Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-11
A MAN WANTED.
Stalwart Appeal to Rutherford
B. Hayes
A Gr ant ROOner Esrocsainls the
Radical Programme.
From the Lamar, Iowa, Sentinel.

Now, Rutherford Burchard Hayes,
President Of the United States in
defiance 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 u man OF mouse!
Such all opportunity rs is now
within your grasp
Comes but once in an era, and
when utilized serves to mark the be-
ginning of new epochs.
Are you game cock Or a dung
hill rooster?
A bubble floating along on the tur-
bulent waves of Destiny,
Or master spirit evoked from the
laboring ages!
A fraud or a fact!
Rutherford, from your eyrie cast
your eye to the Southland,
From swaggering Kentucky to "
ing Louisiana,
From chafing Carolina across cow
ardly Mississippi to brutal Texas,
And note the caulp-fres of
Rebellion and
Hate,
Burning in the eyes Of the baffied
traitors who sought to destroy this
nation.
Note red-handed murderers and
noon-day assassins,
Sitting in places of honor,
(Providing one can conceive of
an honorable place in such a land),
And tanning anew the flames of
treason,
! See there, down in Yazoo, in old
Mississippi,
Yazoo, the pride and glory of reb-
eldom;
The home of cowardly cut-throats
and state rights;
The lair OF human butchers and
State sovereignty;
The cntrenched haunt of political
assassination and last ditch of State
lines,
The invulnerable citadel of murder
and roaring champion Of State con-
stitutions;
The portcullis of treason and i'm
placable enemy of the nation;
We say, Rutherford, look down
there,
Take your cue,
If we were sure you were a 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 de" ,"lare every State of the old
rebel contet' 'eracy i'll state Of seige.
Rutherford. dare you:
The man who darcs not is lost.
Or drifts along like a maogot on a
chip into the oblivi. III from which he
should never have emerged.
Thirty million LOYAL hearts are he
Are ready TO echo the first note,
That tells of a grand, strong purpose.
This is a nation,
Rutherford, dare you say 1t?
1t takes q 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 gov
ernor of the insurrectionary prov
inccs, with headquarters in lazoo
City, in old Mississippi;
Call au extra session of Congress.
Exclude tlrerefrom every so-called
Senator ana Representative from the
rcbellious territory,
And with loyal legislature begin
the great work of moulding a plastic
nation into form.
This is the heroic method, and re-
Quircs n 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,
y here he is now arbitrating the
affairs of empires whose history takes
root in the mists of an antiqua"y
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
Waits.