APPENDIX. 
365 
CHARGE OF THE BORDER-RUFFIAN BRIGADE. 
Prom the New York Evening Post. 
<e Our forces amounted to eight hundred strong. * * * When we first 
reached Lawrence not a human being could be seen. In about an hour 
there gathered, in the streets, in front of the hotel, some hundred and fifty 
men. * * * When they agreed to surrender , our men were marched down 
in front of the town, and one cannon planted on their own battlements. 
Cannon were brought in front of the house, and directed their destructive 
blows upon the walls ; the building caught on fire, and soon its walls came 
with a crash to the ground. Thus fell the abolition fortress ! ”—Lecompton 
(border ruffian) Union , the editor of which was one of the gallant eight 
hundred. 
i. 
Half a league, half a league, 
Haifa league onward, 
All to the fated town, 
Rode the Eight Hundred. 
<£ Charge ! ” was the captain’s cry ; 
No foeman’s bayonet nigh, 
No gun to make reply — 
€£ Charge ! ” was the gallant cry 
And into the fated town 
Rode the Eight Hundred ! 
ii. 
No cannon to right of them, 
No cannon to left of them, 
No cannon in front of them, 
Volleyed and thundered ! 
Stormed at by shot nor shell, 
Boldly they rode and well, 
Cowed by no fear of death, 
Cowed by no fear of hell. 
Rode the Eight Hundred ! 
in. 
Flashed all their sabres bare, 
Flashed all their guns in air. 
The gallant Southrons there. 
Charging like fury, while 
All the world wondered ! 
Seeing no battery smoke, 
Their southern courage woke, 
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