The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-04-06

george OF England, bewailing III his ldlouc
voice the loss of his colonies And here
am I-I-who was the first 10 raise the has
offreedom, the first 10 strike the blow agains
that Kins-here am l. dying like dog !"
The awe -sticken preacher started bach
from the look of the dying man, while
---throb--throb-lhro the DEATH
watch in the shattered wall.
Hush silence along the lines there p
he muttered inlhat wild, absent lone, as
though speakHs to the dead; silence along
the lines Hark you Montgomery, we will
meet there in victory or in death Hist
silence, my men, not a whisper, as you
move up those steep rocks Now, on my
boys, now OH Men of the wilderness, we
will gain the town. Now up with the ban.
ner of the stars; up with the flag of free
dom, though the night is dark, and the snuw
falls Now-now'-shrieked the DEATH
stricken man. covering there in his blue uni
form, with his clinched hand moving in the
air" now, now One blow, and Quebec
is ours p'
And look. His eyes grew gassy.-With
that word on his lips, he stands there-ah
what hideous picture Of despair, erect liv.
id, ehastly! There for moment, and then
he fails He is dead All look at that
proud form, thrown cold and stiff upon the
damp floor. In the CLASSY eye there fingers
even yet horrible energy, sublimny Of
despair.
Who is the strong man, dying here alone
in this garret, this man, who, in all his
crime, still treasured up his blue uniform
and faded flag?
Who is this thing of terrible remorse
This man, whose memories link something
of heaven and more of hell
Let us look at the parchment and that
flag
The old minister unrolled that fading flag
it was blue banner, cleaning with thi--
teen stars.
He unrolls that parchment. 1t is Colo
nel's commission in the Continental Army,
addressed, BENEDICT ARNOLD!
And there, in that rude hut, while the
death watch ,hrobbed like heart in the
shattered wall-unknown, unwept, in all
the bitterness of dissolution, lay the corpse OF
that patriot and traitor.
o, that our own true Washington had
been there, 10 sever that good right arm
from the corpse, and while the dishonored
body rotted into dust, bring home that good
right arm, and embalm it among The hottest
memories of the past.
For that right arm had struck many q
gallant blow for freedom, yonder at Ticon.
deroga, at Quebec, Champaign. and Sarato-
ga-that arm yonder, beneath the snow
white mountain, on the deep silence of the
dead, first raised into sight the banner of
the STARS.
1t was during the renowned expedition
through the wilderness to Quebec, that Ar
mold encamped for two or three days bes I'd .
the River OF the Dead near a snow white
mountain, which rose in lovely grandeur
over all the other mountains into the autum
nal sky. A single soldier ascended the
mountain with the hope of beholding from
IFS summit the rocks aud spires OF Quebec
When he came down, Arnold took from
his breast, where, for four days in privalion
and danger, he had carried it, blue ban.
ner cleaning with thirteen stars-He raised
it into the light, and for the first time The
of the Dead River-This is a fact attested
BY the history and corroborated by tradi-
lion.