Of this great Continent, their blood would start

In Georgia, or where Spain once sat in state,

Or Texas, with her lone star, desolate.

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"'Tis a New-England thought, to make this land

The very home of Freedom, and the nurse

"Of each sublime emotion; she does stand

Between the sunny South, and the dread curse

Of God, who else should make her hearse

Of condemnation to this Union's life,—