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FOURTH OF JULY, 1855.
Wo proudly hail the present morn,
As sacred Freedom's day of birth ;
And while the light yon skies adorn,
Or man exists to till the earth,
May we continue thus, to feel
The flame of patriotic zeal.
We'll cast aside each party end,
And join as brothers round the shrine,
Where peace, content and concord bend,
To pay the homage, next divine ;
Let union link each faithful heart
To duty in this noble Part.
Our spangled banner floats unfurled,
In graceful waves of glorious pride,
And beckons to the olden world,
A spot where exiles may reside ;
From all tyrannic bondage free,
•
Beneath its fold of Liberty !
Ro, let the bellowing cannon roar,
And gladsome shouts each bosom cheer
Repeat our feelings o'er and o'er,
The altar of enjoyment rear :
Let " peace on earth, good will to men,"
Be sung from every hill and glen.
Beat loud the drum, blow shrill the fife,
Exhibit all the pomp of arms ;
Show ftirth a freeman's happy life,
In all our Dative love and charms ;
Devote this consecrated day,
To memory and America.
Thanks to those men n•ho Night and bled,
On Bunker's height, and Mohmouth plain
Who vowed to fall among the dead,
But they this Freedom would obtain;
Thanks to thee, God of earth and sky,
'Who gave them souls to do, or die.
YANKEE DOODLE
In the summer of 1775, the British army,
under command of Abercrombie; lay encamped
on the east side of the Hudson river, awaiting
reinforcements of militia front the Eastern
States previous to the marching Upon Ticonde
roga. During the month of June these raw le
vies poured into camp, company after company
each man differently armed, equipped and ac
coutred, from his neighbor, and the whole
presenting such a spectacle as was never equal
led, unless by; the celebrated regiment of the
merry Jack Falstaff. Their mare appearance
furnished great amusement for the British offi
cers. ,One Dr. Shackburg, an English Surgeon
composed the tune of Yankee Doodle and ar
ranged it to words, which were gravely dedi :a
ted to the new recruits. The joke took, and
the tune haS conic down to this day. The mi.'
ginal words, which we take from Farmer and
Moore's Historical Collections, published in
18:11, we have not, however, met with before
in many years :
Father and I went down to camp,
Along with Captain Good'in,
Where we see the men and boys
As thick as Ilasty-pudding.
There was Captain Washington
Upon a splendid stallion,
A giving orders to his men— .
I guess there was million.
And then the feathers on his hat,
They looked so tarnal
I wanted perkily to get
To give to my Jeminia.
And there they had a strampift gun
As large as a log o'inaple,
And on a duced little cart—.
A load for father's cattle.
And every time they fired it oil,
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,
And father went as near again—
I thought the deuce was in him
And there I see a little keg,
Its head was niade of leather—
They knock% upon't with little sticks,
To call the folks together.
And there they'd fife away like fun,
And played on cornstalk fiddles,
And some had ribbons red as blood,
All bound about their middles.
The troopers, too, would gallop up
And firo right in our faces ;
It scared me almost half to death
To see them run such races.
Old Uncle Sam came there to change
Some pancakes and some onions,
The 'lasses cakes to carry home, .
To give his wife and young ones.
But I can't tell you half I see,
They kept up such a smother ;
So I took my hat off--made a bow,
And scampered home to mother.
"OIJ.R BOIS."
Our Yankee Boys ! the world is wide,
And search it as you will,
Our Yankee Boys the noblest are,
And best and bravest still ;
The truest and the gallentest,
For knowledge, fun or fray,
And wide awake to beat the world,
What o'er the world may say.
• Our Yankee Boys, &c.
Our Yankee Boys aro free and fair,
And kind of heart as true,
And stout of hand for peace or war
As ever nation knew ;
To scorn the wrong, defend the right,
In truth and honor's name
Our Yankee Boys contented are,
And ask no prouder fame.
• Our Yankee Boys, &c
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VOLUME IX.
Declaration of Independence!
Fourth of July, 1776 !
