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WORDS AND MUSIC OF NATIONAL PATRIOTIC
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1776-THE FOURTH-1890.
WHY THE OLD-FASHIONED CELEBRATION
SHOULD BE FOSTERED.
How to Keep the Fire of Patriotism
BnrninE ME tke Old National bingi
nd Sound the Praises of the Glorions
Dny Too Mory f ike Htarry Flac.
Happy, if such a day shall not be desecrated
by onr service; happy. If for us that descending
sun sball look out on a more loving, more ele
vated, more united America. Choate.
These -words were uttered at a time when
a darJc sbadotr lowered over the nation,
when patriots rallied round the flag on
XihfMty Day and eagerly listened to the
scyCuirring words of heroic orators.
Of recent years "the Glorious Fourth" has
changed its character somewhat. It became
a day of recreation rather than patriotic
reminiscence. In order to revive the spirit
of the old holiday The Dispatch took up
the sulject of an "old-lashioncd Fourth,"
and earnestly seconded the efforts of Mayor
Goueley to arouse the patriotic feelings of
citizens of Pittsburg and the grand old
"State of Allegheny," and is happy in the
knowledge that the good old day will be
honored as of yore.
In the past patriotic orators "Warren,
Hancock, Sumner, Choate, Everett and
others delivered memorable, heart stirring
addresses to the masses on the famous Olp
Fourth. Their fervency appealed directly
to the people, and their patriotic phrases
were indelibly stamped upon the minds of
the youth of their day. Through the fervent
utterances of these noble orators a glorious
patriotism was fostered, their children and
their children's children crowing up in the
everlasting echo ot the voices which re
sounded on the Old Fourth voices which
are heard now, and will in the days to come
nurture the seed of National life which only
needs the dew of Patriotism to strengthea
and preserve.
Let the Old-Fashioned Fourth, which has
I-tcn earnestly resurrected in busy but
Cag-loving Pittsburr, be perpetuated. May
the songs to be sung and the words to be
spoken rekindle the old-time feeling in the
hearts of the fathers and sow the seed of
National Pride in the happy hearts of the
youth of to-day, who in their time will
transmit it to their children, to be handed
down from generation to generation the
priceless heritage of a people whose watch
word is Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!
In order to foster the new-born spirit of
the Old-Fashioned Fourth The Dispatch
presents herewith the Patriotic Hymns and
SongF, which were inspired by the same
feeling pervading the people of Pittsburg to
day. It would be a good thing if they should
become as familiar as the nursery rhymes
on the tongues of the children of this happy
land.
The Dispatch wishes one and all
A GLORIOUS FOURTH OF JU1.T.
THE STARRY FLAG.
HISTORY OFTHE EMBLEM WHICH FLOATS
OVER AMERICA'S FREEMEN.
Flat" Bad Stnodarda of Ancient Oriain
Revolutionary Emblems Standard of
the Colonials Hon- the Nnake Nenrly
Triumphed Over ibe Eagle Haw Glor
ious Onr Flag Ta Dralcned.
THE DISPATCH, al
ways anxious that its
readers may be well
versed on all subjects of
national importance, and
I that they may never be
I out to contusion after
(the manner of many
citizens when Questioned
as to their knowledge of the Declaration of
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the wreaths they have won never wither, JNot the .ur of their glory grow dim! jMir
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. Independence, gives a full history of flags
' in general, and our own in particular, the
appearance of which will add so much to
tbe enthusiasm of the Fourth. Since time
immemorial, wherever men assembled
together for a common purpose, we find a
flag of some description used to express a
c?2?n cntlment. nd to serve as a rally
lapoint for the common forces. They
were also needed to remind men of past
deeds, past resolves and past heroes and to
encourage that enthusiasm which will
ot brook defeat. Among the carvings and
yktares of earliest civilization, the records
cf ilie forms of objects, borne on the ends of
The home ol the brave and the tree. The
And threatened the land to de- form. The
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, cut tney to meir coi. ora prec une .
standards and used as ensigns, appear.
