The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-07-21
Tor the National Era.
BROTHER JONATHAN: Oh, FOURTH OF JULY
AN INDEPENDENCE POEM.

| 1ndt 10 lAitu eHu W uuty WY ~
And embody religion in life
Though in letter their creed but narrow and cold
In Its spirit twas deep and sublime;
Life TO them was school, lofty virtue to mould,
And Eternity solemnized Time
Amid forests and marshes and savages fell,
To establish Christ's glorious reign
They braved all the powers of earth and Of hell,
And rejoiced in privation and pain
Brave hearts Of the Puritans Ages have passed
Since We crossed the wild waves of the sea,
And with Bible and sword nailed your flag to the mast
And set sail for the land Of the free.
Ye have passed, ye have gone, and the rocks never
Shall re echo your hymns solemn strain,
But giant renown haunts the desolats shore,
And there shall forever remain.
The work still proceeds though its authors are gone
Morning blooms in the Frightening skies
Still true to the impulse, New England moves on,
While cities and villages rise.
Though from ocean to ocean the Yankee may roam,
|
And science and art in his breast find home,
And the wilderness blooms as a rose.
Still proof as Of old against menace or gold
For Principle fearless in fight
Freedoms granite stronghold, invincibie bold.
Battles bravely for Justice and Right;
And though tempests may lower of insolent power,
Let tho voices of faction be hushed
In Fate darkest hour she never will cover
Nor yield the down trodden and crushed.
This is quite DEPRESSION accept my confession.
To return to the point Let me see;
We were speaking, you know, few minutes ago,
the genealogical tree.
Religious New England the spirit displays
Of Old Engisnd's industrial masses;
Patrican Virginia exhibits the phase
Of her titled and privileged classes.
Her proud Cavaliers, with their motto and crea,
Were daring and chivalrous men,
Who brought aristocracy out to the West,
And renewed its old glories again,
A generous, high strung, irascible race,
Of strong passions and powerful WILL
In rvha..a Administrations snirit uA trssA-
With high sense Of honor, as gentlemen born,
To their equals most courteous and bland,
Looking down upon trade with imperial scorn,
As be6tted tbs lords of the land;
To beauty and birth, as their merted dues
They yielded obesance profound;
And letters and culture and liberal views
In the dignifed circle were found
Palmy days of Virginia How changed is the scene
Why droops the proud eagle her pnion?
Why not the sons what the sires have b.snp
Why slumbers the ancient Dominion?
Mix life with cold death, mingle Ere and ice.
Each wild contradiction combine;
Antagonist still will be virtue and vice;
Choosing one, we the other resign
Oh the soil that's profaned by the step of slave
Can never be Liberty's home;
She brooks not dishonor, but choose. the grave
And Tyranny triumphs alone.
Awake from your Sleep great Virginia, awake,
Rouse Liberty's smouldering fire;
Again in our councils high precedence take;
Lead on to destiny higher!
Next since Freedom, dear Goddess, is theme of ou
talk,
Let me speak mot to do so would shock herr
OF Jonathans uncle in gallank New York.
The wordrenowned Dutch Knickerbocker
The Hollander, spite Of his pipe and cooked hat,
Wooden shoes and too numerous trowsers,
Had maintained republic in Europe; and that
| Is great honor to him, you'll allow, sirs.
Though conquered by arms, friends to Liberty still,
No men in the Union rose faster,
Or fought for the cause with q reader will,
Than brave Burgher and bold Burgomaster.
Hsi leisure to say on, more praise could lay on
The theme were well worth your attention;
But since 9eodry Crayon has shed such ray on
The subject twore waste of invention
Time and patience would fail did lengthen the tai
With Jonathan's many relations;
Pass over them then, with q dash of the pen
Their glory is merged in the nations
Yet spea king OF Pens, let us hail the great name
OF the wise and profound non resistant,
Whose spirit the breast of the savage could tame.
BY justice and Kindness consistent
When the war.whoop rang dresr through the trem
bling frontier,
And ferce massacre never did cease
Still true to his reasons, for seventy seasons
Pennsylvania WAS Graded in peace.
Oh! when will men learn, by that reverend urn.
That on love ii Is safe to rely;
That standing right, clothed in God might
And the universe scathloss defy
But first on New EnglaAd's inyineble sod
Red blood for the principle ran
That resistance to wrong il obedience to God
| And the right and the duty Of man.
And scarce had that baPtism sprinkled the earth
| Ere, like seed bursting forth into grain,
soldier sprAng armed from each psacsabls hearth,
From Georgia nortAwxrd 10 Maine.
In the North in the South In the East in the West
The people rose up In their might,
With cry like the see Ia its stormy unrest
On gusty and turbsisas night
The bones Of the regieiass shake In their grave,
And their dust In the ppalchrss creep,
When the moment It vsassance arrives, and the,
crave t
To leap up from tAss pewsrlss sleep.
And the souls Of the rssieidss thrill at the cry;
They come down fsm the gli,tering stars,
And rouse every hero W conquer or die
In the dreadful ordeal u Mars.
And then the child Jonathan glorious arOss
In the city OF brotherly love,