WINY, in the course of human events, it be
comes necessary for one people to dissolve the
political bonds which have connected them
with another, and to assume among the powers
of the earth, the separate and equal station to
which the laws of nature and nature's God enti-
tie 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 troths to be self-evident—that
all men are created equal, that they are endow
ed by their Creator with certain inalienable
rights; that among these are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among mit,
deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governed ; that when any form of govern
ment becomes destructive to these ends, it is
the right of the people to alter or abolish it,
and to institute a new government, laying its
foundation on such principles, and organizing
its powers in such forth, as to them shall seem
most likely to elrect their safety and happiness
Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that govern
ments long established, should not be changed
for light and transient causes; and, accord
ingly, all experience bath shown, that mankind
are most disposed so suffer, while evils are suf
ferable, than, to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are 'Accustomed. But
when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same' object, evinces a
design to reduce them under absolute despo
tism, 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 of these colonies ; and such
is now the necessity which constrains them to
alter their former system of government. The
history of the present king of Great Britain is
a history of repeated injuries and usurpations
all having in direct object the establishment o
an absolute tyranny over these Staies.
prove this, let facts be submitted to a eandh
world :
Ire has refused his assent to laws, the most
vholesome and necessary fur the public good.
Ile has forbidden his governors to pass laws
if immediate and pressing importance, un-
less suspended in then- operations till his assent
should be obtained, and when so suspended lie
has utterly neglected to attend to them.
Ile has refused to pass other laws, flw the
accomnuidation of large districts of people, un
less those people would relinguish the right of
representation in the legislature, a right ines
timable to them, and formidable to tyrants
• •
He has called together legislative bodies a
places unusual, uncomfortable, and distan
from the depository' of their public Vecords, fo
the sole purpose of fatiguing them into emu
pliauce with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses re
peatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his
invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused, for a long time, after such
dissolution, 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 remaining in
the mean time exposed to all the danger of
invasion front and coni•ulsions from
within.
- He has endeavored to prevent the population
of these States ; for that purpose obstructing
the laws for the naturalikation of, foreigners ;
refusing to pass others to encourage their mi
gration hither, and raising the condition of new
appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of jus
tice, by refusing his assent to laws for establish
ing Judiciary Powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will
alone for the tenure of their offices and the
amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices,
and sent hitheV swarms of new officers, to liar
rass our people, and cat out their substance.
He has kept among us,
.in. time of peace,
standing armies without. the consent of our
legislatures.
lie has affected to render the military inde
pendent of, and superior to, Of civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us
to a jurisdiction, foreign to our constitution,
and acknowledged by our'laws giving his.
assent to their acts of pleteuded legislation.
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For quartering large bodies of armed troops
among us ;
• For protetting them, by a mock trial, from
punishment for any murders which they should
commit on the inhabitants of these States ;
For cutting oft' our trade with all parts of the
world ;
For imposing taxes on us without our 'con
EMI3I
For depriving us, in many cases, of the ben
efits of trail by jury ;
For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried
for pretended offences;
For abolishing the free system of English
laws in a neighboring province, establishing
therein an arbitary government, and enlarging
its boundaries, so as to render it at once an
example and fit instrument for introducing the
same absolute rule into these colonies
For taking away our charters, abolishing our
most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally
the form of our government ;
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 declar
ing us out of his protection, and wage war
against us.
He has laundered our seas, rava!red our
coasts, burnt our towns and (lest' eyed the lives
of our people.
lie is, at this time Iransporling large armies
of foreign mercenaries to complete the work of
death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun.
with eircmnstmwes of cruelty and perfidy,
scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages,
and totally unworthy„ the head of a civilized
nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens taken
captive on the high seas, to bear arms againAl
their country, to become the executioners of
their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves
by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst
us, and has pnileavored to bring on the inhabi
tants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian sav
agis, whose Imowo rule of warfare is alt nod
tinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, al
conditions
In every stage of these oppressions, we hay'
petitioned for redress in the most humble terms ;
our repeated petitions have been answered only
by repeated injury. A prince whose character
is thus marked by every act Which may define
a tyrants, is unlit to be the ruler of a rata:
PEOVI.K.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to
our llritish Itrethren. We have warned them
from time to time, of attempts made by their
Legislature to extend an unwarrantable
.juris
diet ion over us. We have reminded them of
the circumstance of our emigration and settle
ment here. We have•appealed to their native
justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured
them by the ties of our common kindred to
disavow these usurpations, which would inevi
tably interrupt our connexion and correspond
ence. They, too have been deaf to the voice of
justice and of consanguinity. We must, there
fore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces
our separation, and hold them, as we we hold
the rest of mankind—cncl n in war—in pewee,
friends.
