The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-17
Il MAN WANTED.
STALWART APPEAL TO RUTH
ERFORD B. IA YES-A GRANT
BOOMER PROCLAL1NS THE

BOOMER PROCLALHS THE
RADICAL PROGRAMME.
The editor of the Oklahoma Miss.
States is not the only maniac who
has charge Of newspaper, as the
following gibberish from that truly
" loir' organ, the Lemars Qowa) SEN
tineI, will show. We suggest that
these two tom cats should be tied
together by the feet, hung over a
pole, and left to fight it out:
From the Lemars Qowa) Sentinel, August %.
Now, Rutherford Burchard Hayes,
President of the United States in defiance OF the
constitution of the United States,
Cou nted i'll by Zach Chandler and placed on the
chair by Grant,
Are you man or a mouse
Such an opportunity as is now within your grasp
Comes but once in era, and when utilized
Are you game cock or a dung-hill rooster?
bubble floating along on the turbulent waves
of Destiny,
ages
A fraud or a fact?
Rutherford, from your eyrie cast your eye to the
Southland,
From staggering Kentucky to lying Louisiana,
From chafng Carolina across cowardly Missis
| sippi to brutal Texas,
And note the camp-fres Of
Rebellion and
Hate,
| Burning in the eyes of the bafied traitors who
sought to destroy this nation,
Note red-handed murderers and MONDAY assas
! sins,
Sitting in places of honor.
providing one can conceive of an honorable
a
! And tanning anew the flames of treason;
| See there, down in YaZoO, in old Mississippi.
Yazoo, the pride and glory of rebeldOm;
The home of cowardly cut-throats and Stat
rights
! The entrenched haunt of political assassination
! and last ditch of State lines;
| The invulernable citadel of murder aud roaring
| champion of State constitutions
| The pOrtculhs of treason and implacable enem!
| of the nation;
| We say, Rutherford, look down there,
Take your cue,
| Of we were sure you were reality and not
sham, we would say inspiration instead of cue),
Proclaim the States of Mississippi and Louislani
in open rebellion against the nation,
And declare every State of the old rebel confed
eracy in a state of siege,
Rutherford, dare you?
The laau who dares not is lost,
Or drifts along like a maggOt on q chip into the
oblivion from which he should never have emerged
Thirty million loyal hearts are behind you
Are ready 20 echo the first note.
That tells of grand strong purpose.
This is nation.
rutherford, dare you say it?
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 governor of the in
surrectiOnaTy provinces, with headquarters IL
Yazoo city, in old Mississippi;
Call an extra session of Congress;
Exclude therefrom every sO-called senator and
representative from the rebelliOus territory,
And with loyal legislature begin the great work
of moulding plastic nation into form.
This is the heroic method, and requires a here
in the
Rutherford, we fear you are not the man OIL
horseback.
The white-winged couriers of the deep will bring
HIM from the Orient,
Where he is now arbitrating the affairs of en-
pires whose history takes root in the mists of al
antiquity measured by thousands of years.
Grant, the simple citizen, smoking his cigar, the
statesman without an equal, the soldier without a
peer,
Is coming, he, for whom the loyal North
Watches and
Waits !