The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-12-03
-- . From the New York Daily News.
The Dead Years; Or, Tie Lost
RepuDIics.

I'm Of last weeks mail, the editor OF the paper
,lerred to, (who by the way, is gentleman,)
as kindly notified the undersigned that some
arts Of the work are rather too severe upon
ome political parties in our country; and there
IRE suggests modification in some of the stan
as which composet the body Of the work. The
flowing is copy the title Of the work, and
those stanzas which are considered objection
bic, to which is sddeda note explanatory the
ublication of which, ifin your Judgment is of
ny benefit to our common country and the dem
cratic cause, you are at liberty to transfer to
he columns Of the Daily News. aM
TIE DEAD YEARS; on, LOST REPUBLICS.
. MIDNIGHT VISION AT TEE CLOSE OF THE YEAR
] saw until six thousand years had rolled
Away, and left their records Of the past,
Written in blood on battle fields which told
OF war and strite while desolations vast,
Swelled the full tide of rum, and amass'd
More spoils than mortal victor ever won;--
Kingdoms ofold whose riches once surpassed
Goconda,s wealth-alas; their race was run,
And ruins marked the spot where once their go
ries shone. tE.. [Stanza, 40.
Twich is added supplement containing an
exposition of the causes Of the decline of the
Grecian, Carthagenian and Roman Republics.
LXXi.
And there the slave his ceaseless tolls pursued,
For laws oppressive bound his wearled frame
Unto joyless, lifelong seryitade,
Made W of ills for which we have no name;
Till men arose in vengence to proclaim
"Dissolution, or the death Of slavery;
Sound thro' the world, unto this nations shame,
Freedom is wed with damning tyranny,
And binds the captive slave, yet prates Of liberty
LXX1I.
That nations life upon these issues hung
Awhile suspended, waving to and fro,
All other issues Were Ignored and flung
Out of d dtbate tomeet this deadly foe, ...
Whom now uproused, prepared to nee the blow
Which faction dealt for freedom Let US pause.
Alas, what crimes; can history bestow
One brighter page where freedoms righteous laws
Have not been broke by those who advocate hei
90 causei
bAAIiL-
These factions spread disunion thro' the land
The dark precursor OF civil war;
Til men rose upwih honest healt and hand,
TO stay this curse and unity restore:
Yet, slill "DsunioAn rang from shore 10 shore,
And traitors vile procaAned their base INTENT
To blight that nations hore for ever more,
By civil feuds and great disbursement
Ofmighty States around by awless factions rent
LXXlV.
Meanwhile faction vile Of native growth,
Arr csc and spread disscn thro' the lard;
Bound to each other by secret oath,
Which aliens knew not, could not understand,
With foul infamous lies they stroye TO brand,
Adopted citizens with pcrfdy,
Who strove by willy arts in treason's band,
To sell that nalion glorious and free,
Unto ftreign prince, foe to liberty.
..... LXXV. . rp-
Prescribed were all of foreign birth, although,
When foreign foes the country cid surround,
They grasp'd the sword to meet the deadly foe,
Where fell destruction swept in horrors round,
And many a CORY scar their vaor crown'd,
Where hostile armies met upon the field
Of carnage, aud the dark aimed battle ground
Drank up the life blood which the sword unseal'(
Where war, and hate, and strife their hideou
forms revealed.
LXXVl.
And Others long and faithfully had served
The nation IN its legislative halls,
Nor from tho statesman's path Of duty swerve
Cbed.ent to their foster-countrys calls.
| Cop, tlsuS hioh fnlIS
10 men who would the rights OF man betray;
But ruin lurk'd within that nations walls
And fill'd each heart with horror aud dismny,
For vile proscrptive laws ofiactions ruled the d;
LXXVll.
In contrast with these mighty wrongs Were tho
Who spent their days in ease and luxury
Alas they saw not that internal foes
Were plotting ruin, death and anarchy;
But closed their eyes and dream'd OF liberty,
And everlasting years with plenty crown'd,
And woke not from their sleep till destiny
Aroused them by The wild and fearful sound
OF ruin, which came forth nom civil teuds arou7
Note 10 the above Stanzas.
After the Peloponnessus was conquered
tho Heraclidae, they reduced its ancient inha
tants to slavery. In the year oftho world 3ol
or 494 years before Christ, the Ionians hayil
revolted, and having madcan ally Of the Ath
mans, marched to the city of Sardis, and hi
ing set fire to the same, soon reduced it to as
es. Darius, the son of Hystases, King of p
l. sia, to be avenged for the burning of Sardis,
clared war against the Greeks and invaded tn
, country. This war was commenced in the tn
year of the rign of Darius, and continued i'll
t one years, at the end of which time, Artaxer!
! Lonsimanus, the successor Of Xerxes, tired
= war in which Persia lost manyof its proyin
in Asia Minor, concluded a treaty of peacelw
9 the Greeks, the terms of which were dicta
g by the latter. At the close Of this war, VIII
has rendered the Greeks SO famous in histo
q many of those nations which had long been
Q subiection TO Persia threw Oft the yoke
y made themselves the ally Of the Greeks.
!, the same time large number Of persons, a p
v of whom had been reduced from aihuence
i poverty by the oppressive exactions OF Pera
IS x-gatherers, and many otherse who were
y ing in state of scrvitude, hearing that freed
q was to be enjoyed among the Greeks, and
it ample subsistence. could be obtained to sup
d all theirwants, came over in vast niSratlons
q settled in different parts of Greece.
!. A. The Persian monarch still suffering from
" blow his kingdom had received daring the
lc ofwhich we have spoken, and yet lnedits
ID the conquest of Greece, made choice Of ano
10 10 method to ruin the Greeks, Which was to
,g divisions among the people and thus to des
IN the Confederacy which bound them togethe
"a For this purpose trnssaIies from the Gour