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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/45274-0.txt b/45274-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9bb7735 --- /dev/null +++ b/45274-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,626 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 45274 *** + +YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS + +By Anonymous + + + +[Illustration: 0007] + +[Illustration: 0009] + + + + +YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS + + +"_ Continue this united League."--Richard the Third, III. 1_. + + +`|There once was a Copperhead snake tried to Bite Uncle Sam by mistake; + +```But the Seven League Boot on old Uncle Sam's foot + +````Soon crushed this pestiferous snake. + +[Illustration: 0010] + +|A soldier came back from the war, with many an honorable scar; + +```But the Copperheads cried, "Served you right if you'd died + +````In this curst _Abolitionist_ war!" + +[Illustration: 0011] + +|The old Tory dragon is dead, but she left us some eggs in her stead; + +``Two were smashed in the yolk, but the third hatched and broke, + +```And out came a vile Copperhead. + +[Illustration: 0012] + +|There was once a young giant asleep, and round him two serpents did creep; + +```But he stopped their vile breath, and squeezed them to death, + +````This giant aroused from his sleep. + + +[Illustration: 0013] + +|There once was a Copperhead vile, who attempted to damage a + +```So he tried it in truth, but soon broke every tooth + +````On that rusty and crusty Old File. + +[Illustration: 0014] + +"_Nor doth this Wood lack Worlds."--Midsummer Night's Dream, II. 2._ + +|There was an old Snake in New York said for peace all the people should work; + +``"But if war _must_ come, let us fight here _at home!!_" + +```Quoth sanguiloquent Ben of New York. + +[Illustration: 0015] + +_"One of those who worship dirty gods."--Cymbeline, III. 8._ + +|There once was a chap named Vallandigham, whom the Copperheads chose for commanding 'em; + +```But a trip to the South soon silenced his mouth, + +````And the world as a _Tory_ is branding him. + +[Illustration: 0016] + +|With War Democrats Seymour's for war; with Peace cowards for peace he'll hurrah; + +```Let him get in the way of the mower some day, + +````And He'll find there's no quibbling with war. + +[Illustration: 0017] + +|The Copperhead lotterie hath a curious policie; + +``For a man of low rank can draw naught save a blank, + +````Unless an accomplice he be. + +[Illustration: 0018] + +|There once was a twistified Reed who took for his pattern Snake-Weed; + +```Till the Copperheads all, great, middling, and small + +````Seemed _straight_ by the side of this Reed. + +[Illustration: 0019] + +|There's a character very well known, Who bubbles for ages has blown; + +```But the best he has made since at _bubbling_ he played, + +````From a Copperhead pipe have been thrown. + +[Illustration: 0020] + +````_"And what Stock he springs of!!"--Coriolan, II. 3._ + +|Copper stocks are uncertain to buy, though this Copperhead's stock's very high; + +```But we still might improve this stock of his love, + +````By adding the _right_ sort of tie. + +[Illustration: 0021] + +|There was an old War Horse, a clerical, who thought our Republic chimerical; + +```"For the Union," he said, "he never had prayed," + +````This mordacious old War Horse cholerical. + +[Illustration: 0022] + +```_" There is no goodness in the worm,"--Antony and Cleopatra, V. 2._ + +|The abominable Copperhead worms! With their wriggles, and twists, and their squirms! + +```But the gardener, they say, will soon find out a way + +````To kill the vile Copperhead worms. + +[Illustration: 0023] + +```_"There are many complaints, Davy, about that."--King Henry IV., V. 1._ + +|There was a Stern Statesman astute, who so often went in to _recruit_, + +```That a Rattlesnake fat revolved in his hat, + +````While a Copperhead squirmed in his boot. + +[Illustration: 0024] + +```_"So much dishonor my fair stars."--King Richard 111., IV. 1._ + +|The traitor our Common Cents mars, And on Liberty plainly he wars, + +```Taking Freedom away from the Union, I say, + +````When he cuts out her head from the stars. + +[Illustration: 0025] + +_"And so the lion vanished."--Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1._ + +|While it did us great harm, Abolition was the height of the Lion's ambition; + +```Now with Copperhead _tale_ he stings himself pale. + +````And furaciously scorns Abolition. + +[Illustration: 0026] + +```_"Will this Wood take fire?"--Merry Wives of Windsor, V. 5._ + +|Union, a fagot we take; But 'twould be a tremendous mistake, + +```To use rotten old Wood which never was good, + +````And then bind it up with a Snake. + +[Illustration: 0027] + +|There once was a Patriot whose rigor reached such a remarkable figure, + +```That he'd rather go down in the water and drown + +````Than be saved by the help of a nigger. + +[Illustration: 0028] + +|There once were some rascals near Reading thought fighting was easy as wedding; + +```But being well kicked, and most terribly licked, + +````They mournfully mizzled from Reading. + +[Illustration: 0029] + +_"O wicked Wall!"--Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1._ + +|There once was an old _party_-Wall, quite _cracked_ and just ready to fall; + +```The Copperheads came and completed its shame + +````By sticking their Bills on this Wall. + +[Illustration: 0030] + +|There once was a bottle of Porter, which the Copperheads thought was all water; + +```But when the cork popped, the Copperheads dropped, + +````And were stunned by the _vim_ of the Porter! + +[Illustration: 0031] + +|There once was a Snake who said "Hey! There's an Eagle I'll take for my prey!" + +```But the bird with his bill did the Copperhead kill, + +````And bore him in triumph away. + +[Illustration: 0032] + +```_"Exit shall be strangling a snake."--Love's Labor's Lost, V. 1._ + +|The Copperhead traitors all, our army "base hirelings" call + +```But some fine summer day The "boys," just for play, + +````Will settle the Copperheads all. + +Amen! + + + + +GOTHAM-MITES. + + +|I like such Brooks," said Falstaff once; + +``Had he meant _ours_ he'd been a dunce; + +`The devil, whom all things evil please, + +``Could never stand such Bruoks as these.= + + + +`In the Tyrol on mountain high + +``"The Devil's Marble" you may spy; + +`And if in the World you long remain, + +``You'll probably meet the same again.= + + + +`Och, Johnny, my gun--let the truth be aid, + +``What the divil made _ye_ turn Copperhid? + +`Sure it was hivvy what ye bore, + +``Wid the brass in your face yees had before.= + + + +`There's a song how Old Nick took a journey, + +``With a corporation attorney; + +`But there is one _fouler_, whom even the old prowler + +``Would fear as a friend on a journey.= + + + +1. + +`"The man who made that order," said + +``Judge B. in court, "was a _meat-head_." + +`Oh what a head that head would be, + +``Just _meted_ Judge, to match with thee!= + + + +2. + +`"Just roll that nigger out of court!" + +``The Judge exclaimed with solemn port; + +`"I tell you very truly now, + +``Nigs _at the bar_ I won't allow!"= + + + +`At a Copperhead meeting the crier + +``Paused an instant to hear his gun fire; + +`The cannon was loaded, and when it exploded, + +``Said he--"List to the voice of our sire!"= + + + +``There was old party named M------, + +``Who went from bad doctrines to worse. + +`If at law he should see his name prefaced by _re,_ + +``It will show what he _should_ feel; this M------.= + + + +```There was a small Cozening shyster; + +``Said he, "Every case is an _eyester;_ + +`Give the parties the shells if you can, and nought else, + +``Unless the Court tips you a hi-ster."= + + + +``There's a man at the _Bar_ who, we know, + +``Is in politics terribly _low_; + +`For he keeps in the clubs the secessional cubs, + +``Who in _propria persona_ can't go.= + + + +``There's a very bad-minis-trator, + +``A_ très petite pomme de tater_, + +`Who tears feelings to rags, presenting of flags; + +``This oily old adminis-_traitor_.= + + + +``There's a wide-awake Copperhead cratur', + +``Who is Eli by name and by natur'; + +`Displaying for one neither fashion _nor ton_, + +``This un-national nativist traitor.= + + + + +CHECKER-BOARDERS AND KEYSTONERS + + +|There was an old person, J. B., + +``An old Public Func-tion-arie; [agreed, + +`When they swore, "We'll secede!" he just smiled, "I'm + +``"You've a sure friend, you know, in J. B.= + + + +``There was a smart lawyer named W------ + +``Who from Union men made quite a fortun'; + +`But his wealth he despised, with Secesh fraternized, + +``This apo-state-olical W------.= + + + +``There was a twistortulous Heed, + +``Who hoped that Secesh might succeed; + +`For he said, "It's my natur' to act like a traitor, + +``Since it runs in the joints of a Heed."= + + + +``There once was a Copperhead Diddle, + +``Who played to the Heed second fiddle; + +`When they said, "It is small!" it replied, not at all, + +`Says he, "I ain't dead--as a live Copperhead + +``I'm a squirmulous vermiform Wriggler."= + + + +``There was an old servant called Peter, + +``So moody in humor and feature + +`Because the good people from the church with a steeple + +``Expelled this old saturnine Peter.= + + + +``There was a sharp lawyer, one P-, + +``Whose thoughts never got through his still lips; + +`And all he would say was "ah!" "h'm!" "oh!" and "ay + +``This pauciloquent person named P-.= + + + +``There was a neat sarpent--a Coiler-- + +``True son of the ancient Beguiler; + +`Who told such a whopper, he burst out his copper, + +``And frightfully fractured his biler.= + + + +`It's a full-blooded Copperhead Diddle!"= + + +`There was an ex-governing Wiggler, + +`A political huckster and higgler; + +``Quoth "Aristocracy" + +``To Fourth Ward "Vulgarity," + +`"You are dregs, I am froth; and our interests both + +``Are opposed to this working, d'ye see!"= + + + + +MODERN HEATHEN-IANS + + +``There was an ex-editor, L------, + +``Who rowed in the _Courier_ punt, + +`But to twist around more, he jumped out on the shore, + +``That contortious poetical L------.= + + + +``Oh G------ T------ C------ was one + +``Who thought himself quite a great gun; + +`So Treason he shouted, "Constitution" he spouted, + +``But Boston grew hot for such "Union Men"--so + +``He herds in New York with Fernando & Co.= + + + +``To the cause of his country adverse, + +``Is the man whom all honest men curse. + +`Do you ask what's his name? oh, ne'er believe Fame, + +``If it be not Ex-President Pierce.= + + + +``In Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Six, + +``A poet, disgusted with Pierce's tricks, + +``Said that he down to the dust should go, + +``To grovel there in infamy low. + +``And in Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Three, + +``The prophecy came to pass, I see, + +``Since in the dust and on the ground, + +``As a Copperhead Pierce goes squirming round".= + + + +``What a pity that Joshua D. + +``A good Insolvency lawyer should be, + +``Yet cannot, in politics, as we see, + +``Keep his own good name from bankruptcie!= + + + +``John C. passes, now and then, + +``For one of Boston's League-al men. + +``Mistake me not--he doth intrigue + +``With the Liquor--not the Union--League!= + + + +``Gamblers, Wood-ites, thieves, and asses, + +``Scrapings of the dangerous classes, + +``Pettifoggers malign, but weak, + +``Who dare not fight and cannot speak; + +``_Trash_ which the war-tide rolling high + +``Has cast ashore in scorn to dry; + +``"Aristocrats" who fear to wage + +``Brave battle in a stirring age, + +``As did their glorious sires before, + +``Who won thereby the fame they wore; + +``Oh G. S. H--------, tell us true. + +``Is this fit company for you?= + + + + +SHAKSPEARE ON THE COPPERHEADS. + + +```"What would you have, you curs, + +`That like nor peace nor war? The one affrights you, + +`The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you, + +`Where he should find you lions, finds you hares; + +`Where foxes, geese; you are no surer, no, + +`Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, + +`Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is, + +`To make him worthy whose offence subdues him, + +`And curse that justice did it. Who deserves greatness + +`Deserves your hate; and your affections are + +`A sick man's appetite, who desires most that + +`Which would increase his evil. He that depends + +`Upon your favors swims with fins of lead, + +`And hews down oaks with rushes."