Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-25
LITERARY MISCELLANY.
For the National Era.
THE CLERGY.

The pdlpit--aye, the pdlpit--whence In Freedoms
struggling hour.
Bold words went FORTH to tho heart and tho
will with power;
When tho preacher standing mid his aock the hosts
Of hell dofed.
While his muskst ready for the field, stood loaded
at his side.
Our simple fathers in those days. meier called in quest
the night
OF those who preached Gods holy word to war in
Freedoms tight
And where the marshaed hosts were seon, in all
their dread array,
The man Of God in their midst to counsel, fight
or pray
What simplstons those sires of ours to think that
aught given
For clergymon to do on earth, save to lead men to
Heaven!
They really thought, when grasping Power sought
Freedoms overthrow,
Tho preachers shield should nterpose, and turn
aside the blow
They thought that when through all the land, wars
tocsin gave the alarm,
Those sentines Of God on earth should bid his people
arm,
They thought, when bright from Bunker's Insight
the flaming volleys spod,
The clergys bullets few swift as did tho yeomans
lead
Our wiss,, more eaisghtened man, who would all pow
or control,
Dony that clergymen have rights-savs to convert
the soul!
They NEEDLE with tho public veal They pray 10,
human right
Prepost'rous claims! place on their nocks the iron
heel of might 4
Down with them-let them know tho place that they
were born to, still,
Nor seek to move in that high sphere, Chants alone
can I'LL
Small giants they who seek to bind the talent, zeal,
and power,
That move the clergy of this land, in disastrous
hour.
tide,
To stay the whrlwind in its course or on the storm
to ride
Were easier than to move from off the pathway,
straight and bright,
Those men Of God, whom they believe that pathway
leads to Right,
Let those beware who falsely hope Gods fortress to
o'erthrow,
Lest ey be ground beneath its force, fall beneath
its blow.
For to the clergy power and strength and honor too
are given
Mankind sustain them here below-tbeir Father, up
in Heaven.
april II, 1854.
Somebody has perpetrated the following
epigram
Bedini prefers bis own land to our own,
Thinks another short visit to us would be shrink
cd at;
The cause--his monstrosities here ffowned down.
While at home we've his modest assurance they're
wiaked at"
There are now in operation, in this country
10 600 miles Of railroad IL has been estima
ted that by January 1860, we will have com.
plstsd, of roads already constructed and pro
jected, 10000 miles making 1900 miles to
be furnished with iron in less than six years.
The rails for these roads will consume at least
100 tons Of iron per mile; giving 100 900 tons
OF rails required to be furnished by January,
1860. This amount, at seventy-f five dollars per
ton, the present price of railroad iron, will coet
1927 ,000, 900; to which should be added at
least $4,000, 900 for repairs and renewals, on
account Of wear and tear, and probably about
$40 000, 900 for locomotives and other necessa-
xics Cor railroads which require the use Of iron
making an aggregate of $3.50, 900, 900 manu-
factnrcd iron required for railroad purposes in
this country In the next six years
4 Louisville Journal
Have we not ore and coal abundant for the
production of all this iron, and men to pro-
dnce it,
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