New Orleans Republican., 1868-07-21
THE CARPET-BAG.

&He NEW 1OIh NsehNtfb Va eAO SASNSAbA AeN9
following significant paragraph:
q Leader, special organ of Tammany
has right to crow, flap its wings, and
nen its spurs this morning. It is the
T i paper we know in our city or State
has been for Seymour first, last, and all
lime. It's confident predictions that he
d be nominated show that its man
we're far in behind the scenes. There
bo such good finders as they who hide +!
the Citizen goes for Seymour, we
from this statement exactly how
faith to attach to Mr.. Seymour's de.
he the nomination. "May God bless
said the gushing Horatio, "but your
idste cannot be.n How touching
suddenly concludes their candidate
and falls weeping into the arms of the
II Tilden. No heroes of the melOdra-
clssped in a manly embrace-''hai ha !
ust be; by heavens, it is''-each looking
the others shoulder, and crying down
back of the others neck, could be more
ting.
ere is but one character in literature
h Mr.. Seymour fully resembles, and that
B Trotter, of whom we read in the in
tive records of the Pickwick Club.
vas extremely pious, used the number
collection of hymns and was prompt
" "God bless you." He also wept free
iping his tears away with "a pink
handkerchief of about three inches
re.n The sagacious Mr.. Sam Weller did
ct very high value on Mr.. Trotter's
ONE, come,n said Sam, elbow this here
r.cart business. 1t won't do no good,
won't"
Am, y said Mr.. Pickwick, reproachfully,
n sorry to find that you have so little
ct for this young mans feelings
bis feelin's is all very well, sir,n re-
Mr.. Weller, "and as they're so very
and IT'S pity he should lose 'em, l
he'd better keep 'em in his own buz.
than let EN- ewaporate in hot water,
ally as they do no good. Tears never
Eound up clock, or worked steam
b. The next time you 90 out to a
ling party, young feller, fill your pipe
that ERE reflection; and for the present
put that bit of pink gingham into your
ket. 'Taint so handsome that you need
waving it about as if you was tight
dancer. Well, I never see
feller, Blessed if l don't think he's
! main in his head as is always turned
You must have been VERY
" brought up, y continued Sam, address.
ir. Trotter with some vigor.
bh, very, Mr.. Weller, very,n replied Job;
at the recollection of the purity of his
5hful days, Mr.. Tfotter pulled forth the
handkerchief, anG wept copiously.
g0u must have been an uncommon nice
togo to school with,D said Sam.
was, sir,n replied Job, heaying deep
al was the idol of the place."
Ah," said Sam, 81 don't wonder at it.
\ CON fort you must ha' been to your
led motherm
II these words Mr.. Job Tot II inserted
nd of the pink handkerchief into the
aer of each eye, one al.er the other, and
ln to weep copiously.
What's the matter With the man ~ said
81 Indignantly. "Chelsea waterworks is
Ain' 10 you. What f"e you melting with
M tie consciousness o. ICildny ?n
Trotter swindled Mr.. Pickwick. Will
Seymour have equal success with the
srican people?
eaking of the Citizen reminds us that
: ditor Private Miles OReilly,n who
goes for Seymour in a way that is no.
led by his usual force, once wrote q
y song, which is the best reply we
1aF to the attacks which are so freely
upon our great Captain. Let every
blcan sing il to the air of "Wearin'
b Green" Here it is:
e fill your glasses, fellows,
Rd stand up III row,
Presidential drinking
are going for to go;
rs have no more discussion here
least no more tonight
e for President Ulysses Grant
take our foremost flight
0 for President Ulysses
let every glass be bright
May he rule the country ne has saved,
Ind God defend the right!
world to-day no prouder name
borne on any breeze,
with Grant to steer the ship of State,
2 flag shall rule the seas;
D9minionr shall be North of us,
ID South Of us no foe
Stars and Stripes in the Canadas,
ID likewise Mexico
For with President Ulysses
Will be few who care to fight
May he rule the country he has saved /,
And God defend the right
oys, a final bumper,
lille we all in chorus chant
next President we nominate
n own Ulysses Grant ~
Il asked what State ne halls from,
Is our sole reply shall be,
q near AppomattoX courthouse,
u Its famous apple tree!n
For twas there to our Ulysses
That Lee gave up the fight
Now, boys, ''To Grantfor President,
And God defend the right !"
Or Niles will never be able to write
sparkling verses concerning the
#ymose Horatio, much less upon such
pnpcetical subject as the blair Fam
am not fond Of anything original;
Ike it; don't see the necessity for it, ;
III. Peter Magnus in the story.
orators at the Democratic mass meet
n Saturday evening seem to have been
Of the opinion of Mr.. Magnus. They
ler liked nor saw the necessity for any
original in addressing their gaping
studies. In fact the multitudes were so
ed with the illuminstions, the rockets,
the transparencies that their leaders
pot see tit to trouble them with any
ought, perhaps, to except from this
! ment the remarkable financial tancies
&. George W. Race. He is a lawyer
one that knows the law, go to-" and
to know some of the simpler facts Of
~, and yet this is what he said, as
ted BY the Times, on the money ques-
gland, in two hundred years of war
had created a war debt of only four
aand millions of dollars, and yet these
ensA