--_Coriolanus, I. 1._ + + + + +"THOSE DEVOTED COPPERHEADS." + + +`"Our sympathies are all confined at home; yet it is just + +`possible we may help those devoted Copperheads in the only + +`way we know how--also, that they, on their side, are now + +`about ripe to aid us in the only way we could accept their + +`aid. If our troops should this summer appear within their + +`borders anywhere between Cairo and Philadelphia, they would + +`be hailed as friends by a population pretty well cured now of + +`_Pluribus Unum_. Their cry would be, not Union, but deli- + +`verance. _Wait then, and watch, and keep your lights burning, + +`ye Knights of the Golden Circle!"--Richmond Enquirer_, 18th + +`May, 1863. + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Ye Book of Copperheads, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 45274 *** diff --git a/45274-h/45274-h.htm b/45274-h/45274-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8de7cde --- /dev/null +++ b/45274-h/45274-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1326 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> + +<!DOCTYPE html + PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" > + +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> + <head> + <title> + Ye Book of Copperheads, by Anonymous + </title> +<link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" /> + <style type="text/css" xml:space="preserve"> + + body { margin:5%; background:#faebd0; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; margin-top: .25em; margin-bottom: .25em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; 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+ </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But the Seven League Boot on old Uncle Sam's foot + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> Soon + crushed this pestiferous snake. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0003" id="linkimage-0003"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0010m.jpg" alt="0010m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0010.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">A</span> soldier came back + from the war, with many an honorable scar; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But the Copperheads cried, "Served you right if you'd died + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> In + this curst <i>Abolitionist</i> war!" + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0004" id="linkimage-0004"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0011m.jpg" alt="0011m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0011.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he old Tory dragon + is dead, but she left us some eggs in her stead; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Two were smashed in the yolk, but the third hatched and broke, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + And out came a vile Copperhead. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0005" id="linkimage-0005"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0012m.jpg" alt="0012m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0012.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here was once a + young giant asleep, and round him two serpents did creep; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But he stopped their vile breath, and squeezed them to death, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> This + giant aroused from his sleep. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0006" id="linkimage-0006"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0013m.jpg" alt="0013m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0013.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once was a + Copperhead vile, who attempted to damage a file, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + So he tried it in truth, but soon broke every tooth + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> On + that rusty and crusty Old File. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0007" id="linkimage-0007"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0014m.jpg" alt="0014m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0014.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p> + "<i>Nor doth this Wood lack Worlds."—Midsummer Night's Dream, II. 2.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here was an old + Snake in New York said for peace all the people should work; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + "But if war <i>must</i> come, let us fight here <i>at home!!</i>" + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + Quoth sanguiloquent Ben of New York. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0008" id="linkimage-0008"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0015m.jpg" alt="0015m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0015.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p> + <i>"One of those who worship dirty gods."—Cymbeline, III. 8.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once was a + chap named Vallandigham, whom the Copperheads chose for commanding 'em; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But a trip to the South soon silenced his mouth, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> And + the world as a <i>Tory</i> is branding him. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0009" id="linkimage-0009"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0016m.jpg" alt="0016m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0016.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">W</span>ith War Democrats + Seymour's for war; with Peace cowards for peace he'll hurrah; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + Let him get in the way of the mower some day, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> And + He'll find there's no quibbling with war. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0010" id="linkimage-0010"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0017m.jpg" alt="0017m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0017.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he Copperhead + lotterie hath a curious policie; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + For a man of low rank can draw naught save a blank, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> Unless + an accomplice he be. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0011" id="linkimage-0011"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0018m.jpg" alt="0018m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0018.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once was a + twistified Reed who took for his pattern Snake-Weed; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + Till the Copperheads all, great, middling, and small + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> Seemed + <i>straight</i> by the side of this Reed. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0012" id="linkimage-0012"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0019m.jpg" alt="0019m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0019.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here's a character + very well known, Who bubbles for ages has blown; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But the best he has made since at <i>bubbling</i> he played, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> From + a Copperhead pipe have been thrown. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0013" id="linkimage-0013"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0020m.jpg" alt="0020m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0020.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> <i>"And + what Stock he springs of!!"—Coriolan, II. 3.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">C</span>opper stocks are + uncertain to buy, though this Copperhead's stock's very high; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But we still might improve this stock of his love, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> By + adding the <i>right</i> sort of tie. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0014" id="linkimage-0014"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0021m.jpg" alt="0021m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0021.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here was an old + War Horse, a clerical, who thought our Republic chimerical; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + "For the Union," he said, "he never had prayed," + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> This + mordacious old War Horse cholerical. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0015" id="linkimage-0015"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0022m.jpg" alt="0022m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0022.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="indent15"> + <i>" There is no goodness in the worm,"—Antony and Cleopatra, V. 2.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he abominable + Copperhead worms! With their wriggles, and twists, and their squirms! + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But the gardener, they say, will soon find out a way + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> To + kill the vile Copperhead worms. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0016" id="linkimage-0016"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0023m.jpg" alt="0023m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0023.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="indent15"> + <i>"There are many complaints, Davy, about that."—King Henry IV., V. + 1.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here was a Stern + Statesman astute, who so often went in to <i>recruit</i>, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + That a Rattlesnake fat revolved in his hat, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> While + a Copperhead squirmed in his boot. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0017" id="linkimage-0017"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0024m.jpg" alt="0024m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0024.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="indent15"> + <i>"So much dishonor my fair stars."—King Richard 111., IV. 1.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he traitor our + Common Cents mars, And on Liberty plainly he wars, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + Taking Freedom away from the Union, I say, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> When + he cuts out her head from the stars. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0018" id="linkimage-0018"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0025m.jpg" alt="0025m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0025.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p> + <i>"And so the lion vanished."—Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">W</span>hile it did us + great harm, Abolition was the height of the Lion's ambition; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + Now with Copperhead <i>tale</i> he stings himself pale. + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> And + furaciously scorns Abolition. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0019" id="linkimage-0019"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0026m.jpg" alt="0026m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0026.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="indent15"> + <i>"Will this Wood take fire?"—Merry Wives of Windsor, V. 5.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">U</span>nion, a fagot we + take; But 'twould be a tremendous mistake, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + To use rotten old Wood which never was good, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> And + then bind it up with a Snake. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0020" id="linkimage-0020"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0027m.jpg" alt="0027m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0027.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once was a + Patriot whose rigor reached such a remarkable figure, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + That he'd rather go down in the water and drown + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> Than + be saved by the help of a nigger. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0021" id="linkimage-0021"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0028m.jpg" alt="0028m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0028.