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Locke, David Ross, 1833-1888 [1872], The struggles (social, financial and political) of Petroleum V. Nasby... embracing his trials and troubles, ups and downs, rejoicings and wailings; likewise his views of men and things; together with the lectures Cussed be Canaan, The struggles of a conservative with the woman question, and In search of the man of sin. With an introduction by Hon. Charles Sumner. Illustrated by Thomas Nast... (I. N. Richardson and Company, Boston) [word count] [eaf635T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
I've heerd from Savanner! I hev read uv it. Fancy the The follerin impromptoo cuss and wale (ekally mixt) reflex Hart-sick, weary, alone, bustid. Gone-up, flayed, skinned, hung out. Smashed, pulverized, shivered, scattered. Physikt, puked, bled, blistered. Sich is Dimokrasy! Alone I sit, like Marius, among the ruins! Alone I sit and cuss, and this is my cuss: Cussid be Calhoon, for he interdoost us to that painted Cussid be Peerse, who consented to the Nebrasky bill, wich Cussid be Bookannon, who favored Lecompton, wich peeled us. Cussid be Breckinridge, who woodent support Duglis, and Cussid be the post-masters — may they bekum suddenly Cussid be Grant, and Sheriden, and Rosecrance, for they've
Cussid be them ez went in the army Dimekrats, and cum out Cussid be Vallandigum, wich went a practisin law, leevin [SPESHLY HOT.] Cussid be Sherman, for he took Atlanta. And he marcht thro the Confedrisy, and respected not the His path wuz, like Moses's, lit with pillars uv fire and smoke, His path is a desert — lo, the voice uv the Shanghy is heerd And the people in the South lift up ther voices and weep, And he took Savanner, and cotton enuff to hev satisfied And he turns his eyes towards Charleston, and is seriously He started with three-score thousand — he stopped with The wind bloweth where it listeth — he listeth where he As the lode-stone is to steel, so is his steel to the Georgia Who will save us from the fury uv this Sherman? who will Johnston he beat, Hood he fooled, and Wheeler he flogged. Lee wood do it; but he's holdin Grant, and can't let go So he cavorts ez he wills, a yearlin mule with a chestnut Bitter in the mouth uv a Dimekrat is quinine, bitterer is gall, We hev bin fed on victories lately, and our stumick turns. Played out is Davis, and Dimokrasy hez follered soot. The Dimokrasy is turnin war-men — they are bowin the knee
Voorhees will yet be a Briggadeer, and Vallandigum will For tho John Brown's body lies all mouldy in the grave, his I ain't the rose uv Sharon, nor the lilly uv the valley — I'm I bilt my politikle house on sand — it hez fell, and I'm under Uv pollitix I wash my hands, I shake its dust orf my few Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.
Locke, David Ross, 1833-1888 [1872], The struggles (social, financial and political) of Petroleum V. Nasby... embracing his trials and troubles, ups and downs, rejoicings and wailings; likewise his views of men and things; together with the lectures Cussed be Canaan, The struggles of a conservative with the woman question, and In search of the man of sin. With an introduction by Hon. Charles Sumner. Illustrated by Thomas Nast... (I. N. Richardson and Company, Boston) [word count] [eaf635T]. |