The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-11-23
NASBY.

THE REsULT-PETRoLEUM INDUCES IN
PROLONGED VAIL.
From the Toledo Blade.
CHAPPAoUA,
(Which is in the State NV Moo York;
Nov. 18th, 1879.
hev heerd the news! Grant is elected
l acknowledge it. He is the most elected
candidate l ever he'd any knowledge Nv
He is so much elected that the other can
didates vote might very properly be pu
under the head of scatterin.
The great and good CIR, which is tc
say, that sodden old ass Greeley. is pro-
foundly affected-more so than l am. He
isn't so much used to bein beaten ez T am
and then he hezent the philosophy to en-.
door it. He reeley he'd noshen that he
wuz agoln to be elected. He knowd, he
sed, that he he'd agin him the trained co.
horts NV oppreshen, but he never feared
There wuz the people. He depended onto
the people and the Triboon. He felt that
he he'd personal strength, and he he'd given
1t full course to be developed. He he'd
showd hisself everywhere No matter
about the result in October. In October
he was embarrassed by lokle tickets. OBJ
Jectionable men he'd ben put upon tickets
witch weakened EN-. But now that the
contest was narrered down to him and
Grant he he'd no doubt Nv the result. He
he'd no doubt that he he'd carried Ohio, In
jana, Illinois, Moo Hampsheer, Connecti-
cut, shoor, and ez for Moo York, he wish
ed he he'd ez many dollars ez he'd carry
Moo York. The only thing that troubled
him now wuz the formation Nv cabinet.
And the old loonatic meandered on in
this sort NV style till the telegraph come in
short and broke his dream. Ohio come
fust, Pennsylvany next, Inieany, Illinois,
Michigan, Connecticut, Moo Hampsheer,
each staggerin blow. will not dwell on
the harrowin scene. We put him weep
in to bed at A. NJ, and immejitly pack
ed my trunk, putin into it, in fit NV alb
to which I am subject,
SIGH losse articles Nv clothing and SIGH as
happened to be layin around losse. l shell
hev yoose for everything l kin capcher
l wuz in most depressed condishen NV
mind, and while in that state writ the fol
lowin, witch may be Nv some comfort to
the Democracy who he'd longin eyes on
post offices and SIGH. 1t wuz an outgush
NV a broken heart:
PSALM OF DESPAIR.
Life is dream, hope delooshen, and
a snare.
Man goeth out in his strength and boast
eth wat he will do-he returneth scooped,
with his tail-feathers draggin in the dust.
Wat is man that he shood take pride to
hisself-wat is the son NV man that he
elevateth his horn
The OK nips grass and provideth not for
1.-THE horse wanteth not the Postofiis that
he may live.
The coney be feeble folk, but his habits
are simple and he needeth not small change
for drinks.
Weeping l wall and wailing l weep.
Mine eyes are artesian Ills, witch spout
eth brine continually.
In the wilderness abidh There is no
comfort in life.
For the great and good Greeley is beat
en- and my hopes are bustid.
turned me to Ohio and Ohio ansers,
" Grant"
To Injeany we held out our hands and
Injeany seq Grant"
Illinois we implored and Pensylvany we
entreated, but Illinois and Pensylvany both
say "Grant."
October WIZ pizen, but November is pi-
zener.
AS November is colder than October, so
is the woe witch is on us now worse than
the woe we encountered then.
We offered EN- Greeley but they lafft at
us.
We took Greeley to our hearts and sed,
" Lo we are like him."
We whitewashed Seymour and Blair, and
Breckenridge we painted four coats.
Aud we sed, we are no longer NV the
tribe Nv Bookannon, we be even as 700 are
only more SO. But the people tlouted and
ieered.
The Democrats rose in wrath sayin: Eff
l must have Republican, give me Grant
and not Greeley.
The Republican sed: Lo, Greeley may
be yet a Republican. but his surroundings
are not pleasant to the smell. He is with
Blair and Seymour. Kin man fetch pitch
and not be defiled? And he voted for
Grant.
He'd we got the Democrats, we shood hev
spoiled the enemy.
He'd We got the Republicans, we shood
hev conkered and then the camp wood hev
bin ours. But we got neither NV them.
And the Post Offices are theirs, and the
Custom Houses likewise.
The Postmaster will rise merrily in the
morn and draw his pay, but he shell not be
one of us.
The Assessor shell MARBLE ez he pouches
his pay. but we shell not MARBLE, for pay
we shell draw not.
The Custom house officer shell hev hors-
es and chariots, and men-servants, but we
shell be in rags and shell go on foot
A vision rises before me.
Lubbock, whose skin is the color of moo
molasses, keeps the Postof,is at the Corn
ers.
Pollock will be Assessor and will vex the
righteous.
l shell 90 back with my throat parched,
and without the wherewith to buy an as
suager.
l shel 90 to Bascom and shell say, " Give
me, pray thee to drink"
And Bascom shell harden his heart and
stiffen his mock, and shell say, 'Likker is
cash."
His bottles shell be filed with new whis-
ky and old Bourbon shell he hev in his cask,
but l shell be continually dry.
His bottles shell surgle, but the gurge
thereof shell not be for me, but for the
cfro, nor xpt1;, ,r. b.,