Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-22
Important services.

As an act of justice, we desire to transmit
to posterity faithful account of the most i'm
portant services ever rendered by any individ-
ual to any party since the organization Of this
government We do not like to transcribe any
thing editorial from our contemporaries, with
out giving the proper credit, and in this in
stance the true account is so very graphic, and
so highly interesting, we wish some credit our
self for it, and therefore take the liberty Of
supplying some items which the modesty Of
the "faithless phantom" suppressed, and hence
we do not credit the account to the Eoening
Star of the 18th instant The history of the
services, in brief, are these:
eve have been up into Fosgsvile, and all
about, having an election, which has resulted glo
riously to our party, thanks to ourself therefor,
and we ask to be INDUCED in saying few
words concerning the result there where we
worked as never BEFORE and the world knows we
are considerable in the working way that being
our forte.
AT the last election of constable up in Foggs-
vile, where we began our tour, owing to the luke
warm spirit of an old Dutchman, who smoked his
pipe the whole Of election day, our party was de-
feated; but we, bearing in mind the Importance
thereof exerted all our power in those diggins,
and we are now triumphant, In memory of our
exertons at Foggsville there was a celebration in
Hans Van acknowledgements barn, and, as his
lager had fine effect upon the peoples, we men
ton the quality Of Hans Van acknowledgement
lager, and wish our friends here could only taste it.
For fortnight before the election, from two
hundred to three hundred and eighty five meetings
Aoslx, ed L. 4
to meet some of the most promising orators of the
Union, we fairly won the palm of victory them
all and silenced their gibberish. On one occasion
we rode 900 miles in an ox-csrt and a little over
seventy miles in carryall, over the rug
gedest part of the mountains
We finally reached the spot where we had
agreed to speak in bar-room full ofhonest Dutchs
men, by the light of pine knot, and, although
none OF them could understand word we said
our powerful gesticulations and unlimited pota-
tons had their effect upon the barkeeper's wife,
who, Immediately that we had finished, spanked
her youngest boy for having week before said
Hurrah for Samr and it was good spanking she
gave him; and 1t all came from our speech.
On another occasion we addressed the soyer-
eigns thirty hours and three minutes, and we con-
verified one man and small boy but the man had
no vote, as his color was rather brownish, but it
showed the effect Of our speech. We went OIL
speaking, at the rate Of upwards OF good deal
more than thirty-odd hours per day, a whole week,
and at length we were SO exhausted it took six
Dutchmen to lift us out of a wagon and put us in
again. although we hadn't drunk pitcher of lager
for more than fifteen minutes 'f,oant the IA3erf
"Wcll, on the seventh day Of our journey we
overlook wagon belonging to one Peter Given
diver, who was asleep, and we spoke to him on
the road for upwards of six hours and sixteen
minutes, and he woke up, aroused by our elo-
quence, and we assure our readers that he and his
whole team was converted to our side. Well,
when we got to the next grogshop we found two
negro men and three boys, one old woman and a
sucking baby--we mounted upona cande-box and
spoke TO them Justify for seventeen hours without
winking, and the whole Of them without dis
senting voice, hnrrahed for Buck and Breck--
but, unfortunately as we jumped up in our glory,
the box fell in, and it would have broken our In.
IerDal neck If we had not shown great presence
of mind, and turned a summersault, and landed
| on our back, with arms and legs outstanding. a Ia
mode the fat boy Of Matsgorda.
i NOW, after numberless harbreadth escapes by
fire and flood, we are back again. having per-
formed feats of valor only equaed by those Of the
author Of the Jameson letter. who Is the greatest
man OF this age except ourself and ten cent Jim
my We don't intend to go out again till next
time, as we think we have done quite enough to
satisfy ten cent Jimmy that we did not mean
what We said when we called him an old graNssy
just before he was nominated. We thought 20
then, but we are awfully sorry we said so, and in
future, we promise our readers to strictly adhere
to our maxim, and never tell another truth the
longest day we live. We beg pardon OF our read
II they should discover any egotism in our &C.
count Of our services--that is quality we don't
/ poeeese.r