The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-07-06

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Hail TO the morn, when tho day-spring arising,
Burst DER the Nation dispslling the night:
When fFeemen united, the tyrant despising,
Uprisen and girded, declared for the right.
Harki to the thrilling cry
"'Striks We for liberty,
Tyrants no longer our land shall control;
Nicer shall the oppressor's chains
- Clank DER Columbia's plains,
Binding in slavery the God-given soul"
Thanks for the freedom our fathers have bought
Us,
Praise for the blessings we this day enjoy,
Blessed be our God who hath never forgot Us,
Honor and blessing our voices employ.
God Of our father.land,
BY whose Almighty hand
Tyrants were crush'd and our freedom securd,
Echod from rolling food,
Rocks, hills and leafy wood,
Let thy great name be forever adorsd.
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Bat bark from the rivers and soft. yelling
fountains,
From ocean-lash'd cliffs and Savannahs so fair,
Flung up from the seas and roll'd back from the
mountains,
The soft zephyr's bears the wind of despair.
f Why drops the scalding tars
Why cover menials here,
Where freedoms sons should in concert unite.
Shall freedoms banner wave
Ger the heart-stricken slave,
Shackled and plunder'd and robb'd OF his right?
And seei how the armd hordes Of death-threat
ming treason
Are CATERING cen now around our Washing
tons grave
FIsemen rouse while it may yet be in season
Our banner to rescue-our country to save
By Sumter's shatter'd wall
By murdered Ellsworth's fall
BY our old memories so holy and grand
By all the patriot blood
Shed by the rebel brood
Slavery and treason shall not rule Misland
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Up, then, for freedom, and on her blest altar.
Swear the oppressor no longer shall reign;
Whoe'er in the conflict tor right dares to falter
Be slavery his portion-his emblem chain.
Stand for our cause is good
Quit you as freeman should
Grid on the srmor snce more for the field;
Soon shall the tyrant fee
Strike home for liberty!
Freedom shall triumph and slavery shall yield
Kossuth, Iowa, July lst, 1851.
The following is the verbatim testimony o
Luis Herod, runaway slave, who came into
camp at Newport News, June Gath:
81 was 70 years this last April 10Th gone;
was horned in Mulberry Island;my massa's nam.
was John Green, Sir; he has been gone now
reckon about four weeks;he is now in Yorktown
he was a real bad man; he. has licked me divers
| time; he always licked me wild cowhide, mad.
out cows skin; he went away telling US color
| ed folks dat desc ere damn Yankees were com
| ing to work US like mules, and dat we must hoe
his corn and stay by de old home; staid der,
four weeks after massa quit; day geb US only I'VE
pounds of meat, and peck meal to feed us
week, and lick US hard at dat; was IN York
town week afore last to see my mass, me and 81,
more ode boys, and day put us to work cuttin!
hay for de horses; / worked in Yorktown on d.
fort dare; found it wary hard; reckon bou
hundred Wary poor white folks worked wild M,
and us oder slaves in de FORT de oder men rid
| about On fine horses and get drunk cherry day
de women are all gone out Yorktown; dere il
only about Is or 20 houses in dare in dat al
Yorktown; de soldiers hab few tents like desc er,
| de richest ob un hab tents; and de poorest oil
UNI make bush houses; when left dar last Sat
urday, day had guns on de fort dare; day hav'
four or five pointed out so as to shoot in de riber
when we work on dat dare fort, day come up anc
say, Hura, boys hurry up dat dare fort; de Yam
KEGS will be here directly, and dig de trench
| deep, so dat de damn Yankees fall in and br al
DER damn necks; more dan half OBJ de soldier hal
guns, aud de oIers say day aspect some from
Richmond; some hab been dare fortnight, OF
tree weeks, widout any arms; day fetch on pro
vision from Richmond; steamboat lands dar OF
Yorktown; de poor soldiers damn complain fo
| not habn notliin to eat; dare are some RICH
smart oh slaves dare to work, and day oil say day
| get off soon as soon possible; dare are about
tousand on horses; and day go out cherry day t.
see if any OBJ you are coming; and when day Sc.
anything whats looks like you Yankee folks, da,
run back, and den day all get scared; day ali lef
after de fight at Bethel, and gone to yorktown
| and den a week, was dis here last Saturday, ia,
all 60 back wild wagons to Bethel agin, and day
carry out provisions cherry day to Bethel or some
where dat way; dare are no boats at Yorktown
! last week day burned two wharfes near York
| town, SO dat de damn Yankee ships can't land
| de Yorktown troops say dat dare are two or ire,
tousand troops at Williamsburg day say da
when de damn Yankees march all on EN-, den da,
come from Bethel and Williamsburg, and all fal
| into Yorktown.
A King to Hand.
1t seems almost Providential that, Just as tn