Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-05-01
VT: MAY /, 1862.

For when you we done all yourrcal meann to smoth-
The darned things III up an mean sumthin' mother
jeff son probly meant wal with his "born free an
But IT IS turned out real crooked stick in the sekle;
1t g taken full eghty-odd year-don't you see p
From the poplar belief to root out thet idee,
An, arter all, sprouts on t keep on buddn' forth
In the natlly onprnciped mind O. the North.
No, never say nothin' without you re compelled tu
An then don't say nothn' thet YOU can be held tu,
Nor don't leave no fricon-idees layin loose
For the gn'ant to put to incendnry use.
You know IN feer that keeps a skinned eye
On the leetle events that 60 skuwyn' by,
Coz it IS ofncr by them than by gret ones you II
Wut the p'ltickle weather is likely to be.
Now don't think the South : more m begun to be
licked,
But | da think, eZ jeff says, the wind-bag s gut
prckcd;
1t II blow for spell an keep pufin' an wheezin',
The tighter our army an navy keep squeezin,-
For they can't help spread-eaglen' long y ther' S
mouth
To blow Enfeld's Speaker thru lef at the South
But it's high time for us TO be sctin our faces
Towards reconstructn' the national basis,
With an eye to begnnin' agin on the jolly ticks
We used to chalk up hind the bock-toor O. politics
An the fus' thing to save wu of Slavry her s ef
Arter this q mus call it) imprudence % jeff;
For real good Abuse, with its roots fur an wide,
Is the kin o. thing / like to hev my side;
Scriptur' name makes it ez sweet ez rose,
An it s tougher the older an ugler it grows
Il aint speakin' now o. the righteousness Of it,
But the pitckle purchase il gives an the proit).
Things looks pooty squnlly it must be allowed,
An don't see much signs Of II bow in the cloud:
Their s too many Observation-Disclosures, wut IS wuss-
Thet 60 for the Union thout carn n
Ef it helps any party thet ever wuz heard on,
So our eagle amt made a split Austrian bird on.
But ther S still conservative signs to be found
Thct shows the gret heart O the People is sound
[Excuse me for u~in' stump p-phrese agin,
But, the I, thew H1W stick like sin y
There s Phillips for instance, hez cs' kctched Tar
In the Law-an- Order Party Of Ole Cincinnaer;
An the Compromise System amt gone out o reach
Long y You keep the right limits Oh freedom speech;
II warnt none too late, neither, to put on the gag,
For he 5 dangerous now he goes in for the flag:
Nut thet altogether approve o bad eggs,
They re mos gn'lly argvmunt On its las legs
An their logic is ept to be tn ind scriminate,
Nor don't ollus wait the right Objacs to 'liminae
But there is II variety on em, you III find,
Jest ez useiie an more, besides ben retned,-
mean o the sort thet are laid by the dictionary
Sec sophsns an cant thet III kerry conviction ary
Way thet you want to the right class o men,
An are staer than all ever come from hen:
"Disunion' done wal till our resh Southun friends
Took the SAVIOR all out on t for nat onal ends;
But guess abolition" ii work spell yit,
When the war done an so will "porgive n'forgt."
Time mus be poOy thoroughly ou- o all Jint,
IF we can't make n good constitooiional pint;
An the good time 1T come to be grhdin' our exes,
When the goes to seed in the mttle o texes:
Eflonhan don't squrm with sech helps to assist him,
give up my faith in the lree-sutrrge system;
Democcy wun't be nut Il mite inteestn,
Nor ptikc capital much wuth invastin';
An my notion is, to keep dark an hy low
Till the right minute 20 put m our blow
But I've talked longer now N he'd any idee,
An ther 5 Others YOU want to hearmore N du me;
So I'll set down an give tibet ERE bottle skrimmage
For We spoke till IN dry ez a real craven image.