The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-11-12
~ Written for the Pioneer.
COpperhead Wall.
By ONE WHO FEELS "sIck."

October, tits true, was quite stormy and cold,
But now, in November, its fury'si untold.
Turn where we will, long faces we see, -
For ''our friends" have feelings, like Seymour
and me,
While yonder's that "nigger'-ourang that
he is
phiz!
Grant plays the devil, in peace as in war,
With all plans of Democracy-Blair and Sey-
mour,
And still calls to mind Fort Donelson's day,
When our hopes, first crushed, on that battle.
field lay.
Stone River and Shiloh, too. come to mind
When the feelings We had were much of like
kind;
And the Wilderness, too, we remember full
we'll,
For there with brave Lee. our dearest friends
fell.
But the sorrows of Richmond !-our friends
there gave out,
For Ulysses there pushed US all up the spout,
Was the only affiiction that equaled this pair, j,
For we knew that all traitors were marked as
was Cainl .
When the chains fell from slavery, at Lin
coins proclaim, - u,
Our faces grew longer. but disease not the
same,
And our Doctors, as usual, still shouted aloud
1.-The minions of Lincoln will soon lie in their
! shroud!''
At last came some cordial from DIR. Booth IS
hand,
Which brought smiles on the faces of JEFF. Da-
Wis band;
While the tyrant Old Abe lay dead in his den,
With the ink that said Liberty scarce dry on
his pen!
And then from the White House, like frs at
| Bull Run,
Came hope to our Bandit from Iennessee's
son,
When Old Thad and Sumner were traitors.
| he said,
And should hang by the neck until dead, dead,
| dead
JOY, as of Old beamed again o. er our band !
As We saw, in old Andy, fathers kindhand;
And the pain disappeared from both bowels
| and brain
Of Democrats all, from Francisco to Maine.
But as time move AID INTERIM appeared
| In the Office of War, from which Stanton was
cleared,
And soon returned trouble, and symptoms oil
| old, "a
For Ulysses, the War Office, with Andy, had
soidi
Although not statesman, U. S. proved toe
smart
For Andy, who gave him the plans of his heart
And the RAIDS, from that day, cried Peace to
| the land''
their hand.
To New York we then hied, both great mer
ard small -
And made there Il FLATform in old Tamma
ny's Hall;
Old planks, and new ones, we laid side by sids
10 suit dear old Hampton, in whom we hat
pride.
Reconstruction all void, we therein did declare
Which well suited Forest and all who were
there;
And Pendleton's game we there we'll did play
For the nations great debt, we said, green
backs will pay.
We then put Seymour in 'front.' and Blair il
the rear,
So entered the contest, and thought the wa,
clear;
We first measured the darkie-head, heel an,
toe;
Then 'splained how he is in the human scale
low.
We then showed the interest, and bonds pai
in gold,
Eut as to who made it so, we never truth told
And We plead hard for greenbacks for til
brave men of toll,
And denounced those who made them-th
men they call ''loil.''
Now we feared not Ulysses and his bondhoId
ing crew,
While we held all The Dutchmen, the Irish an
Jew - ~
, But from Vermont and Maine came stories {
DID,
And October's bad news left US bilious an
; cold,
So we sent forth dear Seymour, the dove frol
the ark,
To bring back sunbeam from th1 waters s
dark;
But he b. ought neither hg leaf nor oliv
branch dear,
To show his ''old friends that SUNSHINE ws
near.
So to the nations great day in November W
looked,
With hopes at low ebb aud backs Grecia1
crooked,
5 Prepared, if might be, for a cause again lest
5 In this contest with freedom, which million
r has cost.
The day closed in bea uty-our Ku Klux wol
And the lightning, in whispers, its great wol
begun.
From Pacifc's bright shore, from Atlantic
+ bold wave, a 5f-'
Came shocks-though in whispers-that to
like the grave.
And faces grew longer, and bowels more sor
: Than when victory perched on Grants stan
5 ard in war,
! For the RAIDS were all shouting DER a COUNT
called free,
= And there was no oconsolation-no Office for m
+ Farewell to that banner--the "Bars" ever dea
Il From beneath whose bright folds we heal
liberty's cheer;
d We but furl thee up now-'cause Grant sa,
we must
f For the RAIDS one of 'tglory," we trailed in Il
dust
And the shout is still heard from mountain
l. to sea,
That THEIR flag waves in glory over mankil
now free;
''That Lincoln, the martyr, gave life for t
= cause
/. That shows to the world some justice in laws
e
q sPeace'' now we ask, and mercy we crave,