The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-11-30
MR.. Nasty wAILETB OVER NoO
GEHsEY.

On THE WRO, Nov. the 9th, 1865.
Never wuz l in 50 pleasant n frame
Nv mind ez last night. All wuz peace
with me for after bein buffeted about
the world for three skorc years, at last
it seemed TO me that forchune, tired
Nv pcrscokootin unforchnit bein, he'd
taken me into favor. / he'd solemn
promise from the Demekratic State
Central Committy in the great State
nv Moo Gersey, that cz soon cz our
candidate for Governor wuz dooly
elected, shoold hev the position NV
Dorekecper to the House Nv the Lord
(wich in this State means the Capital
& wich is certainly better than dwellin
in the tents Nv wicked grosery keep.
crs, on tick, ez | do) and q joodishus
exhibition Nv this promise he'd pro.
koored for me unlimited facilities for
borrcrin, wich l improved, muchly.
On Wednesday mite wuz sittin
in my room, cnjoyin tho peasin re.
Election in few days | should be
placed above want, & beyond the con.
tingencies nv fortune. Wood oh
wood! that he'd died then and there
before that dream Nv bliss wuz roodIy
broken. A wicked boy cum running
past with paper wich he he'd brot from
the next town where there lives man
who takes one. lie flung it thro the
window 10 me and past on, opened
it eagerly, and glanced at the he'd
lines!
"Noo GERsEY--5, 900 REPCBLIKISl"
One long and picrcin shrcek wuz
heard thro that house, and wen the
inmates rushed into the room they
fround 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 ar
rearages Nv board. held q hurried con.
sultation with his wife as to the pro-
priety NV bringin me to, he insisted
that it wuz the only chance NJ gcttin
what wuz back-shc insisting that CT
| wuz brung 10 I'd 90 on running up
the bill bigger and bigger, and never
pay at last. While they was argooin
? the matter pro and con, l happened to
get a good smell Nv his breath, which
restored me to cOnciousness to wunst,
without further assistance.
When in trouble my poetic sole alluz
finds vent in song. Did ever poet who
delighted in tombs, and dark, rollin
streams, and consumption, and blight
ed hopes, and decay, and sich themes,
ever hev such a pick of subjects cz l
hev at this time? The follorin may be
q consolation to the few Dimokrats w
the North, who have gone so far into
copperheadism that they can't change
their base: '...
A wALEl
In the mornin we go forth rejoicin
in our strengthen the evenin we are
bustid and wilt
Man born Nv woman (and most men
are) is Nv few days, x them is so full
Nv trouble that it's skarsely worth
while bein born at all.
In October l wadcd in WOO knee
deep, and now the waters NV afflick-
shun arc about my chin.
l look to the east, and Massachu-
setts rolls in Ablishun.
TO the west | turn my eyes, and
Wisconsin and Minnesota and Ilhnoy
answers Ablshun.
Southwark l turn my implorin
gaze, and Maryland sends grcetin--
+ Ablishun.
In New York we had en-, for 10 +! VIC
run'a solier, VINO fought valiantly, and
we put him on q platform, witch stunk
with niggcr--yea, the SAVIOR Thereof
wuz louder than the Ablishun plat
f1rm itself. r..
But behold the people jccr and
fout, and say "tho platform stinketf
loud enough, but the smell thereof is
not the smell NV which it is composed
and the corrupshun the hev placed on
it"-and New York goes Ablishun.
Slocum held hisselfu up and sed "comc
and buy" And our folks bought him
and his tribe, but he getteth not his
price.
Zoo GERsEY-ABLIsHUNll a..
Jobs cattlo wuz slain by murrain
and hollor.hoin and sich, and not livin
near Moo York, the flesh thereof he
Good not sell
But Job he'd suthin lelt-still ho Good
sell the hides and tallow!
Lazarus he'd sores, but he hod dorgs
to lick them.
Moo Gersey wuz the hide & tallow
NV the Dimocrsy, and 10 that is gone,
What little is left Nv TIE Dimocrisy
is all sore, but where is the dorg, SC
low as to lick it?
, Moo Gersey wuz our cwo lamb-lo
the strong hand NV Ablishunism hcz
, taken it. .....
Moo Gcrscy wuz the Aryat on wich
our ark rested-bchold tho dark
waves NV Ablishnism sweep over it!
Darkness falls over me, like pail
the shaddcr NV woe encompasseth me-
Down my fUrrowod checks rolleth
tho tears Nv anguish, varyin in size
from largo Pea to small tater.
Moo Gerscy will vote for the'Con-
stooshnol Amendment, and 10! the Mig
ger will possess the land.
SEQ horrid visions!
On the Camden and Amboy, nigger
brakesmen-and at tho polls, mig
gers! o -p
Where shall wc find refugee