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once were + some rascals near Reading thought fighting was easy as wedding; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But being well kicked, and most terribly licked, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> They + mournfully mizzled from Reading. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0022" id="linkimage-0022"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0029m.jpg" alt="0029m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0029.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p> + <i>"O wicked Wall!"—Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once was an + old <i>party</i>-Wall, quite <i>cracked</i> and just ready to fall; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + The Copperheads came and completed its shame + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> By + sticking their Bills on this Wall. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0023" id="linkimage-0023"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0030m.jpg" alt="0030m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0030.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once was a + bottle of Porter, which the Copperheads thought was all water; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But when the cork popped, the Copperheads dropped, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> And + were stunned by the <i>vim</i> of the Porter! + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0024" id="linkimage-0024"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0031m.jpg" alt="0031m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0031.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once was a + Snake who said "Hey! There's an Eagle I'll take for my prey!" + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But the bird with his bill did the Copperhead kill, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> And + bore him in triumph away. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0025" id="linkimage-0025"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0032m.jpg" alt="0032m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0032.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="indent15"> + <i>"Exit shall be strangling a snake."—Love's Labor's Lost, V. 1.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he Copperhead + traitors all, our army "base hirelings" call + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But some fine summer day The "boys," just for play, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> Will + settle the Copperheads all. + </p> + <p> + Amen! + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + GOTHAM-MITES. + </h2> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">I</span> like such + Brooks," said Falstaff once; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Had he meant <i>ours</i> he'd been a dunce; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + The devil, whom all things evil please, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Could never stand such Bruoks as these. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + In the Tyrol on mountain high + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + "The Devil's Marble" you may spy; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + And if in the World you long remain, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + You'll probably meet the same again. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Och, Johnny, my gun—let the truth be aid, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + What the divil made <i>ye</i> turn Copperhid? + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Sure it was hivvy what ye bore, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Wid the brass in your face yees had before. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + There's a song how Old Nick took a journey, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + With a corporation attorney; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + But there is one <i>fouler</i>, whom even the old prowler + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Would fear as a friend on a journey. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <h3> + 1. + </h3> + <p class="indent5"> + "The man who made that order," said + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Judge B. in court, "was a <i>meat-head</i>." + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Oh what a head that head would be, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Just <i>meted</i> Judge, to match with thee! + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <h3> + 2. + </h3> + <p class="indent5"> + "Just roll that nigger out of court!" + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + The Judge exclaimed with solemn port; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + "I tell you very truly now, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Nigs <i>at the bar</i> I won't allow!" + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + At a Copperhead meeting the crier + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Paused an instant to hear his gun fire; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + The cannon was loaded, and when it exploded, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Said he—"List to the voice of our sire!" + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There was old party named M———, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who went from bad doctrines to worse. + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + If at law he should see his name prefaced by <i>re,</i> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + It will show what he <i>should</i> feel; this M———. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + There was a small Cozening shyster; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Said he, "Every case is an <i>eyester;</i> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Give the parties the shells if you can, and nought else, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Unless the Court tips you a hi-ster." + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There's a man at the <i>Bar</i> who, we know, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Is in politics terribly <i>low</i>; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + For he keeps in the clubs the secessional cubs, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who in <i>propria persona</i> can't go. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There's a very bad-minis-trator, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + A<i> très petite pomme de tater</i>, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Who tears feelings to rags, presenting of flags; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + This oily old adminis-<i>traitor</i>. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There's a wide-awake Copperhead cratur', + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who is Eli by name and by natur'; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Displaying for one neither fashion <i>nor ton</i>, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + This un-national nativist traitor. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0003" id="link2H_4_0003"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + CHECKER-BOARDERS AND KEYSTONERS + </h2> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here was an old + person, J. B., + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + An old Public Func-tion-arie; [agreed, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + When they swore, "We'll secede!" he just smiled, "I'm + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + "You've a sure friend, you know, in J. B. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There was a smart lawyer named W——— + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who from Union men made quite a fortun'; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + But his wealth he despised, with Secesh fraternized, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + This apo-state-olical W———. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There was a twistortulous Heed, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who hoped that Secesh might succeed; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + For he said, "It's my natur' to act like a traitor, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Since it runs in the joints of a Heed." + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There once was a Copperhead Diddle, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who played to the Heed second fiddle; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + When they said, "It is small!" it replied, not at all, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Says he, "I ain't dead—as a live Copperhead + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + I'm a squirmulous vermiform Wriggler." + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There was an old servant called Peter, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + So moody in humor and feature + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Because the good people from the church with a steeple + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Expelled this old saturnine Peter. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There was a sharp lawyer, one P-, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Whose thoughts never got through his still lips; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + And all he would say was "ah!" "h'm!" "oh!" and "ay + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + This pauciloquent person named P-. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There was a neat sarpent—a Coiler— + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + True son of the ancient Beguiler; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Who told such a whopper, he burst out his copper, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + And frightfully fractured his biler. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + It's a full-blooded Copperhead Diddle!" + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + There was an ex-governing Wiggler, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + A political huckster and higgler; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Quoth "Aristocracy" + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + To Fourth Ward "Vulgarity," + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + "You are dregs, I am froth; and our interests both + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Are opposed to this working, d'ye see!" + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0004" id="link2H_4_0004"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + MODERN HEATHEN-IANS + </h2> + <p class="indent10"> + There was an ex-editor, L———, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who rowed in the <i>Courier</i> punt, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + But to twist around more, he jumped out on the shore, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + That contortious poetical L———. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Oh G——— T——— C——— + was one + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who thought himself quite a great gun; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + So Treason he shouted, "Constitution" he spouted, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + But Boston grew hot for such "Union Men"—so + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + He herds in New York with Fernando & Co. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + To the cause of his country adverse, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Is the man whom all honest men curse. + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Do you ask what's his name? oh, ne'er believe Fame, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + If it be not Ex-President Pierce. