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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for G. H. Scott or search for G. H. Scott in all documents.
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Scott's Lament.
Much has been spoken and written about Gen. Scott, once the pride of the proudest nation on earth, now the scorn and contempt of all honorable men, even those who reward the treachery detest the traitor.
But the following lines from the gifted pen of a distinguished lady of this city, whose name we dislike to withhold, but dare not give, is the most truthfully severe of anything that has yet met our eye, and withal the most truly poetic.--Raleigh (N. C.) State Journal.
Gen. Scott, once the pride of the proudest nation on earth, now the scorn and contempt of all honorable men, even those who reward the treachery detest the traitor.
But the following lines from the gifted pen of a distinguished lady of this city, whose name we dislike to withhold, but dare not give, is the most truthfully severe of anything that has yet met our eye, and withal the most truly poetic.--Raleigh (N. C.) State Journal.
Virginia! Thou art well avenged!
Remorse is killing me!
Let me pour forth one long, last wall, For all I've injured thee.
Would I could feel as once I did, The proud and lofty air, With which I took my Mother's sword, I never more can wear.
I see it now with reeling brain, The blade is gory red, Each drop stands out, a brother's name, I've numbered with the dead: Oh, take from me the maddening sight, The glittering bilted grasp.
It stings me with the serpent tooth, Deadly as p