Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-03-25
heck and Abe.

But by and by our doleful friend
Received a rousng start,
AS Yancey waved his lucifers
To fire the Southern heart.
q Hold there y shreked Alecl in dismay
q Was ever wretch so rash
If you ignite that magazine
You II blow Us all to smash y
Outspake the fire fiend of the South
50 Not so. by grandest.odds-
If let oil this magazine
We all become as gods -
' You lie, cried Aleck - in your throat
And more, you knoc You lie -
Screamed Yancey, . You shall eat those words
a sure as | am L."
And sooth he did it in twink,
With many WY grimace
As jeff and Toombs stood by and shook
\ halter in his face.
And when the words were all devoured,
With right hand on his breast,
He whispered, . Pray forgive me, friends
Indeed l did bnt jest.
And now I've had my little Joke,
And YOU Your natural swear,
I'm all aeog to back your aims
What first to do or dare p
"We've torn our sircs rude temple down."
Croakcd JEFF with grim delight,
= Because didn't like the style,
Nor deem its worship right"
"Why, should old reverence respect
Bad taste, or good restrain?
No, no we mean ourselves to rear
A fame as is fame"
" Bravo = cries Aleck-'' that's the talk,
Though in our sires dispraise
Who built as well as they knew how,
In those old fogy days.
"Their structure had been well enough
But for the foolish plan
OF founding it upon the rights,
And not the wrongs of man.
:: Restricted by no Golden Rule,
Or perfect fame shall be
Based on the eternal adamant
OF INHrMANITY
. And I, as Dixie's great High Priest,
Do claim the right, alone,
While gods and men look on amazed,
To lay its CORNER STONE
With that he waved his ruthless wand,
And. presto ! at his feet
Four million human forms are ground
Into dark concrete
A dire conglomerate of blood,
Crushed hearts and broken bones
Whence rose as from forlornest dole,
Cnuttera ble-moans.
And Aleck laughed, " If you so vail
At this incipient state,
What will you DO when our great fano
Rests on you all its weight?"
Just as the solemn chuckle ceased,
A stranger drawing near
Asked rs be eyed the hideous mass,
- What dend 5 work have hero -
" Fend's work? why that's the sacred stone
Whereon the chivalry
Wiser than Christ, benignly build
Earth's perfect polityi
ain view of which the saints above
Their mansions shall forego,
And tease Saint Peter for pass
To happier heavens below -
"Lct's see, quoth Abe, for he i; was,
If your grand rock can stand
The solvent potency of this
Ny Proclamation wand -
This said he touched the myriad mass,
And instantly the whole
Glove into human shapes again,
Each, nor, a conscious soul
So, when TO Chebar's awful vale
The seer-sped Wind came post.
The Dry Bones quiclened by its breath,
Spraag m mighty host.
But michtier than that serried throng,
Was dis Of Dixie's Land,
With vengeance flashing in each eve,
Fierce steel in every hand
Of stones. cried Abe. I've made YOU NEy
And men who prize their rights
VIII prize the glorious privilege
To smite where Freedom smitcs."
I" Behold the tramplers of your race
Now let the bayonet
Prove if white skin to ruffiian heart
Be shield or amulet
" Charge :! ana the living avalanche
Resistless thundered down
While shook the hills with blended cheers
For LiEcum y and = John Brown -
And soon their foes of bluest blood.
Aud necks too stiff to bow.
In their last ditch lay stark and grim
As dead snakes in 4 slough
al BIZ, = few Ike Nag's Head Wise,
Who bravely ran away,
That cAiralry might live 10 show
Fleet heels another day ". l. ?.