Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-01-10
PINAM COUNTY VIRGINIA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY To- 1855

His i caught sight of the iron
grey / his rider. He turned to
his tn, his lips wreathed with a
grim Re, he waved his sword, he
pointfith it to the iron grey and
i his ri t'>[ 80. 4
4 Thwas but a moment. With
one itlse that iron band wheeled
their 'ses and then dark body,
solid compact. was speeding O.
yer tvalley. Like a thunderbolt
/ from sky, three hundred swords
glittsg in the faint glimpse of sun
light front of the avalanche, with
his N raised to. its full height,
20 d, frown on his brow, q fierce
smil, his lips, rode Pulaski. Like
a 81 reused into life by thun.
dert, he rode, his eyes fixed on
then grey and his rider, his band
habit one look, one shout for
Wangton. i
troops had surrounded
thenerican leader; already they
Efelt:ure of their prey; already the
heat the traitor, w ashington seem
ed t.awn above the gates of Lon
don 49,. -
4 3 the trembling of the earth in
| the. LEY yonder; what doesit mean?
/ terrible beating ofhoofs;what:
doet portend? -
lit ominious silence; and now
tina shout, not of words nor OF
nats, but that half yell, half hur-
1rabwith shrieks from the iron men
asEey scent afar' off their prey
wit does it all mean? -
bIaskft Pulaski! is on our tr"','-'
III. terror of the entire British army
ifclose upon our wake! x,,.
I And on he came, he and his gal,
Int hand, A moment and ne sweep
over the British; crushed, mangled
dead and dying, they strew the greer
God; he had passed over the mll' III
had passed Washington!
Another moment and the irol
band turned back in the same ca lfsd
Of death they now came. n fled
defeated, crushed, the Washing,
from the forlnHof c.
ton. - d him in their forms
They enGE shout of his name
Of oak, trough the air. 40 the A
shriean host they triumphantly beal
m in all their soldiers joy.
lit was at Savannah that nigh
,ame down on Pulaski. ... FL.
Yes. ! see him now, under the
yleam of night. riding forward to
wards yonder ramparts, his biacl
steed rearing aloft while two hun
lred of his iron men followed at hi
back, ~. $685.
Right on, neither looking to thu
right nor the left, he rides, his eye
fixed upon the dusky cannon OF tn.
British, his sword cleaning mgi
above his head. ~ =.
I For the last time they heard tn
impressive war cry: D.
aForwarts, brudren, forwarts" !:
They saw the black horse plung
ing forward, his fore feet resting o
the cannon of the enemy, while hi
warrior rose in all the pride of hi
form, his face bathed in a flash
bright red light.
The flash once gone, they say
Pulaski no more. But they foun
him, yes, beneath the enemy's cal
non, crushed by the cannon thu
killed his stecd; yes they found thel
the rider and his horse, together
dcath-that noble face. glazing
the black midnight sky with glass
eyes.
So, in his glory, he died. Die
while America and Poland were y
in chains. lie died in the stout hoF
that they both would be free. Wit
regard to America, his hopes hay
been fulfilled; but Poland, tell m
shall not the day come when yond'
monument-erected by those war
Southern hearts, near Savannah
will yield up its mighty dead?
For Poland will be free, at last,
sure as the Lord is just--as sure
| He governs. Then, when recreatt
Poland rears her eagle aloft agai
among the banners of the nation
will her children come to Savanna
to gather up the ashes Of their her
and bear him home, with the chan
ofpriests, with the loud thunder
cannon, with the tears OF mllllor
even as repentant France bore ba'
her own Napolean. -...s, >
Yes, the day is coming when ht
ciusko and Pulaski will sleep side
side, beneath the soil Of the re-cre
ted Poland. H. '.1
4 The Gentleman.