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A Reconstruction Letter.
Good-natured of Douglass to die as he did,
And to leave us of one of our rivals well rid,
With a handsome excuse for a lengthened oration
From the East to the West, at the cost of the Nation!
We'll go down to St. Louis, and come around home
By the grand Southern route, since all roads lead to Rome.
Things are turned: what a change from the future you'd fix on,
That I should be cheered South of Mason and Dixon.
Have they come to our side, or we shifted to them?
A delicate point—howsoever, ahem!—
We go in good company, since Brother B—ch-r
Bids fair to be Davis's favorite preacher:
'Twas a master-manœuvre—to make him speak out;
Since his letter to Cleveland he can't face about.
It was Walpole—himself, they say, not over-nice—
Who said, "All these people at last have their price;"
