So you needn’t, Mike”—that’s Michael—
“Set me down for a Know-Nothing;
Needn’t reckon me a Hindoo;
Needn’t doubt that what I tell you
Is as true as if a lawyer
Should have told it to a jury;
Or as if a man in Congress
Or in caucus said and swore it
On his everlasting honor,
On his faith and on his conscience;