So do these hearts and freedom-beating breasts,
Sublimed by suffering, fall upon our land.

Wounded! O sweet-lipped word! for on the page
Of this strange history, all these scars shall be
The hieroglyphics of a valiant age,
Deep writ in freedom's blood-red mystery.

What though your fate sharp agony reveals!
What though the mark of brother's blows you bear!
The breath of your oppression upward steals,
Like incense from crushed spices into air.

Freedom lies listening, nor as yet averts
The battle horrors of these months' slow length;
But as she listens, silently she girts
More close, more firm, the armor of her strength.

Then deem them not as lost, these bitter days,
Nor those which yet in anguish must be spent
Far from loved skies and home's peace-moving ways,
For these are not the losses you lament.

It is the glory that your country bore,
Which you would rescue from a living grave;
It is the unity that once she wore,
Which your true hearts are yearning still to save.

Despair not: _it is written_, though the eye,
Red with its watching, can no future scan:
The glow of triumph yet shall flush the sky,
And God redeem the ruin made by man.

A SOUTHERN REVIEW.

A friend 'down South' has kindly sent us a number of '_De Bow's Review,
Industrial Resources_, etc.,' as its elegantly worded title-page
proclaims. It is true that the number in question is none of the
freshest, it having appeared at Charleston, in December last. Yet, as a
Southern magazine published during the war, and full of war matter, it
is replete with interest.

Its first article on Privateers and Privateersmen, by George Fitzhugh of
Virginia--as arrogant, weak, and Sophomorical as Southern would-be
'literary' articles usually are--is written in a vein of reasoning so
oddly illogical as to almost induce suspicion as to the sanity of the
author. Let the reader take, for instance, the following extracts:

'To show how untenable and absurd are the doctrines of the writers
on the laws of war, we will cite the instance of pickets. According
to their leading principle that in war 'only such acts of hostility
are permissible as weaken the enemy and advance and promote the
ends and purposes of the war,' pickets are the very men to be
killed, for the death of one of them may effect a surprise and
victory, and do more injury to the