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + In Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Six, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + A poet, disgusted with Pierce's tricks, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Said that he down to the dust should go, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + To grovel there in infamy low. + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + And in Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Three, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + The prophecy came to pass, I see, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Since in the dust and on the ground, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + As a Copperhead Pierce goes squirming round". + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + What a pity that Joshua D. + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + A good Insolvency lawyer should be, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Yet cannot, in politics, as we see, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Keep his own good name from bankruptcie! + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + John C. passes, now and then, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + For one of Boston's League-al men. + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Mistake me not—he doth intrigue + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + With the Liquor—not the Union—League! + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Gamblers, Wood-ites, thieves, and asses, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Scrapings of the dangerous classes, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Pettifoggers malign, but weak, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who dare not fight and cannot speak; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + <i>Trash</i> which the war-tide rolling high + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Has cast ashore in scorn to dry; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + "Aristocrats" who fear to wage + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Brave battle in a stirring age, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + As did their glorious sires before, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who won thereby the fame they wore; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Oh G. S. H————, tell us true. + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Is this fit company for you? + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0005" id="link2H_4_0005"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SHAKSPEARE ON THE COPPERHEADS. + </h2> + <p class="indent15"> + "What would you have, you curs, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + That like nor peace nor war? The one affrights you, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Where he should find you lions, finds you hares; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Where foxes, geese; you are no surer, no, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + To make him worthy whose offence subdues him, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + And curse that justice did it. Who deserves greatness + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Deserves your hate; and your affections are + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + A sick man's appetite, who desires most that + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Which would increase his evil. He that depends + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Upon your favors swims with fins of lead, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + And hews down oaks with rushes."—<i>Coriolanus, I. 1.</i> + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0006" id="link2H_4_0006"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + "THOSE DEVOTED COPPERHEADS." + </h2> + <p class="indent5"> + "Our sympathies are all confined at home; yet it is just + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + possible we may help those devoted Copperheads in the only + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + way we know how—also, that they, on their side, are now + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + about ripe to aid us in the only way we could accept their + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + aid. If our troops should this summer appear within their + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + borders anywhere between Cairo and Philadelphia, they would + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + be hailed as friends by a population pretty well cured now of + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + <i>Pluribus Unum</i>. Their cry would be, not Union, but deli- + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + verance. <i>Wait then, and watch, and keep your lights burning, </i> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + ye Knights of the Golden Circle!"—Richmond Enquirer, 18th + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + May, 1863. + </p> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 45274 ***</div> + </body> +</html> diff --git a/45274-h/images/0001.jpg b/45274-h/images/0001.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2137c44 --- /dev/null +++ b/45274-h/images/0001.jpg diff --git a/45274-h/images/0001m.jpg b/45274-h/images/0001m.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e575f4e --- /dev/null +++ b/45274-h/images/0001m.jpg diff --git a/45274-h/images/0007.jpg b/45274-h/images/0007.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2023f31 --- /dev/null +++ b/45274-h/images/0007.jpg diff --git a/45274-h/images/0007m.jpg 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Ye Book of Copperheads + +Author: Anonymous + +Illustrator: Anonymous + +Release Date: March 31, 2014 [EBook #45274] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger from page images generously +provided by the Internet Archive + + + + + + + + + + +YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS + +By Anonymous + + + +[Illustration: 0007] + +[Illustration: 0009] + + + + +YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS + + +"_ Continue this united League."--Richard the Third, III. 1_. + + +`|There once was a Copperhead snake tried to Bite Uncle Sam by mistake; + +```But the Seven League Boot on old Uncle Sam's foot + +````Soon crushed this pestiferous snake. + +[Illustration: 0010] + +|A soldier came back from the war, with many an honorable scar; + +```But the Copperheads cried, "Served you right if you'd died + +````In this curst _Abolitionist_ war!" + +[Illustration: 0011] + +|The old Tory dragon is dead, but she left us some eggs in her stead; + +``Two were smashed in the yolk, but the third hatched and broke, + +```And out came a vile Copperhead. + +[Illustration: 0012] + +|There was once a young giant asleep, and round him two serpents did creep; + +```But he stopped their vile breath, and squeezed them to death, + +````This giant aroused from his sleep. + + +[Illustration: 0013] + +|There once was a Copperhead vile, who attempted to damage a + +```So he tried it in truth, but soon broke every tooth + +````On that rusty and crusty Old File. + +[Illustration: 0014] + +"_Nor doth this Wood lack Worlds."--Midsummer Night's Dream, II. 2._ + +|There was an old Snake in New York said for peace all the people should work; + +``"But if war _must_ come, let us fight here _at home!!_" + +```Quoth sanguiloquent Ben of New York. + +[Illustration: 0015] + +_"One of those who worship dirty gods."--Cymbeline, III. 8._ + +|There once was a chap named Vallandigham, whom the Copperheads chose for commanding 'em; + +```But a trip to the South soon silenced his mouth, + +````And the world as a _Tory_ is branding him. + +[Illustration: 0016] + +|With War Democrats Seymour's for war; with Peace cowards for peace he'll hurrah; + +```Let him get in the way of the mower some day, + +````And He'll find there's no quibbling with war. + +[Illustration: 0017] + +|The Copperhead lotterie hath a curious policie; + +``For a man of low rank can draw naught save a blank, + +````Unless an accomplice he be. + +[Illustration: 0018] + +|There once was a twistified Reed who took for his pattern Snake-Weed; + +```Till the Copperheads all, great, middling, and small + +````Seemed _straight_ by the side of this Reed. + +[Illustration: 0019] + +|There's a character very well known, Who bubbles for ages has blown; + +```But the best he has made since at _bubbling_ he played, + +````From a Copperhead pipe have been thrown. + +[Illustration: 0020] + +````_"And what Stock he springs of!!"--Coriolan, II. 3._ + +|Copper stocks are uncertain to buy, though this Copperhead's stock's very high; + +```But we still might improve this stock of his love, + +````By adding the _right_ sort of tie. + +[Illustration: 0021] + +|There was an old War Horse, a clerical, who thought our Republic chimerical; + +```"For the Union," he said, "he never had prayed," + +````This mordacious old War Horse cholerical. + +[Illustration: 0022] + +```_" There is no goodness in the worm,"--Antony and Cleopatra, V. 2._ + +|The abominable Copperhead worms! With their wriggles, and twists, and their squirms! + +```But the gardener, they say, will soon find out a way + +````To kill the vile Copperhead worms. + +[Illustration: 0023] + +```_"There are many complaints, Davy, about that."--King Henry IV., V. 1._ + +|There was a Stern Statesman astute, who so often went in to _recruit_, + +```That a Rattlesnake fat revolved in his hat, + +````While a Copperhead squirmed in his boot. + +[Illustration: 0024] + +```_"So much dishonor my fair stars."--King Richard 111., IV. 1._ + +|The traitor our Common Cents mars, And on Liberty plainly he wars, + +```Taking Freedom away from the Union, I say, + +````When he cuts out her head from the stars. + +[Illustration: 0025] + +_"And so the lion vanished."--Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1._ + +|While it did us great harm, Abolition was the height of the Lion's ambition; + +```Now with Copperhead _tale_ he stings himself pale. + +````And furaciously scorns Abolition. + +[Illustration: 0026] + +```_"Will this Wood take fire?"--Merry Wives of Windsor, V. 5._ + +|Union, a fagot we take; But 'twould be a tremendous mistake, + +```To use rotten old Wood which never was good, + +````And then bind it up with a Snake. + +[Illustration: 0027] + +|There once was a Patriot whose rigor reached such a remarkable figure, + +```That he'd rather go down in the water and drown + +````Than be saved by the help of a nigger. + +[Illustration: 0028] + +|There once were some rascals near Reading thought fighting was easy as wedding; + +```But being well kicked, and most terribly licked, + +````They mournfully mizzled from Reading. + +[Illustration: 0029] + +_"O wicked Wall!"--Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1._ + +|There once was an old _party_-Wall, quite _cracked_ and just ready to fall; + +```The Copperheads came and completed its shame + +````By sticking their Bills on this Wall. + +[Illustration: 0030] + +|There once was a bottle of Porter, which the Copperheads thought was all water; + +```But when the cork popped, the Copperheads dropped, + +````And were stunned by the _vim_ of the Porter! + +[Illustration: 0031] + +|There once was a Snake who said "Hey! There's an Eagle I'll take for my prey!" + +```But the bird with his bill did the Copperhead kill, + +````And bore him in triumph away. + +[Illustration: 0032] + +```_"Exit shall be strangling a snake."--Love's Labor's Lost, V. 1._ + +|The Copperhead traitors all, our army "base hirelings" call + +```But some fine summer day The "boys," just for play, + +````Will settle the Copperheads all. + +Amen! + + + + +GOTHAM-MITES. + + +|I like such Brooks," said Falstaff once; + +``Had he meant _ours_ he'd been a dunce; + +`The devil, whom all things evil please, + +``Could never stand such Bruoks as these.= + + + +`In the Tyrol on mountain high + +``"The Devil's Marble" you may spy; + +`And if in the World you long remain, + +``You'll probably meet the same again.= + + + +`Och, Johnny, my gun--let the truth be aid, + +``What the divil made _ye_ turn Copperhid? + +`Sure it was hivvy what ye bore, + +``Wid the brass in your face yees had before.= + + + +`There's a song how Old Nick took a journey, + +``With a corporation attorney; + +`But there is one _fouler_, whom even the old prowler + +``Would fear as a friend on a journey.= + + + +1. + +`"The man who made that order," said + +``Judge B. in court, "was a _meat-head_." + +`Oh what a head that head would be, + +``Just _meted_ Judge, to match with thee!= + + + +2. + +`"Just roll that nigger out of court!" + +``The Judge exclaimed with solemn port; + +`"I tell you very truly now, + +``Nigs _at the bar_ I won't allow!"= + + + +`At a Copperhead meeting the crier + +``Paused an instant to hear his gun fire; + +`The cannon was loaded, and when it exploded, + +``Said he--"List to the voice of our sire!"