The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-11-28

and immeitly packed my trunk, putin
into IS. in a fit Nv absentmlndness TO
which / am subject, SIGH loose articles
NY clothing and SIGH az happened to be
LAWN around loose. I shell hev yoose for
everything l kin capcher.
vuz in a most depressed condlshen
w mind, and while in that state writ the
followin, which may be Nv some comfort
to the Democracy who he'd longing eyes
on post offices and SIGH. 1t wuz az cat
gush Nv broken heart.
PSALM OF DESPAIR.
Life is dream. hope delooshen, and
expectashion snare.
Man goeth out in his strength and
boasteth wat he will do-he returneth
SCORED, with his tail feathers dragglin
In the dust.
What is man that be shood take pride
to hisself-wat is the son Nv man that
he elevateth his horn ?
The OK nips grass and proyideth not
for 1.-THE horse wanteth not the Post
Office that he may live.
The coney be a feeble folk. but his
habits are simple, ard he needeth not
small change fer drinks.
Weeping [ wall and wailing | weep.
Mine eyes are artisan wells, which
spouteth brin continually.
In the wilderness oxide 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
Gre nt -
To Injeany we held out our hands and
Inieany seq Grant"
Illinois we implored and Pennsylvany
we entreated, but Illinois and Pennsyl-
ny both say Grant"
October wuz pizen, but November is
pizener.
As November is colder than October,
SO is that woe wich is on US now worse
than the woe we encountered then.
We offered EN- Greeley, but they lafft
at Us.
We took Greedy to our hearts and sed,
"Lo, ne are like him. -
We whitewashed Seymour and Blair,
and Breckenridge we painted four coats.
And we sed we are no longer Nv the
tribe Nv Bookannon, we be even as yoo
are, oaly more so. But the people hout-
ed ard jeeFed.
The Democrats rose In rath sayln Eli
we must have Republican, give me
Grant and not Greeley.
The Republican sed: LO, Gieeley may
be yet a Republican, but his surroundings
are not pleasant to the smell. He is with
Blair ana Seymour. Kin man fetch
pitch and not be defed? And he voted
for Grant.
He'd we got the Democraties, 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 Use merrIly in the
morn and draw his pay, but he shell not
be ole 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
horses and chariots. and men servants,
but we shell he in rags and shell 60 on
foot.
A vision rises before me.
Lubbock, whose skin is the color of moo
molasses, keeps the Pos tof1ice at the Cor
ners.
Pollock will be Assessor and vill vex
the righteous.
| shell 60 back with my throat parched
and without the wkereWith to buy an
assuagar.
| shell go to Bascom and shell say,
"Give me, pray thee, to drink.
Ard Bascom shell harden his heart and
stiffen his neck, and shall say, Likker is
cash
His bottles shell be filed with new
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his casks, but | shell be continually dry.
His bottles shell gurgle, but the gurgle
thereof shell 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 Pennibacker, who
wuz 10 hev stood at the reject Nv GUS
toms, will hev to go to work.
With their hands will they hev to la
Dor, or they will have naught to eat.
Life in Kentucky will be Nv no avail,
for the monotony thereof will be bur
den
The niggers will vote in peace, and
tier 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 ring
less. and niger children shel-read.
Railroads viii be built and the men Nv
the North will come among US, and we
shell be driven out.
The sound NY the revolver will be no
more heard 10 all the land and the shot
gun will rust
Maine likker laws will be passed, and
the bowel enlivener will no more be
poured out.
For Democracy is dead, its chips hcz
il passed in.
Bookannon it endoored, McClellen it
stood. Seymour it survived, busGreeley
wuz too many for it and it died the
death
We'd sed to Greeley, 10, we are
weak carry US. And he answered,
saying, 81 will, and strateway climbed
upon our shoulders.
Wat could bear such a burden-wat
Good carry so great a load and live.
He he'd no strength. and no strength
had we've tried to carry each other,
and We tlpundered In the ditch by the
wayside.
Shood the foolish man ask me, Lo.
which wuz the weakest, Greeley or the
Democratic PARTY? | shood say so to-
ii is conundrum-1 give it up.
The jimpson weed falleth in the au.
tumn, but cometh up in the spring, but
we hev fallen, and we shell never rise
again, for we are dead at the root, and the
steam is rotten In the pod.
SIMPSONS hair was shingled, and he
WIZ weak, but it crowd again and he wuz
strong.
But ours win not grow agin, for We hev
none 10 grow. Our enemies have snatch.
ed Us bald headed.
Now let me die for the waters of woe
enc0m paseth ME.
We played our left bower and our king
bat 10, our enemy held the right bower
and the ace to four-fash drawed we,
but We did not fill, and no STAN DIS he'd we
to raise EN- out.
W. GRE cleo ned ont and naru O stnL.