The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-10-31

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fore, with some correction as TO The measur
la liberty that one may very well take wit
a poetic estray like this. The opening II
minds one of the knife-scene in Mabeth.
SOLhOQUY OF A LATELOCoFOCO-
l. NOW A WING.
is that a Poke bush which / see before me
In green and purple beauty, berry-laden?
To eye unpractised yet, how promise-fuu
The rich fruit, like warrier's ample plume,
Bending and waving 10 the zypher's breath
Seeming to sayin, an enticing language,
"Come eat me, simple one! oh, come ant
eat me!'
If, lH-advised ,he muncheth of The clusters,
Experience teacheth him, lalasi too late9
With many a wry face and much sputtering
How very little in Democracy,
The inside TO the out side of The fruit
Doth answer. Ever sweet in expectation
How little savors its reality!
IT'S not what it is cracked up for, that's Ger,
tain!
The Poke bush but TOO truly shadows forth
The Locofoco practice, rich in promise,
But miserably poor in the performance.
The mantling clusters, whit their purple CLEAN
Invite the way farer TO pluck and taste:
He, hapless swain! is all too inexpert,
Gas erst was II of pokeberry, and seizeth
With eager grasp on the imagined feast,
Remembering how erewhile be rioted
On homely black, or straw. or whortle berry,
At once a fist full in his mouth he Grams
Alb, luckless wight! Forthwith his throat is
turned
As to blunderbuss, from which is shot
A mish-mash of the skins and seeds ofPoke,
That scatters all around him and bestrew VS.
Tn en~sanguined earth. He meanwhile,
stands aghast,
Like iaadyertent monkey that has swallow
ed
TIL u~nlooked-for dainty of tobacco-quid,
That morsel which no beast but man endures,
Even thus forlorn and chop fallen stands the
dupe
OF P~oke-plant, All his ruefulIface assumes
An universal quicker; from his eyes
While FWofai 10 reIsis5 Ill MS s. b tssss55s,
Drops 10 his breast, and all his s~hudderino
mouth
Makes a strange effort to turn inside out!
Full late he learns the force of adage old,
That "what is pleasant 10 the sight may be
Full bitter in the belly" Oh that other
Which sayeth, in the words Of Solomon,
'Puddlngs are proved by eating ofthe same.'
Me, sad experience hath made acquaint
With what is Lccofoco principle;
To mystify, TO puzzle. and beset
Tn unwary people with zach doctrine wild
That hath nor head nor tail; 10 swear to
them
That all their humors are eternal truths,
They gods and every demagogue their proph-
Doctrines and batteries and principles
Are baited hooks with which they fish for
power.
Once blythe peoples love advanced to office,
And in the saddle seated, how they spur
Ger all on foot!
Like others, | once wore the Loco collar I,
Receiving promises and kicks alternate;
At first, twas promises, TO get me in.
Then followed showers of kicks TO keep me
there,
The leaders told me that twas patriotic
And most republican 10 bear it all;
That cutting was a Jeffersonian usage,
And that | should kick others in my turn.
| bore it, therefore, for my country good.
Meaning TO be reyenged on some ones
breech,
And with democratic meekness bore il;
Poke berry has unbewiiched me with IFS taste
change across the spirit of my dream
Hath came" The Hickory nut was hard
TO crack,
And almost broke my grinders; tho intruth
One got even then much cudgel and few
nuts.
But shall these hucksterers at Baltimore
Cram down my throat their execrable berries?
Avaunt, then Plok-dom! Hickory, young or
old,
I've had enough of you! Poke is hut poke,
And | eschew it! So, hnrrah for Clay!