The Portland daily press., 1872-11-26
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE.

The Postmaster will rise merrily in the
morn and draw his pay, but he shell not be
one of us.
The Assessor shell warbe ez he pouches his
pay, but we shel not warble, for pay we shell
| draw not.
The Custom-house officer shell hev horses
ana chariots, and men servants, but we shell
pe IN rags and shel go on foot
vision rises before me-
Lubbock, whose skin is the color nv moo
in9,asses, keeps the Postofis at the Corners.
Tonock VIII be Assessor and will yex the
| righteous. ' ''> 'A0
shel go back with my throat parched. and
without the wherewith to buy an assuager.
shel go TO Baseom and shell say, ''Give
me, pray thee, to drink
And Bascom shel harden his heart and stiff
fen his neck, and shel say, 'Likker is cash.
His bottles shell be filed with new whiskev
and old Bourbon shel be hev in his casks, but
/ shell be continually dry.
His bottles shell gurgle, but the gurgle there
OF shel not be for.me, but for the stranger
within his gates.
Like the lime-kiln shell my throat be-like
the great desert
And Pogram and Pennbacker, who vuz to
hev stood at the receet NV customs, will hev
to go to work. .r
With their bands viii they hey to labor, or
they will hev nought to eat
Life in Kentucky will be NV no avail, for
the monotony thereof will be burden.
The niggers will vote in peace, and their
heads will we not dare to bust.
There will be factories at the Corners, and
school houses will abound
There will be school marms with ringlets,
and niger children shell read
Railroads will be built and the men NV the
North will come among us, and we shell be
driven out,
The sound NV the revolver will be no more
heard in all the land and the shotgun will
rust.
Maine likker-laws will be passed, and the
bowel enlivener will no more be poured out.
For Democracy is dead, its chips hez it. pass
ed in.
Bookannon it endoored, Mcclellan it stood,
Seymour 1t survived, but Greeley wuz too
many for it and it died the DEATH
We sed to Greeley, 10, we are weak
carry u.s." And he answered, saying, 81
viii" and strateway climbed upon our shout
ders.
Wat could carry sch burden-wat Good
carry so great load and live.
He he'd no strength, and no strength he'd
We've tried to carry each other, and we
founder in the ditch by the wayside
ShoOd the foolish man ask me, Lo-which
was the Enthusiastically or the Democracy?
shood say Go to-it is conundrum-I give
it up.
The jimpson weed falleth in the autumn,
but it cometh up in the spring, but we hev
fallen and we shel never rise agln, for we are
dead at the root, and the seed is rotten in the
pod.
SIMPSONS hare wuz shingled, and he wuz
weak, but it growed agin and he wuz strong.
But ours win not grow agin for we hev
none to grow. Our enemies hev snatched us
bald-headed.
Now let me die for the waters NV woe en-
compaseth me.
We played our left bower and our king, but
10, our enemy held the right bower and the
ace; to a tour-flush drawed we, but we did
not fill, and no stamps he'd we to raise EN-
out. ~ aaF-
We are cleaned out and nary stake hev
we left.
The treasury will be safe, the tax-gatherer
will live, the debt shell be paid, and we shell
gnash our teeth.
For Grant shel reign, and Boutwell, and
Fish and Sherman shel hold up his hands.
The repeaters shell languish, for the law
shel be strong, and the Ku Klux shell hunt
their holes.
Life is dream-hope deloosion, and
Greeley snare. Let us die and be at peace.
i shel go home tomorrow. Home! did
say? Alas! j hev no home. Will Deekin
Pogram receive me? Will Bascom entertain
me? Will not the despair that will pervade
the Corners steel their hearts agin me?
Heaven grant that they may not hear the
news till git back, and git so settled that
they can't dislodge me.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY.
(Wich wuz Postmaster but never will be
agin.)