JACKSON AND THE PIG.
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Cause ofHe late War and JocksOn's p0pulariiy.


Some time since party of village wise heads,
assembled in the bar Of the Farmers Hotel. in
s. Rhode Island, were exhaustlng their learn


ing and temper in discussing the causes of the late
War. AS the dispute waxed warm and seemed
about coming to the decision SO common on such oc-
casions, of bloody heads and dsfgured faces. thus
proving that we have enough of the spirit among
US, to make slight causes sufficient to light the
flame, say, just at this critical PERIOD plain ho-
nest farmer stepped forward and intcrposed with
don't lose your tcmpers gentlemen, you are all


wrong. | can explain the whole matter to you.-
Orders in Council-Berlin and Milan decrees-free
trade, sailors rights am, all your nonsense had
thing to do with it. The war was entirely owing
to neighbor MS pig getting into neisbbor rs garden
Hold still gentlemen, and will prove it. BurriIl
you know was MS lawyer, and got his case for him.
L. was Representative to the Assembly, from the
town ct So: now you know that Burrl and
Howell were both candidates for Uncle Sans Sc.


nate, and every body was at work on one side and


t'other, and after counting noses, Burrils friends


thought all was safe, but when the vote was TAKEN


T. though he was good staunch tederalist and o


course bound to vote for Burrill, remembering the


pig law suit, would not vote for him, 80 that Howell


by voting for himself got elected by one majority


Now II 1t had not been for the pig law suit, r. woult


have voted for Burrll, and he would have been cho
sen Senator. Now don't interrupt me gentlemen
now. you all remember that when the question q
declaring war came before the senate, Mr.. Bav,r,
moved to postpone it six weeks, to give time to hea
: from England, and his motion you know was 10.
by only one vote-one Jerry Howell voting agains
h it. Now it Burril had been there he would hav
II voted for the motion, and the declaration of wa
e' would have been deferred Before the six week
S. 'xplred, news arrived that the Orders in Counc
:, we're repealed, and thus the principal alleged caus
& Of war removed. OF course if the delay had bee