Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-11-26
From the Bucyrus Journal.
OHIO'S FAvORITE SON.

In the grand, growing constellation
Of stars that form our mighty nation,
How proudly our Ohio stands!
How fair her rivers, rich her lands!
Beneath her wood crowned hills, what store
Of limestones, coal, and precious orel
What annual crops of golden grain
Smile on each undulatins plain.
Like gems upon her bosom seen,
Church, School, and College intervene,
Her sacred arks of Freedom, where
Each hild rece ives her generous care.
Proofs of her native wealth and strength
See twice two thousand miles in length.
Of iron roads, with laundering trains,
Convey her produce from her plains
To where her busy cities rise,
Seats of commercial enterprise.
If to those cities we repair,
How great the sights that greet us therel
Ten thousand wheels revolving, sing;
Ten thousan ponderous hammers ring;
Ten thousand busy shuttles fly;
Dense clouds ofsmoke obscure the sky
From factories, clustered thlckly round,
Where sounds of earnestt toll resound
the spacious streets, are seen,
With thoughtful brow, and earnest mien,
Men, by the accident of birth,
OF every nation of the earth.
Her native children, too are there,
With minds to plan, and nerves to dare;
Grasping, with mightiest intent,
The commerce of a continent;
While, through her broad extent, is hurled
The freighted produce of the world
How proud our State! How proud the cne
Who Justly is her favorite Son!
But who, among her sons, can claim,
With show of right, so proud a namel
That Statesman whose long public life
Has been devoted to the strife
That all men should be free; whose name
Is parcel of our nations fame;
Who, having killed the tyrant cause,
Now wipes its poison from our laws;
Is great Chief Justice Chase the one
Who is Ohio's favorite Son?
Or that acute and brilliant man
Who when the rebel strife began,
Predicted, in its earliest hour,
Its fierce intent and fearful power;
Master of troops in motion, he
Who led his armies to the sea,
And won for US, by marches swift,
Savannah, for a. a.Christmas gift;
Hero of hundred victories won,
Is he Ohio's favorite Son?
Or is her favorite son that other
No less distinguished, honored brother,
Who dared the bully by his bravery,
And with a wafer, humbled slavery;
Long trusted by his native state,
Among the first, where all are great,
Adding new 1ustre to name
Of Revolutionary fame;
Statesman, whose work hath we'll been done
/ Is he Ohio's favorite Son?
Hail! bravest of the brave, the Ney
Of our rebellions bloody frayl
Whose genius first at Beonville shines;
Who, mid Stone Rivers bloody pines,
Sole victor. in retreat, was found;
Who Mission Ridge with glory crowned;
Here of Winchester, whose ecrys-szs.---,...
Turned utter route to victoryl
Is gallant Sheridan the one
We call Ohio's fayorite Son?
Shall we the proud position fill
With him of iron nerve and will,
Who stood unmoved, a solid rock,
Bearing rebellion's fiercest shock!
No soldier he, yet brin ging life.
| And strength, and sinews to the strife,
Until, subdued, rebellion fell
Stanton, who wrought SO long and well,
And organized our victories won,
Is he Ohio's favorite Sen?
| Lo! born and nurtured on our soil,
And here, in youth, III ured to toll;
The man who thought he owed the nation,
A balance on his education;
Assailed Columbia's brave defender,
Great Unconditional Surrender;''
Victor, who prayed for peace and made
The blessed peace for which he prayed;
| In all our land the foremost one,
Is Grant Ohio's favorite Son?
Ohio has just cause for pride
In these. her--sons; and by their side, =
Might others of her children stand,
| Worthy to grace this billiant band.
All, all her patriot sons, so great
That, far beyond their native State
Shines the bright lustre of their fame,
And glorifies Columbia's name.
| Yet are we told another name
Is proud Ohio's favorite Son.
When traitors dared the Union rend.
Seek him who stood Rebellion's friend,
Demanding that coercion cease,
And that the States secedc in peace:
Who, dead to patriotic pride,
The triumphs of our arms denied.
And meanly claimed the war had failed,
When victory everywhere prevailed
pemoelaey Oa ,e' declares resins Inls one
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