WE, therefore, the represent ives of the 'United
.s!tates of America, in general Congress assem
bled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the
world for the rectitude of our intentions, Do, in
the name, and by the aulluirity of the good
People of these,Colonies, solemnly publish and
declare,'that these United COlonies are and of
right ought to be, free and Independent States:—
That they are absolved from all allegiance to the
British crown, and that all political connexion
between them and the State of 'Great Britain,
is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that,
as free and independent States, they have
full power to levy war, conclude p6ace, con
tract alliance, establish commerce; and to do
all other acts and things, which Independent
States may of right do. And for the suppOrt
of this Declaration, with.a firm reliance on the
protection of Divine Providence, we mutually
pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and
our, secred honor.
Signed] by the order and in behalf of Con
gross.
• JOHN HANCOCK, President
CHARLES THOMPSON, Secretary.
Thomas Jefferson
Isis agency•in bringing about the revolution,
and in guiding it, and in shaping our free insti•
tutions, which have so blessed our country and
benelitted the world, may be learned from this
brief synopsis of his views and acts. Let them
speak for themselves, and let him be judged by
his works.
c was 32 years old and a member of the
Legislature, when in 1774 the news of the Bos
ton Port-bill reached Virginia. In the even
ing, be and a few kindred spirits, met in the
Council chamber to consult on the proper
course to be taken. Then' and there it was
agreed to recommend a day of fasting and pray
er thoughout the colony. The Legislature
proved of the proposal, and he prty—ced • the
ALLENTOWN,
FELLER. CITIZENs.—This arc a day fur the
poperlation o' Boonville, like a bob-tailed pul
let on a rickety hen roost, to bo a lookin' up,
up! A crisis has arriven—an'-- somethin's
bust Whar are we ? all in a bunch. What
am /? here, is, an' I'd stand here an' expiate
from now till the day o' synagogues if you'd
whoop for Daley. Feller Citizens—Jerusalem's
to pay, au' we haint got no pitch. Our hyper
bolical an' majestic' canal boat o' creation
has onshipped hor rudder, an' the Captain's
b ro k e his neck, an' the cook's div to the depths
o' th e v.sty deep;" in search o' dimut
Our wigwam's torn to pieces, like a s
brush fence, an: the Istory of the
A., JULY 4, 1865.
proclamation. The day was the first of Juno
—then the Port-bill took effect. Soon'after hi
wrote the manifesto inviting the colonies t
appoint deputies to meet in Congress. Tilt
first Congress met in Philadelphia, Septembe
5, 1774. During 1775, he was a member o
Congress, acting on the maxim, •" the God wh •
gave us life, gave us liberty too." June 28,
'76, the youngest member of Congress, he as
chairman reported the Declaration of Indepen
dence, which had been written by him at the
unanimous request of the 'committee. The
Declaration 'was adopted July the 4th ;—the
debate was warm, and while going on, Dr.
Franklin told Mr. Jefferson the famous story of
"John Thompson the hatter." July 4th, '7l
he was appointed on a committee to devise
suitable " coat of arms" for the 'United
States.
The Declaration of Independence having gone
forth, and Washington being at the head o
the army, and fighting the battle manfully, Mr.
Jelferson concluded to retire from Congress.—
Still he was re-elected, but on the 2d of Sep
tember he resigned. On the last day of Sep
tember, Congress appointed' him ono of the
commissioners to negotiate a treaty with France.
But he declined the appointment. He though
that the great moral revolution just begun,
would be more aided by Li in in the Legislaturk
of Virginia, than in ail other station. Ile wa.7-
elected and took his seat in October. Ile wish
ed to have his slate walk in the right path in
passing from her monarchial to her republic
condition; and he thought ; il all important
to the great cause of liberty, to have a state
govi eninent which should be a pattern for all
the states which would compose this great con
federaey.
