American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-07-27
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MESSAGE
os Old DABE TO THE FEDERALsc0EGRESs
4TH JULY. 1861.
once more, Representatives. Senator's all
~ o1 come 70 my Capitol swift at my CALL
- sn' LOT you We something important to do
"A TINS most disagreeable national stew:
OF since came hither to run the machine
DSguised 10 Scotch cap and in fun Lincoln green.
Anere the devil to pay in the whole concern.
hs from Cameron, Seward and Chase Won will learn.
iet' though everything here of bustup gives
warning,
m certain you'll put it all right in tie morning.
80 to do as tell you be on the alert.
or the panic's fictitious and nobody hnrt.
nave started no war of invasion, you know.
Let who viii pretend to deny it-that's So
But saw from the White House an impudeEt rag
which they told me was known as jeff Daviss Gag
waving above Alexandria high.
insulting my Government. fonting the sky,
Above my Alexandria, Nsn't il Bates?
hotrocession's humbug; what rights have the
States?)
So ordered young Ellsworth to take the rsr down
Bot young Ellsworth, he kinder got shot in the race
And came back in a gavalized burial case;
Bat then jackson, the scoundFel he get his desert
The panics fictitious, and nobody's hurt
1t is true sent steamers which tried for a week
To silence the rebels down there at the Greek;
Bst they had at Game Point about fifty or more
Rifle cannon set up in a lire on the shore.
And SIX thousand Confederates practieed to fire EN-
(confonnd these Yirgnians we never can tire 'en =,
Who made ga me of our shooting, and crippled our
fleet,
so We proudly ordered hasty retreat,
With decks full of passengeFs-dead heads indeed:
For whom of fresh collins there straightway was
need.
And still later at Greshams they killed Capt Ward,
In command OF the Freeborn-twas devilish hard
But in spite of all this, the rebellion a spirit,
The panic's fictitious and nobody's hurt
Herewith beg leave to submit the report
OF Butler. the General. concerning the sport
They had at Great Bethel near Fortress Monroe,
With Hill and Magruder some four weeks ago.
And here let me say more reckless intruder
never have known than this Colonel Magruder
He has taken the Comfort away from Old Point,
And thrown his peninsular plans ont of joint. =
While in matters of warfare. to him Gen. Butler
Il 7.
And the insolent rebels will call to our faces
The flight at Great Bethel the New Market Races. ,
Then supersede Butler at with whoever
Can drive the Magruder clean into the river,
Aud shall feel confident still to assert
That the panic's fictitious, and nobody's hurt.
lis my province. perhaps. herein briefly to state
The state Of my provinces of late.
Missouri and Maryland-one has the paw
OF my Lyon upon her; and one has the law
Called martial proclaimed through her borders and
cities.
Both are crushed-a Big Thing, make bold to say
IL is.
st. Louis is silent, and Baltimore dumb,
They hear but the monotone roll of my drum
In the vile seaport ordered Cadwallader
To manacle Freedom, and though the crowd fol-
lowed her,
Locked up in McHenry, she's safe, It is plain,
With Merryman. Habeas Corpns and Kane.
And as for that grabbed old dotard. Judge fancy
For much would put him on board of the Pawnee,
And make his decisions little more cunt,
For the panics fictitious, and nobody's hurt.
And now I'll just say what III have you to do,
In order to put your President through.
First three hundred million is wanted by Chase
He cannot run longer the Governments face;
And Cameron wants for the use OF old Scott,
Some four hundred thousand more men than he 8
got.
Then sixty iron-plate ships to stand shells
Are Ioadly demanded (must have em) by Welles;
Fer England. the baily, won't stand our blockade.
And insists that we shall not embarrass her trade
Bat who fears the British I'll speedily tune EN-,
As sure as my name Is E Plnribus Unnn;
For am myself the whole United States
<s,r y.;,utnn aud laws fiP Won dpuht ii ask Batesl
The star, spangled banners my holiday shirt
H,rrah for Abe Lincoln there's nobody hurt