New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-12-13

Give wit they ash an we theH hey Junskef,
With minus sUu,s eonsd'able On serej
IlITe wit they need. an We shen GIL 'fo-s Ions
A milton all enc piece, rich peaeehe strong
Make 'em AmeTian, On they n begin
TO love their country es they l0Ted theu as
Let 'em stay soutsun an you We KEEP sore
Ready 10 fester ez It done ofore
No mortle can boast Of Perfo vision,
But the ons maebliD' thing Ia Indeoisi0n
An III amt no futar for The man nor STATE
tibet ont Of ta-s.t can't spell great
Some fohs 'oud cal tibet reddikiei DO youi
II was oommonsense afore the war wuz ihrd,
1Aei loaded on guns an mndo EN- speak
Sos Z Europe beaTcd en- eearn aoros1 the creek
They re driyn' o. their spes dowE now" so1 si~
ITO the hard gTennlt o Gout fnet ideei
III they reach ihet, DemOe cy need M fear
The tallesi earthquakes zee can git Up here
Some call I insnllin 10 ash any pledge,
Bnt foiks ron We Jest licked. fur ever see,
Arc bout ez mad z they wal know how 20 boz
rs better than the Rebs themselves expected
Fore they see Uncle Sam wilt down henpected
BE Lnd y you pense but fusy make things fast
For plain truths all tho Kindness thet II last
W treason is a crime eS some folks say,
How ooaId we punish IT a milder way
Tban sayin 10 EN-, " Brethren o0kee here,
We n ies' divide things with ye sheer an sheeI
YSi take the Dnrkies es We o took tho Paddles;
Igu'anl an poor We took 'em by the hand
An they re the bones an sinners o. the land"
amt q them ,hct fancy thore's loss on
Every inVes ment the don't start from Bosom
Bat know this our money = safest trusted
In sunthin' come vut Will, thet can't be busted
An thet 3 the old Amerhn ,dee, c,,.n.. ,
10 mako q man Man an let him be ltiret applause
Hosea pays his compliments to the national score
tary of State in language more expressive than poh
E4 for their lyalty don't tsse gead it e T.
by lo,iin en- believe the. they eau git
Nor n wut they lost ont Of our ntib Wh
I tell ye wat IN fraid We n drif % eewaTd
'Thout we can put stidenin' INTO seward
s TO G 6d SSi TIS bow Sea necled
Thet stnmns AM swears he wun't come In 20 suppfr;
She mus set mp for him. 81 weak es Tupperi
Keepin the CONSTRUCTION on 10 warm,
Tellhe II Except her pclogies in form
The neighbors tell her be s a cross grained euss
Thet needs hldin fore he comes TO wus
mo" Ma Seward, ne u eZ EoOu Inv b'eI
All he wants now Is sugar piums an rest -,
Another edds 20 wal wuz Jest his fon.f
"He tried 20 shoot our UncS saInven dead
wal all we ask to hev It understood
YOu u take his gun away from lin for goods
We don't wal nut e1acly, Ike bus play
Seem be slus Kin o shoots our way,
You Hill your fat,ed calves 70 no good eend,
'Thout his fust sayn' Mother l heY sinnea
With regard to the whole question of reconstrne-
t0n Hosea is still the anxious seat, and ieaIh that
the settlement may be hurried up with too much
,peed for the good of the country lie eniorees MS
views with an apologize which shows that the Yankees
stl have an Asop among them.
