Chivalry slavery and young America Author:John Burke 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: YOUNG AMERICA. " Bunions ncscln quid." Ciozro. Behold, ye are nothing, and your work is naught. Isxun, xli. One needs no pass-word nor degree, ... more »True patriots to scan; Their Talisman is Liberty, Their Shibboleth is man. OANTO I. In an address to the Know-Nothings, the author contemplates, in connection with the loss of the elective franchise to foreigners, the abstraction of foreign labor and capital from all our institutions and possessions. Episode on the demoralizing influence of the Modern Drama. Our martyred President, and the Booth family. The Press. The Condition of our Streets. Cholera. Ye blind " Vitruvii of Euin !" From Filmore to the lowest Bruin; Who would from Foreigners withdraw Their franchise rights conferred by law; Take from our fields of golden grain, Our blooming gardens' wide domain, From flocks and herds now roaming wide, O'er fertile meads and rivers' side, Take from our cities as they rise— Our temples reaching to the skies, Our roads, our wharves, our harbors, fleets, Our bridges, aqueducts, and streets, Our tunnels,, railways, barges, locks, Our steamers, merchantmen, and docks— Take from our furnaces and looms, Our quarries, mines, our hamlets, homes, Our stores, our shops, our trains of cars, Our camps, our fortresses, bazaars— The labor wrought by foreign hands, Their produce, capital, and lands ! Ah, me! the foreign bones and dust— Cemented with our public works; Would, if erected as a bust. Or mound as wont among the Turks; Or, say enclosed within an urn— For States there be which corpses burn— A bust, a mound, an urn, a frame, Require as large as any name, Among the Pyramids; which came From most remote antiquity ! But thanks for foreign blood or bone, Or crushed by ...« less