Its pirate-flag, and southward turn'd its keel. In slavery's school-room, teach him how to toil, The Israelites-Jehovah's chosen seed- With bleeding bones to strew the wilderness, Were destin'd to enjoy the Promis'd Land. But when the negro by the North was freed- Of Freedom's boon, the ballot! 'Twas enough Louder than when the cannon's belching lead XVI. WAS JEFFERSON DAVIS A TRAITOR? ASSION has ceas'd to reign. The tranquil days Po When men and measures can be calmly weigh'd In scales unshaken; days with sunshine lit, Of wide horizons and of crystal skies, From which the smoke has drifted;-in whose blaze Full many a darling error is dissolv'd, The beauteous form of Truth at last is seen, The motives which have animated noble minds Now nobly recogniz'd, without the doubt Which questions honor;-days to Justice given Has whisper'd to the waters: "Peace be still!" Let "Treason" and "Rebellion" be eras'd. There's not, in righteousness, a foot of ground Who to the compact prov'd recalcitrant. When, from the Union's household, we withdrew, |