= + + + +``There was old party named M------, + +``Who went from bad doctrines to worse. + +`If at law he should see his name prefaced by _re,_ + +``It will show what he _should_ feel; this M------.= + + + +```There was a small Cozening shyster; + +``Said he, "Every case is an _eyester;_ + +`Give the parties the shells if you can, and nought else, + +``Unless the Court tips you a hi-ster."= + + + +``There's a man at the _Bar_ who, we know, + +``Is in politics terribly _low_; + +`For he keeps in the clubs the secessional cubs, + +``Who in _propria persona_ can't go.= + + + +``There's a very bad-minis-trator, + +``A_ très petite pomme de tater_, + +`Who tears feelings to rags, presenting of flags; + +``This oily old adminis-_traitor_.= + + + +``There's a wide-awake Copperhead cratur', + +``Who is Eli by name and by natur'; + +`Displaying for one neither fashion _nor ton_, + +``This un-national nativist traitor.= + + + + +CHECKER-BOARDERS AND KEYSTONERS + + +|There was an old person, J. B., + +``An old Public Func-tion-arie; [agreed, + +`When they swore, "We'll secede!" he just smiled, "I'm + +``"You've a sure friend, you know, in J. B.= + + + +``There was a smart lawyer named W------ + +``Who from Union men made quite a fortun'; + +`But his wealth he despised, with Secesh fraternized, + +``This apo-state-olical W------.= + + + +``There was a twistortulous Heed, + +``Who hoped that Secesh might succeed; + +`For he said, "It's my natur' to act like a traitor, + +``Since it runs in the joints of a Heed."= + + + +``There once was a Copperhead Diddle, + +``Who played to the Heed second fiddle; + +`When they said, "It is small!" it replied, not at all, + +`Says he, "I ain't dead--as a live Copperhead + +``I'm a squirmulous vermiform Wriggler."= + + + +``There was an old servant called Peter, + +``So moody in humor and feature + +`Because the good people from the church with a steeple + +``Expelled this old saturnine Peter.= + + + +``There was a sharp lawyer, one P-, + +``Whose thoughts never got through his still lips; + +`And all he would say was "ah!" "h'm!" "oh!" and "ay + +``This pauciloquent person named P-.= + + + +``There was a neat sarpent--a Coiler-- + +``True son of the ancient Beguiler; + +`Who told such a whopper, he burst out his copper, + +``And frightfully fractured his biler.= + + + +`It's a full-blooded Copperhead Diddle!"= + + +`There was an ex-governing Wiggler, + +`A political huckster and higgler; + +``Quoth "Aristocracy" + +``To Fourth Ward "Vulgarity," + +`"You are dregs, I am froth; and our interests both + +``Are opposed to this working, d'ye see!"= + + + + +MODERN HEATHEN-IANS + + +``There was an ex-editor, L------, + +``Who rowed in the _Courier_ punt, + +`But to twist around more, he jumped out on the shore, + +``That contortious poetical L------.= + + + +``Oh G------ T------ C------ was one + +``Who thought himself quite a great gun; + +`So Treason he shouted, "Constitution" he spouted, + +``But Boston grew hot for such "Union Men"--so + +``He herds in New York with Fernando & Co.= + + + +``To the cause of his country adverse, + +``Is the man whom all honest men curse. + +`Do you ask what's his name? oh, ne'er believe Fame, + +``If it be not Ex-President Pierce.= + + + +``In Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Six, + +``A poet, disgusted with Pierce's tricks, + +``Said that he down to the dust should go, + +``To grovel there in infamy low. + +``And in Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Three, + +``The prophecy came to pass, I see, + +``Since in the dust and on the ground, + +``As a Copperhead Pierce goes squirming round".= + + + +``What a pity that Joshua D. + +``A good Insolvency lawyer should be, + +``Yet cannot, in politics, as we see, + +``Keep his own good name from bankruptcie!= + + + +``John C. passes, now and then, + +``For one of Boston's League-al men. + +``Mistake me not--he doth intrigue + +``With the Liquor--not the Union--League!= + + + +``Gamblers, Wood-ites, thieves, and asses, + +``Scrapings of the dangerous classes, + +``Pettifoggers malign, but weak, + +``Who dare not fight and cannot speak; + +``_Trash_ which the war-tide rolling high + +``Has cast ashore in scorn to dry; + +``"Aristocrats" who fear to wage + +``Brave battle in a stirring age, + +``As did their glorious sires before, + +``Who won thereby the fame they wore; + +``Oh G. S. H--------, tell us true. + +``Is this fit company for you?= + + + + +SHAKSPEARE ON THE COPPERHEADS. + + +```"What would you have, you curs, + +`That like nor peace nor war? The one affrights you, + +`The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you, + +`Where he should find you lions, finds you hares; + +`Where foxes, geese; you are no surer, no, + +`Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, + +`Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is, + +`To make him worthy whose offence subdues him, + +`And curse that justice did it. Who deserves greatness + +`Deserves your hate; and your affections are + +`A sick man's appetite, who desires most that + +`Which would increase his evil. He that depends + +`Upon your favors swims with fins of lead, + +`And hews down oaks with rushes."--_Coriolanus, I. 1._ + + + + +"THOSE DEVOTED COPPERHEADS." + + +`"Our sympathies are all confined at home; yet it is just + +`possible we may help those devoted Copperheads in the only + +`way we know how--also, that they, on their side, are now + +`about ripe to aid us in the only way we could accept their + +`aid. If our troops should this summer appear within their + +`borders anywhere between Cairo and Philadelphia, they would + +`be hailed as friends by a population pretty well cured now of + +`_Pluribus Unum_. Their cry would be, not Union, but deli- + +`verance. _Wait then, and watch, and keep your lights burning, + +`ye Knights of the Golden Circle!"--Richmond Enquirer_, 18th + +`May, 1863. + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Ye Book of Copperheads, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS *** + +***** This file should be named 45274-8.txt or 45274-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/5/2/7/45274/ + +Produced by David Widger from page images generously +provided by the Internet Archive + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Ye Book of Copperheads + +Author: Anonymous + +Illustrator: Anonymous + +Release Date: March 31, 2014 [EBook #45274] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger from page images generously +provided by the Internet Archive + + + + + + +</pre> + + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + YE BOOK<br /> OF<br /> COPPERHEADS + </h1> + <h2> + By Anonymous + </h2> + <p> + <br /> <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0001" id="linkimage-0001"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0007m.jpg" alt="0007m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0007.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <p> + <b>CONTENTS</b> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0001"> YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0002"> GOTHAM-MITES. </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0003"> CHECKER-BOARDERS AND KEYSTONERS </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0004"> MODERN HEATHEN-IANS </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0005"> SHAKSPEARE ON THE COPPERHEADS. </a> + </p> + <p class="toc"> + <a href="#link2H_4_0006"> "THOSE DEVOTED COPPERHEADS." </a> + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0001" id="link2H_4_0001"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0002" id="linkimage-0002"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0009m.jpg" alt="0009m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0009.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <h2> + YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS + </h2> + <p> + "<i> Continue this united League."—Richard the Third, III. 1</i>. + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + |There once was a Copperhead snake tried to Bite Uncle Sam by mistake; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But the Seven League Boot on old Uncle Sam's foot + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> Soon + crushed this pestiferous snake. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0003" id="linkimage-0003"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0010m.jpg" alt="0010m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0010.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">A</span> soldier came back + from the war, with many an honorable scar; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But the Copperheads cried, "Served you right if you'd died + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> In + this curst <i>Abolitionist</i> war!" + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0004" id="linkimage-0004"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0011m.jpg" alt="0011m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0011.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he old Tory dragon + is dead, but she left us some eggs in her stead; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Two were smashed in the yolk, but the third hatched and broke, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + And out came a vile Copperhead. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0005" id="linkimage-0005"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0012m.jpg" alt="0012m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0012.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here was once a + young giant asleep, and round him two serpents did creep; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But he stopped their vile breath, and squeezed them to death, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> This + giant aroused from his sleep. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0006" id="linkimage-0006"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0013m.jpg" alt="0013m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0013.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once was a + Copperhead vile, who attempted to damage a file, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + So he tried it in truth, but soon broke every tooth + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> On + that rusty and crusty Old File. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0007" id="linkimage-0007"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0014m.jpg" alt="0014m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0014.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p> + "<i>Nor doth this Wood lack Worlds."—Midsummer Night's Dream, II. 2.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here was an old + Snake in New York said for peace all the people should work; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + "But if war <i>must</i> come, let us fight here <i>at home!!</i>" + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + Quoth sanguiloquent Ben of New York. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0008" id="linkimage-0008"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0015m.jpg" alt="0015m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0015.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p> + <i>"One of those who worship dirty gods."—Cymbeline, III. 8.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once was a + chap named Vallandigham, whom the Copperheads chose for commanding 'em; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But a trip to the South soon silenced his mouth, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> And + the world as a <i>Tory</i> is branding him. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0009" id="linkimage-0009"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0016m.jpg" alt="0016m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0016.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">W</span>ith War Democrats + Seymour's for war; with Peace cowards for peace he'll hurrah; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + Let him get in the way of the mower some day, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> And + He'll find there's no quibbling with war. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0010" id="linkimage-0010"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0017m.jpg" alt="0017m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0017.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he Copperhead + lotterie hath a curious policie; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + For a man of low rank can draw naught save a blank, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> Unless + an accomplice he be. