And, while a man or dime remains,
We’ll march, fight, rend the tyrants’ chains!”
Then all, save copperheads alone,
Stood for the sacred Union—“one,
Eternal, indivisible,
Where Freedom must and shall prevail!”
Well might the despots of the earth
Who envy us our freemen’s birth,
Well might they pause in their career,
Ere they with us should interfere;—