The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-30
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Who Wsole g Tear Down tbe P,.na,
ing Lia2n

Who Wsole g Tear. Down the PI.un,
ing Lies"
We ind in yesterdays Reastey a
article copied from the Ohio iStatesma
entitled Who wrote Tear down III
Flaunting Lie2'" and ascribIno n
authorship to'eItheri George Bowefvsn
or William GLAND Bourne; IwbosSs
they may be). Sometime since Z ON
democratic cotemporary having refer
red to'this poem as Radical prodnc
tion, we stated that 1t was written b,
Private Miles o'RsIlley,n the psen
donym OF Gen. Charles G. Halpine. de
ceased, and at the time OF his deatt
editor Of the New York Citizen, a Dem.
ocratie newspaper published in New
York. As the history of the lyric itselI
Is somewhat interesting, we will be s ex.
cused for referring to it at length.
We have before us now a volume en-.
titled Baked Meals OF the Funeral, a
collection of essays, poems, speeches,
histories, and banquets, by Private
Niles olRsnIey." This volume IL edit!
ed and copyrighted by Gen. Halpine
himself, and published in 1856. In this
collection (page 1903, we fnd this cell
ebrated' poem in a chapter entitled
" Honest Truth about ye 'Flauntiug
Lie.' =" From that chapter we quote:
q As certain Democratic journals and
orators throughout the country have
seen ht 10 attach undue Importance
and totally garbled construction to
an extract from a certain song which
appeared many years ago in the New
4orkz 5If1bhnes 1t may be as we'll, at
this point to place on record true copy
OF thatsong anda history, of the events
out otwhiehit grew, together with cer-
tam sa. other songs on the same subject,
forming a series OF which the much
quoted lyric was but q part"
The songs of the series were called
out during the Presidency of franklin
Pierce by tue arrest in Boston, by the
Federal authorities, of one Anthony
Burns, snlalIegedsfuglnvs slave from
Virginia. This arrest and his subse-
quent rendition created intense excite
ment in Boston. While The excitement
was at the hIghest Boston paper an.
nouneed with h'high commendation that
1.-TWO companies offoreIgn born SOL
diers had been stationed in and around
the Court House to kpsp back the rab-
ble-"-" this rabble, p as Gen. Halpine
/" embracing seven.eighths7 of
all that was'most eminent in the'learn-
ing, piety, public confidence and re-
spectability of the Trimontane cIty.n
Taking theiWords quoted above for his
text, HaIpine wrote Z" Lines for the
Day" beginning: - s-s -
HAyei throng the Courts that once were free,
With bards OF savage EoldlerY-
Cali outthe foreign kernI Il
Beneath the shade OF bunker shaft
When earth the blood or lreemen quRned,
A dIreIent tale thissday We leaIn,Y
This song was published in the Inde-
pendent and i'm mediately republIshed
in the 1fi5AHe.s It achieved asudden
and wide popularity andz1was extern
sively copied. Others ofsimilar charac-
.er followed. That which seems how
sver to have outliyed all the rest was
he Flaunting Lie, +" which was
written upon the announcement in the
Boston Commonwealth that "the U. s.
Cutter, Morris has been ordered by /
franklin Pierce TO carry An,
hony Burns from Boston to Virginia
o be there enslayed forever"
The following is the entire poem as
eyised by the author: ~ ~ -
q Han. 70 THE srARs AND srRIPxs. 9
Hall to the Stars and StripesI
The beautiful flag all hail!
The tyTant trembleS now,
And at the sight grows pale;
And the % 9ld NC Mefla sS. g5Ssas ' ans N PAIN
Beyond the Western Main, II
This emblem of the mee. II
Hail to the Stripes and stasT
Hope beams in every ray,
Apd ,InEoggh G5a the 1,sS, dSnaEseH ,aE 1y pars 5
The Old World sees the lignt II,
That shall her cells tlumer Il
And, shrinking back Tonight,
Oppression reads her doom.
Han TO the stars and strlpesl
They fostin every sea;
Der every ocean sweeps III
Our emblem OF the Free. Il
Beneath the azure skles77--s
or the soft italian CLINE, =
Or where the Aurora dies l.
In solitude ublime.
. J.
: All hail the fiaunting Lie .stl \
The stars grow paie and dim
The stripes are bloody scars,
Al lie the haunting hymnt
II shields q pirates deck,
II binds man In chains,
And round the captiye's neck
Its folds are bloody stainh.is 3
Tear down the Haunting liel eias
Half mast the starry nag
Insult no sunny sky I
With this polluted rag!
Destroy II ye who can
Deep aink 1t in the waves f-1-- 4
IEbeaTs fellow man ~ |.
10 Rroan with fellow slaves
Awake the burning scom-
The venKance long and deep,
That, till a better morn,
Shall neither tire nor EleeDi L
Swear once again The yoWF5 - IT,
BY ali we hope or dreamI = - - X
That what We suffer now
The future shall redeem. II
Furl, furI the boasted Lie,
TIL Freedom lives again. Il,
With stature grand ana purpose high
Among unITamm eIled menl .-sr-s /
Roll up Ihe starry sheen,
Conceal its bloody stains;
For In its Iolds are seen
The stamp ofrusting chains.
swear. FreemenZau as one
1ospurn the daunting Lie,
TN S5;I 5Sas iss SSa 6E595PB 1595h sna aJ: Eeys
Then floating In the air, J,
Ger hill, and dale, and sea,
Twill stand forever fair -.s.,a= r-s1l-
The emblem OF the Feel 10 &
nTo all OF treason. disloyalty, or con. /
mpt for the national flag" says Gen.
alpine, "that the enemies Of human
sedom can find in the foregoing
rses, we bid them heartily welcome.
lev have never heretofore published
ore than n few -stanzas, and even
ose few were garbled and twisted /
It of their proper sense and connec- :
IN. II willlbe seen that far from be- !