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Title: The American epic
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: (Welburn, Drummond) 1818- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Nashville, Tenn., The author
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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vanquished frowned on them. The South in ruins smiled at j^overty, And welcomed toil as its hard heritage; Yet saw its fruits of labor wrenched away By thieving blacks, by alien scoundrels led; Then, rising in its manly majesty. Cast oif barbaric hordes and rascal rule, Obtained from heaven-renewed prosperity, And stands to-day the peerless conqueror Of earths most dread, malign adversity. Since bled by tariffs, and by pensions robbed, Sees the great North grow rich at its ex2:)ense. Ireland to landlords, Poland to the czar, Nor conquered provinces to ancient Pome, Never so much of tribute could have paid. And so the wealthy, the triumphant North, Owns Southern railroads, mines, and furnaces. Banks, factories, plantations, farms, and stores, With dividends sent duly to the North. The North men own hotels and palaces. All occupied by North men half the year, Then watched by North men till North men return. The South looks on admiringly to see Northern magnificence and wealth displayed,
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CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT NASHVILLE. MILLIONS OF ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH, 2G5 And, toiling on, begs most imploringly For more and more of wealthy Northern men To bring still more of Northern capital; Invites and welcomes Northern working-men To build up homes in its mild Southern chme, Hails them as brethren of one family. The Southrons trust in God, his fortitude While boldly fighting with adversity, His patient industry, his enterprise. His Christ-like, his divine forgetfulness Of dreadful suifring wrongfully endured, His most sincere, undying confidenceThat Northern men, rebuking tyranny,Will, from high places of authority.Drive out his^bitter, unrelenting foes-All, all with most resistless potencyAppeal to Northern magnanimityFor help against fanatic, furious hate.Nor will th appeal be vain. Election dayWill see the millions of the mighty North,Witti genrous sympathy, indignant rush ^To hurl their ballots against despotism,And free their Southern friends from Reed, from Lodge,McKinley, In

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