Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-05-15

BY CHRISTOPHER PUMPKINS.

.tf bf ChhlST0PHER PUMPKINS. d. 81
Base blackguard full Of infamous abuse
TO all that's tair and good beneath the tkies, "
VINO would the rebels send . flag OF truce, f&
Or hiss them onward while our army fiesl
Say, C0t. flunky, now what 10 the use p"
To NIL your paper with such monstrous lies,
which even would Satan shock, were he not greats
In msanness than two-faced, foul mouthed traitor
You reof nsanness the hypsrbelsr 1Uo.'i7 s.
OF double dealing the sublime quiutessence!
All claims to virtue far before you fee;
All Who have sense Of honor shun your presence.
Ahsgrant breach of decency 'twouldbe " ty9u ID
To name the animal whose odorous sstence
Compared to your strange compound would, think
Mako, when intensely stswsd. . tsr lsss stink l
: Yos claim to love your country Mighty GodI
From the far verge Of the unbounded earth
To the nall circle Of movelsss clod, aIliTT1@.
Lives there . man who ever from his birth s d.,
Gould name SO foul lie?-ths beck or nod ,,-
Cf your ignobe head is hardly worth " 30 =
crooked three-psnce, when such d--d hypocrisri
You would palm of upon q sound Democracy
What love your country, and yet strike blow
That e.. would tend to dig your conntry's grave
Strike at the nations heart and overthrow, ,
= The very power that would your country save
Down with such loyalty deet, deep below n
The slimy bubbles Of the 3tykian wavei tr.,r ,ai
To that Internal cline where, without bias,
You'll shortly meet your knsman, Annauiasi ID.
Who're did you learn such infamy to practice . 81
here did you ell your nauseous doctrine get2
You csnSot speak the TRUTH The sun ne'er set
beyond more base liar Every act Is ,aU 49,
or your own editorial cabinet, ...-. .'is
Ine lowest, meanest, most dislOyal sputter -'--
That human imps are competent to utter! a..i llya
Say you that Douglas taught Won ?-arrant knaye
vils slanderer Of his great honest heart, -
Which, monldsring, lies within IN honored grave,
O al dart
Yet, from high Heavens peerless architrave,
Looks he not down upon such devilish arta -'f
Mourns In sad silence o or bis country's fate %
And scorns the incubus that wins our hate ~
Low "whffet ~ show your teeth and growl and bark
W. nonest ADram % you would the moon, Yuan
Which still smiles down upon you cold and stark,
In all her silver majesty of June;
Sails onward through tho sky q glorious bA rque,
Freighted with light. to all mankind boon, H..
ana tafes no heed OF your internal clstter, .
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Go down to Richmond, vile, unmaoly wretch!
You have no business here with honest men!
20 where your friends await, aud eager stretch
Their arms to greet you to their shiny den,
Black with the spoils of warl Go there and rstch
Your gangrsne stomach till it heaves again!
Spew not its contents on our Northern ground
Twould stencil the atmosphere for leagues around |!
You'll need no pass to take you DER the line, y
Cur loyal soldiers know you by repute;
Should not to pass you any one incline n-t
And seen disposed your story to refute, .-.-l-i
Just say Ned Flunky," for q countersign,
And he will help you forward with his boot,
And say, " Begone you hideous, nauseous skunk,
Your very breath would make Q demon drunk -
Think you to harm when you get there Ned,
BY giving information to our foe?
Think you that JEFF will pat you on tho head
And make you q pet puppy or a show
Think you tn It they'll believe what you have said
In your attempts to tell about us ?-Ne
But knowing we'll your skill in days of yore
They'll Set you fishing on the Shsnandoah.*
vale too lovely far for such knave,
Fringed with its mountains Of cerulean hue;
stream too pure in every pearly wave
For such a wretch to draw his tackle through
soil too sacred for a traitors grave; .a,
Yet there we'll leave you with the rebol crew,
Robbing for eels ard catfish for their table,
And packing to them all that you are able
1t may not be generally known that Ned once held
70 important position of commander of fishing
mack coasting of Cape Mslsbar. At the mention of
hfch our very quietly raises her specta
~ ab we her eyes and remar ks that " Ned had better
rye of his ,cays and go back into tie fish busns
says Christopher Pumpkins, if the miscreant would
We himself ON Dixie or the gnominy Of the halter
T he deserves hanging as much as jeff Davis any
her leading rebel.