American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-01-03
CARRIERS
ANNUAL n1EssACu,
TO THE PATRONS OF
PUB AW1HlRAM DWlDNo
JANUARY 1, 1857.

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His projects, long and deeply laid,
To gather up the dimes
Thro summers heat & winters frost.
Each week your Union | have tossed
In at your door SO handy
I'm always up to time, you know,
The latest news to all to show;
While round the town i gaily 90.
To Yankee-doodle- dandy
'Thc times are hard! 1 fear'd you'dsay
In answer to my plea to-day
But pray none of that parlcy!
| don't want any man, to-day,
To talk in that ere kind of way,
For certain, when "the d-rsto pay,"
You oughtn't for to barley"
Since last your Carrier sung his song,
a war of factions, loud and long,
Has hard assailed the 'spoils'--
In Presidential fight engaged,
Each party hard the battle waged,
And Politicians foamed and ragged,
LII prccOncefteu tolls.
The Squattcr- Sovereign Democrats,
In high-heeled boots and black cravats,
Put on their longest face;
They raised the cry of Union danger
That card was trump, though nought
ere stranger,
For they brought on the very danger
Then used to win the race
With Buck & Brock they drove a team
Of tricky steeds, that we'll wo'd seem,
TO favor any notion
Old Buck could pass for Freesoiler.
Up North, & that wo d burst the boiler
Of Black Repubs. while Brock. could
rally
The Southern host, tho Picrce-ing ally,
Thus each extreme could practically
Keep up the anion motion!
A union? pooh Of oil and water,
VOL see when boils the cauldron hotter
As sureit will 'bime-by'--
Rank discomfort is sure to hatch
Too many rents there are to patch
They can't make soap with such batch
And use the strongest lie!
Well, "every dog must have his day, :"
Let Buck u Breck their sccptre sway,
And save our glorious Union!
If sayed it can be by such doctors,
BY schemes of Demagogue concoctors.
By paltry schemes, and gasconadc,
AS varied as chameleon shade,
To please the eye, and WOO the ear,
OF divers factions, far ana near---
From Abolition to Disunion!
The Union saved andpeace restored?
Who says it, with an eye toward
Our National condition?
The Slavery question settled, CHI?
BY whom? Not on election day
Was such great achievement wrought.
The battle in November fought
Was only rendition
Ofvcrdict wrung by games of fraud,
Winch none but Demagogues applaud.
And, mark me well, the time is near,
When this will much more plain appear
In the great spoils vendition,
About the 18th of March, next Spring,
When Matty Van and Wise will sing,
Their deeds in corious measure
How they proclaimed Democracy
In North or South to orth dox be -
Eecsot2, free speech, & Buck & Brock,
Where that is popular Yankee thunder;
Pro Slavery where the ebon black
Packs Demagogucs to public plumber |!
Therc'll be a mighty muss, I guess,
About the Federal city,
When yictors meet there to possess
The spoils its in my ditty,
All written down, prophetic, too,
Although be no prophet
The outs II curse Old Buck all blue,
And wish him off to tophetl
The Black Repubs., that willy clan,
Determined and well drilled,
We find in Congress hand in hand,
Their ardor never chilled.
They'll snare and trap to catch Buck,
And tangle legislation,
Abide the times and wait their luck,
For Presidential station.
Unless Buchanan, wise and good,
Shall prove, above his fame,
And 50 dispense the affairs of State,
10 hush all sectional blame,
Well still have agitation rank,
And party rancour risky,
And Platforms built of blach- oak plank
For eighteen hundred sixty.
Heaven grant US safe dcliverance
From sectional connection,
And all the blessings, great, of peace,
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