So every feller in bounden duty, talks, and talks big too, and the smaller the State, the louder, bigger, and fiercer its members talk.
"Well, when a critter talks for talk sake, jist to have a speech in the paper to send to home, and not for any other airthly puppus but electioneering, our folks call it _Bunkum_.

Now the State o' Maine is a great place for _Bunkum_--its members for years threatened to run foul of England, with all steam on, and sink her, about the boundary line, voted a million of dollars, payable in pine logs and spruce boards, up to Bangor mills--and called out a hundred thousand militia, (only they never come,) to captur' a saw mill to New Brunswick--that's _Bunkum_.
All that flourish about Right o' Sarch was _Bunkum_--all that brag about hangin' your Canada sheriff was _Bunkum_.

All the speeches about the Caroline, and Creole, and Right of Sarch, was _Bunkum_, In short, almost all that's said _in Congress_ in _the colonies_, (for we set the fashions to them, as Paris galls do to our milliners,) and all over America is _Bunkum_.
"Well, they talk Bunkum here too, as well as there.

Slavery speeches are all Bunkum; so are reform speeches, too.

Do you think them fellers that keep up such an everlastin' gab about representation, care one cent about the extension of franchise?
Why no, not they; it's only to secure their seats to gull their constituents, to get a name.