Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-07-27

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Very 10th to obey this instruction, I Wot;
In his private opinion
The Ancient Dominion .-f- ....
Deserved to be pillaged, her Sous TO be shot,
And the reason Is easily noted; e.
Though this part Of the earth
Had given him birth,
And medals and swords, -H -- I.
Inscribed with hne words,
It never for Winfield had voted.
Besides you must know that our First Of Commanders,
Had sworn, quite as hard as the army 10 Flanders,
With his finest Of armies and proudest Of navies,
To wrsak his old grudge against Jefferson Davis
Then forward the column he said TO Mcdowell,
Aud the Z,uaves, with shout
Nos. isrcely cried out
"ro Richmond or Ill.," Il omit here the vovsl)
And Winfield, be ordered his carriage and four,
A dashing turnout, to be brought to the door
For a pleasant excursion 10 Richmond.
MajosGenersl Scott
Had there the spot
A splendid array .....
To plumber aud Stay;
Ia the camp be might boast
Such q numerous host, .-
As be neye- had yet
In the battle field set;
Every class and condition Of Northern society
wero in for the trip, most varied variety
In the camp be might hear every lingo In vogue,
"The sweet German accent the rioh Irish brogus.'
The buthifal boy
From the tanks Of the Shannon
Was there to employ
His excellent cannon,
And beside the long alss of dragons and artillery
The Zouayes and Hussar,
All the children Of Mars,
There were BARRIERS and cooks
And writer's Of toeks,-
Toe chef de eaisin. with hs French bills Of fare,
And the artist to dress the young officers hair,
Aad the scrbblers all ready ct once to prepare
An eloquent story
OF conquest and glory;
And servants with numbsress bxkss OF Sillery,
Taouyh Wilsoa 10 Senator followed the train,
A. distance quite slse, to conduct the champagne
While the fields we're 50 green and the sky was 30 blue
There was certainly nothing more pleasant to do
Ca this pleasant excursion to Richmond.
In Congress the talk, as said, was Of action,
To crush out iastanssr the traitorous faction.
Ia the press, and the mess,
Tney sauld bear nothing les
Than to make the advance spite Of rhyme or oil reason
And at once put an end 10 the nsolsnt treason.
There was Greeley,
And Ely,
Tae blood -tbirsty Grow,
Add Hickman, Chs rowdy. not Hickman the beau)
Aud that terrible Baker
who would seize on the South, every acre,
Aud Webb, who would drive US all Into the Gull, or
Some nameloss locality smelling OF sulphur;
Aud with all this bold crew
Nothing would do,
While the fields we're so groep and the sky blue,
Blu. to march on directly TO Richmond.
Then the gallant Mcdowell
Dove msaly the rowel
OF spur that had nsver been won" by him.
In the flank OF his s:eed,
To accomplish deed,
Such as never before hal been done by him;
Add the battery called shermsns
Was wheeled into line,
While the beer-drinking Germans,
From Neckar and Rhine,
With MIME and wager,
C,mo on with swagger,
Full Of fury and lager,
THE day and the pageant we're equally ans)
0l the sds we're so green and the sky was % blue,
Indeed Twas a spectacle pleasant to view,
As the column pushed onward 10 Richmond.
Ere the march was begun,
In spirit Of fun,
G sneral Scott 10 speech
S nd this army should teach
The Southrons the lesson the laws TO obey,
Aud Just before dusk of the third or fourth day,
Should joyfully march into Richmond.
lie spoke of their drill
Ard their courage and skill,
And declared that the ladies Of Richmond would rave
Or such matches perfection, sud gracefully wave
In rapture their delicate kerchiefs in air
At their morning parades on the Capitol Square.
Bat alack and alas
Mark what soon came to pess,
When this army, In spite Of bis Alttsries,
Amid wars loudest thunder
Must stupidity b!under
Upon those accused ''rnssked batteries"
Then Beauregird esme,
Like tempest Of Gamo,
To consume them in wrath
Ga their peiilous path
And Johnston bore down in q whirlwind to sweep
Their ranks from the field
Where their doom had been sealed,
As the storm rushes the face of The deep;
While swft on the centre our President prest,
And the foe might descry
In The glance Of his eye
The light that once blGzsd upon Domed's crest.
Mcdowell MCDOWELL weep, weep for the day
When the Southrops you met in their battle array;
To your confident hosts with its bullets and steel
Twas worse than Culloden to luckess Lochel
o. the Generals green and Old Scott Ia now blue
And terrible business, Mcdowell, to you
Was that pleasant excursion to Richmond.