Poetry: We Ask Not 'Martial Glory'
James G. Birney was the presidential nominee for the Liberty Party for the 1844 election.
We ask not 'martial g"ry,' Nor 'battlea bruvely won;' We teil no boastful story To laúd our 'favorito. son;' We do not seek to gat.'ier From glory'a field of blood, The laurels of thé wjurior, Stecped in the crimson flood : But we con boast thol Bimey Holds not the tyrant's rod, Nor binds in chaius rd feUers, The imnge of bis God; No vassal, at his bidding-, Is doomed the Ibsh to feel; No rnenifilcroiiches netrliim, Nu Cluirlry's at Jlia heel. Ilis heart is free from murder, Hie hand without i:s etam; His head ond heart united, To loose ihe boncJmnn'e cbain; His deeds, of noble 'dar'wg, Shall make the tyrant cower; Oppression flees before him, Wtth all its bonsted power. Sooa slmll lhe voice of freedom, O'er earth its eelioes roll,- And earth's rej icnL million3 Be free, frotn po'e to pole: Tben rally round your leader, V"e friends of Liberty, And let the hout for Bimey, RinL out o'er land and sea.