Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-01

That shall digny and bless the Spanish race
Caseler there is moving i'll the power and EARTH
To bind the mighty Bourbonds emulation;
And give to waning monarchy iadlyeaolet BIRTH
That shall prosper and assuage the Spanish nation.
When the cos gets ilumned with the glow of better light
And they rise above hereditary laws,
They'll obterate the lines that divide the Left and Rt
And, uniting will advance the common cause
The Republic though in infancy, is learned beyond its years.
And has proved to be diplomatic sage:
By counervaing that filed the land with boling fears
With Protocol that honors any age.
The pirated Nryinus and slaughter of her crew,
Beneath the proud protecting stripes and stars,
Demanded sterner than the going through
a battle fought on paper, minus sears
But Jauvear conquered and his hauginess subdued
And Cuba saved from sanguinary stife;
IL which friendly nations would have mad mbed
And friendship severed with the rnoful knife
But should the vessels registry at all prove incomplete
Andt lawloss filibuster band;
We should invoke pardon at the noble Spanards feet,
And surrender with the vessel, our demand
The pomp of wars red pageany and clash of bitter steal
Have respite for penitence of soul;
And pestience and famine give their victims time feel
hope beyond the graves impatient goal.
But where's the respite found for those who the slept
Amid the waves white messengers of DEATH
Borne the winds wild carnival that DER them Needless swept
More rqlnous than Neltuncs angry breath!
Two hundred souls sank helpless down beneath the brny tide
With arewes fondy tremblying each lip
Two hundred prayers ming the gloomy vasncss wide
I5co Moa$oad wait the coming of the ship.
Along the wharf, with gsenng eyes and nermted breath,
Stand loved ones vainly watching for a sail;
While ship and sail firmly moored in the still port of death,
Too distant from the shore of Time to hail
New York on The O,9r to tel tln Of
For one in every thousand gets his due; Tweed in,
They've punched hole through He'll Gate and let old Boss
But its doubtful if the statesman will get through.
They shaved his head purpose to avail themselves of locks
And put pair of griddle breeches on,
And promoted him Chief Auditor Blackwell Island stocks,
For the twenty -four per he'd over drawn
His craftsmanship has vanished in the gloom of prison walls
And the remnants of former doubtful ane
Are left to waste their fragrance in the vitated Halls
OF the City that trembled at his name.
He sleeps among the ons who their country defed,
IN the mantle of his perlidy composed
No peuitential impulse for the public he beguied,
Or the shame his bauofu history disclosed.
He's the only that's fallen the vivid constellation
OF the Government from Legislative Halls
The only that represents the Congress of the nation
AS an Envoy to court OF prison walls
This accidental circumstance should not bege pride
Or vanity in any present member; [tried,
# Tweed misfortune had been theirs when he caught and
There would have been Congress last Dcccmber.
But weary in reviewing the evils in the land
| And gladly would employ nober pen;
would rather with the mobiles and the maser-slits stand
And pity, than censurc, other
And yet, there mcIilnent that turks within the soul
Which ripens into life beyond restraint
And oft the yisage will in titlations roll
That silcnces fasillious complaint.
| would not be Modoc and fight with Captain Jack,
Nor, either, would / like to luna with him
And could not be organst and carry my back
An organ and little jumping Jim
would be Congressman aId take and oath steal
And vote the peoples money all away;
Then have the local papers all demanding a repeal
OF the law that increased my yearly pay