The daily gazette., 1875-01-27
Lat, foes new friends, by Richmond's
leagured wall. =

These seH-styled patriots round the
10 save Union by its arms well saved
Iheir novel mode that Union to cement
W parts self joining to enlarge the rent:
| with spacious pretexts propping up
| their cause,
Weighed down by fctions of uneoual
laws
LAID ont vile schemes, contrIved Of force
and fraud
me soldier here, the bagman all abroad.
| Xnick to invade, yet glad to sneak away.
Before comes retribution's fatal dav
His shrewd provision against showerv
10 make his harvest while the sunshine
And the coarse negro just from bondage
The vote he renders could he learn to
Struts to the polls, with head and heart
elate,
To hold the balance of a nations 8 fatel
I'LL right reversed and uppermost the
wrong,
Confusion blinds and folly leads the
throng,
And fearful spirits in the murmur;no
wind,
Hear prophet tones of direr woes behind.
Thus wonld;;be statesmen ply their hol-
low trade,
Worthy the sense and morals of Jack
Cade;
Until, as erst in Rome's declining day.
The consul styled bore dictator s SWAY.
Ere shone at length on history's dubious
page
The lurid light of an Augustan age.
And after years beheld the fitful blaze
Of the old glory through times misty
Our wise and modest magistrate in chief,
Who deems accustomed limits far too
brief,
Scarce graeed with gifts Of words mems
hearts to touch,
1t seems, like Csesar's Cassius, thinks too
much,
Atpires to drag in chains his seryile
Ring"
And be in all but name our Western
King
Such the long trial, dark with troubled
scenes,
OF public burdens grinding private
OF Wild tiance and impotent DELAY
Just debts incurred with honest coin to
pay;
State crushed beneath the heel of law-
less might,
A mongrel rule enforced of black and
white;
Yelling base purposes with false pre-
tence,
Alien to nature. truth and common sense:
Fraudful to use their country's hapless
hour,
To make perpetual their ill-gotten power;
Their means the very idol they dispise,
Place to maintain and hold each plum
dered prize;
To keep the great republics glorious
name,
But change its substance for hollow
frame;
Power stealing from the many to the few,
Just as of yore tyrannic parties grew:
To make their factious will the law su-
All the old freedom gone-a vanished
A bi oxen constitution out of date
| One man, at length to rule and be the
State;
Enough to stir old patriots in their graves
That their own children's children could
| be slaves
A desperate game but played for their
own sakes,
Their country's fortunes and themselves
| tn6 stakes!
Such the wild plot; till through the eoun-
try ran
The whispered rumor of their traitorous
plan,
And the reused people, patient far too
Set their stern verdict and rebuked the
wrong.
Through weary years revolving to the
date .--..
When Troy's proud towers and temples
bowed to fate,
Mid storms of faction, thine the nobler
| strife
To wake the bleeding land to fresherlife;
To heal the wounds by wars dread strug-
giles made,
blade;
To meaner spirits left their low affairs,
lTheir false ambitions and degrading
cares;
Assured that parts diseased infect the
whole,
Saw the whole country with % states.
mans soul;
To make the lowliest as the loftiest feel
'Eheir hope concentrated in the common
veal,
Once held the just republics equal
scheme,
A glorious vision if it were dream;
Such counsels thine, so generous, wise
apd true,
To nature, reason, virtue, country due
Fer nature, steadfast to her primal plan
Marks by fixed bounds the social state oi
man;
Reason rejects philanthropy abused
That makes confusion's jumble worse
confused;
Virtue revolts good morals to debase,
Through mixed superior and inferior
race;
And country bound by every claim t.
find
Her chosen rulers in her wiser mind,
THAT holds no rule by wayering con
II science strained
"higher law" than Heavens decree or
dained.
Through this wild turmoil, when vindic
tive rage
Wrote damning records on our history's
Il page,
Law to uphold, to reassure the right,
And foil zach mann device of partV spite