Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-10-11

around .he spot ss the first long stream OF sun
light streamed over the pealed skull OF that
fair young wife, she was that last night, there
was q vow going up TO heaven, the vow of q
maddened heort and anguished biiin
How was that vow kept2 Go 10 Brandy
wine, and where the carnage gathers thckest,
where the fight is most bloody, there you may
see stout form striding or, lifting huge
hammer into light where that hammer fails
| il klls--where that hammer strikes It crashes.
II is the blacksmi,h's form. And the war
CRY that he shouts, is the mad cry ofvengeance
half howl, half hurrah 1t is but fierce
yell breaking up from his heaving chests !!
All, no All, no II is the name OF Mary -
II is the name Of his young wife Oh Mary,
the sweetest name of womnn-name OF the
mother o. Jesus, made oily by poetry and re.
lision. How strange did the Syllabes Of mu-
sic ring out from that blacksmirh's lips as he
went numbering on. "Mary," he shouts, as
he drags that red coated trooper from his steed.
"Mary," he shrieks, as his hammer crushes
down, laying that officer in the dust. Look !!
another officer, with gallant face and form
lanoher gltterimg in tnsel clasps the black
smith by tN knees and begs for mercy. 81
have Swife-mercy, have wife in yonder
England, spare me!'' The blsckSmi' h, crazed
as le is, trembles, there is tear in his eye.
al spare yoI, but there is form before me-
the form of nv dead wife That form has gone
before me all day, she is on ME 10 Strlke,' the
hammer fell, and then rang out that strange
war cry,-"Mary."
AT last when the battle was over, he wss
found by wagner, who had OF least should
eIed whip in his cOun,ry's service. He wOs
found sticking by the road side, his head sunk
en-, his leg broken, and the life blood weing
FROM his many wounds. The wagner wouiG
have carried him from The field bat the Stoul
blacksmith refused
"Yuu see neighbor," he said, in that voice
husky with death, 81 never meddled with the
British till they buried my home-tiii they
he could not speak the outrage, but his vile
and child were before Lis eyes. "And now
Pve but FIVE minutes life in me. I'D like tC
have shot at the British before die; Dye
see that cherry tree? place u,e there, give me
powder horn, three rife balls, tnd goot
q rife, that's all | ask" TIE waggoner granted
his request, he lifted him to the foot of th'
# cherry tree, he placed the rife, the balls ant
:, powder in his grasp, then whipping his horses
4 through the narrow path, from the summit oi
{ ne ighboring height, he looked down upon th'
p las: scene Of the bltcksmth's life. There la
lhe stout man at the foot OF the cherry tree
Il his head sunk, his leg hanging over the roa
h side bank-the blood was streaming from hi
/, wounds-he was dying. Suddenly he raise
Is his head; a sound struck on his ear, party o
. British came rushing along the narrow roa
. with carnage, and lhlrsling for tlood they pur
!. sued band OF coniinenals. IN officer le
" the way, waving them on with his sword; tn
e blacksmith loaded his rife; with that ey
!. bright with death, he took the aim, CHATS 70
is Washington" shouted he, as he fred, the ofii
&c Ger lay quiverins in the dust. On and on cam
k The British, nearer 10 the cherry tree, the Con
e tinents!s swept through the poSs;-ngan lh
a blacksmith loaded-again he fired. "That
II fer Mad Anthony Wayne" he shouted, Il
e another officer bit The dust. The British nos
e came rushing TO the cherry tree, determined I
e cut duMn The wounded mon, who with his fac
ID toward them, bleeding as he was. deal deaf
ID among their ranks. A far visaged Office
~ with golden hair waving in the wind, led thei
NJ OF, the blacksmith raised his rife with thi
~ hand SifitniGg in death, he took the aim, h
IT. fired, the Young BTiton fell with sudde
,e Shrek, and that" cried the blacksmith, in
~ voice that strengthened into shout, can
II that's fOr''-his voice was gone, The Shire
m died Oh his white lip, his head sunk his riff
fell. A siuge worj bubtled up with h
Is death groan. Even now me,binks hear th
le echoipg aud trembling there among the roca
,e Of Brandy wine, that word was "Mary."