The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-04-08
For The C,
The Colonization.

mere are lew now llVlnS VINO can tell,
Or form the least opinion,
/ What Elkton pluck may yet bring forth,
In this our glorious Union.
IT'S time, in sooth, they'd make start
AT something that would please them,
Lest building railroads and the like,
Should prove the means to tease them
TO death some day.
There's scarce project you can name
But causes agitation,
And makes the Court House square resount
With sonorOus conversation.
Some will favor base ball clubs,
And others shooting pigeon,
And some did grapple hip and thigh,
With Purdy and religion
On recent day.
Sometimes Sam Colyer comes to town
And charms them with his dancing;
And when young Oddly comes around,
All DER the streets they're prancing.
They'll bet what money they can raise,
Though their wives for bread be moaning
And one did run two-mile heat,
And on the grass lay groaning-
Near dead that day.
To see them ride velocipedes,
You'd split your sides with laughter -
For some would put them to their speed,
Regarding no hereafter.
1t proved sorry trick for some,
In shape of sad disaster
For the tall young Doctor and some more
Had broken heads to plaster
Right sore that day.
But all these games becoming stale,
They'll now surprise the nation
For some of them have struck a plan
To form colonization.
They called meeting at the Hall
To get the thing in motion, Isay
And now there're scores, I've heard then
That think they'll take a notion
To go some day.
l wonder if they'll find place
Where they can skulk from labor?
For should the leaders think of work,
They'll meet with little favor
But if the charters based on sport,
All honest toll deriding,
With ***** to insure their lives,
They'll not be long deciding
To go some day.
No doubt they'll send some one before
To find place to suit them,
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And all are free to shoot them
But if the Redskins find them out,
Our boys had better mind them,
Lest when they wish to "pull up stakes, -
They leave their hair behind them
No distant day.
There's one Sir John of great renown,
Was foremost in the caper,
The next in rank-well, call him T.,
The third an honest draper;
And he, Lang Syne, that dealt in snuff
Away down in the Hollow;
And cur catering friend who keeps shor
That smells of tripe and tallow,
Are going some day.
Then parting tears will flow like rain,
But do not know who'll shed them
For very few, who mean to go,
Whose homes will ever need them;
But when they get to Idaho,
Iii wager any money
They'll see the .iay-birds spread their tails
And off to Californy''-
For fear that day.
And when they pack their kits to start,
This one advice I'd give them;
Be sure to have full supply
Of pens and paper with them
For when they've seen the elephant,
It's ten to one the chance is,
They'll all be writing to their friends
For means to bear expenses
Back home some day.
But now we II let the matter drop,
And say no mole about it;
But hope they all may have good luck,
For life is dull without it
And when for ages yet to come,
Their works shall spread and flourish,
Their children will look back with pride,
And with devotion cherish
Their names some day.