The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-03-20
NAsBY's SAM Nv AGONY.


Petroleum v. Nasby, ex-reform er
publishes in the Toledo Blade his las
''Sam Of Agony" over the Democrats
defeat:
In the dust NV hoomiliashen are we
Ashes We throw upon our heds b,
the scuttlefull.
Hair-cloth we wear next to our skins
fggeratiyely.
Hair-cloth We wood wear next to oui
skins, actooally, Of we Good get any
one to trust us for q supply.
Wood that goin about neerly nakid
wuz proper mode nv expressin greet
for then we Good 60 into the deepest
kind Nv mournin without changin oui
costoom.
There be three things wich are too
wonderful for me, yea, four, wich I'm
blest ef know:
Wat the Dimocrisy wantid NV a High
Jint Commishn at all.
Why 10 didn't hev q Dimecratic High
Jint, ef il he'd TO hev one.
Why il didn't bust the concern afore
il wuz everlastinly too late when II
found 1t wuzn't Dimecrat High Jint.
Why we wuz Gust win men an the
leadership wich hedn't cunnin enuff to
win by strategy, or courage enuff to
take by force,
The Comics are but feeble folk.
We are Comics ef ther ever wuz sich.
Cussid be Morton, cussid be Blame,
cussid be Sherman, cussed be Ed
munds, cussid be Davis. and espechly
cussid be Bradley.
For he wuz the eighth man, and he
coodent rise above partizanship fur
enuff to vote with Field and Clifford.
We electid Davis, which give them q
majority in the high iint, and its toss
up whether he don't support Hayes,
after all.
We he'd the game in our own hands,
fur We had stolen four aces.
But they rung in q cold deck onto
US, and held a strate-fush when il come
to show down, and they raked in the
pot.
Nv wat avale wuz the buyin up nv
the 81. Loois Convenshun, wat good
wuz the bull-dozin in Looseaner?
Wv wat yoosc wuz the riAe-clubs nv
South Kerliny, and wat good did it do
to colonize Injeany?
The ants are people not strong, yet
they prepare their meat in the summer.
We prepared our meat last summer,
but it spilled in the curin.
Our smoke-house is bustid, and our
hams is not.
Four years Of Hayes, four years Of
waitin and longin.
There will be niggers in the postof-
fses, and the faithful will stand out
side and gnash their teeth.
For three things Dimocrisy is dis
quieted, and four which nearly killed
it:
Tilden, Hewitt, Pelton and Field.
When think nv the idiocy OF these
men wich We trustid, and into whose
hands we gave ourselves. / lift up my
vsice and howl, with King Lempooel's
mother, Give not your strength to old
wimmen.
Young ones take away strength, but
il returneth; old ones destroy by their
counseel, and il is irretreevable.
Ef they'd he'd ez much sense ez they
he'd money we'd never bin made Ne
buckhednezzers Nv, and bin turned
Opt tO KIhn5 III llllN way.
That anshent Asyrian mite hev liked
il, for ther wuz no Bascom's in Baby
Ion for him to refresh hisself in, but
we don't.
Watts the yoose NV holdin the keerds
ef 700 don't dare to bet EN-?
We stand over the carcass NV reform
and weep, me, and Morrissey, and
Cronin, and Wood; and our teers drain
our systems.
The Dimocratic camp is damp with
teers, and we hev not the wherewithal
to replace the moischer that goes from
us.
Tilden despares NV purity in govern
ment, and will GO back to railroad
wreckin.
Morrisey sez the government may
keep on bein corrupt for all he keers,
and he is going back to his faro banks.
Field SEE ther amt no hope of puri-
fyin the government, and he will go
back to defendin thieves.
wood hev saved the country, but ez
the country didn't want TO be saved il
may be tothered.
To Moo York will go, and will set
up my tabernacle there.
Ez long ez ther is whisky ther will
be Dimocrisy, and ther / shall flourish
among the faithful.
will rent me bar-room, and will
wear a plug hat. and be statesman,
aud hev politikle inHooence in the
sixth ward.
will be captain Nv fifty, and gil
be alderman.
will 60 to the legislacher, and will
do for the State what the nashen re-
foCsed.
The stun wich the federel builders
rejected, will become the he'd NV the
State corner.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,