Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-01-17
PATRICK MCNOGGfN,S LETTER.

The following letter is taken from the Danvcrs
(Mass.) Wing; which introduces it with the follow
ing remarks:
IMPORTANT LETTER We make no apology for
presenting the following letter to our readers and
only say 1t was not stolen and was not "pcked 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 NcNoggin in Danvers, finer
lea u 10 Nichaei OFidnnogda, Fillmore, Ireland
MICHAEL MY DEARY the top o the morning to
you Michael, and can't you pick up your little bit
of things and be ather coming TO this blessed
country; and bring Swaney and Bridget, and the
twins, and Patrick, and the other twins, and the
baby and the rest of 'em? And if you'll be allher
coming you can live on the best of paraties, that
eau be had for the diggin, and then you can have
coffee and paraties in the morning, and paraties
and tay at night mate and paraties for dinner seven
days in a week besides FRIDAYS when YOU know
the Praste won't let us have mate. Its land o
liberty, Michael, and we want the sons of the
Crane Isle to come over and help us to make n
Praisdent-and what's that, Patrick saws YOU, IN
tell you Michael. It's the man that rules the van.
KEGS, and gives the offices to lrishmen. want
you to come this blessed month, and helpus choose
Jenny O'Poke for Presidents and he's as guide an
Irishpan rs any of us, only he wasn't born in his
native country It's he that was spaker of
the House, when they wouldn't let HIM spake at
ALL
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 son Of Zakiel o.
Poke his grandfather. But afther all, Jenny amt
the son of his own father he's the darlin child of
oul Iakery Jackson, and ould IIakery's mother,
you know was an lrishman. tell you Mike, this
is great country, where you can dig on the rail-
road in the summer, and live in the Workhouse all
winter, for nothing at all, and no rint to pay.
The Americans have great ugly thing here,
they call the Tariff bat what it is, it puzzles the
like % me to tell ye. They say it's great fence
across the harbors, and all round America to keep
off every thing the yankees can make themselves.
So you see, Michael it makes the Americans have
all their own work to Co. and, what is worse of ALL
they get all the money for doin' it. Now Mike,
that's what I call chatting. 1t makes 'em live in
their nate houses, and wear their good clothes and
ate their coffee and tGy and drink their mate and pa
rates, and 90 to their hereto churches and amt
that downright chatting all the Catholics in Kill
more?
Now Michael ye'rc nice cobbler, and no moth
ers son in kllmore can bate you in making a
brogue, or tapping a shoe-and, supposing You
wants to make fifty brogues for me and Rory o.
Scroggn, and the rest Of us that's diggin on the
Dauvers railroad. Don't ye Just go to Kilkenny
and buy your leather of Tommy M'llide, the tan
ner, and don't ye git Benny Nc Blubber to curry
it? And don't you go TO Dooblin and git your
lasts, and your tools, and your pegs, and lining
skins And don't you cut out your brogues, and
then git Billy Doom and Swaner O'Toul that's glad
to git tenpence day, to make 'em up? And Their
don't you git Made, the carpenter to make nate
box to put em in, and don't you mark it on the TOP
in this way: