Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1862-05-01
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A Bold Stroke for the Presidency.
smiggy McGlural's Great Speech.
Phenographically Reported. s..'7

/ "oHoyT"phtcotty NepOTte0.
Fellow citizens and bummers-Re-
publicans, Democrats, Douglasites, lin
colnites, Breckonridgites, Lazarusites,
Belzebubites and Blatheriskites! I now
appear before you this evening, to offer
myself as q candidate for the next Pre-
sidency. How's that I? (Cheers and
cries of that's gay, big thing sr
Fellow citizens, if you make me your
President will astonish the world with
wonder. Canada shall be ours. I will
annex Cuba, appropriate Mexico, New
Jersey and the balance of creation. -
| (Cheers.)
Fellow citizens, if you make me your
President, all countrymen, all nations
shall be welcome to this our happy land.
Yankee peddling shall be made legiti-
mate business By special act of Con-
| gress. (Applause.) Irishmen, for your
sakes will do away with the punish
ment for assault and battery, and what's
more, I will abolish the potato rot
('Hooraar + BE gorra, you're the mon,
Cheers.) And for you, the Germans,
rivers of lager beer shall fow through
the land, the prairies shall be set a.
part for the special cultivation of ma
terial for sour krout. And your happy
songs shall rise to the skies, mingliug
with the fumes Of your meerschaum
pipes, until you, in the excess Of your
delight, shall be led to exclaim, Elm
glass lager, Switzer kase, NIT pretzels
all the vile.' (Cries, Aha Mein Gott.
Dat ish goot' and applause.)
Friends, Rum-uns, Country-men and
City-zens, I don't care whether you was
brought up on pudding and milk or bo-
logna sausages it don't make the diff
ference of shake of frogs tail; but,
sir, tue propositions which I advance
here are such which nobody can deny.
No, sir. (Cries., That's so.' That's
what's the matter.') No sir, not BY no
means. CA cry, You're right. Smiggy
McGlural.O Who is that calls me
Smiggy McGlural? Let him stand up
so that / can look him in the face. Does
he deny my assertion =? hope not.
wouldn't trust such man so far as
could throw a thrce-year old bull BY the
tail. (Great cheering.) But to return
to my snbjeot. -a g -
My hearers this is great country
it is wide, vast. and. in the southwest,
unlimited. What is Europe when com.
pared With itf Europe is nowhere-a
circumstance mere obsolete idea i
In this countrywe have got faster steam
boats, louder thunder, forkeder light
ming, higher mountains. greater lakes,
taller shanghies, steepcder cateracts, big
ger babies, prettier girls. more money
and better fighting men than England
DARE have ! or any other mani (Great
enthusiasm, cheers waving of hats,)
barrin old Ireland. I was descended
from her myself and 1 won't forget you,
1rishmen, when I talk of fghting.-
There's no country in the world like Ire
land, when you come to fighting. How
are you Bull Run ? Well, we'll have
Corcoran back soon then won't we
have jolly old time = Yes. Ircland's
the place-thats the country for
Hills. mills and stills,
Cows, mows and rows,
Cottages and cabbages,
Whiskey galore,
And fun evermore,
For dancin' and prancin', @
A shillaleh to fight with,
Or lad to night with,
Where they never say die,
Nor up with lie,
But would wollop the divil
If he wouldn't be civil.
From the North to the South.
From the East to the West,
From the lard Of Kilkenny
To the biz hill OF Howth,
From the ocean outside TO the Straits of IN.
Dover, ssaf s--
An 1rishman's an Irishman oil the world
over
Now, three cheers for mei Hip,