The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864, page 129 by Various Authors
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d the carbine's quivering flash,-- Before the Rebel citadel Just trembling to its fall, From Georgia's glens, from Florida's fens, For us they call, they call!
The life-blood of the tyrant Is ebbing fast away; Victory waits at her opening gates, And smiles on our array; With solemn eyes the Centuries Before us watching stand, And Love lets down his starry crown To bless the future land.
One more sublime endeavor, And behold the dawn of Peace! One more endeavor, and war forever Throughout the land shall cease! For ever and ever the vanquished power Of Slavery shall be slain, And Freedom's stained and trampled flower Shall blossom white again!
Then rally! rally! rally! Make tumult in the land! Ye foresters, rally from mountain and valley! Ye fishermen, from the strand! Brave sons of the West, America's best! New England's men of might! From prairie and crag unfurl the flag, And rally to the fight!
FINANCES OF THE REVOLUTION.
In all historical studies we should still bear in mind the difference between the point of view from which one looks at events and that from which they were seen by the actors themselves. We all act under the influence of ideas. Even those who speak of theories with contempt are none the less the unconscious disciples of some theory, none the less busied in working out some problems of the great theory of life. Much as they fancy themselves to differ from the speculative man, they differ from him only in contenting themselves with seeing the path as it lies at their feet, while he strives to embrace it all, starting-point and end, in one comprehensive view. And thus in looking back upon the past we are irresistibly led to arrange the events of history, as we arrange the facts of a science, in their appropriate classes and under their respective laws. And thus, too, these events give us the true measure of the intellectual and moral culture of the times, the extent to which just ideas prevailed therein upon all the duties and functions of private and