Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-12-19
Patrick N7cN0.si,a's Letter.

apology for presenting the following letter to
readers, and only say it was not stolen and was
not picked up in the mud" If Patrick will call
upon US, we will explain the manner in which we
came by it to his entire satisfaction.
Letter from Patrick McNoegin in Danuers, Amer
sca TO Michael OFIaaagan, Kiinaore. ireland.
MICHAEL MY DEARY: The top of the morning |
to you Michael and can't you pick up your little |
bit things, and be after coming to this bless
ed country; and bring Swaney, and Bridget, and
the twins, and Patrick, and little Michael and the
other twins, and the baby, aud the rest of 'em !
And if you'll be afther coming, you can live on
the best of para,ies. that be had for the Dig
gin, and then you can have coffee and para,es in
the morning, and paraties and tay at night, and
mate and paraties for dinner seven days in the
week besides Fridays, when you know the Praste
won't let US have any mate Its land o'liberty,
Michael, and we want the sons Of the Crane Isle
to come over and help us to make a Praisident--
aud what's that Patrick! says you. III tell you
Michael. It's the man that rules the Yankees, and
gives the offices to the Irishmen. | want you to
come this blessed month, and help US choose Jem-
my O'Poke for Praisident; and he's as guide an
Irishman as any of US, only he wasn't born in his
own native country. It's he that was spaker of
the House, when they wouldn't let him spake at
all n
Now, when you come over here Michael my
honey, and the big -bellied man from the Custom
House tells you to hurrah for Young Hakery, he
names Jenny O'Poke, that's the of Zakiel
O'Poke, his grandfather. But ather all. JENNY
ant the son of his own iather, he's the darlin
child of Ould Hakery Jackson, and Ould Hakery's
mother, you know, was an lrishman. i tell you
Mike, this great counihry, where you can dig on
the rail road in summer, and live r the Workhouse
all winter, for nothing at all, and no rint 10 pay.
The Americans have got great ugly thing here,
they call The Tariff, bot what it is, it puzzles the
likes O ne to tell We. They say its great fence
across the harbors and all round A!t lca, to keep
of everything the Yankees can make themselves.
So yea see Michael, il makes the Americans have
all their own work TO DO and what is worst of ALL
they get all the money for doin it. Now Mike,
that's what calls chatiAg. 1t makes EN- live in
their nate houses, and wear their good clothes,
and ate their coffee and tay, and drink their mate
and paraties, and go to their hereiick churches
and ant that downright chatting all the good Cath
olics in kiInore. E~- s~s
Now Michael yere nice cobbler, and no NTH
er's son in Kilniore can bate you in making a
brogue, or tapping shoe-and supposin you
wants to make fifty brogues, for me and Rory
O'Scroggin, and the rest of us that's diggin the
Danvers railroad. Don't ye just 60 to Kilkenny,
and buy your leather Of Tommy M'liide, the tan
ner and don't We git Benny M'Blubber TO curry it
And don't you go TO Dooblin and git your lasts,
and your tools, and your pegs, and your lining
skins, and binding skins And don't you cut out
your brogues, and then cit Billy Doom and Saw
ney O'Tool that's glad to get tenpence day, to
make 'em ups And then, don't you git M'Adze'
the carpenter, to make nate box to put EN- IN,
and don't YOU mark it on the top in this way
To
% Patrick McNoggin '
this side up, 81
FROM KILMoRz, IRELAND To
s PATRIcK in AmERIcA,
so Brogues DanVefs
from Michael OF1andgan.
And then Michael don't you sind it to me, and
and Rory, and the rest of us git our brogues Tor
so cents, instead OF giving Misther Manning, AID
Mr.. Dane, the Yankee brogue makers, Dollar
No we don't Michael And whya says you. Wait
bit and III tell you, says |. This great luooer-
| ly Tariff sticks up his fence in Boston harbor'
and stops your nice box of brogues,' and tells
Palhrick MFNoggin, (and that's mel and Rory ana
the rest OF u.s. you can't have yoar brogues un-
! til YOU pay Uncle Sam enough money TO make
| 'eal cost more than Mis,her Manning's and Mis-
,her Danes Yankee brogues do.H apia
| Now ask you, Michael, aint that chatting you J
And don't it chate Billy Doom, and Sawney "
Toole, that made the brogues! And doesn't II
chate Tommy M'IIide, the Tanner, and Benny
M'Bubbler, the Currier! And isn't it chatting the
Dooblin folks that made the lasts, and the tools,
and the pegs! And aint it, chatting the farmer
that sells the paraiies and the carpenter, Made
who made the box, and the Praste you confess 10
and the Docther that cured Sawney O'foole's
ninth CHILD Of the ,yphus fever,