Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1855-04-27

and companies, the ravines darkened
among their ranks huge gigantic rocks
arise; they are extended. at intervals TO
the right and to the left Of the defile
masses Of men, horses. cannon and steele
broken by columns of shadow.
In their midst-you see him yonder,
on the ridge that towers directly to the
lett OF the defile-s,ts all old man OH his
grey s,eed, his righ, leg careIessly cross.
ed over the ponmel of his saddle, while
his plain brown coot and unpretending
military cap. are distinctly revealed in
the light Of the setting sun.
His bronzed face, warns with deep
glow, as his grey eyes traverse that wi.
derness OF Mountains TO the South.
The foe is there; Waterloo never be-
held, gathered in one view, ii more beau.
uful or terrible array.
As far as the eye can see, the wilder.
ness is one dense mass of men and hors.
es. with cannon glooming IN the inter
walls OF their firm ranks, and stee! blaZ-
ing over their heads.
The setting sun lights up that qniver
ing mass OF steele with red glow
You see il blazing everywhere. londer
upon the mountain side, it shines circle
OF steele, piled on giterlng circle, until
that mass of ragged rock, flames like an
immense altar, lighted Tor some demon
festival. From the depths Of the ravine,
those giueflng points burs. into the sum
set. and far down the valley OF ridges
and gullles, rank on rank, column on
column, regiment on regiment. That
dense and formidable array seems to
grow larger, blacker, brighter, i, melts
into twilight distance. Twenty thou.
sand men are there, upon the mountains,
and IN the raylnes, arrayed IN battle or.
der.
Ii looks Ike the army OF a Persian
despi, SO gaiy ilu'ters its lnnumerab!e
red flags, from their llg.statlS OF glitter
IN steele, So lar, so wide 1t grows into
space. 80 ;frumphan,ly II looks down up
on the hule army, arrayed upon these
northern ridges.
lnhdcr, on that solitary ridge, towar
ing some liindred wards to the LETT OF the
deiiIe-oue long wave OF hayonets toss
IL. TREMENDOUSLY beneath hrm-behold
the soul ol this immense mass. In the
centre Of circle, formed by the gorge.
Gus costumes Of his officers, behold
mounted on dark charger, man whose
breast. blazing with stars and orders,
cannot diver, your eye. from the melan-
choly Grandure of his face. His head l.
uncovered His strongly defined profile
, Is marked upon the sunset sky. There
is iulellec, in every line of his bold fore.
!, head his mouth wears an expression oil
almost painful neIa holy his dark eye,
shines with deep and steady light.
As h,s olive cheek, glows IN the sun
set, while his eye roves over the legions
oil his tweni, thousand men, can you
call to mlnd his past life By turns,
President, Dictator, Exile, for twenty
years aud more, the great impulse OF his
country's destiny; now sordlng N roy
al STATE, in his Palace. reared upon the
very spo: where stood Muntezuna's lux
urlous home now looking with tiger.
like teroclty upon the cor,es OF slaugh-
tered Alamo; again a miserable outcast,
resorlIng to opium, for oblivion oi his
defeat, by a few hundred Texan hunters
i--hehoid the Man OF Mexico, covered
as he IS aiih stars, and bearing the
marks of battle, in his manned limb
An,onio Lopez SANTA ANNA.
But few months ago, sitting in the
Havana theatre, he smiled careessly at
the dance and song. and with his young
wife by hls side, did not seem to think
,ha. among the nations Of The earth,
there was land called MExlco.
Noc-upon these wln,ry mountains,
; some thousand feet above the sea-wi,h
twenty thousand men, one irresistible
mass of horse aUd foot, he proudly sur
veys plain Zachary Taylor and his -four
thousand volunteers.
What does it mean, this terrible, thi,
sublime spectacle!
The same power which brought Santa
Anna from his las, place OF exile in lIa-
vana, stripped Zachary Taylor Of hn
veterans after the three days fight ol
Monterey. and left him to retreat or die
r Let Us behold the array Of the grea
old man.
Yonder, above the defile, frowns Cap
tam Washington's battery. WASHING
TON ! Yes, /, is glorious omen. On
the 22nd OF February, the name aud the
blood OF the Continental General are
here - The cresrs Of the ridges on the
lef, and to the rear are occupied by one
company and three regiments. There
you may see the First aud Second Regi
ments OF Illinois. with their command
ers, Harden and Bissel; company o
Texans under Captain Common the Sec
a ond Regiment of Kentucky, headed b,
. X kee. All volunteers. commanded b,
, volunteers All citizen soldiers, sum
noned from their hre-sldes, by the war
, cry Of Zachary Taylor. And amid ,ha
, crowd Of gallant men you distinguish
one manly form. and chlvalric face
shown distinctly in the level sunlight. -
S The bl,od Of great man throbs II
tina, soldiers veins his name is Henry
, Clay.
On the extreme left. beneath the shad