The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-08-29


10 execute some great command,
Mid danger in foreign land.
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Up River Platte, six hundred miles,
We made our way BY ranks %od files.
When cholera, the nations dread,
laid many wandereIs with the dead
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Then Up Sweetwater River clear,
Our weary way We on did -ftsss;
We pass'd the poison Alkali
Where man and beast together die.
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Here Natures strongest freak is seen,
mid snow cap'd Mills and valleys green,
Here lofty mountains open wide,
Through which huge streams do freely glids.
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So on to the Southern pass we 90,
Where mountains Of eternal snow
.O'erlook the world, grand and sublime.
Ages was seen in any CLINE.
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The plain below o'ersHead with grass,
And the Pacific Springs we pass,
Thence to Green Rivers mighty nde,
yNl!aere scores who sought to pass have died.
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Rear River next, whose furious waves
Hurl man and beast to watery graves,
It bounds oar rocks in eddy's whiil,
And cen whole trains to ruins hurl.
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Zen wagons, CATTLE men and goods
Were swept to ruin bV its floods;
Saake Indians here took care to seize,
Each thing that could their fancy please
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IAen on our way thropgh Golden Pass
We urged our course, though want Of grass
Made it impossible to take
sur teams in order, to Snlt Lake.
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But when arrived there, we did find,
A people cheerful, good, and kind,
The best they had they did produce,
Aad were ip kindnesses proiusc.
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They gave usmilk and butter too,
k.sd strove as well az they .cqFle do,
To make US happy nor conceal,
What open hearts must always feel.
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Attlength we bid our friends adisu,
An an our journey did pursue,
We left this pleasant resting place,
40 Join ;l,s California race.
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A AreadfA country soon we found,
A crooked road and stony gEEf;9gd, ...
The sun shone hot, the burning sand,
And s,reams were salt on every hand.
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gsus some reiiei we did obtain,
And came to wholesome streams agair,
{rhouuh warm az tea should ever be,
Il auonchsd our thirst inspired our gIee.
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.rhen DER wide deserts we did go,
Through nansless scenes Of SSq sFd wo;
No tree no shrub, nor herbage green
SHED cheer upon the drsary scene.
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its Ike Lake of Salt and ssPd
That by Tartarian breath is fand;
jTha. heat, the thirst, the rsaling brain,
Can ne,sr be fcrget again.
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Bu.hayinc crossed this burning plain
And rested all right we'll again,
We straight with water went to lind
2Ae famished sufferers behind.
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Our course was on through vall"ys green,
As beautious rs we e'er had seen,
Our ANNALS were pleased as we,
Ssah plsnteous pasturaget to see.
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But here ,9ur pleasureEqdi its pain,
The willy Indians w"uld obtain
Our stock BY stealth each darksome night,
And ay with thern before twas light.
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And if we spnshi our tea rs agaiu
aas pointed arrows fell like rain,
An dip,d in poison OF the make.
And fatal wounds would surely make.
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\ ia threw the white man in rage
I, s,raighta war Of vengeance wage,
Aaains, the bloody Utah race,
And laid them dead in eyery place.
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ror many days, with water good.
~ .haered our hearts, enjoyed our tood,
ws..h when we left all sickcned faat,
EJp.si dc Ha,nboId's alta was past.
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rha Rumsoldt's sluggish stream wound on
pE,ouyh scenes no Artist could hSys asS"n;
Alkaline fielis and poisoned erase
Wi,h deserts drear, and dark morass.
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And a. we wsnded on our way.
Wa saw eil sinking day BY day,
6n,s ts.r,s no longer could be led,
su, sunk in silence withthe dead.
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17ere Captain Walker and his train,
hid fun one week war mRiintai,i.
W,,h savage Indians, who assailed
M men, who ne'er before them quaiised.
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~, Aerces numbered thiTiy-tw0
F,.A, hundred Of the savage crew,
~ Il the gras our foes did lie,
r. slsy and rsb as We passed BY
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r., - whole day from morn till night,
ars;u.t eue ids WE stood the fight.
"A a. We marched along our way
lFAsy1 1stsvs sgr lliis'l lliis'le band 70 'las.
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T,sn on EIambolii's desert wide
W. ;oiosa the mighty mqying Hae,
aach ruin, slaughter, death epd paiF
No nan W hope will see again.
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Frou shade and w'tsri iar Wy,
whole hosts Of suffering beings lay
nah men and cattle fell prey
m ,hsst anil hunger everyday.