The Portland daily press., 1866-09-11
Aefn's Eight Dollars per G,,n,sns, ip advance
Special Election Reperf
'A0n THE MAINE DEMOCRACY TO THE PREsr-
DENT.


DENT.
tIhe following document was picked up at a
,1'e hour last night, near the Democratic
headquarters in this city The manuscript is
not very beautiful specimen of nanmansbin
ana the signature was badly blurrad az 70 tho
writer had "put his foot in itn and "a not
sufficiently ineligible to be made ont but n
is quite evident that it was written hv tba
Major of the Bread-and- Butter BRIGADE .s :,
bears date at Gorham. As this ranor,
is addressed to the President and saan,s
to be in certain sense official, we feel entirelv
justified in laying it before our readers. The
Republican majority reported by the writer
like everything else from the same source.
should be received with caution.-ED]
To THE PRESIDENT OUT WEST:
Dear Andy, while you are on your trip,
10 see your new relations,
In lieu of reaching you grip,
we send you salutatiOns
We hear you're meeting hosts of friends
at Inat whiskey's free as water.
Inat enemies, to make amends
Are doing what they "oughter"
are shouting till they crack their throats,
And making dreadful clatter.
And promising cart-loads of votes
From converts thicker'n spatter
Dear And, we almost envy you:
Napoleon and Caesar,
Though getting all the homage due.
Ne'er got so ample fee, sir;
The prairie grass is all ablaze.
The Western forests burning.
Inc very stars seem in a maze
10 see your friends "a coming"
But, Andy, You have talked too much.
some folks will always tattle:
Ineyve gin your speeches such n toucb
You seem to talk to cattle,
Iney make you say, the Lord on high
was but brother tailor;
Already there's hue and cry.
your but an impious railer
you'd better let speech-making slide,
Make Billy do that drudging,
since Payne, the bungler, spared his hide.
For friends he shouldn't be grudping
soms weat th;rl Friend, we wish you'd hurry back,
Inc States gone fifty thousand black
ZOO many have been shirking,
oome went to sea, and some oot drnnk
And some didn't care splinter.
AND so our party here's defunct,
Or laid up for the winter.
Poor Sweat is licked most shoclxino had
And Pillsbury much worser.
AND every one looks dreadful sad
Especially the purser.
tell you, And, we've had to bleed
10 Keep this campaign going.
II cost us piles for drink and feed
For those who did the blowing:
And AM tnen to think it didn't paw
We're all as mad as fury;
W. nope to hang the scamps some dav
w, Witnout q Judge or jury. ~
Old Dirigo is black as ink.
nermonts not one shade lighter.
i Dut beecher's lost his Niger kinl
Mnich makes us feel some briobta5
put 40 come back, and come down Eas+
And xI GUST the tarnal critters.
mo from your crib have had a feast
AN, ana naught to pay for bitters.
Pills, anu poor whipped
are getting dreadful sickly;
some johnson pills would cure their lila
Due heip must come right quickly
ana Ai when you get to Washington
ulve US what crumbs come handy
AND each of us will name son
For you, our Bully Andy. --=
m, S.-Weve heard from Kittervi
Ihere's johnson men on that oid nos,
ana 50 we feel more titterv
ana chipper-like ourselves. almost
Terhaps next year there'n be a hsan.
so.WsE ~ 1noWsE But don't forget to send Ms
1Vhon or other, dear or cheap,
"nen you get back; f you can't give, lend ms
Gorham, Me-, Sept. 10, 1866.