New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-29

&pns, white and black, commenced, and
&iuntil nearly all who where friendly to
a oval convention were either killed,
lied, or thrown into prison.-Report Of
\ resi-
friend, you bid me tell 1.-THE story
the fray,
+ ii | saw in orleans upon that bloody
MY;
ldmy cane a moment, and give me but
N crutch,
is wooden leg is awkward, and can
b. use it much.
,d Just come home from battle with
i 2gr four and thirty stars
with roses in their muskets, and some
orned with scars;
had half forgot our battles and the
arches by the way,
a L joy the people gave us on the great
ception day.
laid aside our muslIets, and the grand
army blue
Te bent our swords to plowshares, as
be Romans used to do.
I'VE thought no more of marches, or the
Asttle's dread alarms,
10 ampiugs in the forest-or the sud
MelerY 10 arms ~
IN eagle in his grandeur had scared
6oVe the cloud,
bad borne our righteous banner till the
Msughty foe was bowed;
now with pinions gathered, he was
sting in the light
bee and noble people who had won a
eeman's right.
tie boys so tired of marching to the
um and bugle horn,
ang of peace and plenty as they gath
I'd In the corn;
hands of lovely woman who had
ked the summer hay,
Braided wreaths of ribbon for the
sTy marriage day ....
was joy in all the nation and hOli'
II Of rest
he shores of old Atlantic to the sea
lg OF the west
morning, and the sunshine leaped to
the deWy flowers.
bed in proud New Orleans, with her
#nples and her towers;
thought the grand old city never
kmed so proud and free
rst the Mississippi flowed in silence
1.-The sea.
Picard the glad rejoicings Of the loyal
VI the brave
sthe freedman stood in triumph, where
Aonce had crouChed a slave.
kaw the glad procession march with
hners in the breeze,
the levee, through the city, to Canal
ID Dryades-
ey halted with the music, and I never
lll forget
Ehey cheered for murdered Lincoln,
len the loyalists had met.
NRere men who picked the cotton for
naughty rebel crew
were men who bore our banners with
bOnny boys in blue;
ow with hearts Of gladness, they
ten TO the call
Oyalists' convention at the old Ne.
nics' hall.
thousand traitors, some dressed
ebel gray,
back the loyal people, and bid them
usket, club, and pistol, what is it
II would dc?
ON but a mockeryY Is loyalty un-
e!
en, the alarms from the belfries in
tOwn-
taps from every steeple, and the
Is rushing down.
rash OF muskets follows, and sudden
of woe
feast Of death is ready, and the
od begins to flow.
yon sun that's bending through his
lie to the west,
nk with heightened shadows in the
Paciiic's breast,
hall be cry of terror and bitter
of pain
hundred noble freemen shall be
nbered with the slain.
with maddened fury the men in
q gray es..
. the jeering people; There's
pdy work to-dayln
with club and pistol the cruel
ks begun,
Aany blackened corpses rot beneath
opic sun;
he fends incarnate rush msdly
nd fro,
1aer seems to wanton in the hellish
saaw.
Vt the cry for quarter-and surely
will hear
b stone upon the street shall be a
nan's bier;
The cries for mercy are uttered, but
ln-
i stayed from slaughter or cruelty
lin;
TO the yelling and the fiery de-
'rashing in Of windows and volley
e hail.
Is repulsed and driven; five times
of truce
a cry to heaven, for the doorways
are loose,
OWds of ruthless demons rush madly
Be hall.
pistol bullets whistle, while a humid
feemen fall.
q the shrieks for mercy and cries
tter woe
M the broken windows and meet
Heath below.
ather kneeling by the body Of his
pierced his bosom and the sacrifice
Hone. "a
aired man stood trembling upon
slty pave;
q beeA traitor and he would not
ElaVe;
ragged him from the pavement to
fieOn walls SO brown,
heard the ieering traitors 'mid the
Of the town.
eded not the jeering or the mock
, them all,
iaw q hundred freemen bleeding in
lison hall.
Z g eyes unused to terror and hearts
/, Cd to pain;
: heaped amid the dying, and we're
with the slain.
Y
q ~ you by telling all the horrors OF
g Bay
: : blood Of noble Dostie and . hund-
q lhers lay
/. eis Of proud New Orleans, TIL the
y "a gane 20 rest
wsters rise 70 meet him frem the
1s the West.