Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-12-31

Or curly hair, and ebon skin,
Nine hundred, to the strife go in,
And, when the fatal charge Is DER,
Three hundred men come out--no more
Six hundred dead sufficient quite
To show us whether blacks viii fight.
Port Hudson falls and 10 we see
The Mississippi once more free.
For grandest failure ever made,
See Morgan on his great Pay-Raid.
Again is Charleston close beset,
The end we cannot see, as yet,
Though Sumters smouldering ruins tel
OF many a fatal shot and she'll
And Wagner's fiery charges show
How black men into battle go.
Greek Fire by General Beauregard,
Is called by ugly names and hard
Internal" barbarous," and--Du tell
Clearly unconstitutional :"
But Sack of Lawrence in the night
BY Quantrell-" Good, he served 'em
right r.
East Tennessee is ours at last,
Ana Chattanooga we hold fast.
AT Chickamauga what was gained
Has never clearly been explained:
But what was lost why, Rosevans,
That everybody understands.
But lately Bragg has had to fly,
And Grant and Gloryt is the cry,
Banks pushes on, and makes stand
Far Off upon the Rio Grande.
For recent moves of Meade and Lee
Read " "Tweedle DUN " and Tweedle Dee.
Whenever Meade advances some,
Then read little Tweedle Dum."
When he is driven back by Lee,
Then read a little "Tweedle Dee
The Carrier for shame must sing
What would disgrace Dahomey,s king
howdies and Riots, Seymour's Friends
And Bullies, pledged to hellish ends.
AT Harrisburg see Roughs unite
And nuilify the sacred right
Of suffrage, and thereby secure
A Senator, a Simon-pure.
AT Albany the same is tried,
Ana Law and Order are defed.
Daggers and pistols rule the day,
And Rowdysm has full sway:
While Seymour, very cool and bland,
Can find no lawful means at hand,
No" Constitutional permit
To tell the Rowdies they must quit.
But Courage, sorely tried, endures,
And Callicot the Chair secures.
Wood's Roughs, defeated sneak away,
And Morgan proudly wins the day.
Detroit at present stands confessed
The Riot City Of the West,
Where Afric sad atonement makes
For other peoples bad mistakes
Bread Riots at the South appear;
And Nell-bred ladies-ain't it aueerf
Plead lack of bread, and many wife
Walks on without the staff of Life.
Darkest and dismalest the sky
Appears in sunny, hot July
When Terror reigns for three long days,
And Law and Order helpless gaze
BY traitors Of the darkest hue
inspired, the mob their work pursue.
The Government Officials quail
Before the fierce, unearthly gale,
AND jealousy and lawless strife
Make havoc sad of human life.
Ofcourse the Negro fares the worst
For Ham, the Bible says, was curst;
Though Greeley gets generous share,
Yet keeps the Editorial Chair.
And every day assurance gives
That he, like Marshfield's son, "StW
Licesr' Ae
But isn't it little queer,
That "Little Mac should get a cheer
When othsr Union men with groans
Are greeted, or knocked down with stones
Three bitter days of sad suspense,
OF hellish work, and wrath intense
When Seymour comes, and 10 it ends.
His graceful arms he wide extends
My Friends, says he, says he, "My
Friends
Far as my influence extends
promise quick to make amends;
And even now my Agent wends
His way to Abe for special ends.
Upon his going much depends.
Through him your Governor intends
TO stop the Draft" says he, "My
Friends"
And here the speech of Seymour ends
And here the mob it's wrath suspends
Though Uncle Sam, please understand,
Just 7oto had got the upper hand.