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POLITICAL LYRICS. 
 
 lEW HAMPSHIRE Al NEBRASKA. 
 
 WRITTEN AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE NEBRASKA BILL, AND 
 
 AFTER THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION, 1854, AND MADE 
 
 BY EVENTS "TWICE APPROPRIATE." 
 
 " New Hampshire fail! No sir! New Hampshire is the Granite Bulwark of Democracy. Im- 
 pregnihle to Fanaticism; she is invincible." — 
 
 " VhpullisTied ThougJds of President Pierce." 
 
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 "New Hampshire fail! No sir! New Hampshire Is the Granite Bulwark of 
 Demi/cracy. Impregnible to Fanaticism ; she is invincible." — 
 
 " Unpublished Thoughts of President Pierce." 
 
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 PHILADELPHIA, MAY 20th, 1856. 
 
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NEW HAMPSHIRE AND NEBRASKA. 
 
 A BALLAD FOR THE PEOPLE. 
 
 Now General Pierce, our President, he 
 Said New Hampshire would stand as straight 
 as could be, 
 
 Whatever else might hap. 
 He said they'd obey their General's will, 
 For he'd had from the spirit of Isaac Eill^ 
 
 A mighty assuring rap. 
 
 They'd go for Democracy, Slavery and War; 
 For Manifest Destiny and Cuba, as far 
 
 As the General would lead. 
 For though once he had lost the saddle by force, 
 'T wasn't the General's fault, but the fault of 
 
 his horse. 
 And now, when they saw him well mounted, 
 of course. 
 They'd follow, and fight, and bleed. 
 
So with Toombs, and Douglas, and aU of that 
 pack, 
 
 Howling and snarling at the General's back, 
 
 His battle-cry he raised. 
 Of " Nebraska and Kansas :"— the Compromise 
 line 
 
 Of Missouri, should break like a piece of old 
 
 twine, 
 And Slavery being a thing Divine, 
 
 Should go wherever it pleased. 
 
 Then Marcy, and Gushing, and Chauncey Burr, 
 And Bronson, and other Free Soilers tlmtwere, 
 
 They echoed the General's cry ; 
 While tough old Guthrie stroked his chin. 
 And bade Jefferson Davis see beo-in 
 The process of Northern "cavin in," 
 
 As the South waxed hot and high. 
 
 For Everett and Clayton grew so ill 
 That they went to bed, and left the bill 
 
 To Seward, and Sumner, and Chase; 
 While Norris, and Broadhead, and all of that 
 host. 
 
 Who love liberty much but slavery most. 
 And go for their patron, whatever the cost. 
 Were true to the time and place. 
 
Then the General's cry of battle rolled 
 
 Up through his native mountains old, 
 
 And summoned his friends and followers bold 
 
 To the help of slavery. 
 But the north wind heard the wail of slaves, 
 And, shrieking, rushed to its mountain caves, 
 
 Refusing to bear the cry ; 
 And the hills of New Hampshire, white with 
 
 age. 
 
 Shook their craggy locks in a holy rage 
 At the wrong to Liberty. 
 
 Then the woodsman with lifted axe stood still, 
 The miller forgot to feed his mill. 
 
 The smith the failing forge ; 
 The housewife left her baking bread, 
 The sick and old rose up in bed, 
 As gathering strength, the summons dread 
 
 Eolled through each mountain gorge; 
 
 The minister paused in the midst of his text, 
 And, with his wondering flock, perplexed, 
 
 Looked to the earth and sky ; 
 The children ran from play at the stile. 
 To hide in the closet or corner, the while 
 
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 Echoed and swayed each mountain pile 
 With the Spirit of Liberty. 
 
 But the General heard not the rising storm, 
 Nor saw it take a human form, — 
 
 A form uniised to fail, — 
 Till from the mountains high and strong, 
 Sweeping his native vales along. 
 Borne onward by the mighty throng, 
 
 Came John P. Hale, 
 
 Then the General halting, looked aghast, 
 And swore as he would swear his last : 
 
 " Curses upon the fool ! 
 I thought him numbered with the dead ; 
 Who shall destroy the hydra-head 
 
 Of his infernal school ?" 
 
 Now the General from his sleep that night, 
 Woke trembling with a great affright, 
 And calling Forney to bring a light. 
 
 Went to the Senate room ; 
 For he dreamed that Hale was there again, 
 And Dayton, and Chase, and a host of such men, 
 And faintly he said, returning then, 
 
 " Forney, we hear our doomT 
 
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 Through the Eotunda, wandering back 
 A shadowy Giant invaded their track, 
 
 Hurrying to and fro. 
 Then the light from Forney's trembling arm 
 Fell, as he shook with a great alarm. 
 And behind the General, safe from harm, 
 
 He stooped in the darkness low. 
 
 But the General was bold as such Generals are.^ 
 (A habit he got in the Mexican war,) 
 
 And he spake ahove his breath : — 
 ' Now, be thou goblin damned,' he said, 
 ^ With airs from below, or overhead, 
 Or sinful brother who leaves't thy bed, 
 
 Risking a cold and death — 
 
 ' I hail thee in the Rotunda here. 
 Though my faithful servant's mortal fear 
 
 Hath hid thee from human eye :. 
 Speak, if thou art of woman born !" 
 Then Doup-las answered low, in scorn.^ 
 
 " General, tis only ir' 
 
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 " Thanks to the Fates!" the General said, 
 " I feared some spirit of the dead 
 
 Was here to-night. 
 Thinking upon our awful rout, 
 I fear, the evil one is out, 
 I feel him in the gloom about — 
 
 Forney, do strike a light." 
 
 Belching his mingled oaths and wine, 
 Blaspheming, and railing at things divine, 
 
 Douglas went raving round. 
 ^ General,' he said, " I hope you see 
 What comes of leaving preachers free, 
 
 Upon your Northern ground. 
 
 " In Russia, sir, the priest is made 
 To follow his own lawful trade, 
 
 In his appointed sphere. 
 In Russia, sir, the preacher seeks 
 The Ruler's will before he speaks. 
 
 And so it should he here. 
 
 " Yes, sir, the Emperor and /, 
 Speaking of priestly liberty, 
 
 Agreed in thought and word; 
 
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 That every preacher in the land 
 Should serve the State as we command, 
 And after that, the Lord. 
 
 " You see the mighty mischief done, 
 Our Granite Bulwarks overthrown 
 
 By these religious fools. 
 The work and hope of years are lost ! 
 Ye Gods ! how mighty is the cost 
 
 To be Ambition's tools ! 
 
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 Oh ! for omnipotence one hour — 
 A wide and all-destroying power, 
 
 As once at Rome there sat ; 
 I'd hang your Northern clergy then- 
 A spectacle for gods and men — 
 
 Each in his white cravat." 
 
 " Brother in Sin," the General said, 
 
 " The hope of my place has turned your head 
 
 It is not worth the cost. 
 Restrain your anger, be resigned, 
 Dismiss it from your manly mind, 
 
 For the great game is lost. 
 
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 Come, leave we now this fearful place ! 
 
 See, Forney bears the light ! 
 Forney, the sharer of our grace. 
 
 And of our woes to-night ; 
 Ah ! we are men of woe and sin." 
 " Yes," Douglas muttered, breaking in, 
 " More sinful when we fail to win 
 
 Our purpose high and great ; 
 Curs'd be your Clergy, grave and thin, 
 
 Who vex and rule the State." 
 
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