The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-01-05
January 1, 1865.

I Dub va ., HOI
He many breaths of true joy drew.
AS he came in SO he went out,
Mid nations trouble, nations pout.
Yet Sixty-four liv'd not in vain,
For, mid his trouble and his pain,
! He lift behind a record bright
Of what was done behalf the right.
All through the land the glorious word
That Union heart and Union sword
Had threshed the Rebs, went gailv forth
And Electrified the loyal North.
From Rap dan to Richmond's base
Brave Grant gave Lee merry chase,
And held him there, in clutches tight,
A beaten and bad scared wight.
Farragut, closely on the heel
OF Grant, sent greeting from Mobile,
Th1t he the foe had conquered there
And laid the way to city bare.
Sherman, too, he look'd aslant a
The Reb stronghold call'd Atlanta,
And took it, too, in spite of boast
OF all the serted Rebel host;
Drove Hood from out his we'll built trenches
And knocked secession off its launches.
And then, for fun, he took walk,
To see the folks and have a talk,
From where he showed the Rebels war
To where he heard old Ocean roar.
He walk'd and liv'd on banana,
And took rest in proud Savannah,
Where he was met With welcome ditty
And tender'd the freedom of the city.
And Sheridan, too, meek. yet burly,
Had his own fun with "twirling" Early.
Gath'ring his men for grand rally
He sent Rebs kiting through the valley,
When Shenandoah's classic shore
Was cen disturbed by canon's roar.
And Thomas, down in Tennessee,
Could not, in heart, be still, dye see,
On lovely plain, in tangled wood,
He too must box the ears of Hood
And needing neither threat nor snubbing
Gave Hood d most confounded drubbing.
The people seeing what our bands
fWarriors brave had ta'en IN hands,
And how they thresh'd the South rn devils.
Thought they would try the North'rn rebels.
They stripp'd for fight with greatest speed
And, placing Abraham in the lead,
March'd forth to meet the foe. They met
The Cops, with hungry stomachs set,
Marshalled, alas, and alac,
By Pendleton and Gunboat Mac.
! YalIandigham, he too was there,
His brow plain stampd with treason IS care;
And Ben and Ferdinando Wood,
At back of VAL and Mac they stood
And Burr and Burnet-all the throng,
From Sap-ient John TO the John De Young
/ All stood there, like SO many geese,
Squawking most Justify for peace.
But, onward. came the word from Abe
Each Union warrior drew his blade
And at it went: pricked heel and gullet
And thickly hurl'd the paper bullet.
On eighth November-glorious day,
Which saw the end of that affray--
There did on Cops Overwhelming fall
The greatest threshing of them all.
At Cops and Rebs, throughout the world.
The great and glorious truth was hurl'd,
That madmeD could not play rhe fool
On this bright part of Gods footstool:
That for our country and its cause
There could be but one set of laws
One people and one government
On liberty's widest spread intent.
From Maine all over went the word,
That never would we shield the sword
Until rebellion was crush'd out
And every leading rebel lout,
Whose heart was with treason callous'd
Has been high and safely gallows'd.
Mad were the Cops when thus they found
The people in their might were bound
To crush their Rebel friends down South,
And take, from out their very mouth.
Their princlples-"the loaves and fishes
All comfort from official dishes.
They swore quite hard, and looked grum,
And rais'd devil of hum
Around the heads of all who thought
That freenen Of right surely ought