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0011" id="linkimage-0011"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0018m.jpg" alt="0018m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0018.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once was a + twistified Reed who took for his pattern Snake-Weed; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + Till the Copperheads all, great, middling, and small + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> Seemed + <i>straight</i> by the side of this Reed. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0012" id="linkimage-0012"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0019m.jpg" alt="0019m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0019.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here's a character + very well known, Who bubbles for ages has blown; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But the best he has made since at <i>bubbling</i> he played, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> From + a Copperhead pipe have been thrown. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0013" id="linkimage-0013"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0020m.jpg" alt="0020m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0020.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> <i>"And + what Stock he springs of!!"—Coriolan, II. 3.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">C</span>opper stocks are + uncertain to buy, though this Copperhead's stock's very high; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But we still might improve this stock of his love, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> By + adding the <i>right</i> sort of tie. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0014" id="linkimage-0014"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0021m.jpg" alt="0021m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0021.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here was an old + War Horse, a clerical, who thought our Republic chimerical; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + "For the Union," he said, "he never had prayed," + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> This + mordacious old War Horse cholerical. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0015" id="linkimage-0015"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0022m.jpg" alt="0022m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0022.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="indent15"> + <i>" There is no goodness in the worm,"—Antony and Cleopatra, V. 2.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he abominable + Copperhead worms! With their wriggles, and twists, and their squirms! + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But the gardener, they say, will soon find out a way + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> To + kill the vile Copperhead worms. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0016" id="linkimage-0016"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0023m.jpg" alt="0023m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0023.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="indent15"> + <i>"There are many complaints, Davy, about that."—King Henry IV., V. + 1.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here was a Stern + Statesman astute, who so often went in to <i>recruit</i>, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + That a Rattlesnake fat revolved in his hat, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> While + a Copperhead squirmed in his boot. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0017" id="linkimage-0017"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0024m.jpg" alt="0024m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0024.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="indent15"> + <i>"So much dishonor my fair stars."—King Richard 111., IV. 1.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he traitor our + Common Cents mars, And on Liberty plainly he wars, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + Taking Freedom away from the Union, I say, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> When + he cuts out her head from the stars. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0018" id="linkimage-0018"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0025m.jpg" alt="0025m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0025.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p> + <i>"And so the lion vanished."—Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">W</span>hile it did us + great harm, Abolition was the height of the Lion's ambition; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + Now with Copperhead <i>tale</i> he stings himself pale. + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> And + furaciously scorns Abolition. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0019" id="linkimage-0019"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0026m.jpg" alt="0026m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0026.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="indent15"> + <i>"Will this Wood take fire?"—Merry Wives of Windsor, V. 5.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">U</span>nion, a fagot we + take; But 'twould be a tremendous mistake, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + To use rotten old Wood which never was good, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> And + then bind it up with a Snake. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0020" id="linkimage-0020"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0027m.jpg" alt="0027m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0027.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once was a + Patriot whose rigor reached such a remarkable figure, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + That he'd rather go down in the water and drown + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> Than + be saved by the help of a nigger. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0021" id="linkimage-0021"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0028m.jpg" alt="0028m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0028.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once were + some rascals near Reading thought fighting was easy as wedding; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But being well kicked, and most terribly licked, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> They + mournfully mizzled from Reading. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0022" id="linkimage-0022"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0029m.jpg" alt="0029m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0029.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p> + <i>"O wicked Wall!"—Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once was an + old <i>party</i>-Wall, quite <i>cracked</i> and just ready to fall; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + The Copperheads came and completed its shame + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> By + sticking their Bills on this Wall. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0023" id="linkimage-0023"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0030m.jpg" alt="0030m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0030.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once was a + bottle of Porter, which the Copperheads thought was all water; + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But when the cork popped, the Copperheads dropped, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> And + were stunned by the <i>vim</i> of the Porter! + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0024" id="linkimage-0024"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0031m.jpg" alt="0031m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0031.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here once was a + Snake who said "Hey! There's an Eagle I'll take for my prey!" + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But the bird with his bill did the Copperhead kill, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> And + bore him in triumph away. + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + + <p> + <a name="linkimage-0025" id="linkimage-0025"> </a> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:65%;"> + <img src="images/0032m.jpg" alt="0032m " width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <h5> + <a href="images/0032.jpg"><i>Original</i></a> + </h5> + <p class="indent15"> + <i>"Exit shall be strangling a snake."—Love's Labor's Lost, V. 1.</i> + </p> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>he Copperhead + traitors all, our army "base hirelings" call + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + But some fine summer day The "boys," just for play, + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + <br /> Will + settle the Copperheads all. + </p> + <p> + Amen! + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + GOTHAM-MITES. + </h2> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">I</span> like such + Brooks," said Falstaff once; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Had he meant <i>ours</i> he'd been a dunce; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + The devil, whom all things evil please, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Could never stand such Bruoks as these. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + In the Tyrol on mountain high + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + "The Devil's Marble" you may spy; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + And if in the World you long remain, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + You'll probably meet the same again. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Och, Johnny, my gun—let the truth be aid, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + What the divil made <i>ye</i> turn Copperhid? + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Sure it was hivvy what ye bore, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Wid the brass in your face yees had before. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + There's a song how Old Nick took a journey, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + With a corporation attorney; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + But there is one <i>fouler</i>, whom even the old prowler + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Would fear as a friend on a journey. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <h3> + 1. + </h3> + <p class="indent5"> + "The man who made that order," said + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Judge B. in court, "was a <i>meat-head</i>." + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Oh what a head that head would be, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Just <i>meted</i> Judge, to match with thee! + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <h3> + 2. + </h3> + <p class="indent5"> + "Just roll that nigger out of court!" + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + The Judge exclaimed with solemn port; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + "I tell you very truly now, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Nigs <i>at the bar</i> I won't allow!" + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + At a Copperhead meeting the crier + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Paused an instant to hear his gun fire; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + The cannon was loaded, and when it exploded, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Said he—"List to the voice of our sire!" + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There was old party named M———, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who went from bad doctrines to worse. + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + If at law he should see his name prefaced by <i>re,</i> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + It will show what he <i>should</i> feel; this M———. