Louisiana capitolian., 1881-11-17

San Francisco Chronicle.

C0Or IL LII. ". W. Oclucu, Ol NOW 1OTk,
and it's title ~THE TRAGEDY OF ABRA-
HAM LINCOLN, OR THE RISE AND FALL
OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES" It is a
tragedy in FIVE acts and requires forty
seven dramatis personG, besides citizens
and soldiers to no end. The drama be-
gins before the war and presents nearly
all the notable men of the war, Of the re-
bellion and the conspirators, John
Wilkes Booth, Mrs Surratt, Harold, At
zerot and Payne. The language of the
play embraces every known style, from
low-comedy Dutch to high-tragedy
blank verse. An extract or two will be
sufficient to show the artistic skill and
rare perception of character possessed
by It's author. The first symptoms of
the rebellion are shadowed out by Cen
eral Sigel, who speaks after this Gus
Williams fashion:
Mine Gott in himmel. what for is all
dis fuss been aboud? Dose negro men
been yust SO good as white man ouf
den he only behave hisself, und Oncle
Sam he make dem free pooty quick, py
jimminy grashus! Amt dot sog
President Lincoln, Of course, isa trife
more dignified, and in soliloquy upon
his success at the election, remarks:
will endeavor to uphold our flag,
Preserve the Constitution and the law,
And shall be governed in my public acts
According to the dictates Of my heart.
But history doth repeat itself, and now
Eleven Southern States have armed themselves
And formed an empire out Of slavery,
Choosing JEFF Davis as their fgurehead.
Thus am plunged into ahornets nest,
And find no other course than civil war.
Secretaries Seward and Stanton try
poetry, but Horace Greeley, who by
stretch of DR.. Selden's imagination is
made Quaker, speaks in plain prose,
thus:
Yes, truly, this is not work, and if !
get back to my Tribune office once more
| will fill her columns with such soul
stirring editorials that the North, the
East and the mighty West will arouse
from their inactivity and blow Jefferson
Davis and his -conspirators like
unto chatf before the whirlwind.
The rebels, however, have tempora-
~ success, and Alexander Stephens
thinks it best to sue for peace whilst
victory sat perched upon their brow,
but President Davis, having taken the
bull by the horns, declares:
My life, my fortune, and my honor, all
Are pledged for its accomplishments, and !,
Sooner than YIELD would far prefer to pitch
All to the dogs, and die in the last ditch
Fred Douglas addresses Lincoln like
full-blooded brudder:
Good ebenin', Massa Lincum. hab
called in behalf of de colored citizens of
desc United States to thank your Ex-
cellency for de noble Emancipation pro-
clamation, whereby more dan 1000, 900
down-trodden cullud people Of desc
Southern States am given dere freedom
and dere rights in order dat day may
cast their votes for dc great Republican
party.
General Sherman is a humorist of the
most pronounced order, and let's off the
following string Of ieur de mots:
Now I've brilliant military notion,
That can march to the Atlantic ocean,
III can flank the Secesh cavalrie
Which occupies the edge of Tennessee
Yes, / will see if can see the sea
BY marching through the State Of George
From Tennessee until ! see the sea.
That he was troubled with the fore
bodings OF i'll on the night of his assas-
sination, Lincoln shows by exclaiming
to his wife in the box at Ford's Theater:
havea strange presentment, my dear,
AS though some great disaster doth approach );
Now don't you think Id better call our coach
This wonderful drama concludes with
grand transformation, the addres Of
General Grant to the triumphant army
and the singing of demonac song by
Jefferson Davis, one verse of which is:
Five hundred Thousand Yankees
Lie stiff in Southern dust;
We lost three hundred Thousand e
Before they conquered us.
Theydied Of Southern fever,
And Southern steel and shot
l wish it was ten million
Instead of what we got.
After this there will be 10 need to
look for "the" American drama. 1t has
been written; whether it will be play
ed will largely depend upon the amount
OF money its author has to throw away
on introducing his mOnstrosity to an
audience.
A California editor last week started
tO accOmn1iSli the oft-attemntpd feat of