Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-09-25
From the Cleveland Herald.
Dennis O'Flaherty.
HIS VIEWS OF POLITICAL MATTERs-THE
FINANCIAL QUEsTIoN-THE DIMMY-
KRATIC PARTY-THE NAYGUR-sAY-
MORE, &C., &c.

WHICH Cainc lHlo our MINUS lIsteau
going into the mail bags en- route fo
Kildowery, which, we learn from tn
Gazetteer, is parish about twenty-fv
miles from Cork, and in the county Q
that name. The seal was broken befor
reaching us, and it took the combine,
ingenuity Of the whole corps of editors
the foreman, and three of the compost
tors having the largest experience in sci
ting blind copy" to decipher the lette
and its superscription. Not feeling cer
tain as to the intention of the writer o
his messenger in letting the epistle stra,
into our hands, we have taken the liber
ty of putting it into type, feeling tina
our labors in deciphering the hiero
glyphics of Mr.. O'Flaherty have givel
us some rights as discoverer. At tn,
same time, that no harm may be don
by this course, we shall send printed
copy to Mr.. McGinness, in Kildowery
who will, we venture to hope, find great
er satisfaction in reading his cousins let
ter in good type than in the original hel
tracks.-Eds. Herald
TO Mr.. Teddy MeGinness, Eshquier Kildo,cery, Coum
~ Cork Ireland from his cousin, Dennis OFfoherti
DEAR TEDDY
Me pin in me hand am takin'
To write yez this bit of a schrawl
An hopin' in health it will find yez,
As, plaze God, its lawn us all
And Ted, I'll be afther inquirin'
How yez doin' this bright summer day2
How are the pigs. and the childer',
Feddy me by?
It's meself wud be happy to see yez
Put yer goodlooking phiz thru the dure;
Its meself that wud throt out the, whishky
:, Til yez shlapte like king on the ilure.
I'd give yez me bed but for Judy.
Whose faylins I'm afraid it would hurt,
But we'd empthy the bottle together,
An together we'd shape in the dirt.
Teddy me by.
Shnre. Ted. its an Elegant country;
There is praties and whisky galore,
An mighty good pig for the atm.
An money to buy il, ashore.
An, for clothes. bedad I've brooches
Wild niver a patch or n hole
An %aai feather spa y black sEes Wla as ooa s'
Teddy me by.
An, election times, Teddy, me darlintl
'Twud make yer eyes shtick out fut
To see how the greenbacks are fyin
: An how quick in our pockets they're put.
Shure what is the use of ballot
1t to sell it yez always refuseG
The way is to pocket the money.
An then vote just as yez choose,
Teddy me by.
An, that brings me round to me shtory
"a, That I'm scratchin' this letter to say;
Election times comm an Teddy,
Its wanted yez are right away;
For Dimmycrats are not so plenty
But we want all the b'ys over, shure.
To schwing the shillaly, dhrink whisky.
An shove In the votes for Saymore.
Teddy me by.
Niver mind about risidence Teddy.
shure yer residence is under your hat;
Divil one have yez got in kildowery:
Lave to me all such matthers as that
Has frind in New York who will shwear
That yez worked by his side and dug cellars
In Amerriky many year.
Teddy me by.
He'll fix up yer papers so nately
That yen think yez Amerrykin born
In a good shute of clothes yen be sthruttin'.
Instead of yer brayches all torn.
When up to the polls ye marchin'.
Shure the naygurs will all hold their whisht
If some baygard axes impident questions,
just tip him shmell of yer fsht,
Teddy my by.
Och Teddy, now don't yez be shtaying;
Hang your furnity on to your shtick
An shtep out for Cork and take passage
For Amerriky sudden and quick.
For the country will go to the divil
Under naygur and radikle schway
Unless saved by the votes an shillelays
Ov the b'ys irish from over the say,
Teddy me by.
They're atm us up wild their taxes.
An shtamps, an the diyil knows what,
CThough, barrin the dhuty on whishky,
Niver tax out of me have they got.)
They've given us green rags for money,
rs a fsht tul w
An, we're shtarving on beef and corn whishky
Which is mighty good shtarving. bedad,
Teddy me by.
But that's not the worst of it. Teddy,
The naygur's citizen now,
Can vote like Dimmy krat white man,
An shtick up for his rights in a row.
So peryarted is public opinion
Tisn't safe to crack open his shkull
An the hair on a Dimmykrat Uranium
Is no better than Afrikin wool,
Teddy me by.
In the mornin' when LAYING tho shanty
Judy schrames out Dinnis, don't go!
Some murtherin' thafe of naygur
Will be KILN me, Dinnis, know.
An then comm down to the shanty
An marryin me right out of hand ~
That a naygur should marry me. Judy.
Is more. bedad, than I'll shtand
Teddy me by.
But we'll soon give the scoundrels drubbin',
Nallandigham s now to the fore.
Thad Stevens has gone to blue blazcs.
An bedad we've frind in Saymorc.
So pack up yer duds in a hurry,
Not forgettin to spit in your isht
An lay houd on your blackthorn shillelay.
An we'll soon give the naygurs a twisht,
Teddy me by.
Your Cousin, DISsIs o'FLAHERT