They were generally such objects as were
associated in the minds ot men with feelings
of awe and devotion sacred animals, boats,
figures and tablets, bearing a king's name,
the bearer of which was looked upon as one
of peculiar privilege and honor. Banners,
ensigns and standards are frequently men
tioned in the Bible. "Every man ot the
children of Israel sball pitch by his stand
ard with the ensign of their father's house
(Num. ii., 2)." TbePersians bore an eagle
fixed on the end of a lance, nd also repre
sented the sun as their divinity.
The North American Indians carried poles
fledged with feathers from the wings of the
eagle, which bird also seems to have been
tbe favorite of other semi-savage races. It
is the emblem, of might and couraee, and
has been invested with other attributes of
greatness on account of its extraordinary
powers of vision, the vast height to which it
soars in the sky and perhaps also its
longevity; it is generally represented with
out-snreading wings, and is used as a stand
ard with the Stars and Stripes.
OF HEEAXDIC OEIQIN.
The Greeks bore a piece of armor on the
end of a spear in early times, the Athen
ians, the olive and the owl, the Corinthians
a pegasus, the Thebans a sphinx. The
Roman standard is an important one, hav
ing direct bearingon the history of heraldry.
The year ol 1776 was one of immense im
portance; it not only saw a nation born,
which has become one of the greatest upon
YANKEE DOODLE.
OBiOrN or Yankee DooDi,E,-In tbe summer of 1775, the British army, under command of Abercrombie, lay encamped on the east bank of the Hudson river a little south of the city of
nJjcWi,inD5irfFei?,Treent'.0f ralltla rom the Eastern States, previous to marching on Ticonderoga. DittitlummthorhnwlVrtMrS
K?k,1r Tm. n,H .'5,fequ,??e and accoutered V.m ?is n.e,"h,b,"r' Dd the Sholer,prSientlc 8uch sPe"Cl as was never equaled, unless bv the celebrated legiinent of merry Jack
Zm . J 4ii 7rtIear.??COian"8lied Kr,!at a'"1"?11' to. the "tisU office"- One Dr. Shamburg, an English surgeon, composed the tune of Yankee Doodle, anrl arranged it to words,
ZntSnZZffvni Zl ?hdlated. 1k thc new recra'-1 Tuo joke took, and the tune has come don to this day. The original wordswhich we tako from Farmer and Moore's "Historical Collections,"
published in 1820, we have not, however, met with before in many years. As far back as 1600 this tune is found as "Lucy Lockot Lost Her Pocket." """ "" ""0
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And every time they fired it off
It took a horn of powder;
It made a noise like father's gun.
Only a nation louder.
I went as near to it myself
As Jacob's underpinin',
earth, but was filled with events of not less
importance connected with this one which
moulded the American character for all
time. As there was much talking to be
done, and also much hard fightine before
the bold words of tbe Declaration of Inde
pendence could be uttered, so the need of-a
flag was felt to express the feelings of the
people and to keep ever before them the
hope of one day being classed as a nation.
The flaes in use in the provinces before
the Bevolution were chiefly those of En
gland, and altbough of many de vices.still the
English colors prevailed. Their first con
quests were under the banner bearing tbe
cross ot St. George, and is to be seen in the
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When borne by the red, white aod blue,
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pictures of the landing of the Puritans.
This banner was favorite until the English
Parliament ordered tbe colonists to use the
union flag created by James I. in 1606.
Ten years before the Revolution saw
many characters and devices on the flags of
colonists.all expressive ot theone prevailing
idea. Orders called "Sons of Liberty" were
formed and liberty poles raised. During
tbe first months of the war each colony had
its own flag. The flag of Connecticut con
tained the arms of the State and the motto
"Qui transtulet sustinet" "God who trans
ported us hither will support us." The
motto of Massachusetts was "An appeal to
Heaven;" it was white, with a green pine
tree. South Carolina had an ensign of blue,
with a white crescent, made by order of
Colonel Moultrie. It is told that during the
bombardment of Fort Sullivan by tbe
British under Sir Peter Parker the crescent
flag was shot and fell ontside the fort.
