Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-04-25
II mt oreb hold of other folkss tn. y

But nut greb bold of other folkss tu."
Who own. this country, is if they or Andyp
Leastways it ough' to be the People and he
Let him be senior pardner, ct hos 90,
But let them kim O. smuggle in as Co.
Did ne diskiver it! Cousid'ble numbers
Think that the Job was taken by Columbus.
! Did he set tn an mike it wut it is :?
Eff so, guess the One-Man-power hez ri2
Did he put thru the rebbles, clear the docket,
An pay the expenses out O. bis IN pocket
Eff tibet s the case, then everythin' l exes
L. t hev him come and pay my ennooal texes.
Vast he that shouldered all them million
guns
Did be lose all TIE fathers, brothers, sons ?
Is this ere pop lar gov'ment that We run
A kind O. tulky, made to kerry oneP
An is the country goin' to knuckl down
To have Smith sort their letters Std O. Brown?
Who vuz the 'Nited States fore Richmon'
WI. the South needle their full name to
spell ?
An can't we spell it in that short-han' way
Til tn underpinnin' 8 settled 60 g to stay
Who cares for tn Resolves Of 81,
They tried to coax an earthquake with bun
Hez sct'ly nothn taken place sence then
To farm folks that they must handle facts like
Amt this the true pnta Did the kebs &C
eep' 'em?
Ell nut whose fault is t tibet we hev nj KEEP
EN-
War n. there ttco sides and don't it stand to
The. this weeks 'Nited States amt las week s
treason +,
W hen all these sums is done, with nothing
missed,
An nut sfore, this school Ii be dismissed.
| knowed ex wal ez though d seen I with
Thet when the war wux over copper q rise,
An tibet We d hev rile-up in our kettle
Il would need Leviathan's whole skin to set
tie;
thought I would take about II gsaeration
Fore We could wal begin to be nation,
But allow | never did imegine
IT would be our Pres 'dunt that 'ould drive q
wedge in
To keep the split from closin eff it could.
An healin over with new Wholesome wood;
For ',h ain no chance O. healin while they
think
Thet law and gov ment 5 only printers INK
mus confess | thank him for discoverin'
The GURUS wsy in which the S ates are sover-
They amt nut quite enough 10 rebel,
But, when they .hn 1t 8 costly to raise h,
Why, then. for jes' the same superlative rea-
soD,
They re mos. too much SO to be fetched for
treason
They can't go out, but if they somehow du,
Their sovereignty don't noways 90 out tu;
rhe States goes out. the sovereignty don't stir,
But stays to keep the door sjar tor her.
He thinks 8. ces=lon never took EN- out,
An mebby be 8 correc', but ! misdouot;
Ef they war It out. then why, n the name o
ain,
Make all this row boat l-ttin' of EN- in ?
| 10 law, p r ps nut but there : difference,
ruther,
Betwxt your brothsr-in-lsw and real brother,
An for one, shall wish they d ali been som
eres,
Long z U. ). Texes s-e .ech reg lar corners,
But, o my patience must We wrigge back
Into tn old crooked, pettifoggin track,
When our artIl'ry wheels a road hev cut
Street to our purpose eli We Keep the nut
War = jes dead waste excep' to wipe the
slate
Clean for the cyph'rin' of some nobler fate.
Es for dependn' their oaths an thet,
L wunt bind EN- more n the ribbin roun' my
het;
h. AIRED fable once from Othne Starns,
utl plulh IL sllCh SZ WtdlltECOCao w
Once upon time The wolves had certing righl.
Inside the fold ; they used to sleep there
nights,
An, bein cousins o the dogs, they took
Their turns al ~atchin', reg lar sz book
But somehow, when the dogs were ali asleeP,
Their love o mutton beat their love o sheep,
Fill gradiiiy the shepherds come to see
Things war nj goln' ez they q oush' to De
So they sent Oft deacon to remonstrate
Along tn the wolves, an urge EN- to go OF
straight
The did nj seem TO set much by the deacon,
Nor preacuin' din e COW EN-. nut to speak on
Fin'lly they swore that they d go out an stay
An hev tier fill O muffin every day
linen dogs an shepherds, ar:er much hard
dammin'
Turned tn, an give 'em tormented lammin',
An SEE, aye sha' nj 90 out, the murrain rot
ye,
10 keep us wsstin' half our time To watch We.
But then the question came, How live together
Ihout losln sleep, nor nary ye" nor wether
Now there some dogs (no~ays wuth then
keep
That sheered their cousins tastes, an sheerec
the sheep;
They sez "Be GIN rous, le. 'em swear night in
An, ef they b4ckslide, let 'em swear sg'in;
Jes' let 'em put sheep-skins whilst they 'r'
swearln;
10 ask for more would be beyond all bearin :
"Be gin 'rous to yourselves, where you're {
pay,
1het 3 the best practice, "a shepherd
gray;
"Ez for their oaths they wunI De ~uth but
ton,
Long z you don't cure 'em o their taste 70
mutton
Tn ain I but one solid way, however you puz