| Show for the be t deseret DESE R EVENING E v an 1 ang NEWS 9 w s AJ L col coi columbia u my country the land ormy birth and adia tho the boast of my youthful pride i my love for thee mingled with the warm pulses of my childhood it was inherited from irom my noble ancestors who periled perilea their lives and bravely fought for thy independence it grew with my growth as a legitimate portion of my nature I 1 thou hast bast been as a beacon of light to other nations a palladium of liberty and ana an asylum for the oppressed enthy Th broad bosom warmed with compassion for he the homeless thou open wide thy heart to shelter persecuted outcasts from distant lands thou choose wise men for statesmen men with souls who were not greedy after selfish gain gald but were true trued tos thy jn 1 te rests and held thy honor j their life with them thou establish a govern ment ad the grand platform of civil indre and re legious liberty guaranteeing equal rights and to procure its perpetuity thou frame and bequeath a glorious and sacred constitution which was prompted by tha inspiration of the most high thy thyi standard was emblazoned blazoned em insign insignia of ot peace and on its lofty spire which towered aenid the skies waved wavea the e 1 f of freedom which faslun ri i soiled bythe bathe by the hand of oppression aud and un uni i stained with the blood ot of innocence i thep thy courts and seats ofin stice and thy congress halls receptacles pf af trust and con cosmenco cont conf Menco menee union and happiness pr evaded thy intal inta inte florand rl orand a crown of glory encircled thy brow thy name was held in ip honor abroad prow proud arld arid an haughty nations gazed with admira admiration at thy prosperity they bowed respectfully i to the noble magnanimity of thy and marveled at the harmonious workings work of thine thino institutions I 1 I 1 if f such sueh juch theu wert as I 1 remember thee and then my young heart swelled with joyous pride that I 1 was an american citizen J but alas alasi I 1 alaila alas aias a great chango change has ome come over thee and now with su subdued pride I 1 am forced to exclaim claim now row how is the mighty fallen pi i 1 ft whereas where is thy washington thy jefferson and thine adams of former years where now the respect and loyalty with which hey they adhered boand to and ana honored the glorious constitution r when two of thy noblest sons mchose those whom god bad raised up to be benefactors of the dge were assassinated in carthage Cart hage hago jail jall ail all th thea I 1 u not only forfeit thin thrown down eown aih te faith to them and complacently old oid thy hands in silent sanction but thou I 1 throw thy mantle mantlo of protection around the foul perpetrators of the horrid deed 0 aias alas for fo thee my country inconsistency eno enc haia haid is glaring in thine acts with ond onet J dost extend liberty and ana proffer fer fen protection the negra Qin in the south while with the other thou dost wrest frow froin a portion of thy most loyal subjects who after having been thrust from thy presence have opened for thee a path inthe Intha in the desort desert the dearest privileges and the most sacred rights conferred erred b oy the goddess of liberty I 1 r there is no cloak for thy shame the stain ta n of innocent blood Is on ori th thy armorial escutcheon degeneracy is visibly depicted in thy countenance rottenness is in thy bones hy joints tremble by reason of weakness and thou bib sib art ait terribly diseased in thine inward parts parta thou hast bast even acknowledged thine own imbecility for when a portion of thine own children been cruelly persecuted and smitten bu p cried unto thee lor help humbly claiming alining cl thy parental protection tilou thou coldly and ana deliberately say to them cause is just but tut I 1 can do nothing for vou ou r androw And no now while wile crime and arid debauchery are ram rampant parit paiit in thy chy cities thy chief assembly is being disgraced with documental filth which has been cast up from the bowels of hell the agency af pf nie pie foulest recreants ever admitted inta into the ier ter erig eriq vica vico of his hii satanic majesty 1 l A while its offensive odor sa is can amina fing thy halls and marring thy brico beautiful insignia a majority of choso thas thad tho hart haft chosen to represent ent thee who had sworn to maintain thy reputation and be irue true to bj the cause of justice and freedom are greed ily illy swallowing the infernal excrement i i tell it not in europe publish it not oh oil the continent of asia lest iest the monarch pox poK sor the world laugsand laug laugh hand band and the subjects of ae despots have thee in derision i andyes and ana yet thou art not wholly y filli fallen failen ni to 0 thine honor be it spoken thou hast a pitch and agid his fellows who like the daniel of old boldly dare darb to stand up in defense of justice us aud and oppose the annihilation of peace J ea and citizenship and their names will be registered in t the e arc archives lilves of th the ejust just aly country 0 my country my heart bleeds bipeds for ahk tha I 1 mourn thy corruption and degradation thy glory has departed thy fame is extinguished thy peace and hondr honor swindled and the dear old flag which once floated in glorious ms majesty jesty is now slowly and solemnly undulating at hal bal haly half finast mast as a requiem of thy departed liberty which thou hast bast sacrificed on the shrine of political emolument and now mark it write it with an iron pen engrave it indelibly in the rocks a dav day aia air of retribution awaits thee think lot not jot thou thu canet measure arms with the almighty chirik not thy strength buff bumm sufficient lelent to copo with omnipotence f u ELIZA B R SNOW |
