The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-08-09
FREEDOM AND PEACE,
THE VOICE OF AMERICA.
A NATIONAL SONG.

VI all our companions the noblcst and best,
From dark eastern regions by anarchy driven,
Have found a retreat III the chimes of the Vest.
Chorus-Then Freedom and Peace we will
cherish together,
Wen guard them with valor-we'll
crown them with art
Nor ever resign up the one or the
other,
For all that ambitions proud pamp
can impart
III.
Here dwell the blest cherubs so dear to our wshesl
Here thron'd in our hearts, they inspire all our
themes;
They sport rouad each cottage, with smiles and
with bushes
They glide through our cities-they sail down
our streams;
The shades of our heroes, immortal, delighted,
Look down from the radiant mansions of day,
" Be FIRM they exclaim, &c Be forever united
And nations may threaten but cannot dis.
mays
ChoraS-F For Freedom and Peace, &c.
The demons of dscord are roaming the ocean,
Their insult and rapine and murder are law
From scenes SO atrocious of blood and connection,
It's great-itis Godlike-awhile to withdraw!
Perhaps when the hand that hath fed, suspended,
When famines pale spectres their steps over
take,
The firm voice of Truth may, at last be attended,
And Justice and Reason once more re-awakc.
Chorus-But Freedom, &c.
hSody' with the vuitures OF " ar ant, Ambition,
That headlong to rearing of Nauies would
run,
Those cancers of nations-those pits of perdition,
Where Britain & France will alike be undone
Far no5ler the Arts of our country TO nourish,
Its trae independence and powers TO increase !;
And while our resources of industry flourish,
To hail the glad blessings of' Freedom & Peace,
Chorus-Then Freedom, &c.
"
The storm we defy-it NAV roar at distance,
Unmov'd and impregnable here we remain;
We ask not of Europe for Gifts or assistance i;
But Justice, Good Faith, and tha Rights Of the
Main
Should these be tefus'd, in orrseEves .sere a
And those who may dare its domains to invade
TO death and destruction at once shall be hurl'd,
For Freedom hath sworn it, & shall be obeyd
Chorus-Then Freedom, &C.
We want neither Emperor, Kina p";--'' ''''
No Naves, to piunder--nor Indies to fleece;
Our honest Decrees arc &c To all be IMPARTIAL 30
Our Orders cfCoRncii, are Freedom & Peace -
nut Commerce assail'd by each vile depredator,
Our country has WILD for while to restrain,
~ ana lhia1ny light on the head of the traitor
Who tramPes ber laws for ambition Or gain
CHoFHS-I nen Freedom, &c.
VII.
Look round on your country, Columbans i'm
daunted.
From Georgiato Mane-from the Lakes to
the Sea,
Is one human blessing or luxury wanted,
That flows not amongst us, unmeasured and
free
Our harvests sustain halfthe wide eastern world
Our mines and our forests exhaustless remain
What sails on our great fishing banks are unflrl'd
What shoals fill our streams from the depths
of the main
Chorus-Then Freedom, &c.
VIII.
The fruits of our country, our focks and our
heeces,
The treasures immense in our mountains that
lie,
While discordin tearing old Europe to pieces,
Shall amply the wants of our people supply;
New Roads and Canals, on their bosoms convey
ing,
Refinement and wealth, through our forests
shall roam;
And millions of treea,pen, with rapture survey
ing,
Shall shout out, " o LIBERTY this is thy
home ~
Chorus-TlIep Freedom, &C.
TX.
Great shades Of orr Fathers unconquer'd, vic |
tOrious
" "HViH uiitier behNellJ our Tfee007ft we owe,
Bear witness, that Peace we revere still as glo- |
rious-
For Peace, every gain for a while we forego;
But should the great son of ambition and plum |
der
Should Oceans proud scourges our Liberty !
claim
Your spirits shall ride in the roar Of our thunder. |
That sweeps to the gulph of perdition their |
name.
CioyuS-For Freedom, &C.
K.
Our strength and resources defy base aggrcssi-
Our courage-our cnterprize--both have been
try'd
Our nation unstained with the crimes Of opprcs-
sion,
Hath Heavens own tiunderbolts all ON its side
Then hencetorth let freemaa with freeman be
brother,
Our Peace and our Liberty both to assert,
Nor ever resign UP the one or the other
For all that ambitions proud pomp can impart
Chorns-Then Freedom and Peace we will
cherish together,
Wen guard them with valor-we'll
crown them with art
Nor ever resign up the one or the
other,
For all that ambitions proud pomp
can inpart.
y ROKERAGE AND COMMISSION BUSI-
~ NESS.-Fhe subscriber respectfully oheq.
rs services to his friends and the public, in the A.
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