The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-01-04
cARRIHR's ADDRESS.


Proclaims more mile posts than doth lac
IN ngures to compute. from that high date F-.
Down 70 this virgin morn OF sxty-eght,
happy New Year TO you all 4! And may D. s.....,
Your happiness increase ~ time sweeps on:
III strive to add my modicum. BY way 49, p,
vi bringing you-as In the year that's gone
NY weekly tribute-cvery Saturday
VI facts and fancy-light or deeply drawn.
10 suit each taste, from blunt to most fastdious-
You see twon't do for me to be invidous
AS Tor the year that's gone, tmust be confess'd
us pazzlng to decide If light or shade
had the majority-twas close at best.
As LOT the hext-th' immortal bard hath said 60 l.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;,
truce TO grieving over blunders made;
wen nerve to bring. with high resolves and stronger
The good time coming boys-wait a little longer
ihe custom Is, I'm told, on this OCCASION
CTS based on your short memories s'pose1
mat should make some kind OF an Grafton
recalling In high verse; Ctwon't do in proseJ
In the terse form of reorganization,
The grand events that happened since the close
OF sixty.six-tof which q RESUME
l think gave you on last New Years day.
Then, to begin: There's China and Japan.
And all the rest OF Asia-I guess
Wei make short work OF them--.Iohn Chnaman
Still! peeks away at his rebeon--less
Prospcrously than ever. In Japan
The old tycoon went dead" In India, bless.
rngs be invoked on English domination,
That yields such crops Of plentiful starvation.
In Europe things has worked" more lively. There.
For Instance, was that big Teutonic muss
Ia which Franz Joseph and Fritz Wilhelm were
osteuslhly chief actors but the fuss
s'pcct would hardly have been worth your care
Had II been left alone to such poor cuss.
Is as most European Kings made or
And whom the diplomats make such trade OF.
You see, old Brandcnburg. tthat means Dutch Bill
OF Prussia) egg'd on by mighty deep
Dutch diplomat, named Count Bsmark, whose skill
In state craft was prodis!ous-took peep
One day out DER Europe. "py Colts Will"
Says he, " Herr Hapsburg seems to me you keep
Atonner sight more bseblss In subsection
Than we shan shtand mi,out new electionr'
Old Hapsy dropped his brAtwurst IN dIsmay.
>" You peter mind your plzness. Benedek,s
Says he, that was his Generals name,) "Isay.
You chast take half million soldlers, quick.
Und 20 and spP old Bill dis very day"
50 of he marched, but at ssdowa creek .t. W
Pound such host Of Prusslans in his way
Thai in a rIee they ehawed him up tina. day.
Then down In italy there wssarow
Old Garibald ordered Pho Mono .-
To gather up his traps. 'thout II or how, - ..
And out Of Rome forthwith skedaidle. "ohn no."
Says Louis Nap. " Old Red shirt, not so fast, Ivov
III have TO wallop you" Says Gary. "oh ho."
But Nsppy did II, and poor Gsry, lac went crazy
And to this day they say his inelleets are hazy.
About France, England, Spain. and all the res,
OF Europe, there Is nothng 10 declare,
ESeep; PERHAPS a ntcn that the " Fenian pest
~ II giving Johnay Bull 'orrid scare .Fs
so, nounsing the big cable. heSied west.
Conceive me shooting 20 that haven where
The STAR and stripcs-thy glorious sheen and band
Proclaim thee Hall Columbia, happy land g'
quote correctly nom the song. although T.E r..
& The happy land" just nov. in that connection.
"a Comes in so swkwardly-inap,iy, 20 .r
To speaS--perhaps slight correction
As the Iheix Of " ua"-Souid better show
3 At least the true condition Of section. O..
land where bru,h niggers DER the whites bsarswsy
W vofser Ms cau hardly be the prey,
Our blood, civil war. Ills true, 10 over,
And 20 Il was two yesrs ago. and three,
But really I'm puzzled TO discover -s.agls...t
Wherein the land from bay'net rules more free
Than twas when cotton thieves and shoddy IN
lspect the true solution ~e shall sec iclover.
o. the present uuddle when nations purse spent
And Niger votes have made old Brownow presidentl
Give reconstruction" such elimination,
And then our land for BLACKBOARD. what heaven!
TO Browniow neat, John Logan should have station.
And then 10 Better. ceres, must be given
A big grab at the spoons. for cash the nation
By that time would scarce hsye enough to lssven.
paper dollar TO the worth OF plaster
Or n confederate war bond or .hnpissier.
Bu, /" Han COLUMBUS, daushter Of The skies
Such degradation not reserved for thee
The scales have fallen from the peoples eyes
And they've eed.-Coluubia shall be free!
The RAIDS. disnayed 10 see the people rise,
Are taking 10 their holes. M Oft We see
Rsts, snakes, or other yermin, when they hear
The tramp oil honest footsteps coming near.
All hail the good time coming! TIL that day
Wen grin and bear. Meantime. Tn thinking ID
or politics you've had enough to-day;
Ana heat with vearness your eyes 20 winking,
I'll haste to bring this 10 a end. Yet stay
There some things near home. the blinking
or which-pertslniug to the welfare OF city
Would be quite wrong In this INTERESTING dit.y.
Our cItys srow,h, though money has been tight"
Has hefn tuite handsome buildings new q score
or two Of rrst.cass business cheer the sight
On Main, Ia Sale Columbus streets, nd all DER
New dwellings rise by hundreds but the biggest quite
Is the hong prayed for New Hotel No more
The traveller, signing for day of ease,
Need curse our elephan:ine bugs and heas
All honor To solid men this day
Judge Cation. Mayor Clancy. Kneassl Eames,
And Reddck, who Of glass has much to say,
And who, with Dwight, and Bush. and MiIligan
So brsyely railroad batted tothcr day rseems.
In Bruce--defying all the crafty means
o. the natives, who stubbornly of stock nonvotive.
Thus vainy thought TO stop the locomotive.
And many more good names deserve place,
For enterprise and public spirit, on this roll:
Az Marley, Schneider, Armour-all would grae
II worthiiy. But others must complete the SCROLL
Yet ere cease these stupid lines to trace.
A thought occurx-whether upon the whole,
Having tried please though fatled you hadn't ortef.
For my iNrFST,oK e sake, disburse about QrAxTnD4
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