Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-08-09
Clrvel,Np. Ohio, August the 3rd, is59.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, August the 3rd, 1859
Hon. LEWIS C-Ass. SR-EDerbody hayin
towld me that this t0as a free country, and
that a man could write to anybody he thought
fit to address, provided he paid the poshtage,
I'm constrained 10 take advantage Of the dull
times and the many inducements offered by a
pen erth o. fooscap to write you letther, an
Immediate aud satisfactory answer to which
will be the names Of disem5arressiag your un-
sullied administration.
AS your eggselGngcy viii Immediately per-
ceiye, your corr espondcnt is an ovid country
man, from the summit Of the Wicklow Noun
tains up among the onion beds and goat pash-
lures, and am desirous of goin' home to see my
grandmother I'm towld that your honor's a
horse at etther-writin as well as a warm advo-
cate Of a claw which allows shave owners TO
hunt their nagers thro' every Shtalc and town
in the Union till they bring em back to servi
tude an I'm towld, too, that you have so long
habituatel yourself to the service O. these
blood brokers that you cannot distinguish Ger
man or an lrishmau from these unluoky nagors,
when their ovid masthers ia Europe lay claim
to 'em. If this be so, and every man but an
office how ther tells me it is, may be Chair
mlu o. the Charlcshton Convention (which will
outyie the tabled meetin o. the Kilkenny cats
an cast Donybrook into the shadeJ if ever
casht vote for you or yours again!
As you never afforded yourself the pleasure of
writin' me a lotther OF any kind, an as there's
no proper rule laid down by which classical
scholars shoIld be governed in spellin' srnames,
y GU W forgive me II I'm innocent o misspellin'
your name. some spell your name as L eio-i s
Ca SIS but as all great men in in this coun'
thry have middle name, such as S. A. Doug
las and j. W Gray you also deserve one and
l y do you the honor OF t,kin' the "Cn from
your sirname and coin a middle initial out of
It, thereby pllcin' you in close relationship wild
Baiaam's saddle baste OF irhOm honorable men,
tIou made In a standard work entitled an
Abridged History OF Ashia." Already you
have made yoursei famous if not Infamous by
your lct,hers on Naturalization (whatever that
word mGaeS) written 10 your own peculiar
spread agile shtylc, but as you scared too high
!Jr ue.cOmpreAUusAlOn of the CONN on folk, l
humbiy soict that GU descend TO our common
and comprehensive level of spakin' and let us
know iu ordinary English whether Queen Vic
tori or my hOaesht wife Bridget OFlanigan
owns me
'Pon my soul your letther has done me dale
o. -opd, in one respect since it appeared Bird
get has done all Chores went for the wather,
tobacco aud whiski, for l towld er that iv
went out dures one O. her Msjesty's pructhors
or baitls would arrosht and brln' me back to
be atcl by the Boushens or Zouaves who are
already preparin' 10 have game O. quates in
! Windsor. AT turst she didn't believe me, for
she apt to be little stubborn, till showed
'er your lie Clerc letther and now that want
TO 90 home for three sthrappin' brothers o
mine who u make smashiu vothCrs, she wont
let me move peg till / write to you an be ir-
formed whether I'm as good as a nagcr. film
kilt Oh the road or what's worse, If I'm forced
into the English Army to be made sauseges of
by them LOuaves she swears she II visit Mis-
ther Boochanon, and the divil spill my ink if
she does but she 'll-shake his ovid briches
for i'm
For years you eighty Million party" has
been Jeiim' us that it was ii that saved this
blessed country from Revolution, Dissolution,
Gucumocuton and Starvation, an that if the
Wings or Republicans got control Of the gener-
al government, Society would be uprooted, the
earth cease to send forth fruit, the pillar of lib
erty be shaken from base TO battlemcnt that
the Mississippi river would be bTidged with the
broken backs Of the Germans and Irish for the
purpose OF slnuluuB nageFsi ana lldL 'DlasOn
and Dixons line" would be dotted with the
liy,rs OF iorcgners-put there to dhry for pow
ther with which 10 blow up the churchcsl Your
faithful sarvants here who how'd the kays of
the new posht office towld us all this, and
b'ieviu' 'em we were filled wild fear made the
sign o. the cross on our foreheads and voted
their ticket, for which they thanked us and
made us dhruuk wild compliments for 'savin'
the Union Now these same fellows are be-
ginin' TO visit our houses and shanties, pick up
the baby and tells young Mickey" that he looks
Ike his dad, an implsntn' a kiss on his chubby
cheek tells his mother to tell ovid Paddy that
he was there, an that he wants me to Clane my
papers as there's another Sulierno to be fought
here this fall. They have hired a lot of breef-
lees liars aud IN ovid lackey editor to make
us h'icve this, but some of us believe that
our papers are not right that you only gave
EN- to us for the purpose Of chatn' the honest
people out of their Eighty Millions year, we
wont 20 to the polls at all at ALL Known
well that you like tire irish-when you want
.eir votes-and that you are extremely
anxious TO "set yourself right before your
country on this important question, that
in bIief, you are desrous OF defining your po-
siton" | ask you EN- PATT-ICALLY whether YOU
can furnish me with passport, and whether
you h,ieyo an llishman is as good as a nager
RespCctfully VOur ubadient saryeut