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent15"> + There was a small Cozening shyster; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Said he, "Every case is an <i>eyester;</i> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Give the parties the shells if you can, and nought else, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Unless the Court tips you a hi-ster." + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There's a man at the <i>Bar</i> who, we know, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Is in politics terribly <i>low</i>; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + For he keeps in the clubs the secessional cubs, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who in <i>propria persona</i> can't go. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There's a very bad-minis-trator, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + A<i> très petite pomme de tater</i>, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Who tears feelings to rags, presenting of flags; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + This oily old adminis-<i>traitor</i>. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There's a wide-awake Copperhead cratur', + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who is Eli by name and by natur'; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Displaying for one neither fashion <i>nor ton</i>, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + This un-national nativist traitor. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0003" id="link2H_4_0003"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + CHECKER-BOARDERS AND KEYSTONERS + </h2> + <p class="pfirst"> + <span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">T</span>here was an old + person, J. B., + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + An old Public Func-tion-arie; [agreed, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + When they swore, "We'll secede!" he just smiled, "I'm + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + "You've a sure friend, you know, in J. B. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There was a smart lawyer named W——— + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who from Union men made quite a fortun'; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + But his wealth he despised, with Secesh fraternized, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + This apo-state-olical W———. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There was a twistortulous Heed, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who hoped that Secesh might succeed; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + For he said, "It's my natur' to act like a traitor, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Since it runs in the joints of a Heed." + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There once was a Copperhead Diddle, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who played to the Heed second fiddle; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + When they said, "It is small!" it replied, not at all, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Says he, "I ain't dead—as a live Copperhead + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + I'm a squirmulous vermiform Wriggler." + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There was an old servant called Peter, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + So moody in humor and feature + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Because the good people from the church with a steeple + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Expelled this old saturnine Peter. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There was a sharp lawyer, one P-, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Whose thoughts never got through his still lips; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + And all he would say was "ah!" "h'm!" "oh!" and "ay + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + This pauciloquent person named P-. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + There was a neat sarpent—a Coiler— + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + True son of the ancient Beguiler; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Who told such a whopper, he burst out his copper, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + And frightfully fractured his biler. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + It's a full-blooded Copperhead Diddle!" + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + There was an ex-governing Wiggler, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + A political huckster and higgler; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Quoth "Aristocracy" + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + To Fourth Ward "Vulgarity," + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + "You are dregs, I am froth; and our interests both + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Are opposed to this working, d'ye see!" + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0004" id="link2H_4_0004"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + MODERN HEATHEN-IANS + </h2> + <p class="indent10"> + There was an ex-editor, L———, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who rowed in the <i>Courier</i> punt, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + But to twist around more, he jumped out on the shore, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + That contortious poetical L———. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Oh G——— T——— C——— + was one + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who thought himself quite a great gun; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + So Treason he shouted, "Constitution" he spouted, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + But Boston grew hot for such "Union Men"—so + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + He herds in New York with Fernando & Co. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + To the cause of his country adverse, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Is the man whom all honest men curse. + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Do you ask what's his name? oh, ne'er believe Fame, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + If it be not Ex-President Pierce. + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + In Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Six, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + A poet, disgusted with Pierce's tricks, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Said that he down to the dust should go, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + To grovel there in infamy low. + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + And in Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Three, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + The prophecy came to pass, I see, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Since in the dust and on the ground, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + As a Copperhead Pierce goes squirming round". + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + What a pity that Joshua D. + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + A good Insolvency lawyer should be, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Yet cannot, in politics, as we see, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Keep his own good name from bankruptcie! + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + John C. passes, now and then, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + For one of Boston's League-al men. + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Mistake me not—he doth intrigue + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + With the Liquor—not the Union—League! + </p> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Gamblers, Wood-ites, thieves, and asses, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Scrapings of the dangerous classes, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Pettifoggers malign, but weak, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who dare not fight and cannot speak; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + <i>Trash</i> which the war-tide rolling high + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Has cast ashore in scorn to dry; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + "Aristocrats" who fear to wage + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Brave battle in a stirring age, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + As did their glorious sires before, + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Who won thereby the fame they wore; + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Oh G. S. H————, tell us true. + </p> + <p class="indent10"> + Is this fit company for you? + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0005" id="link2H_4_0005"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + SHAKSPEARE ON THE COPPERHEADS. + </h2> + <p class="indent15"> + "What would you have, you curs, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + That like nor peace nor war? The one affrights you, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Where he should find you lions, finds you hares; + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Where foxes, geese; you are no surer, no, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + To make him worthy whose offence subdues him, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + And curse that justice did it. Who deserves greatness + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Deserves your hate; and your affections are + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + A sick man's appetite, who desires most that + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Which would increase his evil. He that depends + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + Upon your favors swims with fins of lead, + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + And hews down oaks with rushes."—<i>Coriolanus, I. 1.</i> + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <a name="link2H_4_0006" id="link2H_4_0006"> </a> + </p> + <div style="height: 4em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h2> + "THOSE DEVOTED COPPERHEADS." + </h2> + <p class="indent5"> + "Our sympathies are all confined at home; yet it is just + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + possible we may help those devoted Copperheads in the only + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + way we know how—also, that they, on their side, are now + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + about ripe to aid us in the only way we could accept their + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + aid. If our troops should this summer appear within their + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + borders anywhere between Cairo and Philadelphia, they would + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + be hailed as friends by a population pretty well cured now of + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + <i>Pluribus Unum</i>. Their cry would be, not Union, but deli- + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + verance. <i>Wait then, and watch, and keep your lights burning, </i> + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + ye Knights of the Golden Circle!"—Richmond Enquirer, 18th + </p> + <p class="indent5"> + May, 1863. + </p> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Ye Book of Copperheads, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS *** + +***** This file should be named 45274-h.htm or 45274-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/5/2/7/45274/ + +Produced by David Widger from page images generously +provided by the Internet Archive + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Ye Book of Copperheads + +Author: Anonymous + +Illustrator: Anonymous + +Release Date: March 31, 2014 [EBook #45274] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger from page images generously +provided by the Internet Archive + + + + + + + + + + +YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS + +By Anonymous + + + +[Illustration: 0007] + +[Illustration: 0009] + + + + +YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS + + +"_ Continue this united League."