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Show 56 Go, point thee to the cannou's mouth, And swear its brazen lips are better, To guard 'the interests of the South,' Than parchment scroll, or Charter's letter.• We fear not.-Streams which brawl most loud Along their course, are oftenest shallow; And loudest to a doubting crowd The coward publishes his valor. Tlty courage has at least been shown In many a bloodless southern quarrel, Facing, with hartshorn and cologne, The Georgian's harmless pistol-barrel.t No, Southron! not in Yankee land Will threats, like thine, a fear awakenHer men, who on their charter stand For truth and right, may not be shaken. Still shall that truth assail thine ear- Each breeze, from Northern mountains flowing, The tones of Liberty shall boar- God's 1 free incendiaries' going ! We give thee joy !-thy name is heard With reverence on the Neva's borders; And 'turban'd Turk' and Poland's lord, And Metternich, are thy applauders. • See Speech of Gov. !\I'D. to nn artillery company in Clmrles· tnn, S.C. . t Mo"'l of our readers will recollecl the 'chh·alrous' afT.·ur he· twc~n !\I' Duffie and Cui. Cummings, of Gc~H'gia,. ~ome years ago, in which the parties fortiGed themselves wtth spmts of hartshurn and Eau de Cologne. 57 Go-if thou lov'st suclt fame and share The mad Ephesian's base, exampleThe holy bands of UNION tear And clap the torch to Fn.EE~Oln's temple ! Do this-Heaven's frown---thy country's curseGuilt's fiery torture ever burning- The quenchless thirst of Tantalus And Ixion's wheel forever turni~g- A name, for which 'the pain'dest fiend Below, his own would barter never - These shall be thine unto the end- ' Thy damning heritage forever ! |