Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-12-30


And gets his labor for his pains.
Jef Davis, pardoned, goes abroad.
His presence Englishmen applaud,
At which we all are much surprised.
Since they SO warmly sympathized"
With all our efforts to subdue
The Traitor and his Rebel crew.
What shameful scenes in Congress Halls
Equal to Slavery's famous brawls-
While counting the Electoral Votes!
Bedlam breaks loose discordant notes
Crate harshly Order Is deAcd,
And Rules are powerless to decide.
Meanwhile Inauguration Day
Draws near, and thousand make their way
To Washington, and quick supplant
The traitor with the Victor, Grant.
His brief inaugural is heard -
Clear and decided. every word,
And nor he tells his Cabinet,
And Politicians scold and fret.
But better. far, for old and young.
II each. like Grant, would hold his tongue.
The new Administration makes
Fair progress, with but few mistakes:
While--best Of all accomplished yet
It's paying of the National Debt
Let II keep paying, and doubt
II we shall care to turn II out.
Grant take trip the country through.
And don't blame him much-do you.
lie makes some speeches, rather brief
But which afford us quick-relief:
While, better still, the smallest sheet
Finds room for every speech complete.
Ills recent message plainly shows
That he the "situation' knows;
And calculates to ''hold" II, too.
Exactly ae he used to do.
Elections clearly indicate
Both Senatorial and State
That Democrats are still alive,
But scarcely can be said to thrive.
Republicans show little life
After Presidential strife,
And grow extremely careless, but,
In spite Of this, Connecticut
Has--what is most too good for her
A Terrell for a Governor
While Dixon meets with sore defeat
From Buckingham, 50 hard to beat -
Vermont her Loyalty denotes
BY giving Washburne all'her votes.
Save few scattering. which amour,
Towel 1t doesn't pay TO count.
Packer and Pendleton are whipt,
And SO of course will both be skipped.
When Democrats in Seventy Two
Shall meet to sec what's best to do.
New York is lost through apathy"
And gained by the Democracy.
That now holds undisputed sway,
With no distractions in the way.
= Rcpcatcrs,'' Roushs and 8 Scymo, v
Friends
Have gained At last. their hellish ends
And now Republicans must wait.
And let the noble Empire State
Be ruled by . free Democracy
10 all its boosted purity.
Texas and Mississippi end
The Constitutional Amend
Ment Struggle, which, in doubt SO long.
VIII Low be carried, sure and strong.
7 Notorious Buckley finds he can't
Do what he pleases under Grant.
Turned OFT OF Once he attacks
Rollins and Harlan. and makes tracks
Ghost Of John &. Calhoun come down.
And scare that '.nigger out Of town.
That Post Master-Oh. horrible..
In South Carolina's Capital.
Ny eyes = pray tell me, what is this
woman, keeping Post-Ofiicc
In Richmond absurd Of sights,
think 1t must be ''Woman's Rights -
The President . line must draw,
And 20 approves the Eight Hour Lsw.r
Bat, bear in mind, he doesn't say
That We can't draw full ten Hours Pap,
Senator Sprague 10 very strange.
Perhaps he's undergone. . change.
II 20, 1t IL . work Of Grace,
Or. possidsy, work Of Caass.
Minister johnson likes good wines,
And SO he very often dimes"
While Motley, in the usual way,
Takes dinner only once day.
Seward goes home, bat doesn't stay
Somehow he's happier ascay!
Andy goes home, and has to stay
Impossible to get away,
The Susquehanna Railroad War ;
You wonder what 1t Ill was for!