Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1864-02-09

And against tie plalitiffs
For costs aud damages
Or down cones the shanty
Justice. (44ma9ed). Take note. this
Till o the morrow stands adjourned. court
Coafomaded confusion.
SCENE w. Veterans overfake
Blackstone, Jun. armed with statutes aud
papers.
Chit Stand erect. Blackstone, Jud.,
Thy right hand to the Heavens,
And swear by God Eternal
That due allegiance thou wilt bear,
To Union. Constitution, civil law,
Military rules, confiscations.
Army regulations, proclamations;
Eschew all Copperhead designs.
To all the febels; not to speak SANDER.
Nor aid dstnning deed
Against The Union army.
All this, and more that's we'll;
Stop the lie, that, 4. to free the niggers,
And with white men make them equal,
Was the war begun. And swear
This Union shall forever stand.
And ours be a freedom land,
In spite Of Copperheads and traitors,
Vile tories and other agitators.
SCENE Veteran Chief merit
meets Senior Blackstone a0ho apes Jack
Falstof.
Chief. Stand, you'ran old Copperhead,
One of the straightendicular kind,
Sir, for two years pvs been servant
OF my couutry--ynu say, cuss We.
That I'm one of Old Abe's hirelings;
Just all as well, since we're well paid.
But sir, these two years and more.
We've faced the rebels. suffered hard at
While just such as you at home times.
Were scheming. plotting. voting.
With and for the Copperheads,
Who would hang Us. cut our throats;
Sir, were ron South beside rebel spy.
Wed shoot GU first ard then the other.
For of the two thou art tue chief
blackstone Senior. But, PM for
peace, not for fraternal strife,
For compromise, not for bloody war.
ChiJ. Peace shall go sleep with
Turks and infdels,
But till rebels yield, tumultuous wars
+" Shall kin with kin. and kind with kind
confound;
!" Disorder, horror, fear and reckoning,
:. Shall here inheri, and the land be called
!" The field of 'Golyotha, and dead mems
skulls.
!" Oh, if you rear ,hy house against this
house,
!" Ii will the wofullast division prove
!" That ever befe this cursed earth"
King Richard II, act ~.
SCENE vI.--Reatacky Dave, NTH a
rope c5om has neck.
Chief Vain, six foot ak Copperhead,
Crazed with negro on the brain,
Begrinmed with fever (n)agur,
And ButteFnut inclined Sac thou the cord,
Reminder of that fate which old Wirginny
Piled to old John Brown--whose ghost
Keeps marching on to gloly halleIujah
Cadaverous mortal! behold the day
OF God the wheel is turned,
The die is cast, the writing on the wall;
This day, thy length is weighed,
'Gainst a single Airic SON
And thou. too lighl--ioo short!
SCENE VII
Mr.. Presuming Condor. Veteran
friends: Weir for the war.
BIT, if, ahem For constitution as IL is,
And union as !. s0Gs-- bit, not,
To free the niggers, aud make them equal,
With freedom to come to Boscobel.
The lazy, thiosng, ilnbeciles,
To do all the work, yet all the land,
And we be lefI to idleness, starvation,
Landless, houseless, and nought to wear,
Nor drink, to eat or call our own.
Chief. Primes Of Sopbists, vendor of
crafty wo,ds.
Well spun. doubled, twisted; and thy web
ghristened Democracy 10 make it strong;
A postle of Calhoun. who sired stecd,
Then turned him loose nnbridled,
This Trojan Horse IL tanned al last:
And thoo irs colt il sought 10 day
For riding, by 'eacf Union sack.
TIN vel, Reclaimed. For pure democracy
Demands lhat not star escape.
No. not for any cause--
Bat, that nfglo dodge yoii play
To blind mems eyes-by misappIying
a. pYjusice some bold against the bAAtks.
Sir. that's played out, long ago.
And better 10 seriously calculate
On shettsy thisigs--.he Union,
And hos. it may be saved TO nh,
For If fissA te lost. the sun hath set
To nae no, lnpfaAIpoA our homes; \