Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Which lurks under Virtue and springs from its coil To fasten its fangs in the life-blood of freemen! Then boldly appeal to each heart that can feel, And crush the foul viper 'neath Liberty's heel ! And the Cross of the South shall in triumph remain, To light us to freedom and glory again! 'Tis the emblem of Peace, 'tis the day-star of Hope, Like the sacred Laharum that guided the Roman ; From the shore of the Gulf to the Delaware's slope, 'Tis the trust of the free and the terror of foemen. Fling its folds to the air, while we boldly declare The rights we demand or the deeds that we dare ! While the Cross of the South shall in triumph remain, To light us to freedom and glory again ! And if peace should be hopeless and justice denied, And war's bloody vulture should flap its black pinions, Then gladly to arms ! while we hurl, in our pride, Defiance to tyrants and death to their minions ! With our front in the field, swearing never to yield, Or return like the Spartan in death on our shield ! And the Cross of the South shall triumphantly wave, As the flag of the free or the pall of the brave ! ADDRESS TO PRESIDENT DAVIS. BY MBS. E. X. BLUNT. In the name of God !—Amen ! Stand for the Southern rights! Over ye, Southern men, The God of Battles fights! Fling the invaders far, Hurl back their work of woe; chapter{Section 4The voice is the, voice of a brother, But the hand is the hand of the foe. They come with a trampling army, Invading our native sod ; Stand, Southrcns ! fight and conquer, In the name of the mighty God! They are singing our song of triumph Which was made to set us free, While they are breaking away the heart-strings Of our Nation's harmony. Sadly it floated from us, Sighing o'er land and wave, ...