Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-02-25


To LET Won know that | am well,
i spans length yet or more from hell.
! also send petition signed
By loyal men who were - kind
Is to inlorse and recommend
For c!e'aency your wayward friend,
Please push il through and thus relieve
! rebel who his past sins doth grieve:
And You may tell each friendly Rad
That although was rebel bad,
M peni;encr Is deep and true,
More than dare express 81 you.
When Jcptha, Judge of Israel, fought
The Am0niti.h hosts, and sought
In PRAYER The aid of lSraers God,
To drown IL Cos in their own blood.
He made Il VOW he hadn't D.tlg"
And thereby lost his only daughter.
This, now, am sure old Jep rcpentcd
Until h" felt aln,,rt dementcd
Ii all of Holy Writ is true,
Old Pharuah did the Jews pursue
With numerous hosts intent on slaughter,
Until hc got neck k-dcep in water;
With penit4Ir" no doubt profound
His soul was filled before he drowned
And thousands evil ways have tried
Who felt rerentence ere they died,
But few have felt the deep contrtion
As lie v Ia sends you this petition.
Some for their crimes Get thrown in prison,
And some get ropes around thei. wien y
Some after death are sent 10 hell:
All these can bear their fateS quite WELL
But he who with CORY hand
Stirs mp rebellion III the land
Against the best government under the sun,
And fails III lis purpose, is forever undone.
No prison e.. him! Let no gallows be
built,
The red ocean Of hell is too mild for his
guilt,
That pit OF pcrdition where the devil and
his kith
Are weeping and wailing and gnashing of
their teeth,
Is too full Of pleasure! Let's event some
new plan
To punish and torture the rebeliious clan
Thus our lawmakers said, and with cruel
intentment
Went to work and concocted the Four
teenth Amendment
\ man can stand being hung or put in
Jail,
Face the guillo,ine, too. without turning
pale,
And pleasantly travel the pathway TO hell,
And plunge in as though without fear he
fell,
But just think, my dear Prock, and you are
no novice,
How q Kentuckian feels when he can't
hold Office
Old spain's inquisition, and the racks there
applied,
To torture mankind may be thrice multi
piled,
Then add gallows and Jail, and the for.
tunes Of hell,
And the figures you get begin scarcely to
tell,
The miseries ofhim whose scale ofdescend-
ment
Is laid down in law in this Fourteenth
Amendment
Not that he cares much for the Yankee
blood split,
Or for those he has wounded or those he
has kilt,
But his cup Of misery he thinks full enough
When he knows he's prescribed and can
never hold Office
Remorss and repentance express but con.
teE;men;,
When compared with the rule In this Four.
;esnih Amendment
Why It's bad enough, Prick. when As can't
get elected.
Il makes him fee! sorry, sepsntAat, deiscs.
cd.
But to say ne shan, run, o. ys gods what
contrition
Fills up mans heart in this awful coadi.
lion.
Such condition is mine, and 1, worries
me more
And pierces my soul to my hearts very
core,
And am sure when your friends can see
how am grieved,
They'll hurry up the cakes and get me re-
lieved.
Q! my country, my country, How I'd like
70 serveit
In some good, "a; otsice, for ! know Dc.
serve IT,
You may tell your friends, too. I'll remem.
Der in prayer.
Those who in relieving your friend shall
Aad III here give specimen prayer. by
For fear you may think I don't know how
TO pray:
Thou Ruler OF both good and bad
Look down and bless each friendly Rad,
Who hastens forward with agility
To free Jack Wills Of disability;
May pleasure on his pathway shine:
Nay he for Office never pine;
May he never know defeat,
Unless some Reb can get his seat.
May he live one thousand years,
His eyes be never wet with tears.
Except IL be with tears Of JOY,
OF pleasure mixed with no alloy:
And spend his days in sweet contentmenf,
Far fron the 6-d Fourteenth Amendment.