Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 02, May 1, 1858 — John Shaqi
Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 02, May 1, 1858
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Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 02, May 1, 1858
New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government
All leaders of parties are plunderers,
and thus directly advocate the subversion of our liberties and the
public dishonor. God, alone, from the Revolution to the present hour,
has shielded the Americans from foreign and domestic adversaries,
with his beneficent arms expanded over our fertile vales, and fields,
and plains, and forests, and noble mountains, and has rescued us from
the Burrs and Arnolds, and Goths and Vandals, who strive to paralise
our progress in a pure and sacred civilization. But our disunion and
subversion are as inevitable as the advent of the morning sun, unless
some Washington, or Cincinnatus, or Brutus the First come forth, and
stab the incarnate devils down, and trample their worthless bodies in
the dust. Thieves, rapes, incendiaries, assassins, and traitors teem
like the Egyptian locusts throughout our borders, and the odious vices,
and bloody strife, and crumbling ruins, and all the horrors and havoc
and universal chaos of the Roman Empire, and other ancient States,
will be our awful doom, unless the wisdom, and virtue, and firmness of
our country rally in the Forum, and impart the principles of integrity
and patriotism to the people, and immolate the leading scoundrels and
traitors of the age. Thus only can we avert the overshadowing evils
that flit like midnight spectres through every street and habitation,
and will soon spread through every meritorious fireside. And thus only
can we avert the execrations of our posterity, for being recreant to
the Roman Fathers of the Revolution, and for not resisting with our
lives, the barbarians of the present generation.
NICE AND MODEST.—The son and son-in-law of Peter Cooper as Mayor and
Street Commissioner of the largest city of the Western Hemisphere,
worth half a million per annum.
Aminidab Sleek,
(Without a shriek
For freedom,
Or bleed ’em,
Or Sodom,
Or Gotham,)
Could make that sum at least,
And for life have a feast.
The office-holding Coopers
Are worse than the Hoopers,
So fat grow they,
On pap all day,
Throughout the year,
Which seems so queer,
For Reformers,
Or Performers,
Which was always so,
In this vale of dough:
Our eyes are wo!
O! O!! O!!!
Dev’l-in a Bakery.
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