The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-01-02


Exhausts the founts of healthy sentiment,
And withers all integrity and manly pride,
That in an honest upright hear. abide.
Thou cause of all our woe, Cursed Abolition
Thou monster to whom He'll denies admission
Why did'st thou not forever, in the pitch
That oozng from the sewers fills the ditch
Around the adamantine walls Of Hell,
Roll thy black shape Why the potent spell
That kept thee wand'ring in the shades of night
Dissolved so soon Why should the cheerful light
Be blasted by the shadow of thy wing,
Or Earth be peStered by SO vile thing!
Why did'st thou not discover in thy fight,
Some barren planet and on it alIght,
Where thou misbt'st drag thy Shiny carcass round
And view thyself stretched out upon the ground
Sure, blacker far than Cerberus must be
The human heart that loves such thing az thee.
Could honest men have known how vile crea ture
Was calling .em to follow, as their teacher.
They'd spurn with quick contempt its counse!s evil
And fec its presence as they would the devil.
Now all the North the monster spawn
Has Matched hateful brood, venomed throng,
Who seek to serve their base and selfish ends
Reg rCll, IS cf results SO they obtain
The prize of gold and power they wish to gain,
They'd undermine cherished institutions
And overthrow the laws and Constitution
They sh: tx for freedom when such shrieking tells
And would Cor Slavery, if 'twoulj pay as we'll.
With loud acclaim and verbose proclamation
They shout and send broadcast throughout the
nation
To fill the ears and minds Of men-such reason
| AS heretofore has made them think that Treason
Was loathed by them; and, as true patriots would,
They sought to crush foul TreasoH's hideous brood.
But all the while they sang such love of order
And preached that they were patriots. foul Disorder
Such never crept into State before,
Has made its home in ours. All never more
To leave us till the hour when sober reason
Shall show the people where to look for Treason.
| Like hideous vampires, in their bloody lust
They take the life-blood, and betray the trust
OF patriot men, full half million strong,
Banded in arms freedom to pro.ong;
| The proIdest army ever seen by man,
Called into acton by this helsh clan,
Or pretcnsc of maintaining wise laws,
Which they are daily breaking without cause.
They clog its movements, that their favorites may
Hoard gold by fraud while hourly day by day
Some gen heart that loved it's country's good.
Beats its last throb in camp field while blood
Runs free as water, and grief and sorrow come
To many hearth stone, blighting many home.
With country, freedom, greatness, peace and
wealth,
Respect, prosperity, happiness and health,
They found our Nation. Where are they now
When will they come again All, low must bow
The necks of men now free, e'er hcartlcss Fate
Brings back the blessings we have learned to love
| too late.
When will men learn to practice, what they
| know
To be maxim urc, by which to 60
Why will they not let 4" well enough " alone,
Nor seek to better what is fairly done
Why shoald trhits men be constantly at work
Dcvisng means to liberatc blacks, WHO shrk
The toll and danger of the enterprise
Who for their freedom dare not risk their lives
When ecr a no matter what its station,
Has in itself the stuff to make n nation,
A Great Deliverer, from its people s1rung,
w tn power to make it such will surely
This ruth the history of mankind has taught,
To be convinced, needs but moments thought.
Let us tut take retrospective view
Among the races and the nations too,
Who groancd beneath tyrant masters yoke,
But gathering strength, their own strong letters
bgosc.
When meath the rule of hardened Pharaoh,
The seed Of Jacob groan ned in bitter woe,
Out of the wilderness their Moses came.
| And led them Forth from bondage, while flame
OF light before them went and show ed the wa,
And overhead cloud led them by day.
When Austra's tyrant King with iron rod,
Had crushed the hardy mountaineer, who trod
Wit, fearless steps the glaciers dizzy hight
That glstcns in the sun with dazzling light,
Heroic Viii lam Tell, with dauntlcss heart
Taught his brave cOuntrymen to do their part;
| lIish on the mountan side, his cottage bazcd,
The signal known thousand arms were raised
To heaven. thousand true and brave men swore
That e'cr the coming morn, the Austrian's power
Should be o'erthrown and .ramped in the dust,
And history tells how well they kept their trust.
Ou- own dear country which our fathers bought
With their life blood, nor for a moment thought
The price they paid too dear, is yet another
Example bright. Proud England tried to smother
Tie young Columbia while in its cradle,
And little thought our new fcdged Eagle, able
To drive her Lion bowling from our shores,
That used to fright all Europe with his roars.
The nations freedom was most nobv won
With help of God, by our grea: Washington
And when the funess of their time shall come
| To that dark race, who now held among
The people of the Southern States, in bonds
BY laws and customs made and fashioned strong,
Their Moses viii be sent, by Providence,
And, succored by his power, will lead them hence.
Then why should we in civil war engage,
And devastatc the land, and let the rage
OF angry men, bring ruin on US all
| Men of the South, again on you We call
Come back, misguided men, our sometime brothers
Come back to ms our hearts yearn, as mothers
Heart yearns for her loved Ones towards you yet
And we would have YOU still remember, not forget,