Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-28
THE INTELLIGENCER.
MozIs Appun4s oN POLITICIANS.

We have heretofore given extracts from the
amusing letters of Mozis Addums to mis- friend,
Billy Twins, detailing his impressions of Rich.
mond, Va, his arrival at Washington City, his
search for clearinghouse, 6c., &c. In his
last epis,le, we find HIM domiciIed in one, and
''packt," as hesayS, "lilie meet in pork house"
He thus relates how he got acquainted with
'KongisSuer, and talked politicks:
I've bin intcrjuiccd to Mr. Lctchur, Mr.. Bo-
cox irum dcesuic, Mr. Edrnund's sun, Mr..
Clemulings, Judge Casky. and them; all wise,
kine-hartd gentimen, Tililn to do emmy thing
fur you they ken. Sum NV um got akWaint-
ed with befo / lef BrOun's tavun, wan day when
were takin sperrits, pTiIty good too, heap bet
tern that ut the Junkshin. They jined very
perlitely, and, hecrin whar were frun, com
menSt on pOllytix, askin how | stood. You
know how a good drink take the bashful out Nv
a fello, so tOrked Iite up TO them crate KOn-
gissmeu jiS like | wood to pupil baum and IliSt
at crost rodeS. tole um were a outenout,
Ole-faShin, strait up and dOun, stats rite, Jack
sin, Kansis dimmOkrat, bleevin in nuthin but
what the party blceydin, votin fur a dimnokrat
aginst emmy boldly, doant keer hoo.
That's rite, they SaiS, You stick To that,
and dOant truss too much TO yo oan idees, and
yOu'll alwas be rite"
sails, Il thank you," and we all mendid our
drinks, and want nigh bnshfu as | were at
iust. So aSsd um queSIchin wich had both
cred me miteIy, soon aritcr got to Washing
tun, whar evvry boldly talks poytix, and yOus
blceged to hear mo or less Nv wha; they tOrk
about. sais:
"Gentilmeir, sense cum heer. evvry boldly
most is accusin NY eyyry boldly Nv bein
Gimmy jog; what ar dimmY jog-ar it a kind
w dimlnOkrnt or vessil that holes licker:"
This appeard to amews nn mitely, and wun
I In 1t.
becOs it aint eyyry man which know the diiiTents
between jimmy jog and dimmokrat." ("
He saS, speaAin to me, S'c-''rhe true diffa-
ents is very simple, and kin be Explained IN u
bIeth. Whoever gifts elected i a jimmy jog,
and whoever Is deicaiid isa paytriot- DyOu
underestimate?
toIe him ''Sertnly," but, sais, ''I've heerd
the Gnashnul dirnmONrats abused SO much, that
begun to think they wuz the same think idcn-
tikily"
"0h, MOI" he sais, 'you must by 10 means
entcrtune such apinyun. The GnasiInul Dim
mOckracy. aithO they've bin eeclid and hole the
power NV guyvunmint, air not dummy j g; they
air ixcepshins to the genril rOUl: they the
grOte party, and however troo it rnay be that
the paIty,is sumwhat divided Moth and South,
yet air they Enthusiastically confined together
by this very diyiShin, and stiOnger than they
wood be without il"
1 had to studdy over this sum item beFO
Good understand how a thing Good be jined by a
division. At lass 1 sais:
II think sea throo yo obscrvashin. The
Gnashnul dimmocracy Nv tine Moth and the
South are jined together like the rooms in
jale-by Ihill, unFassibul rock wall betwixt
uin. Wv koas the jalc are stronger fur the
wall"
"Ixackly, 4" he says, you've hit the male rite
on the he'd"
sails, "Well, I'm proved uv sich a strong
party" and l am Billy, and you too.
He sails, We'll you Iuay be, fur It's the only
party that ken save Yuneyun, and that's its biz
Mss
Yes ! sails, ''and it remines me powfulIy
NV song reckin all Nv you gentiimen have
heerd bcio nova niger song, but full uv
meenin, cald,
.Ef YOU have emmy scadin thing.