The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-02-10
NEw Yoak. Feb. I, 1888


New YoRK, Feb, 7, 1888.
MY Dean Sra Last evening, about half past six
o'clock, while passing Fulton market saw group
OF jolly-boyS collected around literary friend, whom
l recognized as belonging 10 the race of Dock Vol
iopers. This literary Wolloper was reading by the
light OF blazing pine-knot, one Of my recent com
muncations TO the AadisoaiaN, in which due honors
we're awarded to those champions OF Loco. foeoism.
As the reader progressed the detail of the various
instances in which the independent Wollopcrs caus-
ed the Sk-stocking oflice-holders and monopolists
quail before them at the last meetiGg at Tammany
Hail. was received with loud shouts of triumph, in
which illusrious allies, the Caerokees and Dela
irares might have gathered materials for an inn
provsment on their Tar-trhoop. As the lurid fame
from the blazing knot, curled and wreathed above
the heads of the congregated Wollopers--now ffu-
ly cleaning as if about to expire-and again shoot
ing upward with renewed brilliancy--the athletic
brawny forms and excited countenances Of the group
could alone breathe from the canvass of Salrat0r
Rosa. When the reader had concluded motion to
proceed in hdiaa.fLe to Tammany Hall, to join in
The proceedings Of the meeting called By the Loco
focos under the old name nsr-rampcd of the mccha-
mics and rorkiag mea-was carried acm con.
As they proceeded onward one says to his fellow,
Dick, can you tell what all this means2 Jsta
the last lection, when we immygraited TO Tammany
Hall, these chaps used 10 ak us to come to their
meetins, because we Loco toeos-arter the lee
tion then they said we was Demmerats-and, by gum,
now theym got MS TO be mechanics and rorking men,
Amt that good one. We jolly Dock Wollopers,
mechanics! What new name will they find for us
nextF
As the companion of the quersi could not answer
the question, halt was ordered, and the literary
Wolloper was called on for an explanation.
"Why you see, my boys, says he, I" that the ralc
mechanics are going TO meet tonightia at National
Hall to purtest agin the d-,rOrsc of Bank and S0u-
50 10 be even widen, they dub US mechanics and
working men. Keep dark FIR tonight, but if they
ketch me calling myselfa working man agin in
year-then my name amt TIM TSireH-thats ALL"
As | was certain no business could progress until
my friends, the Wollopers were present. kept with
in hail. and followed them up the steps of the Hall,
until they reached the room in which the meeting
was held.
To my SURPRISE when arrived, a speaker, evil
IDENTIFY dressed for the occason-was holding forth
most vociferously.
Gentlemen" says he, "lhe correspondent of the
Madisonian has belied us He says we are Dock
Wollopers-he tries to underrate u.s."
by one the angry Wollopers gathered from all quar-
Of the room, and joining the literary Wolloper,
who was their fle-leader-made rush at the plat
FORM on which the speaker stationed.
"Give ii to him, Tim, "was shouted by five hun
bred voices--he thinks VEIN to be bamboozled, but
We reckon he's missed figure"
"Mr. Cheerman," said Tim, ~ won't stand up
here to let any rufed shirt oafer salt The earracter Of
my friends. They'm regular built Dock-W olloper
Equal Rights-Loco-focos-a watts more theym
able 10 take their part any day. Ifyou did call
the meetin in lyin shape, why swallowed it for
this time-although it most made sick at the sto-
machbut ifyou let any ioaers and aoatcr-rats throw
mud on TO US, we'll show you way down stairs you
never knowed Of"
| Hurra-three cheers for Tm--he's the boy watll
give it TO EN-. At 'em agin Tim resounded from
all parts of the ROOM could the Wollopers be APP
peased until the unlucky speaker was handed to the
door.
While this uproar was progressing, the chairman,
to the best of my judgment, became alarmed lest The
resolutions should not be carried in the melec-and
my impression is that while Tim making his
harangue, the documents were read, and of course,
carried @r
| My reasons for this opinion are founded on the
fact-that the tones of persons voice came al times
! from the midst Of the crowd on the platform-like
the wall of mermaid for her lost lovcr-in which
the assertions that 1he people in all the recent cleo
ions had declared in favor Of dvorcing the govern
/ ment from the people-that the ballot boxes had
proved that the metallic currency was the money for
the government, while rags was good enough for the
working claSses-tha the majority in all the Demo-
cratic states-excep in New York, where they had
been bribed by the Banks, opposed to all credit
and monopolies, and that "down with the merchants,
manufactures, and the institutions Of the country"
was the true rallyng cry Of the friends of equal
! rights"
| These judiciouS proceedings being finished, l
dropped into National Hall, where the aristocrac
mechanics, who desire the country to prosper, were
in great force-but as they were found all opposed
tony friends the Woloper Loco-focos lief them to
that sad fate 10 which hard money Executive APP
pears to doom them.
| ~ B. protest against the New York Herald po-
etiziHg my information Truth should receive no
aid from fiction. The Temperance lyric is good
enough in its way-but the sturdy Woopers don't
care ig for newspapers or Temperance societies.
besides if you could reduce their spirits in the way
conempIated-where would the friends of Equal
| rights go for new alies1
LATE FROM FLORIDA
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