Sereeant Jasper sprang over the Dararjet.
walked tbe whole leoeth of the fort in the
i midst ol a terrible storm ot snot and shell.
recovered the flag and, in the sight of the
whole fort, placed it upon the ramparts. At
the battle of Lexington the Americans are
not known to have carried a flag, and doubts
are held about one being carried at the bat
tle of Bunker Hill.
THE KATTliESNAKB BANNER.
In 1775 tbe favorite device seems to have
been the rattlesnake, with the motto, "Don't
tread on me." The snake came very near
being the emblem of the nation initead of
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And father went as near again
I thought the deuce was in him.
(It scared me so I ran the streets,
Nor stopped as I remember,
Till I got home, and safely locked
In cranny's little chamber.)
the eagle. Doctor Ben Franklin gave
many reasons in its favor. It is said to be
found only in America, and is the emblem
of wisdom. Its eyes are exceedingly bright,
without lids, signifying vigilance. It
never begins an attack, nor surrenders
when assailed. Its deadlv weapons
are concealed in the mouth, so that
it appears defenseless; wounds when small
are fatal, bnt it .never attacks without
warning. Its rattles are distinct from each
other, butfirmly united. But itrests under
the curse of God. In! 1775 Ben. ffr.ntHn
and Messrs. Lynch and Harrison were ap
pointed to consider the subject of a national
flag. Thej met at Cambridge, adopted the
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" boast of the red, wime and blae.'
.Three cheeror the red, white and blue.
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When borne by the red, white and blue.
When borne by the red,white and blue,
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king's colors, (Cross of St. George and St.
Andrew), representing the yet recognized
sovereignty of England, with a field of 13
stripes, alternate red and white, emblematic
of the union of the 13 colonies. The new
27ie Snake Design,
flag was hoisted tor the first time on the 2d
of January, 1776, over the camp at Cam
bridge. "W"hen independence was deter-
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And there I see a little keg, ,
Its heads were made o' le ither,
They knocked upon'- villi little sticks,
To call the lolks t'other.
And there they'd fife nwav like fun,
And play on corn stalk fiddles.
And some had ribbons red as blood,
All bound around their middles.
The troopers, too, would gallop up
And fire right in our faces;
suggested by the Washington arms as shown 1
at Bnngton, in Northamptonshire.
xne stars were tho natural symbol or the J
States. Cod cress on the Kth of June, 1777,
adopted the basis of the existing national
flag. A committee of Congress, accom
panied by General "Washington, in June,
177G, called upon Mrs. John Hoss. of Phila
delphia, and engaged her to make a model
flag from a rough drawing, which was modi
fied by General Washington in pencil, who
substituted a star of five points for the six
pointed ones which is used on the coins
which was in the original draft. The five
pointed star is of Preuch design, tbe six,
English. Thc story is told thm
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-fight, , O'er the ram .parts we watch'd,were
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WASHINGTON TOOK THE COLORS
used in the flig from his baptismal robe,
which was of white silk, lined with red, the
sleeves ot which w ere tied with blue ribbons.
This is the first official United States flair
used on land or sea. The first military
glorv obtained under an American flag was
at Fort Schuyler, August 12, 1775, when
the soldiers made a flag by tearing their
shirts into strips, &nd using for the blue a
cloak stolen iromVhe enemy at Peekskill.
They were victorious under this rude flag,
and also captured five flags from the enemy,
which they placed under it on the fort.
The first naval victory under the Amen,
can flag 'was by John Paul Jones, man of
War, Cooper. " On tbe 14th of June, 1777,
the Contipental Congress resolved "that the
flag of the United States be 13 stripes alter
nnte red and white, and that the Union be
13 white stars on a blue field, representing a
new constellation." The Stars and Stripes
were unfurled for the first time, at the
battle of Saratoga, on the occasion
of tbe surrender of Gen. Burgoyne.
