XIX. TO TRIUMPHE! BY ELBRIDGE JEFFERSON CUTLER. The Judge upon the Justice-seat, The spinner in the sun, The wau-checked nun song of old XX. In convent cold, the prisoner lean In lightless den, the robèd queen, Even the youth who waits, Hiding the knife, to glide unseen Between the gates : Now let us raise a song of praise, like Miriam's A song of praise to God the Lord, for blessings manifold ! He lifteth up, he casteth down ; he bindeth, mak eth free; He sendeth grace to bear defeat; he giveth vic tory! Fling out, fling out the holy flag broad in the swelling air ! Its stars renew their morning song. All hail the symbol fair ! For what the fathers did of yore, the sons have learned to do; And the old legends, half-believed, are proven by the new. XXI. He nothing human alien deems Man's meanest claim upon him. Drop blessings on him; XXII. Because they know him Nature's friend, On whom she doth delight to tend With loving kindness ever, Helping and heartening to the end His high endeavor. XXIII. Therefore, though mortal made, he can Work miracles. The uncommon man Leaves nothing commonplace : He is the marvellous. To span The abyss of space, The East and West have shaken hands, twin brained and twin at heart; In the red laurels either wins, each has a broth er's part. Oh, hear ye how from Somerset the voice of tri. umph calls ! Hear how the echoes take it up on Henry's con quered walls ! And wilder yet the thrilling cry: Fort Donelson is ours ! Like chaff before the roaring North fly fast the rebel powers. New Orleans sees her doom afar, and lifts a palsied arm, And haughty Richmond's drunken streets are sobered with alarm. Up Carolina's frantic shore the tide rolls black and dire; The thunder's voice is in its heart, its crest avenging fire ! Proud Charleston trembles in her sin, Savannah bows her head, And Norfolk feels the firm earth shake beneath the Northmen's tread. On inland slopes and by the sea are wreck and flying foe; And fresh in that unwonted air the flowers of freedom blow ! XXIV. To make the thing which is not be, To fill with Heaven's infinity Earth's finite, to make sound The sick, to bind the broken, free The prison-bound, XXV. To call up spirits from the deep Into the birth of things, With inner wings XXVI. The orb of time, is his by faith; To taste before he dies Life's latest prize. Then honor, under God, to those, the noble men who plan, And unto those of fiery mould who flame in bat tle's van! For, oh, the land is safe, is safe ; it rallies from the shock! Ring round, ring round, ye merry bells, till every steeple rock! Loud let the cannon's voice be heard! Hang all your banners out! Lift up in your exultant strects the nation's tri umph-shout! 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JONATHAN SMITH SLAYMAKER, Who was killed in the moment of victory, at the capture of Fort Donelson, 14 February, 1862. Aged 27 years. He was one of threc sons given to the army side, their bright bayonets glittering in the sun. by Samuel F. Slaymaker, Esq., York, Penn- The firing slackens. sylvania, and was nephew of the late Gen- “What is more wonderful is, that Capt. eral Persifor Frazer Smith. For several Stone's battery of riflcd 10-pounders, close beyears he had been in business at Davenport, horses plunging and riders whipping: Upward hind the brigade, is tugging up the hill, the Iowa, and on the breaking out of the rebel- they go, where never vehicle went before, up the lion, volunteered as Lieutenant of a com- precipitous and clogged sides of the hill." No pany of the Second Iowa Regiment. He sooner on the crest than the guns are unlimbered, was soon promoted, and for some time had the men at their posts. Percussion sliells and been acting on Gen. Curtis' staff. canister are shot from tho Parrot guns at the flying cnemy. The day is gained a position THE FINAL CHARGE. is taken the troops surround the guns, and the A lull followed the storm. Our armies enemy bas deserted his post. The 34-pounder were preparing for the grand coup de main, which had caused so much havoc is silenced by by which the place was to be taken. Says Col. Cook's brigade, and the rebels fly to the the correspondent of The World :- main fort in alarm. The day is gained! The " The task of accomplishing this delicate air, and in a few minutes all is lushed. foc is running! Cheers upon chicers rend the and dangerous cntcrprisc was accorded to Gen. Smith. °His division was divided for the attack of for the night. The surrender followed, as “In fifteen minutes the lines were disposed into tiro brigades, one under Col. Cook, includ- the reader knows, on the next morning." ing the Seventh Illinois, Twelfth Iowa, Thirteenth Missouri, Fiftieth Illinois, and Fifty-Sec THE SECOND IOWA COMPLIMENTED. ond Indiana ; Col. Lauman with the Second, Despatch sent to the Adjutant-General of Seventh, and Fourteenth Iowa, Twenty-fifth the State of Iowa :Indiana, and Thirteenth Missouri. "St. Louis, Feb. 19, 1862. “ Col. Cook took tho right of the attack, men- “ Adjt. N. B. BAKER : The 20 Iowa Infantry acing the centro of the enemy's position. Op- proved themselves the bravest of the brave. posed to them were six Tennessee regiments, They had the honor of Icading the column with the Second Kentucky Regiment. Col. which entered Fort Donelson. Cook took liis inen straight up the side of the “H. W. HALLECK, Major-General.” hill at the highest portion of ihe fortifications and the furthest removed from the river. The Extract of a letter from Col. Lauman, to regiments went gallantly up the sides of the hill , his sister in York, Pa.: and then encountered the barricade of felled tim S“HEAD-QUARTERS OF U. S. FORCES, ber and brushwood. The cnemy's infantry kept Fort Donelson, Tenn., Feb. 18, 1862. a rain of tiro upon them. A 34-pound gun in “ We have liad a great victory, of which you battery poured down grape and shell upon them. will be apprised long before this reaches you, not, lowever, with very fatal cffect. The men and I only write a few lines to say that I passed stood it without flinching, the lines remaining through unscathed, whilst many a poor fellow unbroken. In accordance with the plan of at- shed his blood for the cause. tack, it was decided that the brigade of Col. Cook “Poor Jack Slaymaker lost his life in making should engage the enemy on the right, while the one of the most brilliant charges on record. brigade of Col. Lauman should make the entree “ He had, with his regiment, reached the into the works further on the left. Ho kept up breastwork, and passed in, when