Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-09-18
THE WEEKLY STAR
IFrom the South Side Democr,, |,
An Intercepted Letter

| The following epistle, dropped into our of;..
| must have been intended for the ola -.
| Whig and X. N. Amslgam Organ, with scotch
fiddle strings in our burg.
Dear Organ, L take tremendous intere..
in the present Election my application for
the ofdce Of Squabburg Tabacco Smellsr, has
6een on hle four years. and know that when
Fillmore is elected 1 shall get it So hurrsh
Tor Fillmore. L belong to the Young Men 8
Bird of-Freedom is-death- to- all Irishmep As
socianon,' and We are true TO the policy Of
.ne great American party, for though our ia
.hers were born in Europe, yet-d-m them
they had no business TO
we nave given our foes no rest. We have
areauy aone the State some service We have
broken up several Buchanan and Fremont
gatnerings by making a row and hurrahfne
ior Fillmore. We have, at the risk of our own
heads, been in the night and chalked large
crosses on all the Fremont and bills We could
hnd-we have stolen their banners, cut down
their flag stats, punched holes Ia thar 6ag,
ana broken their club room windows, and we
have told cords of lies about Old Buck. and
the ten-cent-get-up; we have turned his per-
son into ridicule, chizzled his character. and
played the deuce generally.
L am on the Foreign Executive Committee
l throw stones at little Dutch boys-I knock
down Irish children and take their playthings
away from them, and then hurrah for Fill
more. One night threw a brick through the
only window in an Irishman's shanty and
smashed his baby, then had q lot Of our
boys" ready TO lick the man when he came
out TO 60 for the doctor-we hammered him
TIL he could mt speak, then we put him in the
Jail-house on charge Of " drunk and disor-
derly," then we went round the corner and
hurrahed for Fillmore. We have, by united
action and assertion, whipped every Irishmau
In our Ward, one at time, and have indi.
vidually spanked seventeen stray Milesiap
babies, on the sly-we all run with 1854 en-
gine, and when there is q fire in q " foreign
ers house probably we break things son,,
aud perhaps you think we're anxious to put il
up votes for President, in public assemblies,
and our party have q way Of their own Of
getting at the result.
We multiply the Fillmore vote BY Eve, and
then divide the votes for the other candidates
by the same number, by way Of balancing
the account have also distinguished my
self by writing fictitious letters to the Re-
publican journals, saying that there had been
Fremont gathering Of ten thousand people
at Squabtown; and next day / write TO our
own paper denying the meeting, assert the
whole story to be a malicious fabrication Of
the Satanic press, and say that in Squsbtown
there were but two Fremont men and ten Bu-
chanan men, and that the former were in jail
and the latter had no votes L have learned
all the catch phrases Americans must Rule
America" "Beware of Foreign Influence ;"
"No Popery;" &" The Ship Of State, which
sails over our glorious mountains and our
broad valleys with the Star Spangled Ban
ner," 4" The Pilgrim Fathers Of the RevOlu-
combating with foreign foes-Spoils Of Of
fce-Buchaneers-Disun will fight,
We will conquer" &c.
L have learned a set speech with all these
big taking words in it, and all know when ID
put in the applause. For instance: "Fill-
more and DOnelson'' was always to have nine
cheers and tiger" Americans shall Rule
America" was to have six cheers until il had
been said thirty times, and after that, but
three" American Eagle" ditto. " Blood of
your forefathers" was to be "hie-e- hi ID" and
any allusion to the Pope, Buchanan, or FIRE.
mont, was to be received with howls and
groans ad A6Itum.
So you see old hoss-0rgan, L mean-we
are going il strong-our party's name is "Le-
giOn we've secured the name any how, ami
you may bet your intestines we'll keep il till
run into our native element.
L shake fists with you,
Q. &. p. DoEsrIcKs, JR.'