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The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
be took, And the war man, you know, he is our country, And the angel who writes all our sins in a book Puts the debit to him, and to us the per contry. "Parson Wilbur he calls all these arguments lies-- Says they're nothing on airth but just fee-fawfum, And that all this big talk of our destinies Is half on it ignorance and t'other half rum. "Parson Wilbur says he never heard in his life That the Apostles rigged up in swaller-tail coats And marched round in front of a drum and a fife, To git some on 'em office and some on 'em votes. "Well, it's a mercy we've got folks to tell us The rights and the wrongs of these matters, I vow; That we've got cotry lawyers and other smart fellers, To drive the world's team when it gets in a slough." Now, who on "airth" would have dreamed, after that, that "Parson Wilbur" would have "rigged himself up in a swallow-tail coat and marched round in front of a fife and a drum?" Who would have imagined that the very people who sneered