NOTE.
In compliance with the urgent request of a large number of the admirers of Whittier, this volume was issued from the press, with very little time for revision, while the author was absent from Boston. By a strange oversight, the following articles were omitted. As soon as the work appeared, however, the omission was at once discovered, and they are here inserted, that the volume may not disappoint its readers.
The editor of the Western Messenger, published in Louisville, Kentucky, December, 1836, copies the following poem, and says, 'It is so full of fire and spirit, so original, so picturesque, that it must give pleasure to every reader. The five verses beginning "Shall our New England,' are equal to almost any thing in Campbell. Though no friends of abolitionism, we like good poetry on any and every subject."'
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Written on the passage of Mr. Pinckney's Resolutions, in the House of Representatives, and of Mr. Calhoun's 'Bill of Abominations,' in the Senate of the United States.
Now, by our fathers' ashes! where's the spirit
Of the true-hearted and the unshackled gone?
Sons of old freemen, do we but inherit
Their names alone?