''", l ,l•W bile a member of the Legislature front '76 to
'7O, lie turned his great mind to the ae.,,tirlish
ment of the following objects:- j o ''''
Judiciary system ;to repeal t .r of Entails,
which destroyed mistoeracy ; to abrogate the
r i g ht o f promigennure ; anti thus prepare the
way for an equal division of inheritance among
all the children and other represintatives in
equal degrek•s; the assertion of the right of ex-
patriation ; the establishment of religious free
dom upon the broadest foundation : the eman
cipation of slaves born after a certain period;
the abolition of capital punishment in all eases
except for murder and treason ; the establish
ment of a systematic plan of general 'education
reaebing all classes of citizens, and adapted to
every grade of capacity. Most of these objects
were accomplished, and other kindred ones of
great importance.- June, 1779, he wits elected
Governor of Virginia. his first act was to ame
liorate the sufferings of American prisoners,•
who had been taken by the British. On the
light of sulfraut: his maxim was, to allow those
to vote who pay or fight for the support of gov
ernment. .•
In 1781 he vas appointed minister plenipo
tentiary (w ith , thers) to negotiate a peace: but
lu declined. fur 'B3 lie was again circled to
Congress. In December, Washington deliver
ed up his conuhission to Congress, and Mr.
Jefferson prepart4 the noble reply to General
\Washington. -••
In 'Bl ho replied to Congress the money
system--consisti4 of the dollar unit. This
year he was appointed minister plenipotentiary
to negotiate treatios of commerce with foreign I
nations.
In 1785 was appointed embasSador to
France, anti fremained there four years.
In 1789 he was appointed Secretary of State
by President Washington. Soon after he made .
his !humus report on coins—weights and mea
sures. While be was Secretary of State, Gen.
Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, ..nd
then it was that the questions sprung up, out
of which grew the two parties—the Republican
and Federal—which have substantially contin
ued to the present. The former party by the
lame name, the latter by various names—but
always the same ends and aims in view.
. In 'Ol he was chosen President A' the Amer
ican Philosophical Society:
In '97 he was clectc3Yhb Presith t of tho
United States.
• In 1801 ho was chosen President of # 0 Uni
ted States by Congress, on the thirty-: ixth bal
lot, and on the fifth day of voting. • •
Dick Daley's Stump Speech
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nigger camp-m
crows, an' llustify hen-hawks. I'll have
barn raisin' every day (Sundays excepted) an
licker enough to swim a skunk. Yes, tenet
citizens, ekct me to Congress, an' you shall b.
led to exclaiin in the sublime—the terrific lan
guage of Bonyparte, when a preachin' in the
wild-rness—
" Richard's himself again !"
On, then, onward to the polls—" gallop
apace, my fiery-footed steeds," an', make the
welkin tremble with anti-spasmodic yells !
Daley ! Cock ycr comin'—
" Ilene° ye, Brutus; broad-axe au' glory !"
Let's lieker !
The Wife's Commandments.
The Cincilinali Norpareil gives the following
correct version for the use of all doubting hus
bands:
1. Thou shalt have no other wife but me.
2. Thou shaft not take into the houe any
beautiful brazen image of a servant girl, to bow
down to her, and to servo her ; for 1 am 'a
jealous wife, visiting, &e.
3. Thou sinilt not take the name of thy wife .
in vain.
4. Remember thy wm: to keep her respec
table.
5. Honor thy wife's father and mother.
6. Thou shalt not fret.
7. Thou shalt 1,4 t find fault with thy dinner.
8. Thou shall not chew tobacco, nor smoke
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B. Thou Galt not be behind thy neighbor.
' 10. Thou shalt not, visit the tavern ;-thou
shalt not covet the tavern keeper's ruin, nor his
brandy, nor his gin, nor his. whiskey, nor his
wino, nor anything thOt is behind the bar.
11. Thou shalt not visit the billiard halls
...Alter—nor Worshiping in the dance,nor heaps
of money that lie on the table.
And the 12th commandment is, that thou
shalt not stay out later than 9 o'clock at night.
GIRLS
Holmes in ono of his poems, says in a paren
thetical way,
My . Grandpapa
,Jovcd the girls when he was,yeung.."
lkto doubt of it, for Holmes was a sensible
loan, and must have had a sensible grandfather.
All sensible men love girls when they are
youn