Watch the times well, Father Abraham—and the instant that the time comes, call for us all. You are not afraid of great measures—neither are your people. What a thing it would be to have led such a movement—what a glory it would be for every man who marched in the great uprising.
Let us continue by singing:
'TRELAWNEY.'
Shall Freedom droop and die
And we stand idle by,
When countless millions yet unborn
Will ask the reason why?
If for her flag on high,
You bravely fight and die,
Be sure that God on his great roll
Will mark the reason why.
But should you basely fly.
Scared by the battle-cry,
Then down through all eternity
You'll hear the reason why.
'Great Onion victory!' cried a little newsboy, lately, through the streets of a certain village, wherein we were 'over-nighting,' as the Germans say. He had not well learned orthoëpy, and held that u-n, un, was to be pronounced as in 'unctuous.' Still there are some droll sounds to be extracted from the word—witness the following song in which by a slight modulation of sound the word Union is made a war-cry to advance:
DE-CAMPING SONG.
U-ni-on—you an' I on!
It's time that you and I were gone;
Gone to fight with all our might,
And drive the rebels left and right;
There is Uncle Sam, and I am Sam's Son,
And we'll crush the Philistines with you an' I on.
CHORUS.
U-ni-on—you an' I on!
It's time that you an' I were gone.
U-ni-on, are you nigh on?
It's time we were there, and the fight were won;
O Old Samson! you never knew
What this Sam's son, when he tries, can do;
Your jaw-bone made the enemy flee—
They shall walk jaw-bone from Tennessee.
U-ni-on—you an' I on!
It's time that you an' I were gone.
Reader, if the great call should come, drafting the whole North, why, pack up your blankets and travel, light of heart, remembering that when you are there, the secession-pool of rebellion must 'dry up' in a hurry.
Much has been said as to the degree of complicity in which the confederates were guilty in stirring up savages against us. In a 'Secesh' poem which 'De Bow' declares to be among the best which belong to the war, we find the following, which seems to have been written in the Indian interest: