The Van Buren press., 1861-08-14


the following:
[By Special Electric telegraph
Message of Old Abe to the Federal Con.
grcss, July 4, 1890.
Once more. Representatives Senators, all,
You come to my capital. swift. at my call:
IT'S we'll for you, we something important to do
In this most disagreesble national stew
For since + came hither, to run the machine,
Disguised in Scotch cap, and full Lincoln green,
There's the devil to pay in the whole d-n concern,
AZ from Cameron. Seward and Chase you will learn.
Yet. thougt everything here of burst-up gives
Tn certain yoai put II all right in the incoming
=. se.de. Z. Ell s. yeu, I. Be on the alert. !,
Tive started no war Of Invasion. you know,
Let who will pratend 20 deny it-that's so;
But saw. from the White House, an impuaent rag
Which thav told me was known as JEFF Davis flag,
A waving above Alexandria high.
Insulting my government houting the sky
Above my Alexandria (isn't it, Bates?
Retrccessions humbug-what rights have the
States y
So ordered young Ellsworth to take the rag down
Mrs. Lincoln craved it to make new gown
But young Ellsworth he kinder got shot in the race
And came back in galvanized burial case;
But then Jackson the scoundrel he got his desert,
The panic's fictitious, and nobody's hurt.
1t is true sent steamers. which tried for . week
To silence the rebels down there at the creek !;
But they had at Game Point about fifty or more
Rifed cannon set up in line on the Shore
(Confound these Virginians, we never can tire 'em
Who made game Of our shooting, and crippled our
feet,
So We pr,:dently ordered hasty retreat,
With decks full Of passengers, dead heads, indeed
For whom Of fresh coffins. there straightway was
need !;
And still later, at Gresham's. they killed Captain
Ward
In command of the Freeborn-twas devilisb hard
But, ir spite Of all this the rebellion's a squirt,
The panic fictitious and nobodys hurt.
Herewith beg leave to submit the report
or Butler, the General concerning the sport
They had at Great Bethel near Fortress Monroe,
With Hill and Magruder, some four weeks ago;
ana Eere, let me say, a more reckless intruder
| never have known than this Colonel Magruder.
tie has taken the Comfort away from Old Point,
And thrown our pennsular plans out of joint
hle IN matters of warfare to him General Butler
Would scarce be thought worthy to act q sutler
And the insolent rebels ,rN cali to our faces
The fight at Great Bethel. the New Marke,
Races -
Then supcrsede Butler. at once, with whoever
Can drive this Magruder clean into the river
And shall be confident still to assert
That the panic's fictitious and nobody's hurt.
'Tis my province. perhaps, herein briefly to state
The state of my province, snrly. of late
Missouri and Maryland-one has the paw
Called martial, proclaimed through her borders and
cities
Both are crushed, Big Thing, make bold to say
it's.
Sci ~ Lc,Tis II s;lsi. aa3 Rs!t;,r,zra Ia.nh
They hear but the monotone roll hf my drum.
In the latter vile seaport l ordered Cadawalader
To manacle Freedom, and though the crowd fol
lowed her.
Locked up in McHenry, she's safe, it ia plain,
With Merryman, Habeas Corpus and Kane
And as for that crabid old dotard, Judge Taney
For much, | would put him on board the Pawnee
And make his decisions little more curt
For the panics fictitious, aud nobody's hurt.
And now, I'll just say what I'd have you to do
In order to put your new president through
First three hundred millions is wanted by Chase
He cannot run longer the governments face
And Cameron wants, for the Of Old Scott,
Some three hundred thou sand more men than he'
got ;
Then sixty iron plate ships, to stand shells,
Are loudly demanded Unjust have 'em) by Welles
For England. the bully, won't stand our blockade
And insists that We shall not embarrass her trade
But who fears the British I'll speedily tune 'en
As sure my name is E Piuribus Unum,
! For I am the whole United States,
Constitution and Laws, (if you doubt it, asl
Bates >
The star -spanglcd banners my holiday shirt
| Hurrah for Abe Lincoln there's nobody hurt