Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-03-16
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FRIDAY, MARCH IL. 1877.

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ICoMMUNIcATED.
"This is surrender, and c,mes, it is said.
from the South.
DOM Piau IN the Capital
INSCRIBED TO THE "lNVINClBLE IN PEACE.
AND INVISIBLE IN WAR
Who says that the South, sir, surrendera
What is it you would have here to do e?
You offered to choose her defenders
She but asked to be guided by you,
With the heel of the dospot upon her,
What is it you would have her to give?
They have robbed her of all but her honor
They have onIy allowed her to live.
Behold her weighed dowu by disasters,
Tho dariog-disabed 10 do
They have made her own minoDs, her
masters,
Who rivet her fetters anew.
Of what have her foes not bercit her?
You asked for her suffrage-her vote,
Forgetting, when freedom had left her,
The tyrants had throttled her throat.
What advantage her vote, if the rifle
ReverSes her verdict Of choice
II fraud and the bayouet stitla
The sound Of her people voice
She asked you 10 Counoll the question
Would you fight ere submitting to fraud
Your silence was full Of suggestion-
You dared not approve or applaud
Twas your Bonds-u0t the South-do not
wrong her
Your love may be stroug for the Right,
But your love Tor yoW St0ctS, sir, was
stronger,
You could not afford sir, to fight
Then. charge not the South with surrender
With her-tis a desperate word !:
She has rendered you all she could tender;
She is looking 10 you fer The sword
The sword that, if need be, could suuder
The chains Of the tyrant powers
The guns that, il need be, could thunder
In tones more effective than ours.
Instead, you proposed "Arblraton,
Your remedy OF old 10 disguise,
Your scdativc balm for the Nation,
Political cursc-"ComprOmisc
So Sure as the sun shines iD Heaven,
For once, YOU were caught unaware;
As Eight is one greater than Scrcn,
The South was cntrapped ID a snare.
You fashioned the trigger which caught her.
You lulIcd her suspicious to sleep;
She will teach you what statesmen have
taught her
Her honor unsulIied to keep.
You may treat her with s:orDul dcrislon,
She pghtcd her faith to abide,
(However unjust the decl5lon,)
By what your vic judges decide:
But courage! She will help you to bear it
Tho victory's Growing be sweet,
IT'S often less easy to wear i,
Than suffer the ills Of defeat.
Then, pardon the South, il she borrow
A lesson or TWO from the Past
You never can fathom the sorrow
Meath which her proud People are cast:
She cannot forget how you won her,
When you promised to staOd by the Right,
Then traied all your cannon upon her,
So soon as she opened the fight.
Oh! taunt her no more with such speeches,
10 her lis an omlnouS word;
The Past Of her History teaches
Surrender only after the Srora,
She is used to the cIaoGor of battle
Let duty but call her-sba comes
She is used to the lnu>ketry'a rattle.
The rat,iug 'nug roir' Of the drums.
BY her dash aud her desperate daring,
Wherever her fig was uuiurled;
BY her deeds and her gallant bearing,
She challenged the gaz4 OF the world
Not Greece, iu her graudest cndcavor,
Not Rome, in her palmicst age,
No couotry 10 History ever
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Heap not your abuses upon her,
Dcu0unce her not, DOW, in the dust,
AppomattUy was no! u ilshonor,
She folded her b!GuCr5 10 trust.
UnmaDly your charge Of surrender,
She never goes back on her word;
Tho conquered, her Cousc'cnce is tender.
Her HOuor az bright ~ her Sword
Ii. NJ. CLARKSON.
Ellenwood, Vs.. Fep. y. 1877.