Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-12-30
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Come steady reader of the News
Events, 50 great, have batted with time,
You You shouldn't expect them be noted in rhymei
Through all future time Radical shall win 81.
So battered with bullets up with y
Star Of the South, redeemed Tennessee
From Ku- u-Klux-rebelion md tyrany free
Has Has laid 9. he harsh spoiler SO low in the dust.
TRs Rs ae h sGRe Rs Is iu4ne in 1 a the e pS h trust 88
her Gis what at marty matter % e s0Sf
since sine 10y loyal or disoya not Sanbo can pass
Was ever there sander 50 vile voted rae ae A'7
By those who send Butler represent you? s ssEs
If a Post Office hop,d carries county or more,
Ought not the would be officials feel very sore, 9
dais ahSa ops SHOP
Was their watShword on the eve Of the hsht;
$ Ss quite Ts
II he speaks Of III that at letter JIM tell him tha, he lies
o o5n 5 TS ers S s 3 YGe then
swaT1 had beat the the bushes bout him
% S @ h hn a, mGn IN % @ @n9 Gd % the Sha @
To cry persecution ion from from the Rebel * EkIqx m Kan -
Though brass's a weighty metal failed fight
There Fayette McNIullin, the WAGNER Of old,
In Indepspde1s ts, de he you'd be and the party he'd split
While Bob HnsSes thought he saw saw gold glitter nr
TMo ha The oo Of or nn ogms n hT b5 tn s9shn
The backes Of the pack in the Radical show;
And the Votes Of ten thousand v ready to WELD.
But the DAY Of election told where each them stood;
Independent F candidates Of Congressional taste
We've united the link. and completed the chain
And time not distant when wen enter the West
To reap her fair harvest and gather up her best
hopes high Rchmond virginad gathered there
Her Senators and sta esmen to try her cause with care
The & no%ers e & were So % % % @ it g % ht anu sreen
No tongue can ee describe it. no pen ITS picture t., draw
Full many corpse buried there within the capitol,
Vino crushed great iopray
i hangs til and s!irs every vein,
Whenever chance to think of it, see it yet plain.
But fn n the Psa
N NS sars esna 3 his
He sleeps valley. where he's glorious victories won
And all heroes, who ngty deeds have done
With the the We have very little care,
like both parties WHIPPED and Prussas humbled
Now let the make naughty dance
The boards Of our twin cities working
And the owners Of b9as say the hog Laws , a, bore
But look our city and you'll say tI iS S To1dS5 10 S6
And IN heading our letters we double up dates
vh9ggn & gf run Of G{ b Fe g % @ & ye & we % M ~n Out
s pGya % % are s@a sG%sTh%t so1t in pgb
For in d LAYING down our side walks the 8 a sHs enoac Uug
Narrow crooked the place of streets N "a
FSsEs FEn % at the e% IN the % 5 SSss ya I n
Though the Engineer compass was guided ed oy & witch @
They place beyond the bridge expressly for the show
They make thing rowbut ericse who dares9
Young and weddings still
A boy begins to think he's legal tend th)er Bill
Little girls alarmed, bulenghen out their dresses
the planest evidence they ready for aressesi
They the carpet early now, at six, eight and ten
dolls thrown aside they're eyeing OF the men,
Tse f,9is remark too often made e
We've weatered other year and improve
ments made,
enemies sought to lay In the shade
Ru Of their bitterness has made many friends,
Az the object of private ends
WE'LL the future bravey than before,
II your sympathy, and us rather more
gla TO and what
Civ dollar and then iieH let goi