Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-02-07

treason"
"Antres vast, and desert. idle,
Rough quarries rock and hills whose heads
touch heaven"
This was Oregon as MIR. l. understood it.
BY Mr.. Winthrop
"Eo amino semper fui, nj inrjdam rirtuto par
tam. g'oriam non inoidiam' putmem."
BY Mr. Baker, of ILL.,
"Rapt dream or solemn vision THE whole
or none"
CuBA--"The tongue which God had placed in
the Gnlf of Mexico"
"Ihe last echo of host o'erthrown."
Like the Sultan sun,
Struggle upon the fiery verge OF Heaven"
BY Mr.. Glidngs-
''Iou have prepared the cup,
And will press it to yonr lips,
Until the very dregs shall be drained"
"Lct no one say that desire a slave insurrec.
tiou; but sir. donbt not that hundreds of thou.
sands of honest and patriotic hearts, ''wil laugh
meth"
BY Mr. Rbet,--
"No war with the United States can be little
war"
"The whole of Oregon"
Great Britain will say, "here we are and we
shall not move"
R,, Nr IJ;ll;,rJ oc Al,
That little speck of "a cloud, no bigger than
mans band''
"And many a banner shall be torn,
And many knight of earth be borue
And many shief of arrows spent,
Ere Scotland king shall cross the Trent"
Shedding disastrous twilight over half the
nations"
westward the star u empire holds his way"
BY Mr.. lancy, Of Ala
"On the Grampiau hills hi. father fed his flock,
j frugal swami
But that the good old man had kept him
"An only son at home"
But
ole had heard of battles, and onged
To follow to the field some warike lord"
Then
Welcome be Cumberlands steed to the shock
Let him dash his prond foam like wave on the
rock
But wo to his kindred and wo to his cause,
When columbia" her claymore Indignantly
draws
Nb,n lnr ia,
Brave,heartcd and true, and dauntless and proud,
Their swords are q million, their bosoms are
one,
They are true to the last of their blood and their
And, like reapers descend to the harvest of
death"
BY Mr. Giles, of Md
"Britannia needs no bulwarks,
Nor towers along the steep,
Her march is DER the mountain wave,
Her home is on the deep"
"For freedoms battle once begun,
Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son,
Though baiiled oft is ever won"
Mr.. Caleb Smith, of Indiana
manifest destiny
"Besrd the British lion in advance"
care you uready for war ?"
Mr.. Levias speech was all poetry.
By Mr.. IIamlin, of Maine
And let that flag which
$50 proudly drinks the morning light
Der oceans wave in foreign cline,
symbol of our might"
Float only over the homes of a free people.
Then, in the inmtable language of our own
distinguished poet
"Wide shall our own free race increase
Aud wide extend the elastic chain;
That binds in everlasting peace
State after State--a mighty train"
ITO damn him most supremely, call him Has
tlngs."
"And the gun of our nations natal day,
At the rise and set of the sun,
Shall boom from the far Nor'est away,
To the wales of Oregon;
And the ships on the sea shall luff and tack,
And send the peal of triumph back"
BY MIR. Chpmau, of Michigan
"rhis is the gun boat, No /,
Wigge-waggle went her tail,
And pop went her gun"
The conclusion to be drawn from all this. i
that war and poetry are very nearly allied
that love, music, patriotism, blood and murde
and poetry, often go hand-in-hand