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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 6 (search)
6. my country. by Augusta cooper Kimball. I tremble, O, my country! for thy long exalted name; For the purity and glory that has gathered round thy fame; For the ancient blood-bought altars, where the fires of Freedom burn, Enkindled from the ashes of each Pilgrim Father's urn: I tremble, O my country! lest the lamp that flamed of yore, And lit thy crown of radiance, shall burn for thee no more. Are there not spirits brave, among the sons of patriot sires, To stand beside these menaced shrines and guard the sacred fires? Shall Justice no true champions find? shall Tyranny take down From Freedom's light-encircled brow her star-enameled crown? It cannot be — I'll not believe that Truth has fought in vain, And left thee, O my country! with a deeper, viler stain. And yet I live so anxiously! as mothers watch and fear, When Death seems almost hovering around the loved and dear; Or, as a maiden on the beach, stands with a shuddering form, And knows the one light of her life, is
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 331 (search)
will consent to respect one spot as sacred and neutral ground. Let the grave of Washington be still venerated by his countrymen of both sides, and let his ashes not be disturbed by the clash of hostile steel or the roar of cannon. Let there be one spot where the descendants of the men who fought under Marion and Sumter, Putnam and Greene, can meet without shedding each other's blood; and if ever an amicable settlement of this unhappy civil war is to be attempted, let us keep the holy ground of Mount Vernon dedicated to the purposes of peace, and there let the arbitrating convention, which sooner or later must treat on some terms for an adjustment of hostilities, meet for the purpose. Let the press, the only organ which can now speak to the people, South and North, claim from the leaders on both sides, that no military necessity shall excuse the defilement of the soil of Mount Vernon with carnage, or its air by the sulphurous breath of battle.--Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, April 30.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 497 (search)
apital, is an utter failure? Have these people determined to set in motion armed men, preparatory to the grand change of their form of Government, in order to save what is worth saving, from the carnage and the devastation that must attend the anarchy which usually intervenes between a free Government, and a firmly established despotism? Have they at last learned the unwilling lesson, that they neither deserve, nor can maintain, a free Government, when deprived of the ballast, the conservatism of domestic slavery? Do they comprehend the end to which their foul licentiousness, their unbridled lusts, are fatally hurrying them, and see that the ballot cannot be taken from their laborers, till first an organized soldiery is prepared to do the behests of property, and, under the lead of some strong will, to hold their Government together in some form, till they can change it to suit them? It really seems that they are waking up to these great facts.--Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, Mlay 16.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 516 (search)
s, And weep, when we see them no more. Let no tear-drop or sigh dim the light of our eye, Or move from our lips — as they say, While waving our hand to a brave little band-- Good-by to the — Ordered away. Let them go, in God's name, in defence of their fame, Brave death at the cannon's wide mouth; Let them honor and save the land of the brave, Plant Freedom's bright flag in the South. Let them go! While we weep, and lone vigils keep, We will bless them, and fervently pray To the God whom we trust, for our cause firm but just, And our loved ones — the Ordered away. When fierce battles storm, we will rise up each morn, Teach our young sons the sabre to wield; Should their brave fathers die, we will arm them to fly And fill up the gap in the field. Then, fathers and brothers, fond husbands and lovers, March! march bravely on!--we will stay, Alone in our sorrow, to pray on each morrow, For our loved ones — the Ordered away. Augusta, Ga., April 2, 1861. --Macon (Ga.) Telegraph,