On the 13th of January, 1794, by an act of
Congress, the flag was altered to 15 red and
white stripes and 15 stars. On the 4th of
April, 1818, Congress again altered the flag
by returning to the original 13 stripes, as
the adding of a new stripe for each addi
tional State made the 11 ig unwieldy. The
new star is added to the flag on the Fourth
of July following the admission of each
State into tbe Union. A collection of flags
was made at Annapolis in 1814.
When the American flag first appeared on
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It scared me almost half to death
To see them run such races.
Uncle Sam cime there to chinge
Some pancakes and some onions
For Masses c.ikes to carry home
To give his wife and young ones.
But I cin't tell you half I see,
They keep ut such a smother;
So 1 took my Ii it off, made a bow,
And scamnered home to mother.
the coast ot China the inhabitants of that
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country were so delighted with its appear-
ance that thev called it Uie nag iroui
flower country using a word which sounds
very much lice our worn JtanKee. At sea
the striking of a flag means surrender, and
a flag of our country being placed over that
of.another country denotes the victory olthe
former. A yellow flag denotes quarantine.
The universallv understood flag of truce is
pure white. On shipboard the admiral's
flag is displayed at the main, tbe vice ad
miral's at tbe fore, and the rear admiral'sat
the tnizzen truck. Flag officer is another
name tor admiral, and a flagship is the one
carrying tbe admiral's flag. ii. D.
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Whose stripes and bright stars, thro the per . II ens
What is thafvhich the breeje, o'er the tow - er Ing
A home and a. coua -try they'd leave us no
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so gal.lant. ly streaming; And the roc V-et'i red
con ceals.half du-cloj . es t Now it catch - es the
foul footstep's, pa la .tion; No . re - fuge could
preservea us xanayoon. Then con-quer we
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Declaration of Independence
OP THE
UNITED STATES.
When, in the course of human events, it
becomes necessary for one people to dis
solve the political bands which have con
nected them with another, and to assume,
among the powers of the earth, the separate
and equal station to which the laws of
nature and of nature's God entitles them, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they .should declare the causes
which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal; that thev
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights; that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuits of happiness.
That, to secure thes; rights, governments
are instituted among men, deriving thejr
just powers from the consent of the gov
erned; that whenever any form of govern
ment becomes destructive of these ends, it is
tbe rieht of the people to alter or abolish it,
and to institute a new government, laying
its foundations on such principles, and or
ganizing its powers on such form as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their safety
and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will
dictate thai governments long established
should not be changed for licht and
1 transient causes; and, accordingly, all ex- '
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AMERICA; or, MY COUNTRY, 'TIS OF THEE.
a F. Smith.
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perience hath shown, that mankind are
more disposed to suffer, while evils are
snffcrable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are ac
customed. But, when a louir train of abuses
and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same object, evinces a desien to reduce
them under absolute despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such
government, and to provide new guards for
their future security. Such has been the
patient sufferance or these colonies, and
such is now the necessity which constrains
them to alter their former systems of gov
ernment. Tbe history of the present Kin?
of Great Britain is a history ol repeated
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save ice ctre-bng sad slave rota
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'4,5. wave, While the land of the
injuries and usurpations, all having, in
direct object, the establishment of an abso
lute tyranny over these States. To prove
this, let facts be submitted to a candid
world:
He has refused his assent to laws the most
wholesome and necessary for the public
good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass
laws of immediate and pressing importance,
unless suspended in their operations till his
assent should be obtained; and when so sus
pended he has utterly neglected to attend to
them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the
accommodation of large districts of people,
unless those people would relinquish the
right of representation in tbe Legislature
a right inestimable to them, and lormidable
totvrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies
at places unnsual, uncomfortable and dis
tant from the repository of their publio
records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing
them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly lor opposing-, with manly firm
ness, his invasions on the rights of the peo
ple. He has refused, for a long time after such
dissolutions, to cause others to be elected,
whereby the legislative powers, incapable
of annihilation, have returned to the people
at large for their exercise; the State remain
ing, in the meantime, exposed to all the
dangers of invasions from without and con-
L vulsions within.
