Show SOME SO ritE POLITICS A FTER rm ALL WE ARE ABE BUT CHILDREN in the AFTER AA game of politics We arent oven apprentices or hound boys The real journeymen lived in the good old eld days de wah A friend has sent to The Tho Herald two copies of the die New Now Orleans Weekly Weakly J Jeffer Republican One is of Feb 8 and the theother theother theother other of Aug 2 1345 1846 The papers are decidedly in interesting aside from their long Io g and apparently in incongruous congruous name The Th style of f politics played in those days is illus mus illustrated bYa by a small U hut but exceedingly ly juicy item under the head Conscience Returning n It is in the form of a letter from one John onn J Jones who thosa days even as he flourishes conspicuously in ours Mr Mr Jones Janes J writes Having Ravin publicly the iho election el that tI I 1 Idid did not know who James K TL Polk was wis that I did Know nov his grandfather to be a I Tory Tor that I did know h 11 had branded his negroes in the forehead and ana that Groat Britain had sent lent over some half a million of dollars rs to aid the Democratic party I feel constrained by the tha of my awakened conscience to publicly avow vow a that in ill all these matters I lied freely as 35 I had lied often lied before Theres a retraction as s is a retraction It camo ame mo only a few weeks before the Inauguration of President Polk and Brer Jones J sues was hastening to get in out of the wet They had Iad band hand wagons w ons in those days just as they Have them now Del and if John could c swing in by byth il 1 gate he propose to overlook his opportunity Maybe he wanted to be he postmaster or revenue collector or United States marshal Anyway ho he wanted it under understood u dur stood that be he lied when he sold said Polk or gr d father branded his lIis on the tite forehead and did other offensive things There are arc other interesting items in the pipers pip rg One refers indignantly to the running off of sonic some no ne negroes groes from a Louisiana perish pariah It havo hayo been so bad according to the Jeffersonian if New Orleans 1 parties held liens on those negroes That made m dB the crime of running off worthy of the severest Oo 1 damnation The hope is expressed ed that such a n p je IJ r rS I will not DOt occur again It was rather incon inon inconsiderate of those darkies to run away without oven avon stopping ag to inquire whether or not they had been bean mort mortgaged goo t The Jeffersonian prints printa a column of quotations n stats state ba beak k notes The schedule shows them to be bo worth anywhere from 1 10 cents to 95 cents cen on the dollar Vary Very few WertH rood as par Gold was always i held at from frO ill 1 t to 10 per par cent premium and United States Sta sat t par |