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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 255 (search)
would bestow, If you and your party would only agree To fall down in worship and homage to me; Obey my directions, fulfil my commands, Spread carnage and death over all these lands, By a horrible warfare, such as would win Success to my cause, and a triumph to sin. To all of these terms you most promptly agreed, And made them your grounds of political creed; I gave you my subjects — the best I have got, Such as Cameron, and Seward, and Old Granny Scott; Assisted by Greeley, and Bennett, and Weed, As miserable scoundrels as Tophet could breed, To fix up a plan for preserving the Union, In the bonds of a happy fraternal communion, By a terrible warfare of conquest and blood, Such as never was known since the day of the flood. I gave you my minions from the purlieus of hell, The ranks of your fearful grand army to swell; I stirred up the North with its vagabond crew, And set witch-burning Yankeedom all in a stew, With its isms and schisms — fanatical trappings-- Its free-loving humbugs