Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1862-03-14
Yankee Doodle came 10 town
For to buy u fire lock
u Q viii inr and feather him.

4 writer in the New York Ereuiag
Post, few years aye, claimed for the
Dutch the origin of " Yankee Doodle
He said that the harvest laborcrs who, il
summer, migrate from Germany to the
low countries, or Holland, where they re.
ceive as much buttcrmilk as they can
drink, and a tenth of the grain secured
by their exertions, had a song, with the
| following chorus;
.Iankec didcl, doodle down
Dldel. dudel lanter.
fanke, viver, yooyer vown,
Botermilk and Tanther.'
This account is apochryphal, to say
the least, for the words in the above verse
are neither German, Dutch, nor any other
known language on the face Of the earth.
Our -" southern brcthrca," who have a
decidedly ugly way, at the present time,
Of showing their brotherhood, and whose
" first families" according to their toasted
aud admired correspondent of the London
Times, say, " IL we could only get one
of the royal race Of England to rule over
US, We should be content" sentiment
q varied hundred ways, repeated to
him oven ana over again, and who "re-
grct the strange rcsult.and consequences
Of the old war for independence, have
naturally discarded +" Yankee Doodle" y
South Carolina, by legislative enactment
last winter, forbade the future celebration
of the Fourth of July and the use Of
/" ankce Doodle" /" Hail Columbia, .
and Star Spanglcd Banner and soon
aftcrward the poet laureate we presume,
of the " Southern Confcderaey7 (for the
British government they so much lon. for
pensions poet laureate) put :orth the
following
FAREWELL To YANKEE DOODLE.
Yankee Doodle. fare you we'll,
Rice and cotton tlout YOU
Once they .ked YOU very well.
But nov they Il Go withou; YOU.
Yankee Doodle used TO treat
Old ronpey as 4 Eejghber;
lie didn't grah his bread and meat,
Nor cgyll at his lator.
Eu' Dood,, HOW has 60; 80 keen.
Fox every dirty shilip-;
ffoyose job, however mean,
And Yankee Doodle, willing,
Doodle. too, has had the luck.
10 ct new religion;
\ kind of holy zeal 10 pluck
At everybody pigeon
Doodle.s morbid conscience strains,
With Pur'auic yigor.
Too loose the only friendly CHAINS
That ever bound the misser.
Ne.. Doodle knows as well as l,
That when hc's come and freed en-,
He'd see million uiggers die,
Before he'd help u ;cei EN-.
Yankee Doodle sen. Us down
y gallant missionary
III. name wss Captain Johnny Blown,
Tie Priest of llaVeg's Ferry.
Wi,l pike, he ;t.-d to magnify
Tie e ,pel creed 5t BeecAcr;
8t O,l Virginia lifted high
This MILITARY preacher
", glory Ia his name IS >l;ns,
A. If with SIN untaiutcd
He bloody wretch. by justice hung,
BY bisotry Is tainted.
Yankee Doodle. now good byc,
We sFura thing 50 rotten,
Proud Independence is the cry
pt sugar, rice and cotton.
Atlanta, Georgia, Feb. Ist, l>fl.
would hum5ly advise our southern
brethren. when they sing this ' Farewell,
II hum, in s.tto roce, sufficiently clear for
the ear of their northern brethren, some
thing ike the following
k5uc Cotton was monarch bold,
Till regjcidal treason
With promises of nn,old gold
Deprived US Of our reason.
King Cotton now, without the aud
OF England France or Prussia,
SPAN, Portugal or Belgium,
Or scTl releasing kussla,
/, growing weak ia ever, limb.
And trembles like a noodle,
And we had better make our peace
With angry Yankee Doodle,
The memory of these halfpenitent
words may serve to mitigate the ttroeity
of the northern Goths and Eandals, y
when those who have bidden ' Farewell
to Yankee Doodle" shall, as Prentice
says be standing whele there will be ian
Impending Crisis and no Helper
B. j. l..