North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-27
Randoms from Trinity steeple.

clouds. People in the streets, beneath me,
crawl Ike insects so very small they appear.
The great city, teeming with life, lies
spread out in majesty, before me on either
side, rushes along, the crested waves, bearing
amid their sparkling spray, the leviathans of
commerce to old oceans heavins bosom. ,
Tae hills dotted with mans pallatial resi-
deuces, gradually rise in the distance, form
ing barrier, the eye is unable to leap.
The winds roar in madness around my
high perch, and seemiy cut up such capers
almost at the very door of Heaven, that
would make angels weep. Let them rage ny
position is of stone they dash against 1t bat
to reccde.
The clouds envelope the cross of the pin
nacle, desposit their vapors Of purity, and ma
jesticaIIy float away. The winds grasp them,
hear them on their wings, 'tlll dissolved by
the bright rays Of the sun, then become radu'
tions Of light that transform the darkness Of
night into GLORIOUS day.
But clouds more dark, and winds more
fierce, are now sweeping over our pohtca
world and no ray Of light appears to dissipate
the darbened gloom.
SwinIng, deiraulins, in fact all the
known crimes, are committed by those in
places Of responsibility and trust, and this Is
called liberty freedom, as practiced and advo
Gated by the loyal league, secession republican
party.
The view from my position is extensive,
corruption is all around, Wall Street stretch
es out like a serpent before me, fog Of mi
quity rises from it, There stands the Custom
House, where reigns the imhcclIe Barney,
where Stanton, the oracle, the great christian
type of loyal leagues, unler the guisc of
godIiness, and loyalty, served The devil and
the enemies of his country, and as propi-
uation sacrificed his son Infamous, unnatural
Stanton!
And there too, Private Secretary Palmer !;
Palmer the immaculate, the gndly man, finan-
ciercd for the perpctuation Of his party on
the ruins Of his country. Poor Palmer, poor
Ss'snton, injQutous, imbeci,e Barney, your
knell has toiied, the unseen hand has written
the unknown characters on the Wall, and by
right the halter should be your interpreter.
Ere long an indignant and outraged people
will demand II, be advised follow the exam
pie ofyour prototype Judas, 60 and hang your
selves, and should You tall ard split open my
word for it, the stencil from you would
be more into'eraJle than from him. Try the
experiment, but seek a spot far from the
haunts Of civilized and decent men, you are
not Of them.
fire at random, hoops have collapsed,
bursted, vanished, gone up, don't mean that,
but have disappeared. Those graceful sugar
loayes, that once with qurcnly airs, moved
along the walks like vapory clouds, have
melted away, and ir their stead is an array
Of slender femlniuty resembling very much
peregrinatlrg bean poles arrayed in that
in Indispensable, but now rather expensive
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