Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Some years ago . . .

. . . Pike indited [sic] the following poetic tirade against disunionists, which is his own condemnation:

“Good God! what a title!  what name
Will history give to your crime!
In the deepest abyss of horror and shame
Ye will writhe till the last hour of time,
As braggers who forged their own chains,
Pulled down what their brave fathers built,
And tainted the blood in their children’s young veins
With the poison of slavery and guilt;
And freedom’s bright heart be hereafter tenfold
For your folly, and fall more discouraged and cold.”

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 12, 1862, p. 2

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