Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-01-05
From tie N, Y. Sunday Mercury.
THE EAGLES LAST SCREAM.

THE EAGLES LAST SCREAM.
A gentleman who is in no way related tc
the versifer of the "fne Old English Gentleman, ,
has submitted to our inspection the following gem
OF poese. Our excited friend, the Charleston Ney.
curry, must take it mildly and make oil due allow.
anco for the poets extreme youth and fightful in.
experience, or course, it is only fancy picture:
TIE SOUTH CAROLINA GENTLEMAN.
Down in the small Palmetto State the curious ones
may find
ripping, tearing gentleman, of en- uncommon
kinds
A staggering, staggering sort of chap who takes
his whisky straight,
And frequently condemns his eyes to that ultimate
vengeance which clergyman of high stand
ing has assured us must be the sinners fate:
South Carolina gentleman,
One Of the present time.
You trace his genealogy, and not far back you'll
see
a most undoubted octoroon, or mayhap mustee
And if you note the shaggy locks that cluster on
his brow,
You'll find that every other hair is varied with
kink' that seldom denotes pure Caucasian
blood; but on the contrary, betrays ar admix-
ture with race not particularly popular now;
This South Carolina gentleman,
One of the present time.
lie always wears q full dress coat-pre Admite in
cut
With waistcoat of the loudest STYLE through which
his ruffles jut.
Six breastpins deck his bosom front; and ON his
fingers shine
Whole invoices of diamond rings, which would
hardly pass muster with the Original Jacobs
In Chatham street for jewels genuine
The South Carolina gentleman,
One of the present time
lie chews tobacco by the pound, and spits upon
the floor,
Ii 'here is not box of sand behind the nearest
And when he takes his weekly spree, he clears
mighty track
OF every thing that bears the shape of whiskyskiu
gin-and-sugar, brandy-sour, peach-and-honey
irrcpressiblO cocktail, rum-and- gum, and lus-
cous apple jack
This South Carolina gentleman,
One of the present time.
lie looks on grammar as q thing beneath the no.
tice quite
Of any Southern gentleman whose grandfather
was whites
And as for educatOn-Why. he'll plainly set it
FORTH
That such damned nonsense never troubles the
Of oil - n
ciently degrading to merit the personal atten:
ton of the poor wretches unfortunate enough
to make their living at the North
This South Carolina gentleman,
One of the present time.
He lioks his niggers daily, like true American,
And takes the devil out of them" by this sagac-
ious plan:
lie tries his bowieknives upon the fatteet he can
find;
And if the darky winces,--he is Immediately ar
rested at the instance of the First Families In
the neighborhood, on a charge of conversng
with fendish aboltionist, and conspiring to
poison all the wells in the State with stryoh-
nine, and arm the slaves of the adjoining
plantations with knives and pistols; for all of
which he is very properly sentenced to five
hundred iashes-after which, to prison he's
consigned(by)
This South Carolina gentleman,
One of the present time.
f for amusement he's inclined, he coolly looks
about
FOR the person of Methodist, or some poor ped
Ter lout;
And having found him, has him hung from some
majestic tree
Then calls his numerous family to enjoy with him
the instructive and entertaining spectacle of a
suspected abolitionist" receiving his Just re-
ward at the hands of an inceused com-mu-
nifty
This South Carolina gentleman, a
One of the present time. t
Ie takes to euchre kindly, tOo,and plays an awful
hand,
specially when those be tricks HE style don't un-
derstand;
md if he wins, why then he stoops to pocket oil s
the stakes
ut if he loses, then be says unto the unfortunate
stranger, who has CHANGED to win: " It's nv v
opinion that you are cursed aboltionis:; "
and if you don't leave South Carolina in one A
hour, you will be hung like dog" But no Il
offer to pay his loss he makes, t.
This South Carolina gentleman, o.
One Of the present time. c.
course, he's all the time 10 debt to those who b.
credit give
ct manages upon the best the market yields to o,
live;
ut ifa Northern creditor asks him his bill to re
heed,