Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-04-24
From the New York
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The 60 shern literature for which our oreth-
,J;x;e,s land have long asked in vain
seors at length to have beginning Rich
and has produced poet-or at least poet
aster. There is, indeed familiar twang about
some of his verses, as though the southern Pc
,osus had contracted the dishonest habits of
.Flovd. Thompson, & Co., and got his rhymes
no thew rot their muskets and millions. But
we must not look a gift horse in the mouth,
especially if he comes from Dixie Let us ac-
cent what the gods-or their chivalric children
send. We have received, by the kindness of
n friend lately from Richmond a volume chant
ing the praises Of rebellion. Its title is, "The
Rebead, by Hampden Sidney Boggs Printed
at Richmond, Va, G. S. A., 1862. Below we
give the readers a taste of this the first fruits
of the confederate muse. II will be seen that
the author treats of many things, though
chiefly he treats of the virtues of those patri-
OTIS and sages who, having fred the southern
heart, are now busily setting fire to the south
ern cotton.
But to our extracts, without further preface
The poet begins as is fit, with vision of the
future glory of the confederacy, and the conse-
quent ruin of the north.
"Rapt into future times, the Muse surveys
The ripening wonders of succeeding days;
The hated Union broke, its splendors gone,
The cursed Yankees their hard fate bemoan;
While southern chvalry, in power and pride,
The wretched mudsils drive from side to side.
See them at once of cotton and tobacco shorn,
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See commerce quit Alanhattas desolate isle,
To seek in South Carolina kinder soil
See direct trade fill up our banks with gold.
While northern mudsills SILVER in the cold.
As busy fancy paints the guady dream,
Ideal docks with shadowy navies TEEN;
Whate'er on sea- on leie, on river floats,
Ship, tug-boats, RATS cubs and fat-bottomed boats,
Smiths, sailors, carpenters, in busy crowds,
Mast cable, yard, sail bowsprit, anchor, shrouds,
Knives, gigs, harpoons, swords, handspikes cutlass
blades
Guns, pistols, swivels cannons, carronades,
All rise to view! All blend in gorgeous show
Cotton, tobacco, tar, pitch, turpentine, and tow"
And so on. for a good many other lines, in
which the confederacy benefits by the ruin of
the north. Before he gets through, however,
our poet seems to have heard of another Union
victory-perhaps the surrender of fort Donel-
son or the capture of Nashville-and his music
turns to the consideration of possible de eat,
the consequences of which he depicts in such
tremendous colors as we should anticipate of
"fery Southerner" =
"Then with the southern chivalry expire
And quench with federal blood their towns on fire,
Burn their last railroad bridge, whose tolls made
Yankees rich;
Shoot their last niger, and prepare the ditch,
The last of all, where they may dye their swords,
In 90 of hordas.
Why the chivalry should prefer to die in
ditch-except, perhaps, that most of them have
lived in the gutter--is more than we can guess.
But our poet has evidently caught the general
and very loudly expressed determination of the
rebels, to "die in the last ditch" and expresses
it, clumsily enough but vigorously. A mere
northerner would choose cleaner place than a
ditch to die in, but there is no accounting for
tastes, as the old woman said when she kissed
her COW.
From some lines we are about to quote we
are led to suspect that our author is one of the
editors of the Richmond Examiner, a sheet
which has helped on the confederate cause
mainly by criticisms of the conduct Of the rebel
leaders. The writer seems to have particular
luminosity towards Mr. Roger A. Pryor, TIT
gentleman who was scared by Mr.. Potter
ready acceptance of his challenges and who
after infinite boasts and tremendous displa,
of martial valor before the war, has, since hos
tilties broke out, attended sedulously to tn
peaceful and not laborous duties of confeder
ate congressman, Of him it is written -
-"Posterior Pryor,
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