Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-06-14

Fellow citizens and bummers- -Rerub-
licsns, Democrats, Douglasites, Lincoln
ties, Breckinridgeites, Lazurusites, Belize
bubites and Blatherskites I now appear
before you this evening to offer myself as
candidate for the next Presidency
Hows that? Cheers and cries Of shat
gay" "big ,hing."]
Fellow citizens, if you make me your
President | will astonish the world with
wonder. Canada shall be ours. will
annex Cuba, appropriate Mexico, New
Jersey and the balance of crea,ion.-
LCheers. Fellow citizens. if you make
me your President, all countrymeu, all
nations shall be welcome to this our happy
land. Yankee peddling shall be made
legitimate business by specia! act of Con-
gress. [Applause. Irshmen, for your
sakes | will do away with punishment for
assault and battery, and what's more,
will abolish the potatoe rot. "Hooroar !"
"Begorra you're the mon.' Cheers. And
for you, the Germans, rivers of lager shall
tow through the land, the praires shall
be set apart for the cultivation of sour
krout And your happy songs rise to the
skies, mingling with the fumes of your
meerschaum pipes, until you, in the excess
ofyour delight, shall be led to exclaim-
Zen glass lager, Switzer kase NIT pretz-
els all the vile Cries, AHA Mein
Gott! Dat is goot! = and applause.
Friends. Rum. uns Country men, and
City zens, don't care whether you was
brought up on pudding and milk or bolona
sausagcs it don't make the ference of
a shake Of frogs tall but, sir, the pro.
positions which advance here are such
which nobody Can deny No, cir. ["That's
So" That's what's the matter' No
sir. not by no means. A cry, "You,c
right, smggy McGlural." Who is that
calls me Smiggy McGlural? lie: him
stand up so that l can look him in the
face. Does he deny my assertion?
hope not wouldn't trust such e. man
so far as | could throw three.year old
bull by the tail. Great cheering. But
to return 10 my subject.
Ny hearers this is great country-it
is wide, vast, and, in the south west, uni.
mited. What is Europe when compared
wita it? Europe is no where--a circum-
stanee-a mere obsolete idea! In this
country We have got faster steam boats,
louder thunder, forheder lightning, higher
mountains, greater lakes, taller shanghies,
steepeder ca.eracts, bigger babies, prettier
girls, more money and better fighting men
than England dare have. or any other
man! Great enthusiasm, cheers, waving
of hats, barrin' Old Ireland. l was des-
cended from her myself, and won, for.
get you, lrishmen, when talk of fighting
There is no country in the world like
Ireland when you come to fighting. How
are you Bull Run? Well, we'll have Col
Corcoran back soon then won't we have
II jolly old time :? Yes, Ire!and's the coun.
try for
Hills, mills and stills,
Cows, mows and rows,
Cottages and cabbages,
Whiskey galore,
And fun evermore,
For dsncin' and prancIn'
A shillaleh to fight with,
Ora lad TO night with,
Where they never say die,
Nor put up with lie,
But would whollop the devil
II he wouldn't be civil.
From the North to the South,
From the Ess. to the West,
From the Kilkenny
TO the big hill of Howth,
Franl the outside to the straits Of the Dover
Al lrlshnan' $ an lrishman all the world over.
Now, three cheers for me. Hip, hip,