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vol. IV.
The Vow of Washington
BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.
The sword was sheathed ; in April’s
sun
Lay green the fields by freedom won;
And severed sections, weary of de
bates,
Joined hands at last and were United
States.
0, City sitting by the Sea !
How proud the day that dawned on
thee,
When the new era, long desired, be
gan,
And, in its need, the hour had found
the man I
One thought the cannon salvos
spoke:
The resonant bell-tower’s vibrant
stroke.
The voiceful streets, the plaudit
echoing halls,
And prayer and hymn borne heaven
ward from St. Paul’s!
How felt the land in every part
The strong throb of a nation’s heart,
As the great leader gave, with rever
ent awe,
His pledge to Union, Liberty and
Law !
That pledge the heavens above him
heard,
That vow the sleep of centuries stirr
ed ;
In world-wide wonder listening peo
ples bent
Their gaze on Freedom’s great ex
periment.
Could it succeed ? Os honor sold
And hopes deceived all history told,
Above the wrecks that strewed the mourniul past,
Was the long dream of ages true at last.
Thank God! the people’s choice was just,
The one man equal to his trust,
Wise beyond lore, and without weakness good,
Calm in the strength of flawless rectitude !
His rule of justice, order, peace,
Made possible the world’s release ;
Taugh prince and serf that power is but a trust.
And rule, alone, which serves the ruled, is just;
That freedom generous is, but strong
In hate of fraud and selfish wrong,
Pre'ense that turns her holy truths to lies,
And lawless license masking in her guise.
Land of his love I with one glad voice
Let thy great sisterhood rejoice;
A century’s suns o’er thee have risen and set,
And, God be praised, we are one nation yet.
And still, we trust, the years to be
Shall prove his hope was destiny,
Leaving our flag with all its added stars
Unrent ny faction and unstained by wars I
Lo ! where with patient toil he nursed
And trained the new-set plant at first,
The widening branches of a stately tree
Stretch from the sunrise to the sunset sea.
And in its broad and sheltering shade,
Sitting with none to make afraid,
Were we now silent, through each mighty limb,
The winds of heaven would sing the praise of
him.
I >ur firstand best I his ashes lie
Beneath his own Virg’nia sky.
I’orgive, forget, O, true and just and brave,
The storm that swept above thy sacred grave !
For, ever in the awful strife
And dark hours of the nation’s life,
Through the fierce tumult pierced his warning
word,
Their father’s voice his erring children heard !
The change for which he prayed and sought
hi that sharp agony was wrought;
No partial interest draws its alien line
’Twixt North and South, the cypress and the pine!
One people now, all doubt beyond,
His name shall be our Union bond ;
We lift our hands to Heaven, and here and now,
Take on our lips the old Centennial vow.
For rule and trust must needs be ours ;
Chooser and chosen both are powers
hqual in service as in rights ; the claim
Os Duty rests on each and all the same.
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Then let the sovereign millions, where
Our banner floats in sun and air,
From the warm palm lands to Alaska’s cold,
Repeat with us the pledge a century old !
May’s Morning* Stars.
Jupiter and Venus are morning stars
for May. There is a fine opportunity
for contrasting the two planets. Venus
is the more brilliant, but her luster is
dimmed by the radiance of the dawn,
while Jupiter seems almost her equal
in her brightness as he shines with the
the midnight sky for a back-ground.
The regal planet is approaching the
earth, and will be superb when, on
the last week of the month, he looms
above the southeastern horizon about
9 o’clock in the evening, and looks
down from the meridian at 1 h. 47 m.
A. M. Jupiter rises on the 15th, at
10 p. m. On the 31st he rises at 9:9
p. m. He is in the constellation Sagit
tarius.
Venus is a charming object in the
eastern sky before sunrise, as she oscil
lates westward from the sun, rising
earlier every morning and increasing
in brilliancy as a larger portion of her
illumined disk is turned toward the
earth. Her rapid movement south
ward may be observed. She rises on
the 15th an hour before the sun, and
on the 31st about an hour and three
quarters before the sun. She is in the
constellation Aries.
As you go over the W. & A. ask
the conductor to show you the great
“horse-shoe bend.”
OUR, ;i MAY FLOWERS" NUMBER.
ATLANTA, CA., MAY I, 1889.
BATTLE OF RINGGOLD GAP, ON TUB: WESTERN A ATLANTIC RAILROAD, NOV. 27, 1863.
Muscle Shoals Canal.
Gen. Casey, chief of the United
States river engineering department,
has just returned from a visit of in
spection to the Muscle Shoals canal.
He stated that the work is in a
most satisfactory condition.* He let
the water on as far as the seventh
lock in the big canal and floated a
small steamer through that portion
of the passage in the presence of a
large number of people. The test
was eminently successful. Only three
locks remain to be opened, and these
are nearing completion, hence Gen.
Casey fixes next fall as the time for
opening the canal. — Chattanooga Times,
April 8.
River Improvements.
Col. J. H. Barlow was in the city
and reports that the Muscle Shoals
improvement is progressing rapidly,
and will in all probability be comple
ted by the latter part of September.
He is having a tug boat and barges
built here for work at the shoals.
He will leave here to-day for a tour
of the Upper Tennessee and French
Broad rivers, with a view to getting
the work to be done on those streams
under headway.
Rock obstructions will be excavated
and rip rap dams will be built on the
French Broad river this season. Col.
Barlow also has the work on the Cum
berland river well under way .-—Chat
tanooga Times.
A bad, revengeful little
boy in an Atlanta grammar
school rubbed fine Cayenne
pepper all over the back of
his jacket and well into the
cloth, and then laughed out
loud in school, for which the
master flogged him severely,
but dismissed school soon
after to go and see an eye
doctor.
“William Weesbock, you
are charged with having
beaten your wife,” said
Judge Anderson in the At
lanta police conrt.
“The charge is correct,
your honor.”
“What are you smiling
about then?”
“I have reason to smile.
We’ve been married five
years, and in all the scrapes
we’ve jiad this is the first
time I’ve come out first best.
Have a cigar, judge?”
A Big Land Deal.
Reports say that a rich Boston syn
dicate has purchased 1,700 acres of
valuable mineral lands in Whitefield
and Catoosa counties, and propose
erecting a steel plant somewhere on
the line of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad. The price paid for the land
was $30,000, which was sold through
the efforts of Conductor Charlie Davis,
of the Western & Atlantic rad, a
wide awake gentleman who is doing a
great deal towards developing the
mineral interests of this section. — Dal
ton (Ga.) Citizen.
The era of good feeling is surely re
turning. Gen. W. T. Sherman has
recently written a letter in favor of
making the Northern soldier’s homes
general, and admitting Confederates
as well as Union soldiers. — Exchange.
Cartersville (Ga.) real estate has
doubled in value in the past twelve
months, and the probability is that it
will nearly double again in the next
twelve months. — Courant American.
Say, you, did you hear anything
drop ?
Yes, I heard the fellows drop on
the floor who were attempting to
match the W. & A.
Great spikes I what a bump it was.
The W. & A. runs sixteen passen
ger trains per day, and runs them on
time, too.
The Kennesaw Route is the quickest.
NO. 9.