IknoWed "a wal oz though Ia seen with eyes
Thct when the war waz over copper rise
An thci We d hev q rile up IN our ketue
T would need Leyiahan.s wloleskin to settle
thought would take about generation
Fore We could wal begin 20 be- a nation,
But allow never did imagine
4 would be Prcs'dant thet .oud drive wedge 70
To keep the split from cosin ei IL coald'
An hcalin' over With new wholesome wood
For III ain no chance o bealin while they think
Tibet law an GOV 'ment s only printers ink
mus confess / thank BIN FOR discoyern
The Gurus way IN which the Sates ore sovereign;
They amt nut quite enough 10 20 rebel
But when they I'm 1t costly 10 rave H. g. No., Z, ,
WHY then foy lee the same suIcriiye reason,
They re most IN much u be fetched for treason
They can't 60 ont, but # they somehow DC
Their sovereignty don't noways 20 out tui
The State goes out the sovereignty doh sur
But stays to keep the door aar foF her
He thinks secession never took cm out.
An mebby he's corGec', but msdoubti
II they 10 out, then why, n the pane y thr
Make all this row bout lettin Of en- ia
In law praps nut; bat there = dlh1rencei Tuilcri
Beisi1t your mother n.law an real mother, -,
An I.for one shah wish they j al hem sora00,
Long 2 L. s Texes are sech reglaT corners.
But o ny patence must We vIigele back
When our artil ~ Wheels a road hev cut
Stret to our purpose ef We keep the nut
tan ' b SySq S8iS 5S .de 1 S Apo
IL foT dependin' on their oath az the,
Twun't bind EN- more n the ribbon roun my bet
heared fable once from Othniel SiaIns,
That pinis il slick vcsthercocks do barns
Inside the fold they used to sleep there nights
An ben cousins o the dogs they took
But somehow when the dogs he'd gut asleep,
Their love o mutton beat their love sheep
Til gradl.y the shepherds come 20 500
Things want agon' ~ they a ough 20 be-
SO they sent of deacon to romonsuaio 800,
Along III the wolves an urge en- 70 so on sutlsu''
They did \ seem to se'.naeh 1y i ne :, deacon
FiDly they swore tibet they a go out AZ stay.
An hoy their I'll o mutton every day.
lGroan from Dvscn g. !
Turned 10 an give en- q iormenicd lamuiin',
An scI "Ye sha nj 20 out, the mnrrnin rot 70!
To keep ~ wasn' half our time % watch ye'
Bot then the question come, How live together
'ThoBt losn' sheep, aqJ BAty yew nor Weher
Now there wuz some dogs (n0vays with then keep
Thct sheered their cousins tastes an sheered the sheep
They seq, BE gn'rous Jet EN- swear hight H.
An ef they backsde, let en- swear agin
Ie let EN- put sheep skins whilst they re sWesrn
To ask for 'ould b. beyond all bearin.
BE gin'rous for yourselves where youre 10 pay,
Thets the best prectioe, se2 q shepherd gray
"Ez for theiTOaths they wul BE- Wuth button,
Long = you don't 'tin o their taste for mutton,
III amt but solid way. hoWee. you puzzle.
Tel they're conyHrted, let EN- wear muNzle.
lChes Of Bully for you i,l
Mr.. Lowell prefaces the volume with curious dis.
ousition on the dialect in which il is written
panied by some brief personal notices which have
almost an photographed interest The first OF the
series of "BiglOw Papers" was begun moro than
twenty years ago, with no definite plan aud no mten-
ton on the part Of the author Of ever writing another
No one was more astOnished than he at the
success Of the experiment He found that he held in
mis- hand weapon instead Of fencing-stick. While
a. an author under his own name he was less known
than many poets (of far inferior merit, we hardly
need add the verses OF his pseudonym were every
where copied. They rushed into instant and wide
popularity pinned up in workshops, repeated in
bar-roOms quoted in Sage-coachcs and their author
ship debated with a. keen zest had been that OF
the WavereY novels. Some wseacres even went so
far as TO demonstrate in tho hearing OF the author
during tho pauses OF concert, that he was wholly
incompetent to have written anything Of the kind.
The event has signally illustrated the absurdity OF
such precipitate Judgments although one might per
haps be excused for failing to see in the singular
refinement and subtle delicacy of his earlier poems
the germ Of the hard, robust homely sense, and the
farrihlv causfc aatira which And lniepa in the