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The Nashy Letters.

I soc thv beauteuus FORM appear
Ike one returned from wauderinZs bright
To bless ny lonely moments here
The Na,by Letters.
-UE REsuLr.-YR. NASBY ISDUIGEs u s. FRO
LOSCED WAL.
CHAPPAQUA,
(Wich is in the State w Moo York.
November :. l572.
hey beeri the news, Grant l. elected.
acknowledge it. lie l. the most e-eeISl
candidate | ever he'd anyknowledge ", lie
i. much elected that the other candidate =
vote might, very properly, be put under the
head u scatterIn.
Tne great and good CIR, which l. 10
saw that sodden old ass Gree 'ey. i profound
n afiected-more 80 than am. lie Ism -
much used To beiu beat ez / am. and then he
hezn't the philosophy TO indoor 1t. tie
reelv he'd a noshen that he wuz agoln 10 be
elected. He knowd. he sed, that he he'd
agin him the trained cohorts OF oppression,
bot be never feared There wuz the people
He depended onto the peopleand the moon
He felt that he he'd personal strength ana ne
had given il full course 10 be developed lie
he'd Shown hisself everywhere. No matter
about the result in October. In October he
tionable men he'd been put upon tickets
which weakened en-. But now a the con-
test was narrered down 10 him and Grant he
he'd no doubt NV the result. lie he'd no
doubt that he he'd carried Ohio, lnIlana.
Illinois. Moo Hampsheer. Connecticut, shoor,
and e. for Moo York he wished he he'd
ez many dollars ez he'd carry Moo York
The only thing that troubled hun now "az
the formation ola cabinet.
And the old l0Ouatic meandered on IN this
sort Nv style till the telegraph come IN short
and broke his dream ONO come fust, Penn
sylvsny next. lnjeany. Ilinoy, Michigan,
Connecticut, Moo Hhampsheer, each stag
germ blow. viii not dwell on the har-
rowin sene Weput him weepin TO bed al
, a IL, and | immeiitly packed my trunk,
putin into 1t, IN hi " absent-mndedneSN
10 which am subject, sich loose articles az
clothing and sich ez happened 10 be layln
around loose l shel heY yoose for every
thing that can cspcher.
wuz in most depresst condishen as
mind, and while in that state writ the io--
lowin, which may be Of some comfort 10 the
democracy who he'd longin eyes on post
Offices and sich Il WIZ an outgash " a
broken heart.
A PSALM OF DESPAIR
u
expectsshun a snare
Man roeth out in his strength and
boasteth what he viii do--he returneth
scooped. with his tail feathers dragglin the
dust.
Wat is man that he should take pride 10
hisself-wat i the SOY Nv man man that he
elevateth his horn
The OK nips grass and provideth not for
1.-THE horse wanSeth not the post oins thar
be may live
The coney be 4 feeble folk, bur MS habits
are simple, and lie needeth not small change
for drinks
Weeping wall and waiting weep.
Mine eyes are artesian wells, witch spout
eth brine continually.
In the wilderness abide I-tlrre l. 200
comfort IN life
For the great and good Greeley Is beaten
and NY hopes are bustid.
| turned me 10 Ohio and Ohio anssrS.
" Grant"
To lnjeany We held out our hands and In
jeany SCI " Grant"
Illinois we iuplored and Pensylvany we
entrested, but Illinois and Pensylyany both
say 3D." Grant"
October wuz pilen, but Noyemh-r is
pizener.
As November i colde, than October, -
is the woe wicb l. on rs now worse than The
woe we encountered theit.
We offered en- Greeley but they iaft
at Us.
We took Greeley to or hearts and 'ed,
d" LO, We are like him
We whitewashed Sewn our and Blair, and
Breckenridge We painted four COATS.
And we sed We are no onger w the tribe
Nv Bo0kannon. We be eva ez VOC are, only
- Il. .
The dem0crat rose il " rath sayln I'll
must hey a republican, gb,e me Grant and
not Greeley
The republican sed %, Greeley may be
yet republican, but HIS surrounding are
not pleasant 10 the sIn' H. He l. With Blair
and Seymour. Kin a u ian fetch pitch and
not be defled ? And he voted for Grant.
He'd we got the demo Crats, We shO, ID hey
spoiled the elemy.
He'd We got the repu blikins, We shoe hev
conkered. and then Jh camp wood hes bin
ours. But we got nei ther Nv them.
And tae post Office are theirs, and the
CUSTOM houses likewi Fe
The postmaster viii rise merrily IN me
morn and draw his Fay, but he shel not be
one OF Us
The assessor shel MARBLE ez he pouches
bis pay, but we shel not MARBLE, for Iay We
shel draw not.
The custoln-house officer shel hev iDrs,'s
and chsriots and men servants. but We shel
be IN rags and shel 20 on foot
4 vision rises before me
Lubbock, whose SKI Is the color NV moo
molasses, keeps the postofis at the Corners.
Pollock Will be assessor and will yeX the
righteous.
! shel 60 back with my throat parch he'd,
and without the VII erewith TO buy an as
suager
l shel ~ to Ba~lom and shel say, " Gave
me, pray thee, 10 drink "
And Bsscom b el harden his heart and !
stifen his neck md shel say, "Likker j. F!
cast -
Hi bottles shel be filed with new whisky |
and old Bourbon shall he hev in his casks, |
but shel be continually dry
HIS bottles snel gurgle, bat the gurgle /
thereof She not be for ne, but for the stran 4
ger within his gates
Like the limskiln shel my throat be--ike /
the great desert
And Pogram and Pennibacker, who R1lz |
20 hey stood at toe re,eet Nv customs, WI |
have 10 90 10 work.
With their bands viii they hev 70 labor. /
or they with nought TO eat
Life in Kentucky will be Nv no avail, for
the monotony thereof VIII bea burden.
The nlggers vii! vote IN peace, and their
heads Will We not dare 30 bust.
There will be factories at the Corners, and
school house viii abound
There will - school ular1ns with ringlets,
md niger children shsl read.
Railroads will be built and the men nv
he North will come among rs, and we >hel
De driven out
The sound Nv the revolver viii be no more
heard IN al the and, aud ':he Shotgun viii
ust.
Maine likker-laws will be passed. and
he bowel enlTener viii 7 more he poured
Ut.
,essed In
ssoasEuDon it endo ored. Mcclellan il
'ooc- Seymour II survi we'd, but Greeley waz
% many for 1t and 1t led the death
We sed to Greeley, 6" Lo, We are weak
airy Us" And ne answered, saying, "
''ui, and stratewa. climbed upon our
houlders.
Wat Good bear siea a burden-wat Good
AIRY so great 6 load and live?
de he'd no siren; ,th, and no strength
30 We've t-ied 10 { AIRY each other, and
We soundered in tho ditch by the way-side.
ohooo the foolish n an ask me, Lo. which
FuI tia Seskest-61 ,eley or the democracy?
shcod' say, TO to is conundrum-I
i've it up
HE Jimpson sesI { alleth in the autumn,
al II cometh up in TIE spring, but We hev
Iilen and We shall never rise agin, for we
, the pod. - '
osmpsons hare VIZ shingled, and he wuz
seE' ous (" grow saEn and he waz strong.