The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1864-10-22
George Francis Train on Lincoln.
HA! HA! HA! Nobody hart!

Arise! arise! for Freedoms sake.
And strike down Abraham Lincoln.
Two PIcrUREs.-Time-same week and
day and hour.-Twenty thousand dead and
dying. The wounded left on the battle field
Fire Fire! See the woods burn. No,
enough to die. Not enough to be hacked
to be pieces and live among the wounded
but these white men must be burned upon
the field of battle 80 that Slavery may be
abolished
HA HA! HA! Nobody hurH
While this tableaux amuses this kind
hearted President--before the dead are bu
ried-before the charred bodies of the burnt
soldier is removed. he sends Arnold Oglesby
and Staff to the Cooper Institute, New York
to wake up public opinion to influence the
Baltimore Convention.
Hal Ha! Ha! Nobody hurt,
Our Union Eagle isnot Dead
Again his great wings are spread
| To swoop upon the tyrant's head,
And strike down Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln and Herman are very like Mem
phstopholes and the President. Both 80
honest Meph., however, is no match for
Abraham. Abe the first day would change
the Bye Laws and Constitution of Pandemo.
mum as military necessity. This reminds
us of a little story. Once upon a time I
went to the opera. Herman that night was
grand. Gold foil under his eyes. How
they g are. Imitation horns. Red and black
dress. Cloven feet. One of which Just
touched the stage The Guitar Song wa,
encored. | looked to see who led off. -
There in private box sat Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States, with those
little hands of his. Tha, handsome face
lighted up with Satanic fancy. A battle was
raging at the time, and thousands were sen,
in the moment Of military murder to meet
their God. AS Jim Lane would say, Great
God! what strange resemblance. I have
never been able to shake off that impression
That terrible chorus rings in my ears over
every new batch Of grave yards. That levi.
ty of the Black House wakes me up at all
hours
Ha! ha! ha! Nobody hurt A Pyramid
OF dead. Higher than that of Egypt. That
slavery may be abolished. That the Union
may be dissolved That league with He'll
and covenant with Death. That the flag
may be dishonored. Tear down that flannt.
ing rag. That the Republic may be destroy.
ed. For slavery mast be abolished.
We have been deceived. Meph., is the
Father of lies. Periodically for three wears
they have stated that the Southern army was
demorazed. They lied. They said Il,
Sumpter it would be over in sixty davs.-
They lied They said when Donelso Hen
ry, Columbus, New Madlid-Gantt was the
rebel General in command He abuses Cop.
perheads now-fell, that peace was At hand.
They lied. Listen to their damnable chorus
over the graves of brave and injured peo
pie.
Ha! ha! ha! Nobody hurt. They said
when Hudson, Vicksburg and Gettysburg had
added to the hecatomb of dead, that peace
was hard by. That the war was over.
They lied. They said that this was not a
niger war for Abolition, and the Constitu
ton should not be tampered with. They
lied.
Give us some Rotten Boroughs. So
West Point bows to Boyd. Major General
Gilmore report yourself to Major John Hay
The Majo orders the General to throw fif-
teen hundred white men into nigger trench
for three electoral votes. But has that
brought back the Union? One hundred and
fifty thousand more are under the sod in the
army of the Potomac. But has that brought
Down with the flag. Trample it in the mud
Tear the Constitution into lamplghters-
Break up the Republic. The fanatics say
SO, that slavery may be abolished. Our ma
tional debt in sixty was one hundred mil.
lions. Now it is two thousand millions.
But has that brought back the Union9-
Our commerce is destroyed on every sea-
But has that brought back the Union? The
political generals are still pegging away
Roll in the dead SLAVERY MUST BE ABOLISH
ED. shall fight 1t out on this line If 1t
takes all Summer. That reminded Lincoln
of the tale of the virtuous cat. Pretty soon
there will be howl against Grant that will
shake the nation. If he intended fighting it
out on that line, why 60 to the White House
at the cost of eighty thousand soldiers, when
he could have gone McClelan's road with
out the loss of a man! Never was such
butchery known before Was it Ny PLAN
that the Army of the Potomac should be
one vast slaughter house?
Ha! ha! ha! Nobody hurt. Hark.--
What's that? The ambuauces are passing.
Hear those groans. That very moment the
President was reminded of little story. A
widow was at the White House. An orphan
child near by They waited till the contrac'
tors had left with the last bawdy joke
Hear the chorus:
Ha! ha! hal Nobody hurt. Already one
hundred and fifty thousand widows and five
hundred thousand little orphan children de-
mand that the tyrant take his hand off the
throat of the nation!
What soil bul spurns the coward slave,
Oh, liberty is for the brave,
Our cry be Union or the Grave,
And strike down Abraham Lincoln.
The authorities of San Francisco are taxi