Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-11-24
Mr.. Na.Dy waiIeth over Moo eerssr.
On zBE WING, Nov. 8, lse5.

OK zHR WING, NOV o, 1865
Never. WIS ] in 50 pleasant frame Nv
mind ez last night. All wuz peace with me
Tor often beln buffeted about che world for
three sknre years, at last it seemed to me ez
tho forchunce, tired nv persekootin d un-
torchnlt bein, had taken me into favor. I
he'd solemn promise from the Demekratic
State Central Committee in the great State
NV Moo Gersey, that ez soon ez our candi-
date for Governor was dooly elected, should
hev the position of Dorekeeper to the House
NV the Lord (which in this State means the
| Caputal & which is certainly better than
! dwellin in the tents Nv wicked grocery keep
ers. on tick, ez [ do) and joodishus exhi-
bitlon nv this promise he'd prokoored for me
unlimited facilities for boTerin, wich | i'm
proved, muehly.
On Wednesday mite wuz sittin in my
room, a enjOyin the pleasin reflection that in
a few days | should be placed above want, g.
beyound the contingies NV fortune Wood
oh wood that had died then and there,
before that dream ov bliss wuz roodly bro
ken. A wicked boy cum running past with
paper Wich he had brot from the next town
where there lives a man who takes one. He
/ flung it thro the window to me and past on.
! lopened it eagerly, and glanced at the he'd
| lines
'sNoo Gersey-5, 200 RepubIikin.''
| One long and piercin shrek wuz heard
| thro that house. and wen the inmates rush
ed into the room they found me inanymate
on the floor. The fatal paper lay near me,
explainin the cause NV the catastrophe The
kind-hearted landlord, after feelin NV my
pockets and diskiverin that the contents
thereof wood not pay the arrearages NV
board, heard hurried consultation with his
wife as to the propriety NV bringin me TO,
he insisting that it wuz the only chance nv
gettin what wuz back-she insistin that eff |
was brung TO I'd go on runnin up the bill
bigger and bigger, and never pay at last.
While they was argooing the matter pro
and con, | happened to git good smell NV
his breath, wich restored me to conscious
ness to wunst, without further assistance.
When in trouble my poetic sole alluz finds
vent In song. Did ever poet who delited in
tonibs, and dark rollin streams, and con-
sumption, and blighted hopes, and decay,
aud sIch themes, ever hev sich pick of sub
iects ez hev at this time? The follerin
may be a consolation to the few Dimokrats
NV the North, who have gone SO far into
copperheadism that they can change their
base;
A Vale!
In the nlornin we go forth rejoicin in our
strengthen the eYenin We are bustid and
wilt
Man born NV woman land most men are
is NV few days, & them is so full NV trouble
that it skarsely worth while bein born at
ALL
In October waded in woe knee-deep, and
now the waters NV afflicshun are about my
chin.
look to the east, and Massychusets rolls
in Abilishun.
To the west turn my eyes, and Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota and ulinoy ansers Aboli- /
shuu.
Southwark / turn my implorin gaze, and
Maryland sends greetin-Ablishun.
In New York we had EN-, for 10 we run
a soljer, who fought yaliantly, and we put
him on a platform wich stunk with niger
yea, the SAVIOR thereof was louder than the
Ablishun platform itself
But behold the people jeer and fout, and
say the platform stinketh loud enough, but
the smell thereof is not the smell NV the
Afrikin--it is of the rotten material Nv wieh
it is composed, and the corrupshun they hey
placed on it and New York goes Ablish-
un.
Slocum held hisself up end sed come and
buy And our folks bought him and his
tribe, but he getteth not his price.
Moo GERsEY-ABLsHUN!
Jobs cattle wuz slain by murrain and hol !
ler-horn and sich, and not Twin near Moo
York, the flesh thereof he could not SELL
Bat Job he'd suthin left--still he Good sell
the hides and tallow.
Lazarus he'd sores, but he he'd dorgs to
lick them
Moo Gersey wuz the hide & tallow NV the
Dimocrisy, and 10, that is gone.
What little Is left NV the Dimocracy is all |
sore, but where is the dorg so low as to lick |
it?
Moo Gersey wuz our eve lamb-lol the I
strong hand of Ablishun hez taken it.
Moo Gersey wuz the Aryrat on which our t
ark rested-behold the dark waves NV Alb |
lishnism sweeps over it
Darkness falls over me, like pall-the |
shadder of woe encompasseth me.
Down my filrrowed cheeks roleth the |
tears of anguish, varyin in size from large |
pea to a small later
Moo Gersey will vote for the Constooshne
Amendment, and lol the Niggers viii pos
sess the land.
[ see horred visions
On the Camden and Ambouy nigger
brakesmen-and at the polls, niggers
Where shall we find refuge
In the North Lol it is barred again us
by Ablishnism
In the South? In their eyes the North
ern copperhead fndeth no favor.
In Mexico? There is war there, and we
might be drafted.
Who will deliverus? Who viii pluck us
from the pit intn which we have fallen.
Where shell go the Lord only knows, but I
my impression is, South Karliny viii be my I
future home Wade Hampton is electid I
Governor, certain, and in that noble State I
one may perhaps preserve enough of the old /
Dimocratic State Rites leaven to leaven the I
whole lump.
HI'm afote--Fm afote
On the dark rolln sea.
And into what harbor fate viii drive my
weather-beaten bark, the undersigned can
not trooly say.
Moo Gersey-farewell The world may
stand it year or two, but | doubt it.
Mournfully and sadly,
PETROLEUM V. NASBY.