Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-10
A MAN WANTED.
Stalwart Appeal to Rutherford
Il. Hayes-A Grant Boomer
Proclaims the Radical Pro-
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Now, Rutherford Burchard Hayes,
President OF the United States in de-
fiance of the Constitution OF the United
| States,
Counted in by Zach Chandler and
placed on the chair by Grant,
Taken from the gutter and seated on
the throne,
Are you a man or a mouse?
Such an opportunity as is now.within
your grasp
Comes but once in an era, and when
utilized serves to mark the beginning OF
new epochs.
Are you game cock or dung-hill
rooster?
A bubble floating along on the turbu-
lent waves Of Destiny
Or a master spirit evoked from the la
boring ages2
A fraud or fact?
Rutherford, from your eyrie cast your
eye to the Southland.
From staggering Kentucky to lying
| Louisiana.
From chatting Carolina across coward
Nv Mississippi to brutal Texas.
And note the camp-tires OF
Rebellion and
Hate.
Burning in the eyes OF the baffied
traitors who sought to destroy this ma
ton.
Note ed-handed murderers and noon
day assassins,
-, ,,locas Of honor
providing one can conceive OLE an
honorable place in such land).
Ard tanning anew the flames oil trea-.
son.
See there, down in Yazoo, in old Mis-
sissippi,
Yazoo, the pride and glory of rebel
dom;
The home of cowardly cut-throats and
State rights;
The lair of human butchers and State
sovereignty;
The intrenched haunt OF political as
sassination and last ditch OF the State
lines.
The inyulnerable citidel OF murder
and roaring champions OF State Consti-
| tutiOns;
The pOrtcullis of treason and implaca-
bic enemy of the nation;
We say, Rutherford, look down
there,
Take your cue,
(If we were sure you were reality
and not a sham, we would say inspira-
ton instead OF cue),
Proclaim the States Of Mississippi and
Louisiana in open rebellion against the
Nation.
And declare every State of the old re-
bel COniederacy in state of siege.
Rutherford, dare you,
The man who dares not Is lost,
Or drifts along like a maggot on chip
into the oblivion from which he should
never have emerged.
Thirty million loyal hearts are behind
you. Rutherford,
Are ready TO echo the first note
That tells OF a grand, strong purpose.
This is Nation.
Rutherford, dare you say it?
1t takes giant TO pronounce the word
from the lofty eminence you occupy,
A giant with lungs of leather and
thews of brass.
Rutherford, are you the man?
Issue the proclamation,
Appoint Ben Butler Military Governor
of the insuirectionary provinces, with
headquarters in YazoO City, in old
Mississippi;
Call an extra session of Congress;
Exclude thereirom every so-called
Senator and Representative from the
rebelliOus territory.
And with a loyal Legislature begin
the great work OF mOlding a plastic ma
ture into form.
This is the heroic method, and re-
quires hero in the van.
Rutherford, We fear you are not the
man on horseback.
The white-winged couriers of the
deep will bring HIM from the Orient.
Where he is now arbitrating the al
fairs of empires whose history takes
root i'm the mists of an antiquity
measured by thousands OF years.
Grant, the simple citizen, smoking his
cigar, the statesman without an equal,
the soldier without peer,
Is coming, he, for whom the loyal
North
Watches and
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