Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-01-29

And there were voices eloquent TO plead
For all the glorious Past the Futures years:
If twere not so, it would be strange indeed
Wero there no anxious, heartwrung patriot tears
| We're there no mourners by Coumbia's biers.
| Where her great interests lay forever dead?
Great God why slumbored future widows ears,
Nor heard at every door the coffin tread
OF those who brought their sons from fields where
myriads blcl.
XVIII.
Great spirit of the Past thou who dds't stand
BY the Athonian when his thunders rocked
The marble temples of his native land,
And the insidiouI Macedonian mocked;
Art thou nor slumborng, that thou hast not salkcd
Into our Congress Halls and with hand
Gra3ping the lightnings all undaunted blocked
The path Of ruin DER this lovely land,
T. And all tho clouds Of war with bows Of Peace o'er-
spanned
Then like giant in his godlike power,
Who sees his friends beat down before the foe
Stalked forth the mighty Douglas in that hour
Into the arena-and with eyes aslow,
He cast his glances on the threat'ning row
OF factions opposite-and with tho tongue
Of the Athenian thunderer struck blow
On Additions shield until it rung.
And in Seccssion's face tho singing pieces flung.
Xxx.
Did organized faction dare with brazen face.
Like Caialine, to meet him thcn and there.
And fill Columbia's councils with disgrace.
And all the land with waling and despair?
Yes! like the jackalls stealing from their lair.
To howl and dog the lions steps, they came
To seize on spois, and lacerate and tear.
And ridcule the right-to brand, deame
The written covenants, and each appended name.
, Those mighty names that shine along the past
Cherished at home, revered throughout the earth
Whose lives and work in freedoms scales were cast
| That q free Constitution might have birth.
And now, how estimated is their worth?
How is their warning legacy oboyed?
Alas their doctrines make foul traitors mirth.
Their mighty interests and trusts betrayed,
Are in one common grave Of scorn and mockery
laid.
XXI.
! By what foul sorcery. or hcllish SPELL
Did Washington and his compeers produce
I" A covenant with Death. and league with Hell."
: For their descendants and the great worlds use
/ Is it for this they tyrant bonds unlooso.
! And independence for their nation win?
Why God in heaven, who filed the widows cruse. y
I Would not have blest the hosven-daring sin,
| To the dark broods of wrong and hell so much
akin.
| XXIII.
| The very thing which the prophetic souls
. OF Washington and Jackson feared would come,
e, Black in the horizon Of our prospects rolls.
To strike the lips of patriotism dumb;
The appealing voice by wars on-urging drum
Is hushed and North and South the Radical.
By interest prompted, keeps whispering sum
To aid the plotters in the Congress Hall.
That they may start TO roll red revolutions ball.
XIV.
Like noble patriots yearning for the veal
Brave Pugh, and mighty Douglas. 'twixt the steel
Brandished on either hand by furious men.
And then results beyond an angels ken,
To grasp or see the close, depended there.
IT'S heavens truce, vouchsafed to wisdom then
Will burst the flames of War with dreadful glare
Or Peace will spread her robes out wider and more
fair.
XIV.
Never in Roman Senate of old days,
When Seven Hills were mistress Of all lands.
Did such important issues voices raise,
Or greater interests make great demands.
Then stern eyes looked upon the Unions bands.
And cursed the instruments their fathers made
! And sacred things became in hostilehands
| Like Philistine bonds that SIMPSONS form ar
rayed;
Disunon's fearful fire touched. and thcy broker
laid!
XXVI.
lOh thou stern Goddess Of the balanced scale!
Discerning Nemesis TO thee we yield
The Just narration of Disunion's tale.
When future writer's history pen shall WELD;
l,When no strong arm of prejudicecan shield
The partial page from condemnation-wh
Weak interests coverts arc no more concealed,
| Then will the truth appear, if not till then; >.
| And falsehoOd's scales will fall from of tho oye
l Of men.
Na, XXVII.
Then wilt tho bloody record sacred kept
By honest truth. TO future readers show
How noble dictates Of the bosom slept.
; While selfish intenstwon its fearful Throw"
Then will the baleful sins Of faction glow.
Without cloud to hide their hellish beams.
Then will the votes that wrought our overthrow.
Be counted on the field where freshly streams
The blood Of Civil War! and CORY still y
gleamsl M !, q,
: n XXVIII.
. Then will the verdict Of the world be givep,
In view Of all that Is, and might have been.
Had men but listened TO the voice Of Heaven
y Had moreof virtue, and far less Of sin.
Then will appear howruin eame to win Yt
Ascendency in Congress-how above
The voice Of patriot reason. rose the din
OF sectional clamor void of Nationailovc,
That sought the yory heart of Freedom 10 reno,