English poem
Those Devoted Copperheads.
by Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903)
`"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.