Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-05


We think it likely that the poet knows his
man, and, when writing this. provided himself
with secondhand bowie knife, with the eX
hibition of which to calm Col. Pryor's resent
ment
OF that bury rebel, his Reverence General
Polk, the Richmond poet has, we are glad TO
say, a far higher opinion. He says =
"Let meaner talents from the Bible draw
Their faith, their morals these, and those their law;
HIS lively genius finds in deeds OF war
A fame, glory which no time can mar
How bright our warrior Bishops fame doth shine!
So great soldier, so profound divine!
Who fires his soldiers hearts with sacred texts,
Speaks peace Sunday, and shoots Yankees neXt.n
He seems to have some feeling against Gen
era Toombs, whose recent address to the
people of Georgia. advising them TO gather
kindling-wood and make ready to burn down
their towns, suits him no better than it did
the Georgians. OF Toombs lie writes =
''Amphion's Tyre, they say, could raise town,
But this great liars worse-he burns it down"
Yet it seems that he does not so much object
to arson as 10 the spirit in which Toombs and
Cobb urged that crime upon their fellow cit-
zens for a little farther on (page u he bursts
out into ardent praises OF Governors Brown
and Pickens: -
"Hail, BrowL and Pickens- thrice, thrice honored
names,
Whose godlike bosoms burn with patriot flames;
To serve his country at her utmost need
Behold by this burning town decreed;
While that devotes, with true chivalrc zeal,
Anothers cotton to the public weal.n
And SO He is evidently a strong partisan
OF Davis, and mourns that this great rebel
has fallen upon days so degenerate. al
ludingi probably, to the incessant abuse law
ished upon him by the Richmond ENQUIRER
Memphis Appeal, and other papers He speaks
OF degenerate scrbblers, and the good old
times when but few could read and fewer
write, and adds =
40, had the gods but kindly willed itso
That thou hadst lived two hundred years ago.
No foolish editors had libeed then
No fearful rogues had spoiled thy greatest plan!p
But he banshes regrets -
"But hence, fond though 7Or be by passion hur-
Hadst thou then lived, now vert dead and
Not now would armies va orders own
The allusion to Fearful rogues" above, we
at first took to be intended tor Floyd but it
must mean some one else-perhaps Pillow or
Letcher-for at page 10 occurs passage in
which FlOyd-in disgrace for his retreat in
western Virgina-appeals u Davis thus, and
we trust not in vain -
"YOu slight me, Davis and but little heed
What talents / have shown, what merits plead;
How in your time of need muskets stole,
And with what genius played the traitors role.
Ten thousand small arms plead my cause with you,
And prove me worthest OF your patriot crew!p
In Beauregard this writer has great conf
dence. lie speaks OF him several times, prais-
ing his genius as the foremost military engin.
eel OF the age. In fact like most OF the rebels,
tins gallant man likes best the man who can
put the most solid stone wall between him and
the Union troops. At page fourteen he per.
sohines beauregard as the great god of fortif
catlOni ana speaks OF him as rushing through
the country to the defence of the people.
"With gorges, scanolds, breaches ditcbos ,,u.
With culverines, whole and demi and CANVAS aii,'
With trench, with counterscarp. with esniansda
With curtain, moat and rhombo and clamade
With polygon, epaument. hedge and bank
With salient angle and with angle flank"
And so on for half dozen lines more. We
can only say that il poor Beauregard really
goes about with such an array OF defences, he
is worthy of all the reward he will get from
the southern contederacy, and all the fame