All Sorts of Pittsburgers

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Excerpt from All Sorts of Pittsburgers: Sketched in Prose and Verse The interest manifested by the public in the character sketches ground out daily for more than a year by the "poetical machine" of the Pittsburg Leader, and the consequent demand for the publication of the best among them in book form, constitute the author's apology for the appearance of this volume. Changes have necessarily been made in many of the rhymed sketches, owing to the fact that under the conditions, political and otherwise, existing when they were written, a coloring was imparted the force of which would now be lost, and the retention of which might perhaps have a prejudicial influence. From some of the more aggressive political lyrics it is impossible to eliminate the tinge of strong feeling growing out of the policy of "partisan independence, " which marks the course of the Pittsburg Leader in all its departments. The professional politician is, however, a fair target, and the writer has, therefore, no regrets to express for having occasionally hit the bull's eye with an arrow of extra keenness in criticising the public record of gentlemen whose private life may be of an admirable character. At the same time, if, in seizing upon the grotesque side of human nature as a subject of illustration, the semblance of unkindness is anywhere presented, the reader should be prepared to make allowance for exaggeration due to a literary prerogative of which writers on rhetoric somehow omit to make mention, to wit: poetic "licentiousness." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.