The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-01-25
How Not to Settle 1t,

DR.. HOLMES On TIE PRESIDENTIAL nlrDDLE.
From His Poem of January t to the Famous Glass
OF 80, in the February Atlantic.
If could make you cry wouldn't try;
II you have hidden smiles I'd like to find them,
And that, although, as well ought to know,
Ihe hps OF laughter have skull behind them.
Yet when think we may BE- on the brink
OF having freedoms banner to dispose OF
All crimS0n-hued because the Nation would
Insist on cutting its own precious nose OF.
feel, indeed as if VIC rather need
sermon such preachers tie Il text on.
If Freedom dies because ballot lies,
She earns her grave; It's time TO call the sexton!
But if a fight can make the matter right,
Here elias smates, thirty men of mettle:
We're strong and tough, we've lived nigh long
What if the Nation give it us to settle
The tale would read like that illusrious deed
hen Curtus took the leap the gap that filed in
mus; "Flve-score years. good friends, as it APP
All last this people split on Hayes and Tilden.
And one hall swore stoutly it was tother:
Both drew the knife to the Nations life
BY whole sale vivisection OF each other
Then rose in mass that monumental class
Hold hoidN they cried, give us. give US the dag
Content, contcntr exclaimed with one consent
The gaunt eX-rebels and the carpet baggers.
Fifteen each side, the combatants divide.
So nicely balanced are their predictions;
And first OF all q tear drop each lets fall,
tribute to their obsolete affections.
''Aiau facing man, the genuine strife began,
Jack, jim ana Joe against Tom, Dick and Harry,
Each several pair its own account to square.
| al both were down., or one stood SOLITARY.
And the great fight ragged furious all The nighr
I'LL every integer made a fraction
Reader. would 81 know what history has to show
A net result OF the above transaction
"W hole coat-tails, four. stray Fragments several
score,
heap Of 7peetacles, & dear mans trumpet
AiA lawyers bricts. seven pocket -handkerchie1s
Twelve canes wherowith the OWNERS used TO
stump 1t.
old rubber shoes, old gloves OF different hues,
lax bills--unpaid-and several empty purse
And, saved from harm by some protecting elIann
printed page WITH Smith'7 immortal verse.
9" Irites that claim no very special name
some useful, others chiefly ornamental
Pins, buttons, rings, and other trivial things,
W it'll various wrecks, capillary and dental.
also, one hag-'twas, nothing but rag,
And what device il bore it little matters
Red, white and blue, bat rent all through and
through,
q mon forever torn to shreds and tattcfs.
They fought so we'll not one was left to tell
Which got the largest share OF cuts and slashes
When heroes meet, both sides are bound to beat;
Hey tel>scoped like cars in railroad smashcs.
$50 the great split that bafed human wit
And might have cost the lives OF twenty millions
As all may see that know the rule of three,
Was settled just we'll as these civilians.
LAS we'll. Just so, not worse, nor better No,
Next morning found the nation still divided
since all We're slan the inference is plain
They left the point they fought for undecided
ii not quite true, as have told it YOU
Inis tale of mutual determination,
10 minds perpeXed with threats OF what come,
next,
Perhaps may furnish food for contemplation.
10 cut mems throatS to help them count their ole.
Is asinine-naY, Worse-uScidan folly,
Blindness like that would scare the mole and bat
And make the liyeliest monkey melancholy.
say once more, rs ! have said before,
If Voting for Iildens and our Hayest-
Means only fight, then. Liberty good night
Pack up yonr ballot box ana 90 TO blaxcs
nturl your blood red flags, you murderous haag,
on petrOleuses of Paris, fierce and toamy;
Wen sell our stock in i'Iymouth's blasted rock,
fuil Gg our stakes and migrate to Dahomtyt