Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-03-19
LETTER FROM PINEBUR MoCC ASH.
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MoccAsINvILLE, N. c., March s, 1856.
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MoccAsINvILLE, N. c., March s, 1856
Mr, Printurs Of the Standard
used occasionally to write letters for Mr.. Wilson's
Banners when he printed them up here in our re.
g,on, and supposin' he and the rest of you would
like to hear from me agn, have taken my pen in
hand to try to do up sumthin for the Standard I
am gittin along in years and my hand is little stiff
but my heart and upper lip is stiffer and my democ.
racy is the stifest of ALL and if don't write long
de ss,s IL bs ybt S Dsss ssn try to put what
We have jest got the news here that Fillmore and
another teer has been nominated by the Know.
nuthin' Convenshun at Philadelphy Drat that
name Of Know.nuthin' they fooled me onct, of
which will tell you byemby-that's what makes
me madder at them) / say 'another feIler. ~ cause
why, we don't know yet what his name is. Bob
Mullins, who used TO be Dimicrat, but who is now
big fool Of Know-nuthin', swears it is Andrew
jackson, Jr., chip of the Old Hckry block. Bob
says the Dimicrats are tryin' to annex "Donelson"
to it. jest to fool the people and make them b'lieve
he is no akin to Old llickry. He saws that Holden
d Wilson and few others are promisin' the furrin.
ers that if they will stick up to the Dimcratc party
for while they shall have king here to rule over
them before long, "but," says Bob, 81 be- if
they don't have sum fun yit before they git king"
Who would have thought that even Bob Mullins
would have been SO darned mean ?-and he is called
the meanest man west of sunrise
Joe Smithers (Bilrs brother) says the name is
Andrew jackson Donelson, but that there is not
much of the Donelson about hm,-he is mostly An
drew jackson. Joe used to be Whig, and nobody
could cuss GIneral jackson harder than he could
but now he wants to pin the Dimicratic sperit of
that great old man to the little puny, sckly weak
body OF know-nuthn ism to hold it up, for it can't
stand alone and never will l tell you what Mr..
Printers If the old hero could jest git one hand out
of the grave, "by the Eterna! !" he would scratch
the eyes out of Donelson Gf that be bis name) fust
and then he would rake the hipercrtical courten-
ances from his old revers and slanderers that are
now tryin to use his name for their own base pur-
poses! hope that nobody but Joe Smithers is
mean enuf to attempt this game. Ifany body about
Roy is mind to put himself in the same category
with Joe, jest tell him that say he is no better than
Joe, and that Joe was whipped onct for sealin ter
hacker from niger:
Ned Davolt, our young lawyer here, who thinks
he is NIFTY smart and has rival in his opinion saws
the name is Andrew Jackson Donelson and that he
Is q ncfew of and blood reashun to the old Gneral
can't, for the life of me, git the same tale out of
two know-nuthins, and still every one swears he is
right. blieve they have all got in sich habit of
swearln that they can't help it, matter what it is
they are swearin' to
l intended to tell you about the internal imposi-
shun practccd upon me to git me to jine the Know.
nuthins; but my hand is gittin' crampcd and must
stop. The fact is, l git mad every time think
about IL, and the more think about it. the maddcr
g't; don't like cussin' no way, but I'll be darned
II don't blieve I'm excusable for cussin' the mean
sneaks that lied me into the consarn. But I'll tell
you all about it in my next-1 can't do it now
So no more at present, but remain yourn till deth.
PINEBUR MOCCASIN
2. ). Joe Smithers has jest come in, and he says
ne has sent on 81 for the Register Joe is sich
liar don't know when to b'lieve him. Howsumever,
herewith send you 50 for the Standard, for want
antdote to any pson that may be brought into
this naborhood Moreover, want to find out that
fellers name if can, and if he has any of Gneral
Jackson's blood in him, TN gwyne all the way to
Iennysee to kill him, jest to keep disgrace off Of the
old Gineral's name. tell you I'll do it. Drat the
know-nuthin' consarn-how they did fool me onct,
But I'm gittin' mad agin, and so will quit