Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-26
DAILY LEADER.
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: SAINTS REST, witch Is in the
State ofNoo Gersey, Oct 1886.
, Last mite, weary and disguised with
: readin eleckshun returns, l picked IN a
2 yolum NV Cammells Poems, and red that
splendid peese e.The Last Man, Cam
/. NELL Is a poick-ther amt no doubt NV it.
IF my ZOO partial friends aintteo partial,
l can whop him on the sublime. but, on
the petheticss l acknowledge him .ez my
sooPerior. Be that ez it may, the poem
made a impression on my mipd5 witch is
proof that Their is suthin into it, and nv
mind wuz a dwellin onto it ez l sum- into
slumber. !.
Ez yoesuaI I he'd a dream, and SIGH a
dream may 1 never hev agin.
n Methaut the epidemick, wieh is now de-
vastin Europe, he'd struck Moo York. For
atime it struck all classes. The proud
Oaucashen, the Indus niger, the noble
red man Nv the forest, tho almond-eyed
Chin sc, all, all. fell afore the ruthless de-
stroyer. But, at last it abated, except so
far ez the niger wuz concerned. The
White man wuz spared, SO wuz the Injin,
andthe Chinese, but, among the Afrikins.
it ragged with redoubled fury. o, it wuz
/ crushin ! The planter looked abroad, and
y Tx bbdlNdILA tClu udluf VIGIL uL Nll0
81, 500, wuz q cold corpse, and the field
wuz unplowed. Agin he looked, and alasl
the brawny wench, witch allurs bore him a
picaninny wich wuz wuth $500 ez soon az
weaned, wunst per year, and by a little
extra whippin, did a full years work, wuz
PROSTATE in the cold embrace NV death. |
Agin he looked, and wo to him the octo-
foon, for witch he paid $4,000, and whose !
rIrf fa hloa ha an,ll sanasa NJ. n-Izo-z ~
soon ez they wuz l6 for So, 900, on akkount
Nv their havin his blood in their vains, wuz
torn from his lovin grasp by the stronger
hand NV disease, and wuznt with a cop
per for any purpus.
The Democricsy bekum alarmed. The
indefatigible leaders whispered: "The
niger is fadin away !-sposin he bekums
extinck y WhereupOn a consultation NV
the head men wus held. In view NV the
crisis, a pair-oRe male and wun female,
wuz selected and examined by a commit
tee NV expert examiners in life insurance
companies. They wuz pronounced per-
feck specimens-entirely sound and free
from disease. These two wuz locked up
in a room, in a healthy locashen, and
twenty-four Nv the most eminent physi-
clans of the country wuz detailed-one to
stay with them wun hour Nv each day, I,
that in case the disease struck EN-, the ,
remedies might be towunst applied, that, ,
from these two, the race might be propo-
gated, and the cappytle NV the party be
preserved. !,
But all TO no purpose. The last niger /
in the Yoonited States persisted, and, /,
these two were struck, and, not I
withstandin the precautions adopted they I
too diedI ;
There wuz a season Nacher sympa- :
hyzed with the party in its afflicshun. .
The heavens wuz clothed with leaden-col- I
Qred clouds athort which, ever and anon, r
flashed CLEANS NV loorid lite. Low-voiced :
thunders muttered ominusly, and birds c
and beasts ran howlin DER the fields. :
Dray horses fell dead upon the stony a
streets, and wild beasts rushed frantickly I
from their coverts, and snapped fooriously, +
at whatever came in their way. p
The last NV the Afrikins were layin n
PROSTATE in the hall. Fernandywood en- 4
and, ez he seed EN-, he busted into +
ears. Farewell" gushed he, "a long Il
arewell, last NV a cussid racel You wuz h
,ur tower NV strength; you wuz our cor n
stun on 700 we bilded. Hatred NV 4
700 gave me the Irish vote NV Moo York. "
how cheering it wuz to see them lambs :,
1ust yer heads, and innocently hang VOC n
Up to lamp posts! But you'm gone !,
gone-and hentz4th life's a blank a
o me. Farewell, vain worldl-for wat n
$ life without a niggerI7 and ,seizin a A
jackknife he saw stickin out the niger >,
pocket, he stuck it into his stummick, and, I;
allin across the deceast Afrikins, expired o.
peacefully. v
FrapLin poar,o o,nrooab+ .uAIa-u '
nd art thou gone? Too troo, thou artl n,
II life thou wurt lovelyl Twas thou, K
lone, that made me President; thy woolly q
ed wuz my steppin-stun to place and A
Thou vast my right bower, my N
eft and ace! Eff 1 wuz a Democratic 90
ampson, thou vast the hair witch the De- Ia
Ter, Death, hez sheered OFF. Fernandy, n,
KUN! I kumr and seezin the jack n,
nife from his hand, he plunged il into M
is bowels, fallin across Fernandy. n,
Vallandygum approached. al too, +,
lust say farewell, "sed he, kissin their cold az
%satures, "for thou vast my anker. Thou, az
vast, who made me Congressmen-thou 90
killed me, and hate NV thee gave me $780, fo
in ten cent pieces when I wuz in m
Do l want to go to Congress I
gin2 No! mol mol l shood be dumb, Al
u IlS lldlll-SpIlHB NV my SlOh0HC6 lI6s dc
and, takin the jack-knife, he i'm Ie
lersed it in his bowels, and fell across bf
eerse. or
Old Jeemes Bookannon, and Voorhees,, ca
Brite, and Florence, and, in fact, all 90
le leaders NV the party, North, to the n,
lmber Nv suthin over 300, kun up, and, at
ich maxim a short orashun, stuck their =
Ives with the jack-knife, falling across NJ
-eh other, as cordwood is piled. Finally,
felt it a dooty 1 owed to the party A
foller SCOT. Seezin the jack
life, [ made ny orashen witch was
chenI) and was about to sever my intes- Ia
mes, when 1 seed a quart bottle stickin W
1t NV the nigger's pockit. Drawn it 4th, cl
pulled the cork. Gloryl it wuz whisky at
sucks and it wuz gone-the room spun c
'und, and 1 fell senseless on the top NV sc
e pile Nv ded Democrats. ri
Jest then Horris Greedy cum in. "Be- 8
Did Democrisy," sed he, "ez it wuz in 81
e beginnin, SO it is in the endin. Mig al
r at the bottom, whisky at the top, and Ii
in the middle and holdin his nose w
: shambled out of the room. h,
1 awoke in u cold sweat, happy to find ST
Iat it was only a dreem that the niger W
i'll lived in all his cussitood, and that we b.
i'll he'd suthin to go on. p so
PETROLEUM V. Nasty, al
ate Faster NV the Church NV the Moo v,
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