The distinction between political parties described.

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Portland, June 9, 1830.

Uncle Joshua,—Did you ever see tu dogs get to
quarrelling about one bone? How they will snap and
snarl about it, especially if they are hungry. Sometimes
one will get it into his mouth and took it away
like smoke, and t'other arter him full chisel. And
when he overtakes him they'll have another scratch, and
drop the bone, and then t'other one 'll get it, and off he
goes like a shot. And sometimes they both get hold
together, one at one end and one at t'other, and then
sich a tugging and growlin you never see. Well now,
when they act so, they act just like the Portland Argus
and Portland Advertiser; two great big growlers, they
are all the time quarrelling about their Republikin, to
see which will have it. If the Advertiser says any
thing about his republikin, the Argus snaps at it, and
says 'tis n't your republikin, its mine. You no business
to be a republikin, you are a Federalist.

And when the Argus says any thing about his republikin,
the Advertiser flies up, and says, you no business
to be a republikin, you're a Jacksonite. And so they
have it up hill and down, bark, bark, and tug, tug, and
which 'll get the republikin at last I cant tell. Sometimes
they get so mad, seems as though they'll tear each
other all to pieces, and there's forty thousand folks setting
of 'em on and hollering stooboy. Now there was
n't any need of all this quarrel, for each of 'em had a
republikin last winter; the Argus had a democratic one,
and the Advertiser had a national one, and they got
'em mixed by leaving off the chrissen names. And I
guess it would puzzle a Philadelphy lawyer to tell 'em
apart without their names, for their republikins are as
much alike as tu peas in a pod.

The Advertiser never should say republikin alone,
but national republikin, and the Argus never should

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say republikin alone, but democratic republican. And
then it seems as though each one might know his own
bone, and knaw it without quarrelling.

I thought, uncle, I'd jest tell you a little about this
ere business, because I know you always want to find
out all the kinks about politiks.