New-York tribune., 1868-08-22
"UE KEEPS 4 POET,

Democrat, under the frank management OF
Mr. b. Pomeroy, to lie by far the best exponent
of Democratic" doctrines in the United States.
Ii is true that we have marked III its writing
certain roughness, and in its pictorial Illus
trations a slight absence of refinement but we
are happy to say that its enterprising proprie-
tor will now temper the austerities of his prose
by an occasional invocation of the MUSES.. He
has, 10 doubt at considerable expense, engaged
? bard by the name of Brent, who in the num-
Der before US furnishes a poem in siXty-one
verses, entitled president Jefferson Davis in
"Prison." In this, the suiicrings and emotions
Of Mr. Davis are ably and, we may say pas
sonately depicted. The verses however, are
principally remarkable as expressing the pres
ent Democratic" idea of the Rebellion which,
in the opinion of this minstrel was a righteous
Rebellion, entirely worthy of better fate,
and the failure of which properly calls for his
most pantiye outcries. The South Is rather
boldly represented as "a virgin" The North
is, with equal boldness represented as raw
isher The North wanted TO kiss the South.
The proud maiden did MT desire to be kissed by
everybody. Hcnce-but here is the stanza
about the attempted~osculation
"They fought for law against the law
80 fought the SOuth in selfgedress
10 was her virgin right to draw
Her lips from any foul caress"
Very proper in this delicate maiden Only
it botiers us u little when we remember that
it was the Democratic party which (Wicked
old wretch y attempted the kissing, and some
times (hideous old monsterD accomplished it,
We admit "the foul caress;r we remember
being very much disgusted about it at the
time; but we thought the virgin seemed to
take it so easily that it never occurred to US,
when she submitted to the chaste salutes of
the Doughiaces, that she was " a virgin" at all.
Unless we forget strangely, the complaint of
this political Diana was that the Republicans
would MT kiss, not her lips, but her feet, at
which Mr. Seymour's party was always paying
the most rapturOus devotion. As for ourselves,
if we know our own mind and we think we
do. we would not have offered to kiss the
virgin" for the world. 1t is a pity that she
should have gone off and committed so many
murders under such mistaken apprehension
while the freedom with which she now submits
to the caresses of Mr.. Pomeroy and other
devoted champions would seem TO indicate
that this fastidous Virgin has become rather
n free and easy damsel, considerably like Moll
Flanders, or the lady in Buruss Jolly Beg
"gars," who sang:
" I once was a maid. though cannot tell when;
Aud still my delight is I'm proper young men,"
And if Mr.. Pomeroy is ga proper young
"man," we do not see why he should be cut
off from his share of " the lips"
Of course, we cannot make a general COM
mentary upon sixty-one verses, all of them in
glorifcatiOn of the Rebellion. We must con-
tent ourselves with expressing generally the
extreme pleasure which productions like these
give us. If there must be cloven foot, we
prefer that it should be rather outside than
under the cloak. We never like His Satanic
Majesty so well as when he carries his tail
under his arm, as n gentleman carries his cane.
In comparison with Mr.. Pomeroy or his poet,
we consider Mr.. Seymour with reverence be
il spoken y hollow humbug. We have never
been able to understand how a free, bold
brassy, and brave bandit like The Brick could
possibly support a sly, cautious, timid, half
hearted candidate like the respectable HoratiO.
The truth, we suppose, is that the Knight of
La Crosse is MT fighting so much for Horatio
as for the virgin" He is under the spell of
that enchantress. For her he pants and for
her he prints; and, should she be again re-
stored to prosperity, we trust that in her
maiden meditation he may be more proiitably
and faithfully remembered than some of his
nlustrious predecessors in her affections.