Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-11-01

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bring?
These ruins breed, these miseries I'M
string?
Say, shall the wheedling, flattering
words Of those,
Whom to be friends, are all your deadly
foes,
Beguile you, and divert your constant
steps,
And you transform to flattery's adopts?
Unto this height they struggle to attain;
And thus above you rise, their ends thus
gain.
But sure, methinks, tits all to no avail;
For all that they may do they can but
Their schemes are now exhausted. used
in vain.
Constructing new ones would unhinge
their brain.
Hence, they are done, for they can do no
more,
Were done at outset, should have been
before.
But rs at first, they still, in mask and
guise,
Make promises, pcnt up and sealed in lies.
With flourishing TRADE and clustering
sound,
They mete them out, and WELD them
glaring round,
And truth eXtol, that they might be be-
licved,
The people WOO, that they might be re-
ceiyed.
But y We people to your trust prove true,
Prass on to conquest, bear the standard
through.
BE not seduced, nor hindered by their
tongues;
But bid them hush, Or they may tear
their lungs.
And spurn their feigned encomiums,
and praise
OF justice, truth and honor; for their
ways
And works, their principles and prog
ress, all,
DO drift and verge unto Virginia's fall
Directly converse from what they pro-
fess;
For they denounce what they pretend to
bless.
Whom can they be, and by what mark
or name
May they be known, whom truth and
justice blamey
And who, where ere they range disas-
ter spread,
Strip honest hands to vest the robbers
head.
Their badge is fraud, the source of pub
lie grief;
Funder their name, synonymous with
theft.
They ravagc fegnedly, in disguise they
prowl,
That, unresisted, they may boast and
howl
Der freedom, slaughtered, in her native
Like Goths and Vandals DER the wastes
of, Rome.
Can Funders, then, through nattery and
craft,
Their own designs in honest hearts to
draft?
Can they deceive whom they have not
deceived?
Could they again who have their clash
believedy
Nay more; for now their mask il worn
and thin.
IT'S fit no more to hide deception in.
1t has endured ms not they had designed.
They pain to have 1t taken on and lined.
But this they fear to do, for well they
know,
That all within would be exposed to
show.
Fear not dear Funders; for It would dis
close
No more than each true Rcadluster
knows.
Rise Rcadiustcrs, in your strength and
might,
With inward motives opened TO the light,
With cOlors of dcliverancc waving high.
Mid beams Of peace, before the Nations
eye.
Grasp We the relns Of government, entire,
And wrest the chariot wheels from bog
and mire,
The wheels unclog, and let the chariot
run,
with stendy whlrl, beneath the blazing
sun.
Bear free immunities the same to all;
From central past unto the ambient wall.
The scales of justice hold with honest
hand,
TO turn on guilt, DER innocence 10 stand.
But let no bribery enhance the weight;
Nor fraudulencc, again, stampede the
State.
Remove oppression from our numbered
land,
That she once moro may free from bur-
den stand.
With honesty and fairness, liQuidate
The debt, that hangs with such cgrcgl-
Gus weight;
That hoyers dark, and broods with dus-
Ky wings,
Grim hucs aud shadows DER Virginia
filings.
Ply nineteen millions; this we justly
owe;
Nor this exceeding, which the Funders
know.
But leaving truth, and closing freedoms
door,
They strive to pompcr thirteen millions
more;
Which void of legal claim, or loln,
would be
Seized by themselves, rs llotsam on the
sea.
Rejoice Virginia, with the sisters sing,
With voices concert, let them loudly
ring,
And roll harmonic DER tho Nations
breast,
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