It’s about the Harper’s Ferry affair, it is not very long”—
The Old Mammy’s Lament for Her Young Master: By Hermine. (S. L. M., Nov. and Dec., ’63.)
“My dear young massa’s gone to war,
Gone from missus, home, and me”—
Old Moultrie: By Catherine Gendron Poyas, of Charleston. (W. G. S. from the Charleston Mercury.)
“The splendor falls on bannered walls,
Old Moultrie, great in story”—
The Old Negro at Calhoun’s Grave: By Kentucky. (S. O. S.)
“Who comes with tottering step and slow,
Bowed not so much by years, as woe,”—