The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-25
TIE GRANTUM LAUDAMUS!

oh! for forty Beecher-power 70 chant
Thy praise low bully Of Government
Which namest az thy chieftain o. B. Grant,
With h;s attorney Williams, both hell oens
IN r.;s;no Cain. Brave coupled 80 they sent
mighty war feet to . quiet town,
"A sav.-., tbousand soldiers, with intent
v;,lo;r n act mn. who'd been knocked down
D. a. noor neonle whom he'd robbed. Thy
frown
oh Grant was black, as cen the very neil
within tbv heart, which sent it to thy face.
Thou tho1ghtest too, perhaps, twouid ssrlke
Orsaar. within the souls Of that proud race
Whose crime with thee is, they will not debase
Themselves to own thee other than thou art.
brutal man, bankrupt in every grace
Or virtue which inspires noble heart,
And makes the hero act . her0's part.
Ye gods tits very sad to see so great
nation and so noble - was once
This people, left abandoned to . fate
Which gave tAem for it's chieftain such Ounce;
For legislators such set of runts
And t.house hangers On-a venal SGT.
These make the party vote, which now confronts
All decent legislation. They forget
The people have voice. Twill thunder yet.
Zen now its angry muttering 10 heard.
State answers back to State throughout the
land.
Dead Louisiana has the Nation stirred.
She now lies prone, beneath the mailed hand
OF prostituted power. Behold them stand
Grant, Williams, Morton, Kellogg, Judge G)
Durell,
oHo md ckuik ryus1kv hon
The Nation sees them n0,c; it KNOBS them well;
And on them soon will pass judgment fell.
But what cares Grant? He has his pet bull pup;
His cottage by the sea; his fine cigar;
And last and best Of al, his whisky cup;
And bosom friends to share them; here they
Tom Murphy, Williams land his wife, the star,
On which, in vision wrspt he often gazes),
Then his relations, who string out SO far;
The very thought Of them the mind amazes.
Perhaps for quiet musings, Helen Blazes.)
Jksllogg and Morton, Packard and Durell,
Beckwith and Dibble, Warmoth, Noses too,
IL chandler, Bon Butler, Pinchback comes In well,
Billings and Sypher, (who can count few,
Longstreet, (whom Kellogg thought would won
.ders do,
But didn't, and spoiled the villains caculation,)
With other dozens like them, make the crew
Upon Grants Ship Of State, to guide the Nation,
The chosen friends of his administration.
60 " Oh Timel thou beautifer Of the dead"
EDost think that thoa oouldst beautify this set
Were twenty million ages on thy head,
'Twould be the toughest job that ere you met.
. And then you could not do it. They would yet
In all their black deformity remain
A mongrel crew, who nothing did beget
But crime most foul and dark, the which will
stain
Fair history's page, and rend her soul with pain.
Bat dear Louisiana, how shalt thou
Shine forth in beauty Thou hast suffered
long.
Gods Providence has chosen for thee n0,o
lot most noble. "Sufer and be strong"
Yea, coming centuries shall sing the song
To age. yet unborn OF al thy glory
How, under all this deep and damning wrong,
Thy faith was bright, thy virtue pure. The
story,
Touching, sublime, win kndle old age hoary.
And youthful hearts shall swell with strong de-
sire
ToE nopIo ooeoS anu maioenS oyoo WILL weep
For those brave, noble souls, who, meath the fire
OfTyranny's base hirelings, sank to sleep,
Martyrs for freedom. Memory will keep
Their names and virtues green within her
bower.
Their comrades, now, while mourning, wait in
deep
Impotence the fast-nearirg vengeance hour
When comes to their loved State her long-lost
power. Frs