Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1865-07-06
Admirable Poem by 7. Buchanan Read

What great events have chased the seasons BY.
Like gale blown waves beneath the laundering
sky.
From that swift hour when Sheridan struck the
foe.
SCATTERING rebellion at a single blowl
How like an eagle swoOping Eon his crag,
Great Sherman pounced and tore the rebel
On wide spread wings then northwarl swept the
coast,
While fed before him I'll tho ,raitorous host,
Til Grant-like Michael on the crystal wall
Crowded the fiend of treason tn his fall.
And when unto the lowest deeps he fell,
There chained the demon in his we'll earned
cell. 4
Grows there the hemp sufficient for the time,
To ayenge nation ior their murdercrs crime,
Think of our glorioos host of martyrs slain
Not in fair battle on the fiery plain
But left to CHASTITY hungcr's tightening clinch;
And slowly murdered daily inch by inch,
| fancy behold the villainous wretch.
And vet the muse recois that gives the sketch;
| see before the lelon's striining eyes.
These haggs j martyrs solemnly arise;
The myriads looming from the pains of death,
File their pale line before this new Macbeth
Like those sad ghosts by Richards bed,
Their mourniu voices freezcs his blood with
dread;
Orphans and widows pass before his sight,
Until his soul is shiverirg with alright;
His cry. "I'll see no morc." is made in vain,
He still must see anil shivcr i'm his chain;
But leave the demon to himself, no worse
A fate could reach him, and no bittersr i curse:
Grape for uation-crape--
Let freedom all her shr.ics and temples drapc;
The greatest noblest and the best,
Has dropped from his high toll to sulden rest.
He whose large heart from kindness never
swervcd.
But oft recoiled from vengeance where deserved,
Heaven saved him from the final work TO do
or meeting Justice to the traitorous crew.
Behold the assassin flying through the night,
Each bush and tree aSsaiIs him with alright;
Each breath of air is Kissing in his ear
The CRY of .'Murier"' and pursucrs near.
His eve OF blood make all the field a.lazc
With fire, TO give him to the searcher's gazc
lie dies a thousand deaths until he falls,
Mid Gaming hay and cracking beams and
stalls;
Aud with fierce impr,cations on his lips,
Ills spirit passes To its dark rciipsc.
Pcrclancc, pursued by yensefi.l shapes Of ire.
IL still ies OH through endless fields OF hFc,
Hero let tho curtain fail
On scenes OF woe that startle and appal
Ring cut wild bells, and swing it round the
world,
Our Union A ,e Is now for aye unfurlcl,
Traitor nor tlrlnt resist the tide
or the great movement sweeping far and wide.
The frer,lman's AK is in the forest now;
Tie frecdmAR's hand is on the Southern plow;
One sweep OF the great peoples arm abrOal--
The savage flies. and harvest crowns the sod;
Will. hr that hand tho rattlinr car couVcyel.
Darts, like 4 shuttle through the loom of trade;
Religions handmtid--commercc-wa abroad
And wins more realms thln wars enslnguincd
god
IN her fair hand the olive branch Of peace
Waves Ger the word, and bids its discord cease
Her garments breathe perfume of Imiia's spice,
And soft furs shield her mid the artic ice;
Her reindcors fly athwart the fozen land;
Her patient camcls print the desert sand;
On Nile and Myers breast her b1rges glide;
Her swift canoes ihe Indian trappcrs guide:
Her ks o'cr PharIoh's drowned chariot sail,
On Michigan her steam defes the gale.
O'er Europe's world her pnion rise and fall,
Her banners wave on China's ancient wall.
Der ruined Thebcs pcrrhancc she sheds tear,
But smiles 70 see a greater rising here;
Heavcs tho sad sigh beside dccaying Rome,
But starts Il second in her found home.
Onward forever DER our western land
Rises the fair niirts to her enchanted wand,
There domcs and spires, by ocean, Lake an
stream,
Sprinr like the marvellous fabrics ofa dream,
Where roamcd Of late the forests jusky king,
On sayward walls the builders trowels ring,
Where savage children watched the eagle
fight,
The Saxon urchin flies his waving kite.
Where the wild war dance finned the midnigh
fires,
In saCred temples chant the ChrsiiIn choirs,
And where canoes lay warping on the sand,
A thousand steamers clalc the busy Land.
".
Once more within this marvellous temple here,
Let Gs cxult DER treaSon's bloody bier;
Exnlt like Miriam On the Red sea coast,
here waves uniting drown old Pharaoh
i host.
The pillows Of our Mon thus have met,
And overwhelmed and drowned the iraitorou
| set;
And liberty like singing Miriam, stands
With flashing symbols in her lifted hands,
Shouting her pcans grandly to the Lord
For freedom won adj union thus restored,