Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-04-12

eng Post, q few years ago, claimed
for the Dutch the origin OF Yankee
Doodle. He said that the harvest
laborers, who in summer, migrate
from Germany to the low countries,
or Holland, where they receive as
much buttermilk as they can drink,
and a tenth Of the grain secured by
their exertions, had song with the
following chorus:
''Yanker didel doodle down,
Didel, dudel, lantern
Yapke, viver, voover, vown,
Botermilk and Tanther."
This account is apocryphal, to say
the least, for the words in the above
verse are neither German, Dutch,
nor any other known language on
the face of the earth.
Our "Southern brethren" who
have decidedly ugly way, at the
present time, of showing their broth
erhood, and whose "first families"
according to their toasted and adj
mired correspondent of the London
Times says, "If we could only get
one Of the royal race of England to
rule over US we should be content"
alsentiment "varied a hundred ways"
repeated to him "over and over
again" and who "regret the strange
result and consequences of the old
war of independence, have naturally
discarded Yankee Doodle. South
Carolina, by legislative enactment,
forbade the future celebration of
Fourth of July and the use of YAM
kee Doodle, Hail Columbia and Star
Spangled Banner /; and soon after.
ward the poet laureate, we presume,
of the Southern Confederacy' (for
the British Government they long so
much for pensions poet laureate),
put forth the following, entitled
Farewell to Yankee Doodle"
Yankee Doodle fare you we'll,
Rice and cotton flout you ;
Once they liked you very well,
Bat now they'll do without YOU
Yankee Doodle used to treat
Old Pompey as a neighbor;
He didn't grab his bread and meat
Nor cavil at his labor
But Doodle now has got so keen
For every dirty shilling,
Propose job, however mean,
And Yankee Doodle's willing
Doodle, too, has had the luck
To set a new religion
kind of holy zeal to pluck
Atevcrybodys pigeon
Dcode's morbid conscience strains
With Puritan'c yigor,
To loose the only friendly chains
Which ever bound Niger,
| Yet Doodle knows as well as |
That when he's come and freed them
He'd see a million niggcrs die
Before he'd help to freed them.
Yankee Doodle sent us down
gallant Missionary,
His name was Captain Johnny Brown.
The Priest of Harpers Ferry.
With pixies he tried to magnify
The Gospel creed of Beecher,
But Old Virginia lifted high
This military preacher.
Yet glory to his name Is sung,
As if with sin untainted
The bloody wretch by Justice hcng,
| BY Hgotry is satnted.
| Yankee Doodle now good by,
| We spurn thing SO rotten,
Proud independence Is the cry
Of sugar, rice and cotton.
| Atlanta, Ga, February LIST, l7el.
l would humbly advise our South
ern brethren, when they sing this
Farewell" to hum in soto roice,
voice, sufficiently clear for the ear OF
their Northern brethren, something
like the followings
| King Cotton was a monarch bold,
| TIL rcgical treason
With promises OF untold gold
! Deprived US of Ger reason.
| King Cotton now without the aid
| OF England France and Prussia,
| Spain Portugal or Belgium,
Or sert-releasing Russia.
is growing weak in every limb,
And treml,es Hke a noodle,
And we had better make our peace
| With angry Yankee Doodle.
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