Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-06-06

AS the man WHO lOfcS HIS LOTu,
And would have his name adored
By the weary man who is worn with sin,
And to place a heaven where a hell has been
So write NV pens-one coarse and strong, and grand
That tbro ugh the air far toward the blazing sun
Had horne the eagle in his flight of pride:
The other as a tiny wand of light,
So frail and small, and bright, and beautiful,
The light and graceful dove had rested on
To COO her love- that reached the ear of him
Who loved his gentle mate,-and yet heard
BY Him who rules the Universe Of Light.
Now that I've finished up my little parable
I leave YOU to decide which is most fair, able
To choose which you prefer-you stand before 'eml
Select with care, and do it with decorum-
Which shall it be, the pulpit OIL the forum:-
Some simple men have had such wondrous fancies
For playing politcs,-but with wild dances
ley followt em,-as one that woId be gr a.,-or
They strive each one to be an innOvator.
But such man-you see him-and see through him,
And even little news-boys will pooh, pooh, him!
If like jeff Davis should play the victim
And plead with all the world because it kicked him,
Complaining that he cons tar tly grew thinner
Because he had truiics for his dinner: -
Or il, like johnson, showing his enamel, he
Should constantly revert to his poor family,
And how he sewed on buttons years ago,
And now he's President make much ado =
And say he's honest when we knew to win he meant
Each time he smeared the copperheads with liniment
Or turn upon his party like poor Beecher,
Descending to paltry rebel preacher:-
Or like Doolittle play the sentimental =
Such are not worth single continental!
For such according to the fit he's in
Will be a safe or very dangerous citizen.
You'd better be mummy in a showcase
Than prove yourself a miserable dCugh-face!
But on the other hand You see
Who loves his country and does all he can
To make it great-to hold its noble flag up
And boasts his nation, not himself to brag up.
He does not spend his time and give his speeches
(The tailors word to rhyme with that is-breeches)
In fighting out the question, (which: the lies
Shall have the greatest place, or staring rs:"
But earnestly and like man who means it,
Or soft to the child the nurse who weans it,
He strives to do what good shall last the longest
And what shall make his nations flag the strongest
Now find two men like these and put together
One has a conscience tender,-one of leather,-
One is patriot, rejoicing in it, and
The other is in politics minute hand.
The one is rm,-his brain, when You discern it. you
Reminded Of some grand, old polished furniture
You feel that you can trust him-whateer latitude
You find him in, you're you know his altitude
The others eyes are like candies socket-hole,
Forever asking, like preachers pocket-hole,
No matter what may be the wretched system
That offers next when POSITIONS missed him
No matter though the land may meet disaster
II he secure the berth OF post master,
Or get the cars of schem m,rs-of the brassy bores
That flock the Treasury, of Ambassadors
VINO in some way or other may be able
Da MI DIu I'M tha
Which he can play with force enough to stagger
President himself, who'll stand Niagara
Sot comes in whiskey-cocktas, or in fattery,-
(of either of them he can stand battery y
He'd sell his country for a mess of pottage-
Il say that on account Of Esau, ,)-Cottage
Would be better and it carries out my rhyme
cottage large though tears had Stacked the lime,
And blood had painted all its beauties o'er,
The tears aud blood Of desola ting war
find two men who suit me to title
Colfax is one, the other lie Doolttle
Colfax so firm in every hoar of danger,
Doolittle acting dog,-and dog in manger-
Colfax at work to bold the flag steady sign
Doolittlc mixing flags by way of medicine
Colfax in Congress, watching, all attention
Doolittle chaperOn to the Convention
Where sccwling Charleston arm in arm with Boston
Comes muttering curses at the slaves he lost on,
Nowing dire vengeance on the whole relation
Or North and South when they regain their station
Our Colax breathes an air so high and pure
That all the true and good men love it, sure
There's no one breahes I'D lives ont that must fear
Aught traitorous lurking in the atmosphere.
But ah the other breathes an air injurious,
1t has smell to us that's quite sulphurOus,-
1t gives swart views of South and North in arms
Now clashing with grim death-now striking palms
or Boston snirking like cringing u-chin
hos iuaku r;v
OF Charleston walking arm-in-arm beside him
But showing in his face that he's denied him;
or dough face thousands lachrymose and buttery,
Petroleum Nasby's clerical but cutlery
Henry Ward Beechers feeling that to mock you meant
Because they're sold for COurtmartial document: -
Coones Of troops whose faces show their swg O. beer
Whove sold their honor for brevet as brigadier -
All standing in a of molly flags
The Union Jack beside secession rags,
Each livid face shows honor wondrous lean in 1t,
But each displays eye with brilliant green in 1t
Some noses there you'd swear you surely saw burn,
And some ha d just a tinted growing auburn.
But each annoyed, for as the more he mcllows, he
Discovers in his friends the signs of jealousy:
You see such men and know they would betray you
They'll do it even while for aid they pray you
They're Northern mudsils crossed by Southern pirates
Doettle Semmes who class themselves at high-rates,
But like the craw fish in New Orleans levees,
They make the little hole throughput the creyice
Through which the wSter works and swells torrent
Which mates the fruitful field waste abhorrent
But speaking Of New Orleans sets me telling
Once more the story Of the people yelling
In tones SO bloody that no ortal cansay
Whether twas men, or if it was not fancy
That brought the demons up from yawning Tartarus
With cries and hows that led them on to martyr u.s.
A story that in history is neer bel
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OF negroes shot down in the public streets,
And white men butchered on policemen's BEATS
And all because they loved the nations buntins'
Because they raised it,
While southrons showed the pork they ATE os
When good men praised it,
They slew the true the good the brave thousn
Phe lands defenders,