The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-11-23
Nasty.
Mr.. Nasty Waileth Over Moo G ey.

| Hiihu ez laSG night. All wuZ peace with
me after bein butfeted about the world for
three skore years, ut last it seemed to me
as tho Fortune, tired Nv per ekootin un.
forechnit bein, he'd taken me into favor.
he'd a solum promise from the Demekrat
State Central Committy i'm the great State
NV Moo Gersey, that ez soon ez our candi-
da for Governor was duly elected,
shood hev the position Nv Dorekeeper to
the House of fhe Lord (wi-h in this State
means the Capital and witch is certainly
better than dwellin i'm the tents Nv wicked
groscry keepers, on tick, ez do) and a
iudishns exhibition NV this promise he'd
prokoored for me unlimited facilities for
bol4orin, witch improved, ninchly!
On Wednesday mite WIZ n sittin i'm my
room, enjoyin the peasin reflection that
+ in II few days I should I've placed above
want, ~ beyond the contingencies NV for
tune. Wood! oh wood that he'd d d
then and there, before that dream NV bliss
WIZ roodly broken. \ wicked boy cum
running past with paper wich he he'd
brot from the next town where there lives
II man VIII takes one. He flung it thru
the window to me and past on. I opened
it eagerly, and glanced at the he'd lines!
! MOO GERSEY--5, 900 REPUBIIKINr T.
One long and piercing shreek wuz heard
! thro that house, and when the inmates
rushed into the room they found me many
mate on the floor. The fatal paper lay
near me, eNplainin the cause NV the catas-
trophe. The kind hearted landlord. ar-
+ ter reelin Nv my pockets and disliiverin
. That the contents thereof wood not pay the
nrrearages NV board, held hurried CON
sultatinn with his wife as TO the propriety
NV bringing me to--he insisting that it
wuz the only c ,ance NV gittin what wuz
, back-she inSistin that eli was brung to
I'd 90 II runnin up the hill bigger and big
ger, and never pay NJ last. While they
was argooin the matter pro and con,
happened togit II good smell Nv his breath
witch restored me to consciousness to-
wunst, without further assistance.
When in trouble my poetic sole aluz
finds vent i'm song. Did ever poet who de-
lifted i'll tombs, and dark, rollin strcems,
and consumption, and blighted hopes, and
decay, and sich themes, ever hey sicll
pick OF subjects eZ | hev at this time
The follerin may be II consolation to the
few Dimokrats Nv the North, who have
gone so far into apprehension that they
can't change their base:
A VALE!
In the morning we ,0 forth reiocin i'm
our strengthen the evening we are bustid
and wilt
Man horn nv woman fand most men
nre1 is nv few days, & them is 80 full of
trouble that it's skascIy worth while bein
born at all.
In October I wadcd in wo knec-deep, and
now the waters NV atalickshun are about
NY chin.
Ilocls to the east, and MASSACHUSETTS, rolls
i'm Ablishuii.
To the 'wast turn my eyes, ssah Wis
consn and Minnesota and Illinoy ansers
Ailshun.
| Sonthw"rd turn Fhy implorin' saat,
/ and Maryland sends grectin--Ablishnn.
In New York we had EN-, for 10! We run
a soljer, who fought valiontly, and we-put
him on a platform, wich stunk with Mig
ger-yeas, the SAVIOR thereof wuz louder
than the Ablishun platform itself.
But behold the nco,iie' .ifcr and fiout,
and say the platform stinketh loud
enough, hut the smell thereof is not the
smell NV The Afrk init is NV the rotton
material NV witch it is composed, and the
corrupshun they hev placed on it''-and
New York goes A s'fiSaun.
Slocun held hsself up and sed "come
and buy" And our folks bought him and
his tribe, but he getteth not his price.
Moo Observation-Disclosures!
Jobs cattle wuZ slain by murrs i'm and
ho!lerhorn and sirh, AMI not l;sfn near
MOO York, the flesh thereof. he Good not
sell.
But job had suthin left-still he Good sell
the hides and t.dlow!
lick them.
! Moo Gersey wuz the hide d talIow NV
/ the Dmocrisy, and 10. that is gone.
/ What little is left NV the Dmocrisy is al
surc, but where is the dorg SO low as to
lick it?
Moo Gersey wnz our eve -lamb-lo! the
strong hand nv Ablshnisln hez taken il.
Moo Gersey @,rs tffs Aryrat on which,
our ark rested-behold ! the darl, waves uc
Ablishnism sweep OVERT!
Darkness fails over me, like a'pall-the
shadder NV woe rnconpaSseth me-.
Down my furnwcd checks rolleth. the
tears Nv anguish, v'ryin im size from "a
large Pea to n small tater.
Moo Gersey will vote for the Constoosh-
hel Amendment, and 10 the Niger will
possess the land.
! see horrid visions!
! On the Camden and Amboy, niger
brakesmen-a III The polls, niggers!
Where shall we find refuge?
In the Nouh2 l.o!it is barred agin us
by Ablisifnisin. ...
In the South? In their eyes the North
ern Goppcrhead findcth no favor.
InMexico? There is war there and we
I might be drafted.
Who will deliver us? Who will pluck
us ii9b.tlre pit into wich we hev fallen?
WhAe 1 shall go the Lord only knows.
but my IMPRESSIONS, South karfiny will
be nay future Eoihc. Wac Hampton is
ELECTED Governor eert'n, and in tha: n"h'o
State. one may perhaps perhaps preserve
/ enough NV the old Democratic States H:,es
leaven TO lravcn tine whole lump.
I'm afiote-Tm aiiote
On thedarIc'rollin SEA-
nd into what harbor fate will drive my
w,atlrr-leat.ft' l-,,4S,. the undersigned
cannot trooly say. s.af
Moo tfersey-iarewell! Tie world may
st.iaid it a year or two, but Idoubt it.
MOurnfully and SADLY