. The American epic . s, the others will come inAnd make the Union perfectly complete;But if she does accede, she claims the rightTo secede when bold usurpation claims for States, and people of the States,All powers not granted and by words conveyedTo the new government they now create;Claims to protect her rights and all the rights Of her posterity to latest timesBy all the strong, time-tested munimentsOf civil liberty and despots laugh at law. MajoritiesAre most despotic despots. Only forceWielded by States can shield from Fedral forceThe prey of sectional
. The American epic . s, the others will come inAnd make the Union perfectly complete;But if she does accede, she claims the rightTo secede when bold usurpation claims for States, and people of the States,All powers not granted and by words conveyedTo the new government they now create;Claims to protect her rights and all the rights Of her posterity to latest timesBy all the strong, time-tested munimentsOf civil liberty and despots laugh at law. MajoritiesAre most despotic despots. Only forceWielded by States can shield from Fedral forceThe prey of sectional of all the Governors of States,Backed by their troops, might lay potential handsOn rampant tyranny and fraudful greed;Might veto domineering, selfish hate, A TRIBUNATE OF STATES. 97 And hold the robber section from its preyUntil a grave convention of the StatesShall, by a three-fourths vote, give legal forceTo the obnoxious measure in dispute,Or grant relief to the oppressed by law.•ct whatever she demands,. PATRICK HENRY. If she secures this mighty tribunateA fourth to veto, till three-fourths confirm,Our bloody schemes fail of check on selfishness held by the StatesWould counteract all swindling, fraudful schemes,And take from demagogues disunions y» THE AMERICAN EPIC. It would perpetuate to latest timesThe peaceful union of this happy \^e must prevent the union if we can;If not, then see that its defects provideGrounds for our triumphs in the days to , await me here, while I look inOn these wise Solons of the wilderness. He goes. He returns. How greedily they swallow Henrys words! With what complete control he sways these men! Not Cicero, nor great Demosthenes, Nor modern Chatham eer possessed such power As this great backwoods sage and orator. Like one inspired, the rustic statesman talks. He tells the horrors of their coming fate In such strong language that they seem to see Angels bemoaning their sad destiny. {Asid
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