New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-24

All the chiefs, and tribes and people,
All the hunting bands of redmen,
All the squaws and all the warriors,
All the old men and the children,
All that dwell between the oceans,
All who roam on broad savannahs,
All who thread the forests lonely,
All who bend the bow Of walnut,
Who kill the deer or trap the beaver,
Bind the snow-shoes, build the wigwam,
Strip the birch tree, spear the salmon,
Mould the peace pipe, carve the war CLUB
Scaln the foeman, dance the war-dance,
Tan the deer skin, pound the maize ears
Old and young ones, chiefs and people,
All shall fade and pass forever,
Pass beyond the flowery praities,
Pass beyond the stony mountains,
Pass into the western ocean,
Pass and fade and be forgotten.
Names alone shall be remembered,
Names. of streams and woody mountains,
Names of waterfalls that thunder,
Names of swamps and lakes and caverDs.
Then from beyond the big salt water
There shall come the swarming millions
Thick as leaves in Indian summer,
Thick as bees in groves of locusts,
Thick as feas in summer WigWams,
Thick as Mash ee-tow the sting flies.
. Black and white shall come the strangers,
Come in troops and come in armies,
Filling all these shaded valleys,
q Covering all your waving hill-tOps.
They shall be but little people
But shall build up giants wigwams,
Skim the river in big smoke boats,r
Make Fire-spirit do their labor,
Make the running streams their servants,
Make the lightning write their speeches,
Make the thunder Kill their foemen1
Shoot their foes with powdered thunder,
With lightning blows of leaden bullets.
Then with strong Hibernian hammers,
Like Hiawatha with his mittens, ,
They shall pound the finty limestone,
Pound it ali in little fragments,
Scatter it along their highways.
They shall McAdam good turnpike,
Turnpike long and smooth and leVel,
TURNPIKE smooth for cart and wagon.
Some shall build an iron pathway,
An iron road for iron wagons, ..
Where the laundering fire wagons,
Low como the fire wagons,
Shall ily more rapid than the SCUM VIM;
Faster than Kabbonokka,
Faster far than Shawondasee.
And Mantle the Mighty wills it,
Mantle the Father wills it,
That these cunning tOiling people,
These white and black men wisely toiling,
Shall not suffer- shall not hunger,
Shall be fed by our Mondamin,
Shall plant and till and eat the maize corn.
Wherefore this thy midnight blessing,
Shall endure through coming ages,
Through the shadowy hereafter.
They Shall plow the land in burrows,
They shall comb it with the harrow,
They shall p ant in hills the maize beads,
They shall plant and hoe and till it,
All the coming years forever.
But Mantle the Mighty charges
That they eat not the maize crops wholly,
Not to consume Mondamn wholly,
Some shall they eat when green and Juicy
Some shall they grind when dly ana yehow'
Some shall they boil in puddings nasty,
Some shall they mould IN crusty dodgers,
some shall they bake in steamy egg pone,
Some in pancakes, some in ash-cake,
In dnmplings some and some in hoe-eake,
Food for servants, food for children,
Food for all the thronging millions,
And all the hoofed and horned cattle,
Bahia ba the bleating woo-sheep,
Kick-up-li the capering colt-ho1se,
Bassy bias the fruitful milch-cow,
Pork.ki-porB the bristled swine pigs,
Haw-ie.bucll the long-horned oxen,
And Yah-he-yah the sturdy jack-horse,
All shall eat the yellow maize corn.
But not wholly shall they feed it,
Not wholly shall they bake or eat it,
But eVeIEs the blessed corntields
Wave in beauty, wave in plenty
They shall Gull a goodly portion, ....
They shall toast it, brown il, malt it,
They shall boil it in great kettles,
Until its steam and subtle spirit,
Dripping through the May worm-pipes,
Shall drop in liquidinto buckets,
Into barrels, tubs and buckets
Shall drop the spirit Of Mondamin.
They shall hoard it deftly wisely,
Hoard the spirit of old maize crops,
Hoard Mondamin changed to spirit,
Hoard and keep the maize-corn whisky.
And ever at their feasts and weddings
They shall open, smell and taste it,
Smell and taste the precious spirit,
Taste and drink Mondamin's spirit,
That they always may remember
The gift of Mantle the Mighty,
The wrestling of our Hiawatha,
And Minnehaha's midnight blessing.
Ilad intended to detail to you some of my
on the state of political feeling, ant
the great Presbyterian schism in Kentucky,
in view of the length of the foregoing. will
fer for the present. HALEwIs