[We have received a letter, which we publish with much satisfaction,
from the north part of this State, and accompanying
it, a fine specimen of domestic manufacture in the form of an
axe, as a present to our highly esteemed and invaluable friend
Major Downing. We take this mode of informing our distant
correspondents of the safe arrival of their tribute to the Major's
public worth, and conveying to them the assurance that it will
be faithfully delivered to the person for whom it is designed.
There is no such thing as calculating the extent of good which
one patriotic and intelligent individual can accomplish, when he
honestly devotes his time and talents to the advancement of the
public welfare. The important truths and the sound political
principles which Major Downing has given to his country
through the medium of this paper have been more extensively
circulated, and more generally read, than any other productions
of modern times, not even excepting the Waverley novels. We
presume the gentlemen who have acknowledged the great grat
ification they have received from the Major's letters adopted
this particular mode of expressing their feelings, in consequence
of the circumstance to which they allude, viz.—the presentation
through this office of a dozen of the same kind of article
last year to the President of the United States.—Eds.]
To Theodore Dwight, Esq., Editor of the N. Y. Daily Advertiser.
