“ Equality! can men resign thee?
White men?—who’ve felt thy gen’rous flame?
Can dungeons, bolts or bars, confine thee,
Or whips the Southern spirit tame?
Too long the South has whin’d, bewailing,
That falsehood’s dagger brothers wield—
But Independence is our shield—
Stars of the South, we now are hailing!
To arms! to arms! ye brave!
Th’ avenging sword unsheath!
March on! march on! all hearts resolved,
On victory or death!
This work was published before January 1, 1929 and is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. ”