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Letter from Barney OsTooIe, Rsa.
WAsu1NGroS, DlsrRIcr OF CoLUNBY.
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From the Washington (Pa.l RepOrter.l
Letter from Barney O'ToOIe, Raa.
WAsuINGToS, DISTRICT OF CoLUNBYl
DECEMBER the 24th 1855
BIsTHUR MooBE;-I didn't tell ye all / had to
say about the missage in my last letther.
Win held alcyee wild the President an the
subject he sed to me- ''Misthur O'TooIe, hav We
red me missages" Tear an ages, hav :" seq
II 'Diyil hap'orth ilse did bother wild, for
about the same lingth ay time Jonah was in the
whales bellyl" Dad, SEE he, l was compelled to
cut it short be raison that the Dimmocracy cant
abide long dockyments.
Thin, seq he, Misthur 0'Toole, did We notice
how I've been bothered intirely wild the chivalry
about the slave thrade Ochl seq he. but me
hearts been gray wild it; an its the plain thruth
the poet tould whin he sed:
"onaiSy Is the head that Ia eroWu-r
ITS been the annoyance av me peace, seq he !;
an I'm sure, SEE he, that Misthur Wilburforce,
himself niver had half the throuble an anxiety
that has weighed me down, an destroyed me
slumbers an disturbed me dhrames be night
and day.. "But come what will, - sez he, "I'm
determined to break it up sud ye behave it
Misthur 0'Toole," SEE he, there's that thaiyin
sspalPeen, the Governor Gineral az Cuba" seq
he, that's gettin a doubloon head for livery
mothers son ay thin poor miserable Africans
that's Imported into Cuba, an Struggled in at
that; an our philanthropic m finder hearted
brlthren Az the South, sez he, outraged and
wounded in their fnalinS, besides buyin their
nagurs at the highest price. It's as thrue as I'm
tellin ye, SEE he, we cant stand it We must
hav Cuba at wanst seq he, and break up that
accursed slave thrade, that's the repIoach av hu.
manity an Christianity, an civilization an phil.
anthropy an the likes
Thin the President wint an read me that part
of the missage about the slave thrade, an as
thrue as ye live his faalins WINS that way over
come, that he lifted up the corner Nv his coat
tail to wipe his eye be raisen of his warsherwo.
man not bringing home his handkerchief, an
havin no wife lie Misthur Douglas, TO LUX at
Their his shirts an studs an haudkerchers an
the likes. An now, SEE he, AIisthur OrToole,
don't for the love of the howly Yargin, be spakin
av me sore thEials and sinsibities consarnin the
slave thrade, SO that Sinathurs Hale an Seward
'ud be gettin hould av it, for, SEE he, thin in
tarnai abolitionists-an' thin, Misthur Moore,
he broke right aff-ap' yen phase to regard, as
coniGinshial, livery thing I've mintioned in re-
gard nv the slave thrade. Misthur Buchanan
I'D not like to hav his BENEVOLENT faalins an that
su6jict, made public, bekase ye see it might in
Interrupt the important negociashins he has in
view, or may be DEBATE thin intirely.
So thin he broke right aft an the Thrnnsits-
Misthur O"Toole, SEE he, Tn jist maxim a new
edition av the laws av nations. LUX at thin
Cintiral Amerikins, SEE he, purtindin to kape us
from thrayelin the isthmus, as if it belonged
that isthmus was an arm nv the Say! 'Udn't
we hay right to thravel it?'' Thrne for you,
SEE l. Well thin, seq he, as it our fault that ii
isn't an arm nv the say, but ounly n dhirty 18th.
mus standin in the road :" Thrue enufF, SEE |.
Thin agen. SEE he, "Sure an don't the neadle ay
manifest disthiny, which, as the royal M'Beth
says
point to the thransitS as ours?' An Misthur
C'Toole, SEE he, to me very solemnly, ssshud we
stan in our own light an fly in the face nv
Divine Providince? Think O. that SEE he. More
be token, seq he, if we don't saaze thin ttran.
sits, thin diVils av Fillibustherers will; nm Mis-.
thur 0'Toole, SEE he, can't reconcile it to me
conscience TO let thin spnlpceMs stale such a
threasure. More nor all that, seq he, isn't the
Munroe docthrine all on our side intireIy? An.
swer me thsu Thin, seq he, doesn't the laws
aV nations always give the right to the sthrong.
est, bGrrin ould Fattcll, that Charley Ingersoll
said long ago, was ounly an ould Dutchman?-
Ihrue for you, MiSthur Buchanan, seq |, tn G
laws nv nations iswid ye. An thin, more be
token, SEE he, Jerry Black-him that's the an.
nerable Attorney Gineral av the United States,
tould me upon his amer that he's morally sar.
tain the case comes within the thrue sperit an
tnanin av the Dhred Scott deciShin, an that
thin halfcivilized Cinthral Amerikin half breeds
an the likes, down an the isthmus, shave no
RICH IS that white min are bound to RESPECT"
Its beyant the beyants, SEE lie how we've kept
our hands aft thin so loug An now, sez Mis-.
thur Buchanan, sthraitnen himself up an lukin
very solemn, if didn't saaze Cuba an thin
thrnnsits, shud think meself wantin in me duty
to this crate an powerful nation, more be token.
SEE he, as Cuba is the ouny spot left in the civ.
Ilized world, that tolerntes the slave thrnde an
is such a nuisance to the phil0nthropiSts nv South
Carolina and the Gulf States. Thrue for you,
SEE ], Misthur Buchanan Ali bedad, seq he,
Misthur o'Toole, l see yer gintleman nv dis.
arnment. I'd ye PLACE take dinner wild me an
the Ministher to Austhria an Thursday afther.
noon at half past eleven P. II. So We see, Mis-.
thur Moore, I'm in for it I'll let ye know, II
yen wait till awhile ago, how the Sinate's gettin
an.
Yours wild considerations av the highest es.
tame. BARNEY 0"CooLE
SENATOR DouoLAs was very kindly received
at HaSanason his recent landing there from the