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Rh If victory in that self-same hour

Is not accomplished by her power,

She'll not retreat nor flee away,

But win the field another day.

She will with majesty arise,

Seize her traducers by surprise,

And by her overwhelming might

Will put her deadly foes to flight."

The allusion to the threat of the south against the north is a happy one, in connection with the rebellion.

"I'll show my power the country through,

And will the factious north subdue;

And Massachusetts shall obey,

And yield to my increasing sway.

She counts her patriotic deeds,

But scatters her disunion seeds;

She proudly tells us of the tea

Sunk by her worthies in the sea,

And then she talks more proudly still

Of Lexington and Bunker Hill;

But on that hill, o'er patriots' graves,

I'll yet enroll my negro slaves.

I may have trouble, it is true,

But still I'll put the rebels through,

And make her statesmen bow the knee,

Yield to my claims, and honor me.

And though among them I shall find

The learned, the brilliant, and refined,

If on me they shall e'er reflect,

No senate chamber shall protect

Their guilty pates and heated brains,

From hideous gutta percha canes."