cadence

there was besides, in an already dominating and growing element, a motive that was stronger and more enduring than enthusiasm —an implacable antagonism which acted side by side with the cause of the Union as a perpetual impelling force against the social conditions of the South, controlling the counsels of the government, and cadencing the march of its armies to the chorus:

John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave,

But his soul is marching on!

It was the Exile, however, which cadenced the rhythm of Jewish existence