New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-05-30

REJOICE We old men, because as things art
gong now your ancient optics shall once more
see peace on earth, good will to men, and
your skinny fingers thrill with the long-for.
gotten magnetism of halfdollars that glitter
and cllnk.@ Leap for joy, ye aged women,
because ere long calico, tea, sugar, and cam.
pnor Will be back at old prices; open your
toothiess, cat-fishy mouths and MARBLE sweet
songs OF deiiverance. loot the tympanum-
cracking rams horns. Howl rapturous no.
sannas, ye fea-bitten hound-pups, and let the
gleefui catgut squeak. Pipe forth your glad
ness, oh jassacks and nightingales and gan.
GERS. Croak We frogs; squeal we hogs. Flap
your wings, and scream your shrillest notes
OF victory, oh, invincible shanghai of Free
dom. Let volcanoes blaze, and festive tar
barrels crackle and CLEAN. Let torch-light
nod to bonfire and cannon boom their mighty
peals. Let rocks, cataracts, and hillsides,
bull-calves, oceans, CULTS, lakes, and mill
dams, men, women, and children, tops,
poodles, beasts, birds, and reptiles, all crea-
ton, animate and inanimate, burst forth in
one tremendous, deafening, laundering, sky
splitting roar of triumph, joy, and praise.
For Caucasian patriotism and common sense
have prevailed, and Radicalism, the cunning,
the brutal, the bloody, is doomed to speedy
and irretrievable overthrow. Let the
country tear of her widows weeds, and
array herself in her brightest and come
lest duds. Let Columbia get herself a new
waterfall, love of a bonnet, a skeleton skirt
with panier attachment, and a set of distract
ing curls, and execute a gay old Virginia
shndig with the Goddess of Liberty and the
statue of Washington, while blind Justice
seated on the head of barrel labeled odd
Constitution plays the fiddle and grinningly
yells, 'GallOpade ALP Let JOY be uncon-
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time is coming at last! For the Caucasian s
policy has been adopted; the Caucasian 5
ticket has been nominated, and Radicalism,
the treacherous, the murderous, the insa-
tiate, the devilish, is dying, Afric, dying.
acknowledgement! Hurrah! Three times
three thousand cheers, and a view-halloo for
Horace Greeley and b. Gratz Brown, the
philosopher and the statesman.
=" Hank! bark! Unfold your ears to the
dimensions of saddle-skrt, or a Missouri
legislators auditory flaps. What means that
mighty, all-pervading roar, which, like an ever
swelling, widening, deepening, giant wave of
glad acclaim, comes sweeping over all the
land? Like unnumbered and innumerable
shattered hogsheads of auricular perfume, it
flies upon the wings of every gale. 1t thun-
ders along the hoary Atlantic's storm-lashed
coast. 1t reverberates amid the vast, abys-
NAL canons, rugged crags, and grizzly-in-
tested, solemn gorges of the cloud-punching
Rocky Mounts, in whose shadOwy solitudes
the sun has set his trundle-bed. 1t is MUIR
INJURED upon the periwinkle-strewn shores of
the great Northern Lakes. 1t is whispered
beneath the sun-lit and mOon-lt orange
groves of the beauteous Flower Realm. 1t is
muttered on the dreary confines Of Moose
head, Kennebec, and Sysladobsis. 1t is
croaked in the green scum-covered swamp
nurseries Of bulligators, frogs, and serpents,
where weird gray-bearded forests nod their
patriarchal heads above the tidal turbidity
of Arkansas, Chattahooche, and Altamaha.
And it is chanted, echoed, hummed, strum-
med, and beloved, from Saskatchewan to
Popocatapetl, from Narragansett to Corpus
Christi, from Dry Tortugas to Vancouver's
Isle.
"'Tis the voice of hopeful millions, pro-
claiming, with one accord: No Democratic
National nominations! The farce is played
out, the curtain down, the lights extinguished
and actors and audience dsmissedv"
1t is difficult to say what position under the
administration of Greeley will be high enough
TO appropriately reward the services and the
abilities of DoDan. He ought to be in the
Cabinet, if there is no other place wherein
his eminent graces of language and ideas can
find wider sphere of employment.