Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-11-11
From the liartf i.Rcpublican, {
DORSOsNE.
DEDICATED TO 4. ruLuNSrion, ESQ.

They have ears hear, they have tongues to talk;
They have eyes to see, they have feet to walk;
And, from certain facts that Occult each day,
| think may venture to say
They have somehow the will, and have learned the
way
of human propagation;
so take ii for granted beyond all doubt,
That this curious race will not run out
With the present generation.
The thing that is queer about this folk,
(You may think that d. but do not jokc,)
They act rs if all their backs were broke,
Aud to stand up straight, like sturdy oak
We're beyond their cnpability.
They can crawl in the dirt on their hands and
knees,
They can lick the dust with marvellous case,
When their lords take snuff ,hSy ART ready to
snceze,
And from zero will slump thro their thirty degrees
With wonderful felicity:
When their masters cry Down"
With a scowl and frown,
Tiny would not dare to hint that their souls are
their own:
When their masters cry "Upw
They will start like pup,
Or the " Dothcboys" staryelings when "Squeers"
filled the cup;
And if anything mean is required to be done,
'Tis amazing to see how this gentry will run,
As if serving the devil was capital fun,
Aud their highest attainment serylity.
In the pulpi you will find theme singular place.
Perhaps you will say,for SO plant race,
But the fact is, mstaking proltroony for grace,
They regard themselves "called" and elected"
AS "watc,men of Zion" whose care is to keep
All wolves (but themselvcs) from the fold and the
sheep.
And to watch and to preH (whe their dupcs are
And :" between porch and altar" to howl and to
weep,
With a zeal and a sorrow affected
'Gainst sin sin the abstract they thunder like
Paul,
But for sin in the concrete care nothing at all
For crimes long forgotten,
And scoundres long rotteni
Their lash theologc has snapper and knot on;
For the rest-thcy arc nice in the choice of their
evils
The big ones rejecting
The small ones ciecting-
Though both might be large to another's inspect
ing,)
And the god they adore is" the least of twSedc7-
lis"
Into stations once filed by the good and the wise,
BY arts domagogic they manage to rise
On a ladder whose rundes are liquor and lies,
And convert our Congressional halls into stycs
Made foul with themselves and their stenches 4;
The simple may think while they list to their
That they Glove the dear people" and cherish the
satc:"
All truo-r you strike out the nouns from the
line,
And substitute for them "loose women and wine, -
Or cocktails, and gambling and wenches."
Eight dollars per day
Is Indifferent pay
For the manifold labors that come in their way,
Such for instance as dodgng 'yea" may
BY lodging their heads under benches
Making speeches "lor Buncombe," excessively
\ flat;
That baile all Suessos at what they arc at
Or roicking Aome with brick in their hat
As tipsy and jollyas Bacchus;
Or, worse, eating dirt, as their masters may bid,
Playing jackall or spaniel, as Ing-rs-ll did,
Or like T-c-y, enacting the jackass
Sometimes you will find them in the chair
OF a Curcuit Judge City Mayor
And then, good Lord how the people stare,
To see what the DorSosne will dare
With the sanction of legality
How keen their vision to find flaw
In the charter of rights-in Gods own law
How prompt to give to the spoilers maw
The helpless wretch who is branded 'slave,"
BY Southern nabobs purchased knave,
Who would steal the shroud from his mothers
grave,
| And bocst Of his rascality;
( It's not that they Tore the dirty job,
| Or think it an abstract right" to rob,
/ Or safe with the devil to play hob-nob,
If they look to their o,ca "inality;"
Oh, no-but the bones of their backs and knees
Grow timber by STOPPING and weak by degrees,
Now bend as an ozier would bend to the breeze
THE breeze that bends then, has an odor.of cot
4 tony
&nd they can't stand erect without stamen or pith
TTlc1icet lI--tt, and L-I-ng and Smith,
And C-rt-ss, and C-sh-ng, and more Of their kith
Some dead-perhaps damned-and the ch0t
i Of them rotten.
'ris numerous race, am sorry to say
OF which have read you a rhyme to-day,
And most if not ALL are in Beelzebub's pay
And himself and his imps they are prompt to obey
} Though the wages be not to their notion.
Some, members of Congress-somc, judges-an'
Somc
Are peders Of cambrc--and others, of rum