The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-12-01
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THE REY STONE RAIL ROAD.

THE KEY STONE RABL ROAD.
Another train has come,
Uncle Toby's up to time;
Travel-worn and weary
From his home so lonely
In the shadow of the mountain
A motley crew are brought together,
By the modern car of progress,
4 To do the work of reconstruction,
/ At popular Election Station
On the Kew Stone Rail Road
( There is democratic with his papers
Looking, watching seeing after soltiers
/ Votes them at home, within the constitution;
Not when away on foreign travels.
Abolition man the same, clever 70 tue soldiers
/ Votes them at home and aGhsreUF heyW rate
'sSam50 ~
/ Clever very. very clever to the sollieIs.
Candidates with pockets full OF money,
Fawning, very anxious, very clever;
4 Running to and fro, knowing eYerT body
4 Smiling, bowling, seraping to the oldiers
/ Sending kisses home to cherub tdiny) babies
I And remembrance to their motheri.
( There's sold Fogy, sweating, putting like por
Missed the train at Hickory Station; Ipose !;
! Was not like the State agent y iup 10 ti1ae.'
There's the Miser starves hiinsed for treasure,
I And saves the scrapings of the mushpot
See young Solon, form erect
And frzzly moustache, coaxed out ty bear grease
Mind bending meath the musty legal lore OF ages
There's Orator Puff, inflated with burning words
| Well nigh TO bursting, spelling fora speech;
There isGalen with his specs pockets full of physc;
( He III mend broken limbs and attend to patients
Merchants with hands soft as ladies
Clerks spruce and glossy, tender asyoung turkeys;
Sec grave preacher with white neck tie,
Looking after members; telling them how to vote !;
[ Better be at h0me UftA Bibie, studying better
/ Let him do his lcork and scampsr things
There's the Gambler with his cards a Shylock
Seeking some poor gander, just TO pluck him.
Thore is ''Soap-stcki from his den, brim full of
whisky,
/ Eyes red as fire, nose gently tip'd with scarlet,
( Rushing to and fro, reeing shouting for the "Un-
Feeling upward for the earth and searching for his
rights
There, he has found them in the gutter.
/ Debauchees, lep'rous with pollution. Iven
Too low for loathing, fit for neither earth nor hea
Men who never go to church, or read the Bible;
Take no papers, pay nothing to tie preachers
Never say their prayers, fish and hunt on Sundays,
LOungers in bar-r0oms and on tarern porches
Perfumed with smoke; despatched with tobacco /;
/ Greasy, dirty fellows, from the forge and furnace
From the mines and from the oil wells,
Beardless boys, n0t twenty0 toe large for their
( These the men of neryeslnd musde, Iclothing
The snew Of the State the safeguard of the nation
There the virtuous intelligent honest voters;
Whose tender hands steady the car Of progress;
These the architects Of a nation fortune
The great master builders, sturdy labOrers,
I Who, with picks and shoyels, clubs and weapons,
DO the work Of reconstruction at Election Station
On the Key Stone Rail Road
Hear the rumbling See the train is coming
/ Gently, gently moves the car Of progress
At Election Station on the hey Stone Rail Road
( Hark there are voices, din, confusion,
Fuss among the cab-men, porters runners
Hack, sir ~ Cab, sir = "CoHe to our house
Ullion House !''
National Hotel democratic House, Lincoln
House,
( Constitutional Union, Come to our house, don t
/ .Copperheads - "Secesb - Gone to our house,
DO go there :"
Black snakes, WoolIy heads - ours the Sol
diers' house ~
s:No, ours the soldiers house We're the soldiers
friends. -
! Louder, louder, swcls the clamor
/ As a storm breaks Ger the mountains,
Rushing down the darkened gorees,
Tearing up the forests, filling lhe air with frag-
ments
As the voice of mighty thunder
As the sound Of rushing waters.
Are the heavens falling Is the earth a-crumbling
Mercy the avalanche IS right upon Us
I SOLDIERS !" "SOLDIERs ~ SOLDIERS ~
50 gently, softly moves the Of progress,
At Election Station, on the Key Stone Rail Road /;
In the work Of reconstruction.
! If the train e'cr leaves this station
/ Uncle Toby will be up to time.
| Now he's weary and viii sleep awhile
| At his home so lonely.
In the shadow Of the mountain
UNCLE TOBY.
/ Cnm5eriaHd Wiley Nor. II.