--Richard the Third, III. 1_. + + +`|There once was a Copperhead snake tried to Bite Uncle Sam by mistake; + +```But the Seven League Boot on old Uncle Sam's foot + +````Soon crushed this pestiferous snake. + +[Illustration: 0010] + +|A soldier came back from the war, with many an honorable scar; + +```But the Copperheads cried, "Served you right if you'd died + +````In this curst _Abolitionist_ war!" + +[Illustration: 0011] + +|The old Tory dragon is dead, but she left us some eggs in her stead; + +``Two were smashed in the yolk, but the third hatched and broke, + +```And out came a vile Copperhead. + +[Illustration: 0012] + +|There was once a young giant asleep, and round him two serpents did creep; + +```But he stopped their vile breath, and squeezed them to death, + +````This giant aroused from his sleep. + + +[Illustration: 0013] + +|There once was a Copperhead vile, who attempted to damage a + +```So he tried it in truth, but soon broke every tooth + +````On that rusty and crusty Old File. + +[Illustration: 0014] + +"_Nor doth this Wood lack Worlds."--Midsummer Night's Dream, II. 2._ + +|There was an old Snake in New York said for peace all the people should work; + +``"But if war _must_ come, let us fight here _at home!!_" + +```Quoth sanguiloquent Ben of New York. + +[Illustration: 0015] + +_"One of those who worship dirty gods."--Cymbeline, III. 8._ + +|There once was a chap named Vallandigham, whom the Copperheads chose for commanding 'em; + +```But a trip to the South soon silenced his mouth, + +````And the world as a _Tory_ is branding him. + +[Illustration: 0016] + +|With War Democrats Seymour's for war; with Peace cowards for peace he'll hurrah; + +```Let him get in the way of the mower some day, + +````And He'll find there's no quibbling with war. + +[Illustration: 0017] + +|The Copperhead lotterie hath a curious policie; + +``For a man of low rank can draw naught save a blank, + +````Unless an accomplice he be. + +[Illustration: 0018] + +|There once was a twistified Reed who took for his pattern Snake-Weed; + +```Till the Copperheads all, great, middling, and small + +````Seemed _straight_ by the side of this Reed. + +[Illustration: 0019] + +|There's a character very well known, Who bubbles for ages has blown; + +```But the best he has made since at _bubbling_ he played, + +````From a Copperhead pipe have been thrown. + +[Illustration: 0020] + +````_"And what Stock he springs of!!"--Coriolan, II. 3._ + +|Copper stocks are uncertain to buy, though this Copperhead's stock's very high; + +```But we still might improve this stock of his love, + +````By adding the _right_ sort of tie. + +[Illustration: 0021] + +|There was an old War Horse, a clerical, who thought our Republic chimerical; + +```"For the Union," he said, "he never had prayed," + +````This mordacious old War Horse cholerical. + +[Illustration: 0022] + +```_" There is no goodness in the worm,"--Antony and Cleopatra, V. 2._ + +|The abominable Copperhead worms! With their wriggles, and twists, and their squirms! + +```But the gardener, they say, will soon find out a way + +````To kill the vile Copperhead worms. + +[Illustration: 0023] + +```_"There are many complaints, Davy, about that."--King Henry IV., V. 1._ + +|There was a Stern Statesman astute, who so often went in to _recruit_, + +```That a Rattlesnake fat revolved in his hat, + +````While a Copperhead squirmed in his boot. + +[Illustration: 0024] + +```_"So much dishonor my fair stars."--King Richard 111., IV. 1._ + +|The traitor our Common Cents mars, And on Liberty plainly he wars, + +```Taking Freedom away from the Union, I say, + +````When he cuts out her head from the stars. + +[Illustration: 0025] + +_"And so the lion vanished."--Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1._ + +|While it did us great harm, Abolition was the height of the Lion's ambition; + +```Now with Copperhead _tale_ he stings himself pale. + +````And furaciously scorns Abolition. + +[Illustration: 0026] + +```_"Will this Wood take fire?"--Merry Wives of Windsor, V. 5._ + +|Union, a fagot we take; But 'twould be a tremendous mistake, + +```To use rotten old Wood which never was good, + +````And then bind it up with a Snake. + +[Illustration: 0027] + +|There once was a Patriot whose rigor reached such a remarkable figure, + +```That he'd rather go down in the water and drown + +````Than be saved by the help of a nigger. + +[Illustration: 0028] + +|There once were some rascals near Reading thought fighting was easy as wedding; + +```But being well kicked, and most terribly licked, + +````They mournfully mizzled from Reading. + +[Illustration: 0029] + +_"O wicked Wall!"--Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1._ + +|There once was an old _party_-Wall, quite _cracked_ and just ready to fall; + +```The Copperheads came and completed its shame + +````By sticking their Bills on this Wall. + +[Illustration: 0030] + +|There once was a bottle of Porter, which the Copperheads thought was all water; + +```But when the cork popped, the Copperheads dropped, + +````And were stunned by the _vim_ of the Porter! + +[Illustration: 0031] + +|There once was a Snake who said "Hey! There's an Eagle I'll take for my prey!" + +```But the bird with his bill did the Copperhead kill, + +````And bore him in triumph away. + +[Illustration: 0032] + +```_"Exit shall be strangling a snake."--Love's Labor's Lost, V. 1._ + +|The Copperhead traitors all, our army "base hirelings" call + +```But some fine summer day The "boys," just for play, + +````Will settle the Copperheads all. + +Amen! + + + + +GOTHAM-MITES. + + +|I like such Brooks," said Falstaff once; + +``Had he meant _ours_ he'd been a dunce; + +`The devil, whom all things evil please, + +``Could never stand such Bruoks as these.= + + + +`In the Tyrol on mountain high + +``"The Devil's Marble" you may spy; + +`And if in the World you long remain, + +``You'll probably meet the same again.= + + + +`Och, Johnny, my gun--let the truth be aid, + +``What the divil made _ye_ turn Copperhid? + +`Sure it was hivvy what ye bore, + +``Wid the brass in your face yees had before.= + + + +`There's a song how Old Nick took a journey, + +``With a corporation attorney; + +`But there is one _fouler_, whom even the old prowler + +``Would fear as a friend on a journey.= + + + +1. + +`"The man who made that order," said + +``Judge B. in court, "was a _meat-head_." + +`Oh what a head that head would be, + +``Just _meted_ Judge, to match with thee!= + + + +2. + +`"Just roll that nigger out of court!" + +``The Judge exclaimed with solemn port; + +`"I tell you very truly now, + +``Nigs _at the bar_ I won't allow!"= + + + +`At a Copperhead meeting the crier + +``Paused an instant to hear his gun fire; + +`The cannon was loaded, and when it exploded, + +``Said he--"List to the voice of our sire!"= + + + +``There was old party named M------, + +``Who went from bad doctrines to worse. + +`If at law he should see his name prefaced by _re,_ + +``It will show what he _should_ feel; this M------.= + + + +```There was a small Cozening shyster; + +``Said he, "Every case is an _eyester;_ + +`Give the parties the shells if you can, and nought else, + +``Unless the Court tips you a hi-ster."= + + + +``There's a man at the _Bar_ who, we know, + +``Is in politics terribly _low_; + +`For he keeps in the clubs the secessional cubs, + +``Who in _propria persona_ can't go.= + + + +``There's a very bad-minis-trator, + +``A_ tres petite pomme de tater_, + +`Who tears feelings to rags, presenting of flags; + +``This oily old adminis-_traitor_.= + + + +``There's a wide-awake Copperhead cratur', + +``Who is Eli by name and by natur'; + +`Displaying for one neither fashion _nor ton_, + +``This un-national nativist traitor.= + + + + +CHECKER-BOARDERS AND KEYSTONERS + + +|There was an old person, J. B., + +``An old Public Func-tion-arie; [agreed, + +`When they swore, "We'll secede!" he just smiled, "I'm + +``"You've a sure friend, you know, in J. B.= + + + +``There was a smart lawyer named W------ + +``Who from Union men made quite a fortun'; + +`But his wealth he despised, with Secesh fraternized, + +``This apo-state-olical W------.= + + + +``There was a twistortulous Heed, + +``Who hoped that Secesh might succeed; + +`For he said, "It's my natur' to act like a traitor, + +``Since it runs in the joints of a Heed."= + + + +``There once was a Copperhead Diddle, + +``Who played to the Heed second fiddle; + +`When they said, "It is small!" it replied, not at all, + +`Says he, "I ain't dead--as a live Copperhead + +``I'm a squirmulous vermiform Wriggler."= + + + +``There was an old servant called Peter, + +``So moody in humor and feature + +`Because the good people from the church with a steeple + +``Expelled this old saturnine Peter.= + + + +``There was a sharp lawyer, one P-, + +``Whose thoughts never got through his still lips; + +`And all he would say was "ah!" "h'm!" "oh!" and "ay + +``This pauciloquent person named P-.= + + + +``There was a neat sarpent--a Coiler-- + +``True son of the ancient Beguiler; + +`Who told such a whopper, he burst out his copper, + +``And frightfully fractured his biler.= + + + +`It's a full-blooded Copperhead Diddle!"= + + +`There was an ex-governing Wiggler, + +`A political huckster and higgler; + +``Quoth "Aristocracy" + +``To Fourth Ward "Vulgarity," + +`"You are dregs, I am froth; and our interests both + +``Are opposed to this working, d'ye see!"= + + + + +MODERN HEATHEN-IANS + + +``There was an ex-editor, L------, + +``Who rowed in the _Courier_ punt, + +`But to twist around more, he jumped out on the shore, + +``That contortious poetical L------.= + + + +``Oh G------ T------ C------ was one + +``Who thought himself quite a great gun; + +`So Treason he shouted, "Constitution" he spouted, + +``But Boston grew hot for such "Union Men"--so + +``He herds in New York with Fernando & Co.= + + + +``To the cause of his country adverse, + +``Is the man whom all honest men curse. + +`Do you ask what's his name? oh, ne'er believe Fame, + +``If it be not Ex-President Pierce.= + + + +``In Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Six, + +``A poet, disgusted with Pierce's tricks, + +``Said that he down to the dust should go, + +``To grovel there in infamy low. + +``And in Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Three, + +``The prophecy came to pass, I see, + +``Since in the dust and on the ground, + +``As a Copperhead Pierce goes squirming round".= + + + +``What a pity that Joshua D. + +``A good Insolvency lawyer should be, + +``Yet cannot, in politics, as we see, + +``Keep his own good name from bankruptcie!= + + + +``John C. passes, now and then, + +``For one of Boston's League-al men. + +``Mistake me not--he doth intrigue + +``With the Liquor--not the Union--League!= + + + +``Gamblers, Wood-ites, thieves, and asses, + +``Scrapings of the dangerous classes, + +``Pettifoggers malign, but weak, + +``Who dare not fight and cannot speak; + +``_Trash_ which the war-tide rolling high + +``Has cast ashore in scorn to dry; + +``"Aristocrats" who fear to wage + +``Brave battle in a stirring age, + +``As did their glorious sires before, + +``Who won thereby the fame they wore; + +``Oh G. S. H--------, tell us true. + +``Is this fit company for you?= + + + + +SHAKSPEARE ON THE COPPERHEADS. + + +```"What would you have, you curs, + +`That like nor peace nor war? The one affrights you, + +`The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you, + +`Where he should find you lions, finds you hares; + +`Where foxes, geese; you are no surer, no, + +`Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, + +`Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is, + +`To make him worthy whose offence subdues him, + +`And curse that justice did it. Who deserves greatness + +`Deserves your hate; and your affections are + +`A sick man's appetite, who desires most that + +`Which would increase his evil. He that depends + +`Upon your favors swims with fins of lead, + +`And hews down oaks with rushes."--_Coriolanus, I. 1._ + + + + +"THOSE DEVOTED COPPERHEADS." + + +`"Our sympathies are all confined at home; yet it is just + +`possible we may help those devoted Copperheads in the only + +`way we know how--also, that they, on their side, are now + +`about ripe to aid us in the only way we could accept their + +`aid. If our troops should this summer appear within their + +`borders anywhere between Cairo and Philadelphia, they would + +`be hailed as friends by a population pretty well cured now of + +`_Pluribus Unum_. Their cry would be, not Union, but deli- + +`verance. _Wait then, and watch, and keep your lights burning, + +`ye Knights of the Golden Circle!"--Richmond Enquirer_, 18th + +`May, 1863. + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Ye Book of Copperheads, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS *** + +***** This file should be named 45274.txt or 45274.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/5/2/7/45274/ + +Produced by David Widger from page images generously +provided by the Internet Archive + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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