Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1848-02-02
For the Palladium.


Expressions Iron Reign.
Oppression's iron reign is not Yet past;
Ambitions hungry NAV still Graves its food:
still man, man the tyrant's chain " II cast.
For the poor fame that follows shedding blood,
TO aid the selfish few. who lust for power;
Or worse, to panper one mans foolish pride;
Armed hosts are Sc It. Oh a kindred land 10 show
Distinctions hurricane--to madiy ride
Der human right, spreading rum far and wide.
Oh, who would have thought, that the sons Of
those,
Who barred the breast TO meet oppresson's blow.
" oud, e'er the life time of those sires should
close,
Seek around their fellow men to throw
The CALLING chain of ,yranny,-to bend
The neck. 10 d foreign yoke; such us they
so ind ignan,ly brokc-and their efforts lend
The onward march Of enlightenment to stay;
And even of independence stop the way!
For what did We. take bay onet and brand.
To the hearlhs of our fellow men--and fill
Nith desc ution the gorgeous land,
" hich Heaven gave TO other handsto til7
Was it oh shame that the truth should stand
Out SO prolninentJ because our people crave.
A portion of our weaker neighbors land,
On which, for power sake, to plant the slave:
Thus faIsfy my the creed For which they rave!
Is it not mocking-that we should boast,
Day by day. of the rich boon possess;
Exult III our Independence; and toast
So loudly, those who achieved it-and bless
And honor, then memorics--yet lend our uid.
Our fellow men, Of the self rights dispoii
Their peaceful hotnes-'',heir altar fires" to in
wade;
Spreading ruin, among the poor sons Of toll,
And aiding thus, the re ign of peace to foil
Achieved on many fields covered with the slain,
Will blur our heretofore spotlcss name,
A nd be called to remembrance again;
Not in the proud flush Of glory,
While arms are triumphing DER the foe;
But in the Historians pa &c, dark and CORY.
When he there shall the mighty slaughter show;
And its injustice, give the world to know.
Rome Tyrants' trod thus upon PROSTATE world,
And vengeance met them in their proud career:
II was thus Napoleon, obstruction hurled,
On awe struck Europe, and paralized with fear.
Each hath left a conqueror's name behind
Filled page in the Chronicles Of fame;
Each was the child Of glory; yet we find,
All to the Despot's ignominy consigned.
And we. who boast justice, now give to those
Who love their fellow men, cause to fear
That wrong, and oppression. not always flows
From the Tyrant's throne-but will appear
AS readily at the many mouthed tyrants' call.
Who are as calons 10 sufferng--and as bold:
And although shouting liberty--withal,
Yet as the proud ihroned Despot. as cold
To pity, and just rapacious for gold.
The friends of hannah rights have hoped in vain
That the reign of "might rules right" had feds
That here a, least, injustice should not reign,
Or dark oppression lift lis CORY head.
For cen the farewell Councils of the sage,
Who saw with prophets eye where dangers lay:
Is unheeded, and Knocked at,-and the rage
Of Party, would carry us from right, away
Fen to obstruction, it but hold its sway.
Oh: would that the guardian genius of the land,
Would raise her voice aud stop our mad career;
" ould point TO the prec pee, on which We stand,
And awake the sleeping masses to the fear;
To the desol alton, that conquest will bring,
To the punishme Mt that ever follows wrong;
Then might we hope TO escape the sting.
Which else will rankle painfully and long:
Perhaps Of a severed people, wake the song.
If we persist in perpe,rating crime,
We must expect punishment,-soon or late,
Gon's equal Jus,ice-which only OXIDES its time"
Will break upon us-and The whitening hate
OF an injured people, rise up to load
Our name with reproaches-to exult at our fall:
Then may we vainly wish, when fate shall goad
Our misused power-eur injustice to recall;
But alas too late, when we've lost our all.
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