the better And Just so il is
with the Demycra.ic party. Anything now
that happens i, must be for the better. And
| ! must confess that feel good deal like
! Kiah | don'i feel al all like se:iin' down
aud cryin' like sick baby over split milk,
because we've been whipt in the late cleo
shuns. That ain't the way old Gineral
Hickory Jackson taught me Dimmocracy.
TIE other day got letter from Linkin,'
I askin' me to cum on 10 Washington. He
sss he is genin' into a heap of trouble
Ghoul his mex, messidge, all on account of
The difficulty which Blair and Chase air kick
| in; up about what is TO be dun with the
southrin States after the rebelvon is put
down. He ses he wants me 10 help gil up
! the messidge, and kicder fix things up gin-
rally. ! writ back that cold welher was
COMM on, an my rhumaiiz void probably
trouble me, so could moi tell exactly what
would do, but if could be of any service
to my cou ni-y, as long as life lasted wo'd
do my duty. wrote him also about this
matter of The souihren States, and told
him that il reminded me of the old receipt
for cooking a rabbit. First catch The rabbit
told them they had not got the southern
States yet that they safiinly wouldn't get
them this year, and didn't see any great
| LIKELIHOOD OF getiin' them next year. In
fact the times of the soldiers were mostly
onl, and didn't believe they ever could gil
another sich an army, and if he followed
my advice he would get up Peace this
winter without fail. | amt got any answer
to this letter, but shall wait for one before |
CO. II the KernaI talks huffy | won't stir
step, for he knows l alters tell him the
plain, blum. truth, as | believe it. When
can't talk that way to man ! won't have
nothing TO do with him. The old Gineral
alters wanted every body around him 10
speak their rale sentiments. Nothin made
him SO mad as to suspect any body oi fat
term him, or shaming in any way.
The other day Kernal Stebbins cum hnum
from the war. The Kernal has been down
to Morris Island with Gineral Gilmur. he
ses that the sand on that Island is kin der
oncouniabIe. The Kernal reckons that be
kas eat nigh about bushel. The Kernal
used TO be very good on riting poetry, but
he ses ali the datus has oozed out of him,
an be don't believe be could rite a line 10
save his life. We had grand recepshin
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