Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-08-21

they may be, even with fiction, without giving
the world so to understand. Be il known,
then, 10 all whom it may concern, that the fol-
lowing is mere GctiOn-intendcd for nobody IN
the world but such as are conscious that thew
are hit
THE DYING V.4N.ITES.
An ACT OF suNpRY PARTIES on, AN AFFECT.
ING ACCOUNT OF BRAT OF SEVEN FATHERS.
ScENR-'a peiitoggsr's ofee--time, midnight
-Sundry Globes scattered orer the premises
emtfing gha'tiy light, making night hsdious.
Lamentations solus-H Hung be tho heavens with baeh.
yield day TO night
Comets, importing change of times and states,
Brandsh your chrystal tresses in the sky;
And with them scourge the bad revolving stars,
THAT
Hang old Shak! The times are sadly ont %
Joint old Hickory scotchcd one big bank and
doubled three hundred and odd little ones;
they've overloaded on government pap, smash
ed, and the very rs TO pay: money scarce
wool a drug-hour to buy--and the farmers
| grumblins. I've tried 10 stuff 'eTn with the no.
ton that it is all owing 10 ovor:radng-fdde-
de. dec | laid it all to the Ia caly banks-and
anon orders came from head quarters 10 disa-
VOW the anti-bank humbug! / charge il oil 10.
the Wings, but nobody is 20 big fool as Ia
believe that they would cut their own throa,s
Tor nothing! Wo is mine!
What mortal dare
Or false or fair
TO help The sinking cause, have done went
the whole pig for locofocoism-but B., and
c., and s., and the better half of the party
threatened 10 rebel wheeled round and de-
nounced the hard-moncy humbug--but the 10.
co fooos dstrusted me- am just getting back
to concilate them-and out comes the Globo
for Treasury Monster! Wo, wo is mine!
o, that the democracy were asses, that wa
might ride them o, that the people were fools,
that we might put them in leading strings J.
But coming events cast their shadows before:'
we have los, at almost every election einco the
experiment exploded: an NJ. C. gone in Penn
sylvana-anolher in Maine-M lryland saved
from overwhelming destruction only by alien
voies-Rhode Island trcmbling-Noith Caro-.
lima, Kentucky, Indiana and old Tennessee all
agains, us-and nothing saves even Mississip-
p but Vans pledge 10 veto the abolitonists
and 90 for slavery! Wo wo is mine The
people have their eyes open, in spite of all that
our presses have done TO bind them; they see,
and think, and Judge for thcmselves-here is
our bane! We can't carry the satc-thnps
fat: Flinrs conversion was too sudden, and
= the antics are too honest. Wo, wo is mine
}. We carr-----(three distinct knocks, rorthy q
Grand Secreiny-enter Interjeetion and .Naity
e .May) What news7
- Interiection-Bad, very! We've just seer
Flint, down at the Pavilion the state must e
to the deuce! and lob, oh, oh-shan't be-
oh, oh, oh-clerk--this year!
.Maity- May-Nor l engrossing clerk M
Id ticcship! Alas that so great ambition shoul'
oil bring up at so shora gaol
20 Lamemtations--Just as expected, by -
But where's Greedy7
~ Jnterjec.ion-Started hours since. Ifaif
8. he so puffeth at the mouth, he hath becom
short o. wind in the legs.
r. Lamentation, -And--here they come-(en
%. ter Greedy BobO'hncOln and DyedinthewOOl)-
d.. How stands the county, Greedy
e: Greedy-Goin, fast, I'm thinkin. The fa'
W is our ticket is dead eight, and james an
p living are hard fellers to hoe arow with. TIL
10 hardfisted farmers know 'em too well to
b. bamboozled by any thing We can rake up
u ginst them. Pm afraid we can't pay off -
i'e with the states uttorneyship this year-an
bv then may stop hopin to so TO Kongris, eve
VS. five don't lose the decsrict.
al, Dyedinthepool-And the town
IL Lamentations-B me no more reports !
', Now is the winter Of our discomfort
IL Made ten times hercer by TINS son Of York
co We're dished-dead That's the upshot
NE the whole matter
an Greedy-Keep cool-kecp cool; guess "
We can do somelnin yet.
nj Lanentations-Wha now What doth 20,
" ploddng brain suggest-what weighty ma
n ter what crafty scheme-what cunning fab
Isl - what magic charm our chilling fears 10 lul
ri or pluck out our sinking cause by the locks
IT. Unburlhen, Greed y--not thy corporaton--b
thy head. Let's see the straw which sinkir
men can catch or simple men--ths silly fool
a pleas ed with rattle E ticklcd with straw
Is: may be pleased wilhul.
n Grtcdy-Why, you know the enemy had
70 little sparrin the other night True IFS
70 settled now but let's make the most Of it
Interjeciion-Yes, yes-after the plan
- General Morgan
Greedy-Then there's the abolition and Ii
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