Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-07-30
ONE,
Tune" Ys mariners OF E.plandn


They knew the hour of slavery
Brings ages of despair,
And they Cast away the seryik chain.
For willing slaves TO bear
Too proud were they TO bendthe kpes
Till life's last power was fed;
Then they gave
TO the grave
Doth the young and hoary head,
Oh treasure till lies latest holr
The memory OF the dead.
Oh that those sons of glory
From every grave would star.
To welcome now the Nations friend.
The dear to every heart,
The Pilgrim TO their saintsd tomb
by high devotion led
10 declare
And to share
The honors OF the deadi
10 treasure TIL his life's last houy
The memory OF the dead.
The day went down that evening
In glory and in teals;
But lasting honor crowns them nov
Through all departing Years
And, now the star OF glory burns
Where once those tears were shed.
Let us ralse
Songs OF praise
In memory Of the dead,
And treasure Till life $ latest hour
The memory Of the dead.
The Dinner was prepared upon grand
scale on dle Hi, winch has eiven its
name TO the Battle ground. a marquee
was there erected, Which covered over
So 900 square feet, aid in which 1000
iates were laid, on twelve extensive Ia.
Dies. An elegant platform, I'D the cen
,re, contained tables, a, which nere scat
cd General Lafayette, the Governor Of
tie Commonwealth, The Officers Of the
B. X. M. X. Survivors oil lie Battle, Re-
Vomuonary officers ant other d..inguish-
ed guests,
lne toasls intersperssd with oees and
appropriate music, prepared for lie oc.
caaion, were announced BY Mr.. Francis
{. Winston, il the following order:
ToAsTs.
|. The M Juae, 1878. The marble
may mouider; bnt while heart beats in
an Americans bosom, there will be a
ta6fef from which the record of that days
glory shall never be effactd.
0DE--Br RUFUS DAWES.
Let Freedoms banner swell with patriot
While Glory g iron heralds proclaim along the
The Lay when Albion crmsoned Charles
tide,
And Bunker shook beneath the battles roar.
How majestic The Spirit, that rode upon her
thunder,
Whose belts, indignant, broke oppression'5
CHAINS asunder;
When first our yeoman band,
: he bulwark Of the land,
Like monarch oaks, withstood
The dark, contending flood,
And bought with blood u treeman's rights, our
heritage be.
Huzza Huzza I.uzza Huzza Huzza!
Oar Genus gave the mandate, declaring we
, were free,
Huzza Huzza Huzza! Huzza! Huzza!
And Independence sealed the high decree.
Arise! Arise! ye patriot spirits, rise
And hail the glorious morn, wheny your star Of
freedom rose;
When Bunker hurled her lightning, like
the skies,
And poured flaming torrent on her foes,
When our slres, our gallant sires, their dear
est birtliright shielded,
And wrote our Magma Charta in the sacred
blood they yielded
Whose monument shall stand
In Alpine glory, grand;
Where our mountain bird shall soar,
When around the tempests roar,
Their lifted piles gigantic strength, e1ulting-
ly to see.
Huzzal Huzza! sc. &c. &c.
Should hostile legions darken round the
land,
Your ook-encompassed shore presuming to
invade;
Thy lowering temple, Liberty! would
stand,
To blast thy fell oppressors with its shade
In grandeur unrivalled, thy pillared dome as.
cending,
Shall strengthen on, from age to age our ia.
Tiers fame extending;
While round thee flames decay,
Exempt from ruins sway
The stately front, sublime.
Shall stand the proof of time,
And midst its beating storms secure, mistaken
Huzz,! Hnzza! sc. &c. &c.
ARISE! Aris, ye patriots spirits rise!
Our jubilee OF Gier, demands = Nations song /;