Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-11-15

CospRDRIr x ROADS,
which 10 In the State OF ky.,)

OCtOp6T AotuS AooV'
The Cross Roads met at the meeting
house the mite after the October nestin,
.hs most espsshly gloomy sleeshun. 1t
wux ps tikslarly glooniest hev ever
witnest. Mslindy Pogram and Hannah
McPelter had spent the entire day pre-
p.rin the house for the ooeashen. They
drspsd the skulls nv the Yoonyun so
jsrs killed st Fort Piller, In FIVE can't
bombazssn, folded the Confsdrit flag.
which 10 our pride In mournin, and run
strips Nv black saliksr sll ever the
honse. The pictures nv JET Davis and
Borsgard wuz likewise draped, and
only two candles wuz put upon the
pulpit.
The exercise wus opened by siDgin
this hymn which l adapted for the &C.
casicn.
"plunged in a gulf of deep despair,
We Wretohed sinners lay,
The niggers voted everywhere,
Upon elecShun day."
After which read EN- the foilern;
WALB wv ASOIRH.
A Dinekratic man Ia Nv few days
and very full nv trouble.
He goeth forth TO the polls smilin In
the morning, and returneth at mite full
Nv wounds and broOses and petrifying
sores.
The Dimekra.ic party is too short al
both ends.
II 10 weak In the middle and No
strength abideth At the top or bottom.
The Lord 10 sgin the democracy.
In vain We prayed for short crops
and In vain cur aplioashens went up
for rinderpest aud hoofro! among the
cattle on > thousand bills.
Ia vain We implored for potato rot,
potato bugs, or anything else that wood
distress the Yank and make him howl
for q change.
In vain we invoked the aid Of the
wesvls and the Hsssian fly, and the
ohintz bug and the army worm, that
the husbandman should ourse the Ad-
mipistration and turn TO us.
L., the mora We prayed for distress
the more there wuz prosperity.
The crops we're good, and the prices
therefore bully, and what kin q Dime
krat do when there Is no trouble.
We preached hard times and they
shook gold and silver under our noses.
We said 10 the lsborsr, 10. you are
oppressed and he jssred, shown nv Us
his o saveins' bank book.
The smoke Of the furnace was to US
the smoke Of the torment.
The claug Nv hammers and the
whsezs Of the engine wuz our funeral
knsll.
We sent Blackburn and other b.iga.
dssrs to the north, but the people put
their tongues in their cheeks and
wagged their heads in derision.
We sed, 10, We hev q yoonyun soljer
for our candidate.
And they answered, sayin, verify he
hsz changed his yooniform.
They shattered Greeley and they
hev cracked Hancock between their
thumb nails.
We offered them free trade, and they
ans cred, sayin give rs tariff.
We offered EN- soft money, but they
replied, sayin no soft money in eurn.
We offered TO take the Government
of their hands, but they sed 1t VIVA
doin very well now, thank 700.
Gone is the post ofisss, and the GUS
tenn houses shell never know rs agin.
Gone is the hope ov psashuns and
the payment Of war claims.
Bascum will eth er hev to ehnt up
shop or foreolosc on our farms.
For his chalk il out and talk Ia
cheap, but likker costs money.
The mo0nshiners will be hunted In
the mountains and the jewellers on the
plains will 60 athurst.
The niggar Lubbock will continue In
our postofiis, aud Pollock, from Illinoy,
will. sit ct the seat Nv customs.
And Joe Bigler will yet be his depu.
ty and vex the people.
Wher shell fly 7 Wher Is the rock
that shall hide me
TO Moo Jersey The radicals will
kerry that.
To Dslswarsf They are reacheR out
their impious hands for that. 4
To Floridai That will swell the vote
for the fesnd Garfield.
To Mississippi The niger will vote
10 that mex. year, and it will be NO
place fer me.
To Arkansass RI goes Mississippi 90
will she. /
The niggers will vote, and he wild
.sE wages for his labor.
And his wife will not be ourn agip.
nor his daughter.
We shell not sell EN- ez paupsrs to the
,ighest bidder, they will own land and
mules, and SIGH.
We shsl see skeol ho7sss in the
outh, and preachers, AMI abomina-
hens.
And who kin tsll! We may have
ollin Mills and sioh things In the cor
RS.
FIR when the shivslry 10 bustid what
a to prevent the Ysnk with his money
rom comm down and p'ssessin the
and
We are helplis. g.. ia