Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-10-10

LE1IE fROM MONSlEUk ROSE BAGAIELLE.
To tbs Editors Of the Enquirer:
Monsieur Enquire Il have much obligations
to you, for to have explain de figure in de Proca-
mation and to have defend me vid so great abilte
from dem two grand rascal which set de bulldog on
me. In all de time was Know-Nothing have not
hear of dat Jim Barkem and dat Kermit Strainem
Begar, believe all dc Know Nothing is President
and Vice President. Monsieur Enquire, who make
him President and Vice President? How he know
what John Smit and do in de night in de big
house, in de alley, in cittee, in Virginia?
fought he he will tell any ting dat is done
in de Council, and who go dare and noting but by
de creep and de sign, and de password and de oh,
oh, oh, and hio hio hio. Now he come out tell
what do, and what John Smt do, and one tousand
lie beside How he find it out? Veil, have some
7'roctnm0ti0ns and eohereas too; put him down in
your paper:
PROCLAMATION
Whereas John Snit is grand cheat and swim
dis, and tell ten tousand lie to get to be one
Know Nothing; and whereas de door-keeper of de
lodge 999 help John Smit to cheat into de lodge,
and lie too and whereas de President and Vice
President help de door-keeper and John Smt to
cheat me, and da lie too and whereas all de mem
Der join in de cheat and den lie: and whereas some
of dem tell Jim Barkem and Kermit Strainem whole
parcel ting, to make dem bark at and strain me :;
and whereas da publish de grandest lie of all and
whereas da call John Smt dare loving broder and,
bigar he is, and all hatch out of one goose-nest
and all is like toder big lie, eetil lie, all lie
tumble up togeder; and whereas de Known citing
will not teach ME all dc creep and sign and pass
word, and de grunt and de groan, and de Ohio and
de hio, and de droppin of de white papers and de
red papers about de street, and will not let somebody
else teach dem to me; and whereas when drop de
red papers in de street. and cry no. no, to what
he mean, all de Know-Notng out and cry hio,
and ran to me vid de pistol and de sword and de
bowie knife and de club, and cherry ting to kill pee
piles, and stick dem and knock dem down, and when
l tell dem dat l am only practicing de signs, day
me and call me French fool for frighten
dem all so; and, begar, da brighten ten times so
much more as brighten dem and whereas da make
vote all de time for de old dead Wing who have
principle; and whereas de whole Know-Noting,
from de top to de bottom, de inside and de outside,
is noting but corruptions and frauds, and cheats,
and swndles, and lies, and humbug, (dat is de bug
which roll all dc filthy ting vid his hind foot in his
dark hole while he all dc time look toder way begar
dat is yer apt comparisons of de Know-Notng); and
whereas dem two humbug in New York and North
Carolina, which set de dog on me when da cry hav-
oc and have not me- and no not know me- is
guitee of great impudences and Prescriptions
to de dopted son of de Old Dominions where Mon
sieur Wise kick all de know-Noting to de dable
Now, darfore, by virtue of de tortee in me vested,
| do eXpcl de said Barl1em and Strainem de Salt
Rivers; and all de leetil black Know-Noting vid
him; and enoin it upon all de honorable Gentle
mans and ladies to put de foot on de Know-Noting
and mash him wherever da find him for he have
not de troot and dignity of de old Wing or de Dem
ocrat but is notn but falsehood, untrooth fabrica-
tons, misrepresentation prevarcatons deceptions
and hundred tousand more; whereas, besides, be-
gar, 2 10, dat figure mean, if 1 shall catch
Barl1em and Strainem in my dopted country, shall
kick dem clean out of de Ole Dominions up to de
Salt Rivers myself.