Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-03-23

SAM w AGONY.
In the dust Nv hoomiliashen arc We.
Ashes We throw upon our heads by the
scuttle iull.
Hnlrcloth We wear next TO cur skins, fig
geratlvely.
Haircloth We would wear next to our skins,
actooally, ef We could git any one 10 trust Us
for a supply.
There be three things which are too Won
derful tor me, yea, four which I'm blest ct
know
Wat the dimocrisy wantid Nv a high jint
commishn at all.
Why it didn't hey = dimecratic high lint #
ii he'd to hev one.
Why it didn't bust the concern afore it wuz
everlastInly too late when 1t found 1t VAIN /
q dimecrat high jint
Why We wuZ Gust with men in the leader
ship which hedn't cunnin enuff to win by
strategy, or courage enuh to take by force.
The Comics are but Il feeble folk.
We are Comics ef there ever WIZ SIGH.
Cussid be Morton, cussld be Blaine, cussid
be Sherman, cussid be Edmuuds, cussId be
Davis, and especially cussid be Bradley.
For he wuz the eighth man, and he Good
ent rise above partizanship fur enuii TO vote
with Field and Clifford.
jority in the high jint, and its tcss-up
wether he don't support Hayes after all.
Wv wat uyale wuz the buyln up NV the st
Loois convenshun, wat good wuZ the bull
dom i'll Looseaner?
Nv wat yoose wuz the riile-clubs NV South
Kerliny, and wat good did 1t do TO colonize
lnjeany?
The ants are people not strong, yet they
prepare their meat Ill the summer.
We prepared our meat last summer, but 1t
spilled III the curln.
Our smUke-hOuse is bustid, and our Lams
is not
-Four years OF Hayes, four years Of waitin
and longln.
There will be niggers in the post ofiises,
and the faithful will stand outside and CRASH
their teeth.
For three things Dtmocrisy is disIuietod,
and four which nearly killed it:
1ilden, Hewitt, FeltOn and Field.
FL they'd he'd II much sense az they he'd
money, we'd never BIN made Nebuckhed-
nezzcIs NV, and biu TUNED out to grass III
tins way.
That ansLont Asy ran mite hry liked 1t,
for ther wuz no B.scom's IN Babylon Tor INN
to refresh lissclf i'll. but We don't.
Watts the yoose NV holdin the keerds tf
VOC don't dare to bet on em2
There ale three things wich Ii never salts
fed, yea, four things say not 1t is enuti -
the grave, IL dimUcrat wlch wants Ills, my
stummick wich is not and never wUz filled
with water, and the I'LL behind BIsconI' b
counter.
Iilden and Reform is defeetid, the dino
crat wich wants oils will want it still, my
stummi,k will take water, periorce, Bascom's
till will be empty, and the grave will be Hlled
with starved dImocrlsy, while the radlkels
shell WAX fat
The iroots that our souls lustid after hey
departed from Us. The things after wich
our mouths watcred Is gone from MS. and We
shel ind en- no more at all.
1ilden and reform Is died. and bsrried.
ANA III the same gave Is berned all our
hopes.
We stand over the CARCASS Nv reform, and
weep; mt, and Morriszcy, and Cr'nIn aud
Wood and our trrrs dram cur systems.
The dlmociatic camp IS damp with teers
and we hev not the whcreHIthl to replace
the moischer that goes from Us.
IIlden despares Nv punty III government
and will 20 back To Illond wrechm.
MorIIssey scl the government may Keep
ON beng corrupt, ior all lie kccfs. ana he ls
gong back To his faro banks.
Field ecz there amt NO hope of puriiyln
the government. and he wall 90 back to de
frndlu thieves
And the VAST nulutooJ Nv drnocratS wich
huugered Tor po,tuili,es, relationships, iur-
nm ml,hns, e"nsulslnp-, AVID places NV all
sizes, kinds aud ,.IIu, u~hcns, remark, Noon-
anImuusly, that tl.,I amt no yuuso ia tIyin
To hey u pure Su,,lGmtnt, and That II may
20 to room iur all they LeeT. and tins one
goes back t. his bar that one To hIs three
kcerd monte, the Other To- his burglary, and
the rest to tho burteriu.
wood hcv saved the country, but u the
country didn't want 10 he saved 1t may be
tothered
10 Moo York wil 60, and will set
up my tabernacle there.
Ii long ez there /. whisky Their Will he
dimucricy, and Their / shel ilouIsh among
the faithful
will rent me lar room, and will wear
II plug hat. and he II stat, suiun, ami hcy POI
lItlklc miloocuCc III the SIXTH ward
will he cartn nv fifty, and git TO be II
alderman
will go to the l,gisacher. and will do Tor
the state wat the nation Ieioosrd.
The stun which the ledrel builders rejected, |
will become the he'd NV the state corner.
Honey shel yit come out NV the carcass,
Tor shel 20 where the carcass IS
Eascom remnrkt That the prospeck NV my
levin the Corners. mItlgutid, somewhat. hi
srccf at tho defect NV 'tlldeu. There Is NO
wi, - he sed, that hrzen't some good III 1t.