The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-27
A MODERN HOMER.
TINE SIX YEARS war or TINE RADICALS.


IN BLANK vERsE-vERY BLANK INDEED!
You have--or ought to havs-my grateful &C.
KnowIsdgmsnts Honors great - you to me
Have done worth . laurel crown.
OF grand cause sing. glorious party.
The nobiest since free government began
Born Of the emergencies OF portentous hour,
But ten times have the leaves OF autumn fallen
Since first lie banner on the outer walls
Was 70 the breeze unfurled And behold
It's mission and achievsmentsi No policy
II had, nor platform TO invent Oh mol
An older creed than government itself
Inspired IT, With liberty, and progress,
I'D humanity instinct, full asdged
In,o The world It came even Minerva
From the brain az Jove, all armed and oiazonsd. ID
Ascendanoy II gained from many votes r
Asjarisies-how won, why careth you or II
Success the test, election triumphs follow.
Success is opportunity, and the golden food
me party rode upon Six years OF history
Attest its genius for administration and the command
OF human nature, which is always found
Upon the sido Of the majority. Six years
OF Iifo 1t has no more-and yet
An infant Hercules il stands today
In strength 70 moro than infant Mercury
In adaptation TO the stealing art
Which raised that young pickpockct
Into Godshp). Our born parry found
lost republic. bankrupt treasury,
An unarmed army and navy scattered
By relentless Eolus OF democratic
Tendencies and proclivitiss occasional
Within the council halls SAT traitor,
dupe Of traitors nied the char OF State;
Full half the continent was in revolt.
WIS restoration possibisf No no cried out
Our partys enemies and thrones
And Nominations from altar echoed
The cry. And 80 said Chrlstendom.
But we, with brazen 'front.' moved on,
Though in the rear weak and obslructsd
Oar cry was ssYes" and have made it ssyeGn
Impossibiles We trampled down. Efficiency
In all the branches Of the government restored,
Liberty Constitutional" again replaced
Upon her golden throne within the walls
or = plethoric treasury. We battered down
The gates that stood between us and
patriotic spoil. Victory soon perched
Upon our eagles and half eagles not 70 say 1e
Anything about the quarter eagles Contracts ,.r..
We ding behind US, a. tue noble Spartan
Did bis shield. We do not boast OF honors
Thus 90 lightly won. Enough-we gained tho eight,
And-I mention this because IL is 90 new
-Four million shackies on four million mon
Canked no more. From the rudy Orient,
Where Aurora's rosy fingers index the dawn,
10 whore Apolios horses to sleep within the folds
" gold and violet clouds, there is no slave,
No master. save the party called the radical.
But had there been no other opposition than
The tnhing one Of treason 10 the South, the enmty
or foreign pows then the eye Of prophecy could not
Have seen the nations progress material and
Ideal; but whore million bullets failed sss,.,
ono bullet changed policy and saved \
Adynasty: Sharper than ShyIock's knife
That bullet was which gave Achilles johnson
For our ruler. Perndious Achilles "0h for atongus
Aufwo hsw~ "a IT,
Al Hades for curse TO blight tho unimpeachsd,
Whose treason. like deadly blight came DER
The eounssis Of the radicals to blast eN
Them In their hour Of might How Just sp
II Faie'slrsmorsesss logoi How comes Il thai W aoi
Tho Atlantic cable 10 unharmsd and lie magnetic s
Spark the oceans pillows cannot qusnch
While one small bit Of sordd steel in valus
Not ten dollars, could thus psralysss
Ths worlds elsctrseisyi I have mld 20
"Wsn came, 'swe, NV, Is No" couqusrsa. VINO
Are WEI The psoplsf No. the radicals; and now
have We no right 70 -, triumphant - We are,
That the red eye Of battle shall not BE- closed
Tor svsrS And By this phrase no aiiusion make
70 thas s'ssd sysr - e. M Mead % falal a-
A whiskey, commissariat known-famiiar title
In the camp and Geld. vstoes We had such ~ t.as|
No Briton for hundred years and sixty would have
brooked
For less than these have cropped haired men Of Britain
Cropped on the head Of Charles and lsft poor James
Without throne 70 SIC on. We see the srsstsm
Soldier Of his ags-I name him not but leave you
To suggest which Of the i've proconsuls allude to-
Treated like euprit, though not clad
In the State prison stripes and bars a. yet
We Sc, horori treason the fankess wrapped
By proclsnasioa. In the night gown Of OBLIVION.
What means all thsf II means whas Louh said
When France was mad -" The stsisi am tue statsn
And that, you know, 10 usurpation. II means
That johnson and his creatures have assumed
Prerogativss forbidden. and viii dare 70 70
A far - the elections viii permit issuL
II 1t Is not safe that the Exscusivs
Unmatched, united, should roam 81 wiil.
Then let the bit and snaf1s BY conxsw ,. sppfsI
10 hold tn unruly animal 10 ohscs. Nes 10 asarp
His powsrs, nor crouch ike watch sexs co his psh.
For that is all unworthy " great ~isss.
But By some higher, sssrncr methods hold
His power In subsection. Let grand inquest
Bring him 70 account, submit his errors 70 the
Judgment Of mankind and consgn him
To infAmy. immortal ~ our cause with him
Must rise or fall our adversaries; with his sins
Are they enclothed T6ey bear his shield and armor
And every vote deposited for them Is bu, spoke
In the wheel Of Andy johnson. sbersby.
The traitor may swing round another circle. a
Our country needs reposs We can secure H.
Our action In the past gives pledges for the future
Like Pcon upon 0ssa press the taxes on the poor;
And labor groans In agony Of high pricsa
Retrenchmeni and reforms Conscientious motto
Upon our bAnnen s Inscribed An needless conflicts
Stupid controversies set aside. and, with the rens
or power in our hands. or-nore adroitly spoken
The triumph Of right with u.s.
And this great Common wealth will tower
Above all Uhrisendom. The clouds ,of smoker
Will vanish from the fair face
or our distracted Union, ana tho crown
OF immortality, like angela oreoIse,
The armament Of heaven Hume