FAMILY HISTORY: POETRY Collection written by Elsie Strawn ARMSTRONG
  
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  Last summer I made a visit
      To the City of Lacon,
  To see my friends and nephews,
      Nieces and brother John.
  
  There are the finest horses
      That I have ever seen,
  And in the largest flocks
      A feeding on the green.
  
  Greenbacks will not buy them
      Nor gold take them away,
  For they are carefully reserving them
      Against an evil day.
  
  If the traitor or abolitionist
      Should get up an insurrection,
  For Democrats to ride
      And give them some correction.
  
  There is as brave a set of lawyers
      As ever yet were tried,
  And quite a host of clerks
      And tradesmen there beside.
  
  And in that vicinity
      A living all around,
  Are patriotic Democrats
      As ever yet were found.
  
  The Democrats are peaceable,
      Law abiding men,
  They love the constitution
      And the Union as it's been.
  
  But the traitorous Abolitionists,
      That bloody, wicked crew,
  They have drenched the earth with blood,
      'Tis horrible, yet true.
  
  Their cup of indignation
      Must now be nearly full,
  Such battles as at Fredericksburg
      And on the run called Bull.
  
  Should glut this thirst for carnage,
      And of blood be satisfied,
  To quit the field of slaughter,
      Go home, and there abide.
  
  The traitorous politicians
      That millions have been making,
  Destroying of the Nation,
      Their blood and treasure taking.
  
  But avaricious principle
      Wealth cannot satisfy,
  With Dives they'll have their portion,
      I fear, soon as they die.