Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-01-27
ssSay. Boys, Do YOu Hear Thai
IelE?"
BY ROBERT ROWLAND.

Confederate Senate. has dismissed fourteen
ex-Union soldiers, who are disabled men, from
their positions as Assistant Doorkeepers, and
has appolnted ex-Confederate soldiers in their
stead.-THe Republic.
Say, boys, do you hear that Confederate yell
Ring out on the winters air?
You have heard it in times whep brave men
fell,
In the days of our dark despair.
You have heard it in siXty-One and two,
And in sixty-three and four;
But when the weary war was through,
Dreamed We ever TO hear it more?
Saw. bows, do YOU hear thot Confederate yell
Ringing up from the nations halls? =,
And remember they swore 10 winter In nell
Or level the Capitol's wals:"
Do you mind, for aye, the northern trail
Where their legions in triumph trod,
Until hurled back by your iron hail
From the conseerate acre of God?
Oh, say, do YOU hear that same old yell
From the battlefield ringing out,
That was heard in the days remembered so
well
On the picket-line and redoubt?
Do you relish its scornful, defiant tone:
Is this what you fought for? Say,
Ye stalwart heroes, whose blood and bone
Have saved US, nation to-day.
Say, hoys, do you hear the yell of the crew
You have fought by day and by night?
And driven in blood, all the Wilderness
through,
Believing in God and the right?
Do you halt on crutches live on crumb,
That the country We fought for gave?
And have We no votes? are all tongues dumb,
That We live the Confederates slaves?
BOYS, We have trod on the northern hills,
Ye have marched on the southern plain,
With the iron nerve of the man who wills
The blessings of life through pain;
And is this the goal that ye fought to win,
And conquered in sixty-fve?
Ia this the harvest ye gathered in
When you gave us the nation alive?
/ say, brave heroes of northern soil,
Is it all in vain that ye fought?
Docs not the nerve harden, the hot blood boil?
Was your valor thus sold for naught?
Are the thousands who stood on the battle
line,
Clad in all the loyal blue,
Upbearing the banner of stars to shine
For aye? Are We still as true?
o God, Brave beys, do you hear that yell
From the Capitols halls well forth?
Was it more defiant when Sumter fell
On the stern, true-fearted North?
And have We no shots for this rebel rout:
No votes for the wooden leg
Whom the vanquished in war are turning out,
To halt on the streets and beg?
Oh say, is the flag We loved so well
To droop now, or loyal blue?
Was it for q lie that your comrades fell?
Hath peace no victories too?
Is all that We won in the battles van
To be wrested by fraud away?
And have We no cheer for the crippled man
Who stood at the front that day?
And now there goes up another shout
From brave hearts, true and tried,
Oh yes. we have put them all to rout;
Not in vain have our comrades died.
We have met them, for aye, on many field;
We have fought them on many plain
We have conquered, when it was death to
yield,
And we will conquer again.
pine,
From our prairies, broad and free,
Ihere came shout from the loyal line
Of our future yet to be.
Oh yes. we have met this same old crew,
And now we hear our comrades cry;
And ten million scars are marShaling to
Avenge their wrongs or die.
I'VE have not forgotten our comrades dead,
Or our murdered Lincoln yet,
Nor the living, who bravely fought and bled,
Ere the sun Of rebellion set.
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funisn wen ere we one IorgaVe.
Ana mao tnls oeeii uone zen years ago.
Or heard the old rebel yell we know,
Now turning the loyal out.
'fBut million true hearts are on the march,
And we answer the rebels yell
Who swore to winter meath the CapitoPs arch,
Or else they would winter in hell.
And some, we know, have Kept that VOW;
But the rest of the traitor crew
Have come to make laws for the loyal now,
"Oh yes, we have heard the old wild yell
From the dome e: on Capitol hill;