The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-10-09
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DEMOCRATIC MONUMENT

a O6MOOhAT4O MON NOM6ENI
[JOBn Hopley 'Copperhead' has travele'
from Maine to Georgia, and has been pub
Iished by several of the leading newspaper
as the best specimen of political verse eve
produced in this country. 1t is certaiDl
one of the finest specimens of bitter an
truthful invective extant. Below we pre-
sent another from the same pen, worthy t
it;l aa-.sli lstE tuFf
Build we a magnificent
Democratic monument;
Let the pile historic rise, r
Founded to immortalize
Democratic glories gained,
In the fight so long maintained,
And contested with such vigOr
Against Freedom and the Niger.
The materials must be
Emblematic. Let US see:
Democratic trophies there;
Both its glOries and its care
Relics left in its possession,
Previous triumphs of Secession,
All built round central figure
OF the Democratic Niger.
First, for funds, the Nations wealth,
Stolen by secession stealth;
Orphans partimOnies wrested;
In Confederate bonds invested
Northern debts and widows mites Hu
Sequestered for Southern Rights
.r With these build around the figure
OF the Democratic Niger. ..-.
Bring for ornaments, the rings,
Bracelets, amulets and things,
From the bones of heroes carved,
Skeletons Of Yankees starved;
While as prisoners confined -.
Let these trophies be combined,
.... To exalt the central figure
OF the Democratic Niger.
Jaws of bloOd-hounds bathed in gore
OF the fngitives they tore;
Nine-tailed whips of cords and knots,
Shrivelled skin and blood in spots;
Bucks and gags and collie chains,
Rusted Ger with bloody stains
Build these round the central figure
OF the Democratic Niger.
BayOnets and bOwie-kDives,l
That have let out loyal lives,
Murdered on the battlefield -.s
While for quarter they appealed
Such the rebel triumphs are
OF the Democratic war.
Let these glitter round the figure
OF the Democratic Niger.
Yellow fever. poisoned clothes,
To be spread among their fOes,-
Fire-balls, destined to consume r
Northern oities-thus they doom
Women, babes, and helpless age
To their Democratic rage,
fif Let these all ad0rn the figure Has
Ofthe Democratic Niger.
Hearts of Southern heroes, taught
By the Nation that they fought;
Cerefully by her maintained, !-
Educated, paid and trained
Dead to honor and disgrace, .--4 ~
Give such rotten hearts place
Near the leading central figure
OF the Democratic Niger.
But the most precious in the sight,
Elevate the parasite, tf
Whom we Northern dOugh-face call,
Mesnest, Yilest thing of all. fi
Let his Shiny, tTaitOr-tOngue,
Craven, false and foul, be hung
Where't can lick the central figure
OF the Democratic Niger.
Emblematic women see
Grace the pile of their degree.
Take the mistress who has sold
For purpose known, not told, --s
Her own sister, far more fair
Than her winter self-the pair
Should support the central figure
OF the Democratic Niger.
Take, for mortar to cement
This historic monument,
Ashes of school-houses, where
Negroes have presumed to dare
To be taught; aad for their pains,
Mix the murdered teachers brains
ssaf Plaster these about the figure
OF the Democratic Nigser.
Tears Of ravished yellow maid,
BY her fathers son betrayed
Both her master and her brother;
Foster son too of her mother. s.
Sated from his slave he turns,
And for younger sisters yearns.
Sprinkle these upon the figure
OF the Democratic Niger.
On the monuments broad base
Democratic maxims trace,
Praises of assassination,
Excuses for repudiaton-
Proofs the Union has no powers
Against Treason when it flowers
Fitting sentiments to figure
g, With the Democratic Niger. 81
Infesting the monument,
Last the party represent,
BY repulsive reptile things,
Charged with venom, armed with stings,
On foul slime and poison bred,
Chief the loathsome COpperhead,
Singing oft the central figure
OF the Democratic Niger ..
These are thine Democracy,
Ripe fruits of thy policy,
Through long years of strife for power;
Through rebelliOn's darkest hour, I -'.lt-
Not one earnest protest made
Against all the crimes arrayed
Round the ever central figure s.,.l.I
OF the Democratic Niger.
What proud triumphs, that adOrn s-..-..
Columbia, have escaped thy scorn;
Freedoms nOblest victory gained
The Nations saved, its faith maintained;
Against these, on every hand, u
Thy recorded protests stand -.-
Fighting with such hendish vigor
Against Freedom and the Nigger.
Every ready to decry,
Doubt, defend, dispute, deny; 1f
Never to denOunce the shame - .. o..
Perpetrated in thy name;
Thou has shown, by every sign,
That this monument is thine;
Thine, this gathered infa1ny;
Made thine own, Democracy 49, %.
Thine, each shame around the figure
OF the persecuted Niger 49,. ....