The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-01-04
The Carriers Address,
HTHE STAR OF THE N0RTH,"

A brighter lustre to each eye,
And tc each cheek ruddier dye,
That nerves and cheers throughout tho car
The arm of valor and Of worth
The spirit that each true heart thrills
As if together knit, and Ellis
Each with one generous impulse more,
Such as it Oft has felt before,
To act as il life had an dina
Aud Immortality claim
To act as if the soidid dust
And sick'ring appetite Of lust
Was not The end of life and earth,
Blu. as if virtue, honor, worth,
And purity were links to bind
Mans nature with the angelic kiud.
The hopes and hearts Of all the world
Beat for the banners now unfuried
Where lslan's son and Russian self
Soddsn with life blood the cold turf,
And seek the foeman's fate and grave
In contest worthy OF the brave
Such as the gallant aud the bold
Waged in the fierce crusaies OF old,
When Gallo fire and Brtain's pride
Met Moslem's host, a serried tide.
And now, as then, religious zeal
Serves as the basis for appeal
To murdrous art and demon fight
As atbiier Tween wrong and right.
But in this bloody, robber fray
A hand above still rules the day,
And mouds The fate of war and peace
To spread the light and still increase
The little band who've long ioied on,
Through adverse fate and battles won
For Freedom and lbe Rights OF Man,
As only Freedoms children can
Battle and toll through veal and woe
With heart that fears no mortal foe.
The sluggish blood of Islam's sons
Now warmer swells, aud swifer runs,
Since a new spirit fires their hearts
And to the veins new life impaf;s.
Their land is open 10 The creed
Of Christian men; and to the seed
OF Western arts; and these will bring
A harvest rich upon the wing
OF future years, that shall restore
Hnngaria 10 her strength once more,
And call those exiled children home,
Worthy the parentage Of Rome,
Those on whose brow the King of Kings
Had stamped, as not Of earthly things,
The signel maniness should be
The seal of lis nobility.
And Poland with her true and brave
Shall master yet the Russian slave,
And Russian despot in his lair
Shall tremble yel with deeper care,
When freedoms hunters shall pursue
With arms all strong and hearts all true,
Not 10 Sevastopol alone,
Blu, to ST. Peters fort Of stone
His home, as icy as his heart,
And yet as sure 10 melt and part
Beneath the blows that once must fall
In his own household 10 appal,
As is The show on mountain side
To sink into The ebbing tide.
The batls now is rs TO which
OF despois shall grow fastest rich,
A war of greedy heiIs TO steal
From dying man his worldly veal
And until these destroy each other
The cause which makes each man broth
Can have no interest IN the fray
But must abide better cay.
III
The times are sadly ont Of joint
When rogues can daily make their point
In splendid swindes such as fill
The public prints and minds, until
Integrity Is out of dals,
And only he seems truly great
Who. .forges, steals or runs awayj
And it seems stupid now to pay
An honest debt in promised lime,
Or to keep finger out Of crime.
Now Railroad lords and BARRIERS call
lneH cteuhoIs toSetue. aii,
And from Sir John TO Harry down
Ask an "exiension" from the town;
While fopliuss with more beard than brain
Swell largely on ill.golten gains;
And Ills most lucky now to know
Quite nothing, as elections show,
And easier far Ills TO excite
Flaiernai love for black than white.
Too many try 10 live by wit
Who have no stock to make hit,
Or try TO live in Incidence
On others earnings, with no sense
OF shame, nor Of aught else but pride
To sneer al labor and deride
The hand that earns their daily bread
And luxuries from foo, 10 head.
Know -Noihinss Try to close the door
OF heaven on the Irish poor
And all else but themselves alone,
Forgetting they may yet atone
For this their narrow bigot zeal
BY being made too late TO feel
They've closed it quite too tight 10 find
An entrance for their narrow mind.
But let Time roll the years,
As hope each new one cheers: