Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1882 — The Battle of the Pyramids. [ARTICLE]

The Battle of the Pyramids.

The world has heard much of Napoleon Bonaparte, and, among other things, of his battle of the Pyramids. It was doubtless a great battle, and before it began Napoleon remarked to his troops that “forty centuries were looking down upon them.” But Napoleon’s battle of the Pyramids was not a patching to the battle of the pyramids which took place in the United States of America on the 7th of November, 1882. In that great battle the Democratic pyramid upset the Republican pyramid, burst it, and gave it the appearance of an lowa shanty after a cyclone had embraced it and given it such a hug as only a cyclone can give when out on a tear. After the battle the Democratic and Republican pyramids presented about the 4 following appearance:

DEMOCRATIC PYRAMID. OHIO. TEXAS. NEVADA. FLORIDA. GEORGIA. INDIANA. MISSOURI. ALABAMA. NEW YORK. MICHIGAN. ARKANSAS. L O U I SIAN A. TENNESSEE. NEW JERSEY. MISSISSIPPI. KENTUCKY. DELAW A R E. MARYLAND. CALIFORNIA. CONNECTICUT. WEST VIRGINIA. PENNSYLVANIA. MASSACHUSETTS. SOUTH CAROLINA. NORTH CAROLINA. REPUBLICAN PYRAMID. NEW HAMPSHIRE. RHODE ISLAND. MINNE S O T A. NEBRASKA. WISCONSIN. COLORADO. V E R M O NT. VIRGINIA. ILLINOIS. OREGON. KANSAS. MAINE. . lOWA. It is scarcely possible for types to do justice to the condition of the Republican pyramid. It is not .only upset, but badly shattered. Its most solid blocks are seri >usly cracked, and some < re so much broken that they give to the structure the appearance of having been warmly caressed by an earthquike.