Daily national Democrat., 1861-09-05
ODE TO FREEDOM.
BY W. AVER, NJ. D.

Hail, Freedom! with thy banner bright!
Now strike the Tyre and sound the pipe,
For peace and liberty.
That heaven may smile to bless the day,
We cast the tyrauts chains away,
And sat our nation free.
Bright on the azure disc enshrined,
With peace, and love, and joy combined,
May all thy blessings shine;
Nor may t sun eer mount the skies,
Or moon with sickly sh dows rise,
To curse our native land.
When PhGbus dawns upon the day.
With golden lighto or purple ray,
To cheer the v,llles round;
May natures voices chaut thy praise,
And bear, each breez'. along the lays
Of reverence profound.
Nor may Arcturus look in vain,
To find the price Of all the slain,
Glowing in freedom here;
Nor proud Orion grow less bright,
In summer or in winter night,
Bedimmed by sorrows tear.
Freedom thou art priceless boon,
Bequeathed IN blood by noble men,
Who meekly worshipped God;
And left to our protecting care,
A heritage sublImely rare,-
The holy ground they trod.
And here are thousand springs Of joy,
Which human hands and hearts employ.
With ever constant care;
To raise the standard of the free,
This is the nations prayer.
Behold the fields and meadows green,
And lakes and bays with commerce seen,
And hills with low ng kline;
And view the wide c0nteuted plain,
With orchards aue with yellow grain
These, Freedom, too, are thine.
No tithes" compel us ever here
To pay our hire to Count and Peer,
And wrong our little ones;
For Freedom smiles with happy cheer,
Through all the cares of erateful year,
To bless our worthy sons,
No edct of stern kings enslaves
Our noble Press with dungeon fears,
Or trammes human thought;
For here the Press is ever free,
The guardian Of the liberty
For which our fathers fought.
And here the churches of our land,
Remind us of the Pilgrim ba"d,
That came with prayer and song;
To seek IA home from bigot's rod,
Were they might freely worship God,
In holy anthems long,
These temples with their giltt'rng spires.
Now cOnsecrated by our slres,
Frcemen. belong to thee
And here for which the May Flower moored-
Our rights of faith are all secured
In peace, forever free.
Then Freedom, loud proclaim thy song
Let every breeze thy notes prolong
OF blessings thou hast giv'n;
"Thy name we love, It's ever dear
The Christians hope, the tvrant's fear,
And GROWING joy of Hcavn.
BRurAL-John Wolf, of St Louis, and
Larry Murphy, of the same place, had a
quarrel, not lCng ago, Mt Port Wine, and in
The row Murphy lit Wolfs right ear of
ose to the head, Wolf is known as peace
able and upright man, and is reported as
having used every possible means to avoid Il
quarrel with Murphy; but the latter was
determined to have fight. Wolf had Muir
phy down, and even then RETAINED from
giving the heasty hiped drubhug, He let
Murphy rise, and after the latter was in a
Standing position, and while sotne PARTIES
were holding Wolf, Larry got W 5 right cal
in his mouth, ane before he could he taken
away he severed the entire member from the
head. The ear had got cold, before any at
tempt was made to replace it, and the man
was left badly marked for the remainder o
his lne. Murphy escaped after his testia
adventure, and has not been in this neigh
horhood since -.Nouutain Messenger.