"Why Should They Kill My Baby?"

[The aged mother of the president is rertcd to have exclaimed as above upon boring ÜM ne s ol lus Bttsmpted MUMlnaUoa.l Why should they kill my baby?- for he sec.iiv the wnc to me Astohen, in the morning twiüght, I tossd him on my kmjc. And sowed lor him hojws to blossom wlien he shoul.l tufóme a man, And dreamed for him such a future as onlv a mother eau. I loiikiil head to the noon-time with proud hut u mblinKjoy: I had a visión of splendor lor my sweet. briifht-eVed boy ; Butkttle eaough I l.i.irkd tluit when lie had galned BaShiinn!owTiP'SOntM """" W"'"" '"'""c"1 Why should they want to kill him? Because he had Cut his w;iy Throacb poverty's gloomy woodland out IntO tlip open day. And sent a shout ol good cheer to those wlio wrre yetwithin, That honor is bom ol striving, nd honesty v t cao win? ] J Or was it because froin boyliond he manfullv bared lus bruast To liBbt lc the poot and lowjy, and aid the sore op. presscil ? Ah me! the worW is working upon a treacherous plan, When he who has struck for mankind is stricken down by man ! Or diil they begrudge his mother the hand hc reached her (UU, Noodds hov high he clambercd up fortune's glittirFor in hls proudest lifeday hc turned from the honors ol earth. And came and tenderly kissud me- the mother who gave him birth ! Shame to the wre-tch that struck him, and grieves that it did not kill I b And pity for his poor mother, if she bc living Itill. May God in mercy aid him his black crime to alone. And hel]) me to lorgive hun- I can nol do it alone I