Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-01-16

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A Poem By Aleeander II. Morrison, &p tWo Cdatos
CANT0 I-January i, 1854.
"Tho cause of truth and human veal
D, God above! t
Transfer it from the swords appeal
To peace and love-"
CAMPBELL's "HALLowED GROUND"
saw mighty cloud divide in heaven,
Breaking the rainbow's arch that spanned II o'er
Along each edge the lighthing'a lance was dsven.
Seeming a serpent on the Internal shore.
Amidst the wreck was heard the thunder's roar
Like to wild beast, wounded and at bay,
In cloudy caverns; and as cottod gore
The curdled ciOudlets Of the sunset lay
Around tho ominous west, the couch of dying day.
And thus they sand those black confronting shores
Where darkness scems TO gather densest might;
In each the whirlwind of contention wars,
And more involves Disunion's fearful right. III
Strange signs and aspects fill the air with fright.
Z. Like when an earthquake breaks tho rocky ground,
And shakes mans structures with fend's delight,
Ping the earth with ruin all around,
And moving stoutest hearts with its appalling
sound.
Now Freedoms constellation yelled in clouds,
Its light cclipses! and tho earth appears
All rent with graves, and covered DER with shrouds
And its green battle-felds bedewed with tears
OF grief and drops of blood, distress the years.
Now meteors trail the heavens, and comets glare,
The ominous harbingers of all man fears
Whilecrowncd tyrant monarch, sit. Despair
On ruins ghastly throne-and smiles full grimly
there.
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From the wild edges of the southern cloud,
To wide gulf, its southern boundary
Came boding threatnings, and demandings proud,
For constitutional right, and guarantee.
Full fedgcd sedition beating furiousy,
With vigorous wing the faction weakened bars
)f Union, and united Liberty
Burst Aame-l!ke 'mongst the consolidated stars,
And shook from off its tongues the woes of Civil
wars
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From the firm bastions of the clouded rock
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That like the worlds great champions salked forth
To strike Rebellion down-and overawe
Jonspiracy-and with redeeming blow
5Kecp Government upon ho throne supreme;
And strife avoid and cheat the wildbrd's NAV.
Staunching the threatened gushing Of the stream
Before the die was cast which blood could not re-
deem.
Yes from its solid front, far to the rear,
Where the great chain of lakes makes up its bound
Went forth the Death knell" warning to prepare
For the events, which from the abyss profound
Of Time, had slow and shadowy gathered round =
Till now the Union broken. fierce shock,
Must rouse the nation with its thunder sound
And crush fair Freedoms pantheon block by block
Threatning to tear out the mighty keystone rock
VII.
And bury in Political Earthquake, n
The glorious mansion that our fathers rearedi
When one strong pillar broke, it made it shake,
And ruin imminent to all appeared.
The issue came which statesmen Great had feared.
And deep commissions shook the giant basel
Of Freedoms temple. unto all endeared,
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And fearful was the pause which reignod littl,
space.
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The giant spectre Of the ancient world,
Whose home is in Ashenas lovely land:
And where Rome's great republic once unfurled
The flag of freedom to the breezes and
Along the plains of Africs torrid strand,
Where Carthage lies in ruins,-far from there
Roamed ruin with his all-destroying wand:
He snuffed destruction from his shattered lair.
And came our column blocks for ivy to prepare:
And when they lie all shattered at his feet,
Then will he robe them in his robe of vines;
And the sad lesson of the Past repeat
OF ancient climos where marble ruin shines.
Old Egypts Thebes, with all its zodiac signsi
And hieroglyphics, sand wild Ballbecs blocks,
All teach the lesson that gray time designs
That nations fall before the sapping shocks
Which wars und traitors give cfumbling their yer,
rocks.
This was the crisis of nations fate
And vast results hung on the balanced scale.
Then Patriotism opened wide the gate,
For noble men to step within the pale
OF Compromise; and then and there the wall
Arrest of millions that must shriek IL blood
OF civil strife filings on the passing gale
It's steam of Hell-and mildcwsin the bud
The promised freedom. fruit for which the Father
stood -.