The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-10-03
CATFISH Po1NT, Sept. 10 1914.
TO WILLIAM THE INTERPRETER OF
DREAMS.

P'ih'Sa AAdiLhohy 10 get the 10 TedQ IL 10
hun, and it had in it a long letter with the
name OFF, +. Dupeye signed to il; and
that part of it that accused the wing party
with the crime of Native Americanism was
marked with a pen. And when [ read it'll
and saw how | vas handled, says | to the
Dutchman, says, | where did you get this?
Why, says he, a man gave it to me in a store
in town. Well, says I, who was it? and he
said he dident know for he never seed him
before Well, says I, what kind ola fellow
is he? Why,says he, he was about as old
as me, but he acted mighty kurus for a full
grown man, for he said he loved me power
tul, and he took my hand and pulled me
Up to the counter and tried to hug me and
kiss me across the counter, but it was too
wide, and then he said if he was not too
busy he would come round and do it any
how, butI must excuse him and he would
do it next time he seed me; and when /
went out axed a dutchman what sort of a
man that felier in there was, and told him
what he said. And he laughed and said the
man dident mean no harm by it. He said
he was a friend to James K. Polk, who is
the grand son of old Zekel, who loved the
British so much better than the Americans,
that he turned tory and wen over TO the
British in the revolutionary war, and James
K. Polk n~atterly feels the same way, and
this feller being his friend beats Polk him.
self, for lie DOM only love all foreigners
generally, but he loves the dutch in patrick
Ter, so much that he can't hardly keep from
hugin one right before folks, specially ifhe's
a voter. Why, says !, he must be an on
common critter-wherebouts was the store2
why, says he, its on tother side Of Main
street. Well says |, which is iother side2
Why says he, it's f~ernenst that side. Well
says |, which is that sidef Why says he, it's
fernenst tother side. Well / seed | was up
a stump, audit made me mad, aud Jumped
up and says /, if it warnt agin my principles,
and if | could find out who it was, and if
he wrote that letter, and if he warnt an old
man, as he says he is, and ifhe had any son
thai would'ent do as James Il. Polk did
when Wise pulled his nose, I'd larrup the
face of the earth with him and tramp him
into bug-mouthfulls. He's a pretty Teller,
says to pretend that he don't kno W who |
am, Gideon Duckworth, that's beer a dream
ing in these parts ever sence the abrosines
lived on this very pint, and then write such a
letter as that, and inst cad of putting his
own name TO it sign SIGH a name as Du-
peye. What natural born white man says
b | ever seed such man as that.
He pretehds TO think Pm one of them
], lawyers, and that he is the old man that ]
seed in that dream, and for fear they'd deny
q it and Spite his letter, he says they dasseDt
AS if any body would be afraid of an old
man that's got marry son, except that lawyer
that dassent go along the streets without a
long stick under each arm for fear the sher
if viii whip him. Dupeye eh! says ], he
cant dupe me as he does them dutchmer
about Native Americanism. PIE find GU
; who he is yet, and if / do-by the powers
that made Moses, I'll write my NAM on hi
sons forehead, if he's got one, in letters tina
his mother can read a rod off without he
specks, providing he don't tuck his tail ant
/ sneak off as Polk did when Wise pulled hi
nose. / don't believe he wants to be a
lpeace, for if he did he wouIdent abuse me
without knowing me, when | done nothing
but write down what I seed in a dream wher
was sound asleep. And ] don't believe
he's SO honest in poletics as to hnrt his hide
for if he was, he wouldent try as be did il
THAT letter, to make foreigners believe tina
the Wings, as a.party, are in favor of Nativ
Americanism, for he knows it isent true
and he knows too, or if be don't he 500
will, that the only American born man i
Yanderburgh County that ever did deslar'
himself in favor of Native Americanism, wa
from the beginning, is now, and always wi
e be a locofoco, and says he never will vote. fc
a foreigner for any office ifhe can help it,
He is a real p~erpendickler hard fsted, squar
built, bitter headed, democratic locofoc'
Pokeite, that came to this county about tn
time that / settled on this point, and con
: menced dreaming.