After reprinting the Whig and Republican songbooks from 1844 and 1888 I thought I’d be done with this. But hey, it’s time to stand up for truth. Who knew that Teen Vogue would be a bastion of hard-hitting journalism? The CIA officially determined that Russia intervened in our election, and President-elect Donald Trump dismissed theContinue reading “I’d Thought I Was Done with Politics”
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John C. Calhoun On A Velocipede!
More filler from the Whig songbook: What would be thought of the morality of the Democratic party if it should take this odious, this detestable administration by the hand, or admit it into its council? — Washington Globe. Why, under such circumstances, we would think of the “morality” of the party pretty much as weContinue reading “John C. Calhoun On A Velocipede!”
A Folk Song? No, A Polk Song!
THE FIRST POLK SONG. Tune— “Old Dan Tucker“ Ah, Matty Van’s a used up man,And Lewis Cass he cannot pass,And as for our old friend Tecumseh,He’s lost amidst the “Rumsey Dumsey.”Hurrah, hurrah, the Nation’s risin’For Harry Clay and Frelinghuysen. There’s Stewart he can’t run at all,And Buck’ kept quiet in his stall,The Loco’s are uncertainContinue reading “A Folk Song? No, A Polk Song!”
Brand New Song, Same Old Tune
A NEW SONG.TUNE— “Old Rosin the Bow“ The story we’ll tell you’s surprisin,’But then you will find it no joke;The Locos who wish’d to take poison,Have determined at last to take (poke) Polk,Have determined, &c. The most of them swallow’d Van Buren,But found him too little to choke —Large doses of Cass they did pourContinue reading “Brand New Song, Same Old Tune”
JAMES D. MACDONALD 