Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-04-22


And ragged slaves the subjects he oppressed. ri
He was the emperor Of gang Of blacks
His driver his prime minister Of state,
Who left his mark upon the rising race.
This great king Of Mississippi swamp
Divorced sad husbands from their weeping wives;
Snatched screaming infants from their mothers arms
Scourged white haie DANES and venerable men;
Erased Gods image from the face divine
Extinguished hope within the human breast;
Trod on the necks Of most obsequous slaves,
And crushed their hearts beneath tyrants heel y
Here is an appeal in behalf of the cause of
Freedom to the Pulpit, Press, and People,
that stirs the blood like a trumpet
Shall the free winds that sweep Nebraska's wales
De burdened with the groan of sad despair!
Shall the free waves that wash her fertile shores
Blush with the blood that from furrowed backs
Shall her tail mountains crowned with sparkling
Become red affairs for the slaughtered slave!
Shall her green valleys be the early grave
or Freedom, or the cradle Of the free
Shall her broad rivers, rolling TO the deep,
Shout Libertys inspiring song for aye,
Or sink to the old Oceans arms to hide
Their stains behind his ample cloak of waves
Shall her vast plains aud praries, filled with flowers
As glorious night is filed with cleaning stars,
Be cleared, and poughed and hoed, and reaped by
slaves
Let pulpit press platform and people speak
Thank Heaven, New Rnglands pulpit speaks at last
Her trumpet tones are heard throughout the land,
And sordd tyrants tremble when they hear
The echo of the reyolution's voice
From the Green Mountains and the Granite Hills,
From velvet valleys aud from seagirt isles,
Where steeples point like fingers to the sky,
The heralds Of the cross speak out like men,"
The scene presented by Mr.. Everett in the
Senate, apologizing for his presumption in
presenting the petition Of the New England
clergy, is graphically described in the follow
ing lines.
@When 10, polished, ministerial man.
With pleasant face and most polite address,
Arose, and then with gracious smiles and speech
Shogered honeyed compliments all around.
His mouth sweet as Hybla's ancient hive;
His words musical golden bees.
He hoped the giant would not strike him back =
He hunby begged his pardon in advance,
And then apologized with crimson cheeks
For the remonstrants aud their reckless course
Hoped Douglas would forgive both them and him.
But Houston barred his bosom to the storm;
The gallant Texan stood before the world
The champion Of New England clergymen
And Douglas staggered meath his ponderous blows,
While Everett, shverng, showed his lack Of GRIT"
Old Buttons features are easily recognized
In the lines which we append.
Among the foremost men y in all this land
The great MIssouKIAN stands pre-eminent-
man whom gold can neither buy nor bride,
Nor smoothfaced fattsry with soft tongue seduce,
Nor threats from DULLES intimdate,
Nor domineering clans and cliques control.
He stamps upon the platforms Of the age,
And shvers into splipters every plank;
lie snaps aSunder party rules and ties,
As Samson did the cords which bound bis limbs,
He scorns the caucus gatherings, and derdes
The noisy demagogues who nominate
The few who fatten at the public crib;
And he would run the river ofreform
Through all the Augean stables of the state.
Where is the man with brass and brains, to face
This SCARED and battered statesman in debate!
Who has the skill to tilt lance with himl
A statesman, scholar, hero, gentleman;
In council wise, in battle always brave;
Chivalrous, courteouss generous and frank
No little giant negro's back;
No pigmy up for sale upon the block;
No staggering braggart schooled in Bilingsgate;
No northern doughfaee with a cotton heart.
He is the southern Nestor Of the race
Thu king OF statesmen, since the trio died
sold Bullion is no disrespectfui name;
His words are gold, coined in the mint Of mind
Like stout oak, amid the blasting storm,
Which looks through buds into the time to come,
When forests folded in its acorn cups
Shall be the glory Of the hills and plains.
He stands, while PROSTATE monarchs strew the vale,
And trembling Titans lean upon his boughs;
And with the prophets vision he foresees
His hopes upgrown to stern realities. ~
With one more extract we must close our
quotations, heartily commencing the book to
our readers.
Nc sight on all this earth Is more sublime 83 t.
Than deep Niagara shouting to the slave,
Baptizing him in Freedoms silver spray
And folding him in robes Of golden mist,
Arehing his passage TO the promised land
With rainbow'ssuch as emperors never saw
In their friumpna marches through the world.
Who can translate the thunder Of the wave
Unwinding like river from the rock.
VINO read the radiant autograph Of God
Written in beauty on its wrinkled browl
"The sound Of many waters " who can still
As Jesus stiled the pillows Of the sea?
stand and trenble on its awful brink
Shnddering at shadows of my nothingness
Ny thoughts are highty as the birds which sweep
And scream in circles round my dizzy head
These rocky walls are Gods work,
Where be has chronicled the epochs past;
That cloud which hovers like an angels wing
Is the great, spotess flag Of Peace unfuried
Betwist the mightiest nations Of the earth.
Jast like a Furnished sickle in the sun,
The river reaps the letters from the slave
Ills fiery pillar is the bright north star;
His guide BY day Niagaras shetering cloud. siz
From lake 10 lake these woundrous waters flow,
AS human love from heart to heart should run,
Uniting them with ties as bright and true
As those which bind in peace the pure in heart
that were flower. TO bloom and breathe
My little life away upon its banks
Would that we're bird, 10 and sing
In This sunlighted shower Of cleaning pearls.
Here beauty and sublnity are we'd
AS Moses dropped his sandals from his feet
80 here must yokes and gives be cast aside
FOR God Is here and this is holy ground!
MoossocKET Michael Kearnon, aged So,
native Of Ireland, fell into an open uncover
cd cistern, in the rear Of G. w. Moury' store,
during the storm on Monday evening and
was drowned.-Miss Miranda Smith, a .sHard-
scrabble" Providence LADY ~ s,.,o.s OF ,,.,,,,