CARRIER'S ADDRESS.
FOR A VICKSBURG PAPER, 1875.
Another year has closed upon This half-distracted nation;We look around and view with pain Our fearful situation.Hard times knock loudly at each door; While men who pay the taxesTurn with their bleeding hands the stone For rogues to grind their axes.
High-handed villainy is dressed In ermine robes judicial;And what was termed disgraceful once Is simply, now, "official."The sweat is wrung from honest brows To fill the rascal's pocket;And juries packed by bondless men To clear the felon's docket.
