The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-02-22
HYes, yes.
"How old we're you then. =

hiheteen or twenty. l went down from
Mount Bethel with Sam Van Campenand
George Shoemaker We stopped at the
Oaks Tavern. There was only about ten
or dozen houses in Easton at the time.
General Washington came up to the same
tavern and shook hands with all the bows
He shook hands with me first, because
was the iiHt to 90 up and tell him I'd
hold his horse, but he told me never mind
that the nigger servant on black horse as
black as himself, would do that. And so
he did. And while he was holdin' on to
the Generals horse the boys got about him
and made fun out Of him. General Wash
ington went into the Oaks and had some
thing to eat and drink. He wore yaller
breeches and long boots and only one spur
y he was fine man. He took of his
coat, and Van Campen took it into the
kitchen to dry. His boots was all wet
from the snow aud his pistols was wet too"
tHow is it you did not join the Ameri-
can army ?n
"My father was Tory and they called
me Tory, and one fellow in Easton drew
pistol to shoot me, and got mad and
swore would not fight with them, but l
never fought agin' EN-
"Did you ever meet General Lafayette p
"Yes; He was great man. He
brought over the Frenchmen. He fought
we'll"
where did you meet him p
1.-TWO or three years after saw General
Washington he was pointed out to me at
Dilrs Ferry, below the Water Gap He
had grand sword and everybody was
looking at him. He got his horse shod
sharp. There was ice on the ground and
he walked lame as IL he got fall He
spoke French and English and you couldn't
tell which from the other. O ! he was a
hue man, yes. | remember well General
Snllivan's march from Easton TO Wilkes
barre. He took his army across the Blue
Ridge, through Wind Gap, and near the
Susquehanna he had battle with the
Inguns. | got horse pistol from one of
his men in exchange for bottle of apple
jack"
''Do you remember the whiskey rebel
lion?',
"Very well. Every man used to make
bis own whiskcy, and the government
wanted to tax it, and the men wouldn't
pay il and they fowght the government.
There were two men killed at Stroudsburg.
They came up from Philadelphia to stills
above the mountains, and they got shot"
did you take a hand in it?"
"Yes, yes. We beat EN- and didn't
pay d--n cent to EN-
"Up this way We had to carry produce
by horses, and when We had to carry il to
Philadelphia We lost money, because one
horse could only carry seven or eight
bushels of wheat, but you could make thirty
bushels into whiskey and carry it easy
and then as it was the ouly drink we had,
and as we made it ourselves, We didn't see
what right We had to be taxed
"Where were you in 1922"
81 was right here in this county"
"Did you take no part in the war p
"No, / was too old They made call
for men between the ages of twenty-one
and forty-fve, and | was over fifty"
'Did you ever ride on a railroad ?"
"Never, nor don't want to-
"Did you ever visit New York ?"
'Neyer. Twas agoin' there once when
had some money, but Isuppose I'llnever
have chance Of goin' now"
"Did you ever hear of the Tammany
Ring, of Jim Fisk, Bill Tweed, the Credit
Mibilier and 0akes Ames?"
"No, no; who was they, what did they
do ?"
swell they were young men who had
way Of coming at the blind side of other
people and feathering their own nests"
ayes, yes; see. | heard tell of such
men. They beat Ned Marshall. Thought
Ned had enough, but I'm told he wasn't |
patch on these lads in New York"
"Who was Ned Marshall2"
at was Ned who walked the Injuns out
Of their lands. You see, in the old times
when Penn's people wanted land they
made friendly call on the Injuns, and the
Injuns gave them as much as a man might
walk over while his pipe kept lit. After,
wards, when they were real good friends
with the Injuns, they got as much land as
a man might walk across without giving
up. Penn's people got Ned Marshall to
walk for them and he kept on walking till
he walked in nearly hundred miles
without stoppin'. When the Iujuns found
themselver cheated this way they took walk
of their own and slaughtered nearly every
man, woman and child north of the noun
tains. ! suppose this Bill Ames you
mention is a bigger walker than Ned
Marshall ?"
"He is. His name is not Bill, but
0akes. He walked around number Of
Congressman and Senators, and actually
walked off with the Pacific Railroad"
"You don't tell me ?" cried the old man
with astonishment "Walked off with a
railroad / only wish Ned Marshall was
alive. lie always bngged about his hun
dred miles walk, but he ne7er did nothin'
like walkin off with railroad
aOh, it's common thing with us
nowadays. We have men in New York