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He has endeavored to prevent the popu
lation these States; for that purpose, ob
structing the laws lor the 'naturalization of
foreigners; refusing to pass others to en
courage their migration hither, and raising
tbe conditions of new appropriations of
lands.
He has obstructed tbe administration ot
justice, bv .refusing bis assent to laws for
establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will
alone, for the tenure of their offices, aud the
amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices,
and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass
our people, aud eat out their substance.
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He has kept among us in times of peaca
standing armies, without the consent of our
Legislatures.
He has affected to render the military in
dependent of, and superior to, civil power.
He has combined, with others, to subject
us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitu
tions, and unacknowledged by our .laws:
eiving bis assent to their acts of pretended
legislation.
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock trial,
from punishment for any mnrders which
they should Commit on the inhabitants of
these States:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of
the world:
For imposing taxes on us without onr
consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the
benefit of trial by jury:
For transporting ns beyond seas to be
tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the iree system of English
laws in a neighboring province, estab
lishing therein an arbitrary government,
and enlarging its boundaries, so as to
render it at once an example and fit instru
ment for introducing the same absolute rule
into these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing
our most valuable laws, and altering, funda
mentally, the forms of our governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and
declaring themselves invested with power to
legislate for us in all cases whatsoever:
He has abdicated government here, by de
claring us out of his protection, and waging
war against cs.
He has plundered onr seas, ravaged our
coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the
lives of onr people.
He is, at this time, transporting large
armies of foreign mercenaries to complete
tbe works ol death, desolation and tyranny,
already begun, with circumstances of
cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleJepL
in the most barbarous ages, and totally un
worthy tho head oi a civilized nation.
He has cinstrained one fellow-citizens,
taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms
against their country, to become the execu
tionors of their Iriends and brethren, or to
fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrection
among us, and has endeaVored to bring on,
the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merci
less Indian savages, whose known rule of
warfare is an undistinguished destruction of
all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions, wa
have petitioned tor redress, in the most hum
ble terms; our repeated petitions have been
answered only by repeated iniurv. A
.prince, whose character is thus marked by
every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit
to he tbe ruler ot a tree people.
Nor have we been wanting in our atten
tions to our British bretbern. We have
warned them, from time to time, of attempts
by their Lecisldtijre to extend nn unwar
rantable jurisdiction over us. We have re
minded them o: tbe circumstances ot our
emigration and settlement here. We have
appealed to their native justice and mag
nanimity, and we have conjured them, by
the ties of our common kindred, to disavow
these usurpations, which would inevitably
interrupt our connections aud correspond
ence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice
of justice and of consanguinity. We must,
therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which
denounces our separation, ana bold them,
as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in
war, in peace iriends.
We. therefore, the representatives of the
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN"
GENERAL CONGRESS assembled, ap
pealing to the Supreme Judge of the
World for the rectitude of lur inten
tions, do, in the name, and by tbe
authority of the good people of these
colonies, solemnly publish and declare.
That these United Colonies are, and of
right ought to be. FREE AUD INDEPEND
ENT states; that they are absolved from
all allegiance to the British crown, and
that all political connection between them
and the State of Great Britain, is, and
ought to be totally dissolved; and that as,
FREE AifD INDEPENDENT STA TES,
they have lull power to levy war, conclude
peace, contract alliances, establish com
merce, and do all other acts and
thincs which INDEPENDENT SrATE3
may of right do. Aud, lor the sup
port of this declaration, with a firm reli
ance on the protection of DIVINE PROVI
DENCE, we mutually pledge to each
other, our lives, our fortunes, and our
sacred honor.
THIS SOUVENIR of Pittsburg's
Inauguration of the Old-Fashioned Cele
bration of the FOURTH OF JULY will
be GRATUITOUSLY DISTRIBU
TED by THE DISPATCH at Schen
ley Park during Friday's Exercises. It
can be obiaied by Agents, Carriers and
the Public on application at the Business
Office, Cor. Smithgeld and DiamondiSts,
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