The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-06-12
AvaOng those old rules


Not taught in the schools
these-sat gresa hands should not play'wth edsa
That ene may be wasted by going too fast;
That tho Jolly shoemaker should stick to his last;
Ihat seldom is there sufficient excuse
Eor tailor to turn up his nose at goose;
Inasthc lawyer trick'd out as a general s NOS
mat tho solder presuming TO dabbe IN law
y APT TO bo plncbd like tho silly jackdaw.
This idea applied
With due care, as his guide,
would have been great saving to Geueral Burnside
In cases where no has just played the v'rago,
n gay Cincinnati, and up in Chicago;
For his ate exhibitions Of folly and fury
A accuser, and sheriff, supreme Judge and Jury
Meuld have all been avoided But now. as guess,
He dnds himself in most beautiful NESS
That the thing is provoking,
phis thing OF revoking
An edioe just issued, wo all must confess
Oh, cesar oh, goryl
IL Is an old story:
Tho hero Of Ne wbern and that slim of dry land,
Thrown up by tho sea- known as Roanoke lsland
Had failed on tho dread Rappahannock's dark flood
Had iost there legion OF soldiers in blood,
And mired' horse, foot and dragons" in the mud
Had failed in Virginia, because there anlucky.
sHes the man, said Old Abe, ITO be tried in Kentucky
Ohio. Indiana and young Illinois.
he knows all about them He's ono OF our boys.
Ke will make the secesh dance
We will send him among them and give him chance" /"
Ihus Burnside, with vice royal powers possessed,
Left the East for stunning campaign in the West.
With the first blows he struck he
Astonish'd Kentucky,
State "art and -'arf'' from the very begiLa;ng-
The seCesh In fix, he
Sent down into Dixie
And set all the contraband darkeys to grinning.
And nexe, rather spry, obi
He astOnishod Ohio:
onapt up Vaandigham and-hDw could be do soS
Adjudg him the fate Of poor Robinson Crusoe.
But here Honest Abe nterposed to
3he sentence, and made 1t, fear, rather worse,
In sending the man, with general release,
10 talk 70 JEFF Davis his notions OF peace.
vain expedtOn--the Mormon chief, Brigham,
Was the fellow 10 talk down this man Valandlgham.
NO copperhead-native, French irish or German
The convict should, then, have been sent to Utah,
10 learn the true meaning Of freedom aud law.
In catching him Burnside caught only Tartar,
And gave him the fame and tho name OF martyr.
But next, Pm afraid,
Bold Burnside dspayd
More f0Oshness still In his newspaper raid
IN attempting TO muZZle muitle the press
Win his vermlion edicts, which made him no less
Yhan q grand mandarin or bashaw with three tails
Commanding obedience or filling his jails-
Till he made such muss,
And raised such fuss,
b the East aud the West, such dreadful pow WOW,
That Honest Abo Lincoln
No longer could wink
euch things without raising terrible row.
- ne mildly admon!shed his three tailed bashaw
10 give up tho chase, change hs base and with draw.
And so circumvensod,
1he bashaw relentej.
Lev us hope ho has duly and truly repented;
Wm strike at tho armed rebel hories in Kentucky,
Nor 60 about fighting with windmls again,
- no did IN his recent Quixotic campaign.
powerful meeting.
A br0theriy greeting
q newspaper editors held at the AstoP,
y al shades and stripes save the Abbe McMaster--
AboIitionlsts, copperheads, Gentiles ana Jews
q all nations, all creeds, all political views
4ave resolved as o unit that treason treason;
Snas Justice is justice and reason rs reason;
nat all tho press gang arc band 6f brothers;
Seae what they demand they concede unto others;
MAT they stick 70 the broad constitutional right
- growi and 70 wrangle, 10 which they delleht
0ey WI have the privilege 70 letor their gas.