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Show ThE CRAY ON DECK. Some republican journals aro print ing this poem, which was originally published in the New Orleans Jiepuo-lican, Jiepuo-lican, an administration sheet, and attributing them to a democratic paper as an utterance of the EOutLern democracy. This rank imposture illustrates the fairness of political campaigning: THE GRAY'S OX DECK AGAIN, 'Why, b!cs my heart! sny, look hyar, Jim, Wtn did yim Rot to lownf Dog'on i f 1 aiu't rIbu, old bey; To ace you. Lutue, sit down, And w'H hoTp a lilk of llip ole, ole lime, Anil of tli biitlliM not fuiiUi in vain, Fiir ilio tiJo I'. turoeil, Iliu YaoLs uro iuii:ud, And tbo li ray's on dock again. It's many a yenr ilnce last wo met lu 111'' trench oe:r tin- old mud fort, Whan w oUtiiuo jillod lha Ynuks ap hih lu tlic uioru, uficr a govd nlht'd tiport. Yes, (hny eoojiud n In Lli oud, I know,; Tliouglril wcul BniiiMt our yniiu; Itut thu liilo bus turned, the Yfiuk uro ruluod Aud the tirny'i ou dock n;aia. Who do yon think Hint I s?cd this morn, A I will Led down the Avanoo, But old Baa fiuiius! jou know him well llo wiir ciptnln of ruu number two; And Uo Pfcid hb how wo were flcd. lly jins! You o'lyhliT boerd him proclaim llcw ho sl tho po6isli of a one-armed Yank, For I bo dray's on dock ugiin, Yec, Cooctoki is hound to tlx. tLeni now, nd to loach them a leniiD or two. wo ro gwiuo to i:t uacK.inc inborn mvj biuiu With ihelr army of buys in blue. Theu we'll shout hurriib! for the Southern Star, Aud tho laud of thu cotton aud tho cuue, , For our y'ar of juhilo has come, And the liray'a on dock n;ain. |