Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-05-27
LETTER Fl. Err, FROM p1 PM J 1 noCcAsIN.

siss MoccAsIsvnLs, N. c. May Is, 1857.
Nh. PRINrERs It Is been = long time sence writ
to you, and reckon you We bin Uneasy about me;
but as Webster onct sed on sum occashun, ~ ant
ded yit." The fact is, after Know Nuthinism was
ded and berried kinder left off politicks but We
bin thinkn of late about its transmogrifed sperit
into the pore old dstribushun carcase, and cum to
to the conclushun d write to you agin anyhow.
Now, ant a old fogy in extreme nor ant
Young America in extreme for don't like no sort
of extremes That baby calm himself +" Sam" was
a extreme YOUTH and sum folks sed he was too big
for his britches but the fact was he didn't have on
no britches He kept hidin' behind sumthin' and
swarm at tremendous rate that he was butiful
and innocent boy-that his old daddy and nanny,
the Wings and Dimicrats was nifty mean and wicked
and corrupt and that he didn't intend to be respon-
sble for their conduct but would set up for himself
and lick both the old people, jest like a extreme
Young America, and bring round the Millennium
considerably sooner than Providence had calculated
on 1t was all in vain that we kept AKIN him to
cum out and show himself and let Us see whether he
was SIGH NICE clean Teller as he sed he was. He
kept hidn' and swarm; and begin us to take his
void for it. At last we got hold of him and dragged
him out, and shore enuf he was stark naked, de-
formed and covered with putrifyin' sores from one
eend to t'other. Then he swore he never had bin
hidin at all, and he dubbed up his fists and shook
them at the old folks, and cussed till he turned black
Republican in the iace which he kept to'ards the
NOrtD, SHOWN Tue SOutn MS dirty DackS1deS, with
SIGH men as Pnryar, Reade, Paine and others craw
lin atween his sholders while Mr. X. Rayner sot
right up on his he'd, lookin' fust at the front and
then at the near, onsartin which side he should
crawl onto-and it's onsartin yit which side he did
crawl onto. l ruther think he's settin' up thare VT
caculatin, the chances of the Presidency Vice
Presidency, or maybe the constableship for he's
after offs of sum sort.
Well, when we got the little rascal out and he
SO independent, We axed him his opinions about
slavery, and SEES he, 81 ignores the questshun" We
axed him what he thought of Urited States bank,
and ses he, "Cuss the bloody catholics We axed
him his views on the tariff, and ses he, Darn the
Pope" We inquired of him what he had to say
about distribushun, and ses he, "Devil take the
furreners." No matter what you axed him he kept
cussin' catholics and furreners. and swarm he had
nuthn to do with banks, tariffs, public lands, dis
tribushun nor no other old fogy matters-that every
thing and every body cheat and rascal except
him, and he didn't intend to contaminate himself
with matters that had corrupted his parents and
made them rotten, blind halt MANNED and spawned.
Well, things has changed now. This same youth,
Sam, under another name, is as crazy as a cooter
full fix and of all his larnin' and swarm he don't
know but one single word now. He used to talk
night in and night out, and sumtimes he talked even
in the daytime. and he had words plenty, and he
could cuss in almost every language but he's for
gotten it all. and can't say but one word now and
tudt DiSuiouSIuH ne ) ike tne man tnaL WAS
indted for stealin spoons and matter what quest
shun you axed him, he ansered, "spoons." Jest
so with this young Sam that is now catled Ameri-
can-Whig. AK him about furreners and he ses,
Distribushun." AK him about catholics, and he
ses, "Distribushun." Ak him about the Pope, and
he ses, Distribushun." Ak him about the Consti-
tuition, the Union, the rights of the States any
thing else, and there he stands with his crazy eyes
rollin' about and sayin Dstribushun." He used
TO be harp of thousand strings but now he's an
old gonrd fiddle with string, and that's Dstri
bushun." He's changed his name often he don't
know what it is now'-in fact he don't know nuthin'
but Distrbushun," and he keeps pckin at that all
the time. think he ought to be sent to the asy-
lum or back to Boston one, where he cum FROM
When begun this letter thought I'd give you a
few plain idees of mine the distribushun hum
bug, but I've writ much else now that can't DO
it in this letter but I'll try and git time to write to
you agin before long.
So no more at present. but remain
Yourn till deth,
PINEBUR MOCCASIN.
P.S. see that Mr.. Syme, the new man of the old
Register is goin' on at high rate. Tell him I'm
afeard it's Ike putin wine in old bottles, and
that thare will be bust of his paper for he's 70.
mentin' and stre,chin it awfuly already. He keeps
after you to discuss Dstrbushun," and all the time
he's takn' about CULVER, Lilput, big eends and
little eends. tweedledum and tweedledee and SIGH
| like Ned Davolt swars he can't find any thing in
the Register that's got argument logic in it, anG
he'd quit it only his little brother. jest commencing
to read has taken fancy to it and thinks it's nifty
funny paper. P. NJ.