a ball struck an incessant fire of infantry, engaging the Ten- him in the thigh, and sovered the main artery, nessceans, who were safely ensconced behind and he bled to death in five minutes. I enclose the carthworks. you a lock of his hair, which I severed myself, “ The Second Iowa led the charge, followed by which you will hand to his bereaved parents. He the rest in their order. The sight was sublime. was as bravo and gallant a soldier as cver carOnward they sped, licedless of the bullets and ried a sword. After he was wounded, he raised balls of the enemy above. The hill was so steep, himself on his side, waved his sword, and called the timber clearel, that the rebels liad left a gap on his men to go forward, then sank down and in their line of rifle pits on this crest of hill. died. Througlı this gap they were bound to go. Right "I could not help shedding tears as I bent up they went, climbing up on all-fours, their orer lis inanimate remains. line of dark-bluo clothing advancing regularly “ He was a good and steadfast friend of mine, forward, the white line of smoke from the top of and I mourn him very much. It is melancholy the works opposed by a line from our troops. to think that the first iime he was under my com “ They reach the top! Numbers fall! The mand should be the last. But he died gloriously, suspense is breathless! Sce, they climb over what more can a man do for his country! the works! They fall-they are lost! Another “I mingle my tears and sympathics with his group, and still another and another, close up parents in this their great affliction. I gave an the gip! All is covered in smoke! The lodg - order for the free transportation of his remains ment is made-the troops swarm up the hill. I to St. Louis yesterday." a { a From The Quarterly Review. not appear a somewhat presumptuous limit1. Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Dis-ing of the possible capacities of the human coveries of Sir Isaac Newton. By Sir race, it might almost be said with confidence David Brewster, London, 1855. not only that Newton stands by himself, 2. Addresses on popular Literature, and on the above all who went before him, and all who Monument to Sir Isaac Newton. By Henry, have followed in the century and a half of brilLord Brougham, F.R.S. London, 1858. liant scientific discovery which has elapsed Of all the laborers in the field of science since his death, but that it is (so far as any since the world began, it is remarkable that such speculation can be trusted) impossible there is but one who has attained a popu- that any competitor can ever place himself lar as distinguished from a scientific famc. on the same level with the great interpreter There are multitudes whose achievements are of the motions of the heavens and the earth. recognized in the republic of science, and No one can say that the genius which not a few whose names are honored through- guided Newton through his rapid career of out the educated classes of every country discovery may not be equalled or surpassed within the range of civilization; but if we in some future age of human progress; but were to seek for a reputation which has not the force of Lagrange's observation must only illumined the study of the recluse and ever remain, that there can only once be the salons of society, but has penetrated even found a system of the universe to establish. to the nursery and the cottage, we should On the other hand, it is not difficult to dishave to travel beyond the bounds of phys- cover many reasons for the broad expanse ical or mathematical science to find another and the deep root of Newton's fame, which name to set beside that of Newton. Colum- have but a remote connection with the merit bus and Galileo might perhaps be cited as of which that fame is the enduring memorial. parallel instances; but it was the adventures The laws which govern the award of fame of the one, and the torture supposed to have would furnish a curious subject of inquiry. been inflicted upon the other, that made The principles on which the critic or the histheir names familiar to a wider circle than torian acts, in meting out the due meed of a scientific reputation commonly embraces. praise to each workman on that great temThose who love to dilate upon the unerring ple of science which has occupied all past instincts of the mass of mankind may fancy generations, and must remain unfinished by that they find in this unexampled apprecia- the labors of all generations to come, are tion of the glory of the great English philos- very different from those on which the judgopher an additional proof of their untenable ment of universal opinion, with a justice of theory; while the more sceptical observers its own, is based. The dignity of the subof the progress of human affairs may be ject matter has at least as much voice in the tempted rather to question the title of New- decrees of fame as the powers displayed by ton to the solitary eminence which has been the rival aspirants for the honor of an imawarded to him, than to acknowledge the sa- mortal reputation. The artist who decorates gacity with which people of all ranks, and a chapel or a shrine, may show as much exthe learned of all nations, have concurred in cellence as the architect who designs a cathethe selection of their chief scientific hero. dral; but the grandeur of his work reflects There is a flavor of truth about both of these a lustre on the one which his fellow-workextreme views. That the popular verdict man may in vain aspire to share. So, in the which has placed Newton on a pedestal conduct of the affairs of the world, the greatapart from all rivals, whether contemporary ness of the sphere in which a man has lived or of an carlier or a later age, is right, is es- has far more to do with his enduring reputatablished by the common consent of all who tion than the sagacity or the heroism which have proved themselves qualified to pro- he may have displayed. The same powers nounce upon so high a controversy, and is which, in the ruler of an empire, would inconfirmed by cvery additional detail which sure an immortality of fame, may be cxhibthe industry of our times has brought to ited by the governor of a province with no light of the pursuits and the methods of the other reward than the cold approbation of greatest inquiring mind which has ever grap- bis superiors, followed by the oblivion which pled with the problems of nature. If it did has settled on many of the greatest names. |
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