The daily gazette., 1875-01-27
From the Boston Sunday Courier, Jan. II, 1875.
A FAMILIAR EPISTLE.
TO THE HON. THOMAS F. BAYARD.
SENATOR FROM DLAWARE.

Bayard, whose name of caivalry the
! pride,
Since on the field its great exemplar died,
With laurels now to peaceful victories
dear,
Still stands untarnished by reproach or
Resolved in spirit and to honor true,
Thine be the need to stainless patriots
dur
Through the long conflict when fraternal
blood
Swept Ger the land in many guilty
food;
| When tyrant Power askance pale Justice
| eyed,
And fettered Law wept silent by her side;
| When faction reared on high her serpent
crest,
Advanced the mean and sacrificed the
Scoffed at the memory of our fathers
And in the name of freedom made men
slaves
Unmoyed by elamor that the coward
Thou stood'st superior for the good old
cause;
That cause eternal, since first human
wrong t...r -.tt.. 3D.
The weak made subject and oppression
strong.
AS the brave oak, whose boughs through
tempests thin,
Still bears whole fleets its sturdy breast
within,
While the 1.-THE willow shivers in the
And bends and breaks, a thing Of shreds
at last.
War palliates crime, It's said, though
conscience pleads
With sad low voice for every heart that
bleeds,
When battles triumph on the sanguine
plain
Leads farsworse ruin in its haggardii rain;
Fire, rapine, murder, famine, lust, the all
| OF dIrest ills that gentle minds appal
Yet not all evil, for mid wars alarms
Home thoughts will rise with soft endear-
ing charms,
OF wife, child. parent, sweetheart, far
away,
Those whom we love, who love for US to
And noblest actions oft will lend their
| grace,
Like flowers luxuriant in a rugged place,
To warrior breasts, when men with
heart and hand
Are ranged embattled for their native
land;
OF self regardless, hurt by Others pains,
His whom Mount Vernon's hallowed
tomb contains;
A Sidney, to the dying soldiers lip
Proffering the draught his own had long
Or brave ea re Mcclellan, Nc crossed by wayward
fate,
Called at the last extreme to save the
state;
Foiled first by treacherous counsel in his
rear.
When faction, dreader far than hosts
more near,
Sworn that his march no conquest should
secure
Robbed him Of arms to make the con-
quest sure
Victor, at last, his laurels torn away
/ OF base cabal the victin and the prey,
Another Rubicon before his eyes,
Disdained magnanimous the guilty prize.
Questioned his heart N patriot virtue
strong,
Made law his law, and proudly bore the
wrong.
But. oh! when Peace resumes its holiest
reign,
And hostile brethren might be friends
Say, should the great Republic frner
grown,
BY the sharp strife within her-with her
own,
Her own rash children, in the worlds s
applause
Rebels owned heroes for their ruined
cause;
Lee, dead heart broken for the field they
And stalwart Jackson harnessed at his
post;
Say, should she deal the fallen needless
blow.
Proclaim VIZ TIcTIs-To THE CONQUERED
WOE?
Ride like Vandal victor DER the plain,
The dead to trample and reslay the slain?
Or seize the precious moment to efface
OF wars foul canker every fostering
trace? -
In realms, none lovelier that the journey
Through all his wondrous circuit looked
upon,
Bid PROSTATE towns revive from ruins 5
verge,
See prostrate men to manGer life emerge
And freshening fields like gardens deck
the wild,
Forlorn where once the burdening har-
: vest smiled;
Her aliened sons, returning to her side,
| ~ CllisP WIN hOio Shoh SAN Ass-
pride,
And leagued with brothers on hostile
field
Against world in arms her spear and
shield.
Such thoughts were thine and theirs,
whose generous hope,
Bounded within no party 8 narrow scope
Hailed the proud Union to itself restor
ed, f.
J And claimed the grace its greatness dared
afford. :
Even Grant felt this, when by the Jane.
banks
: Lee rendered up his half-starved dwindl
ed ranks,
And noble souls, the comrades of hi,
power,
Softened the promptings of fsternvictory'
hour. ...t- ..t ..l-s
But, oh, the change, when that cole
scheming crew. a..-y..,E
The pest of nations to themselves untrue
The greedy placemen foully set on high
Through lowest arts that lure the vulgar
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