New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-30

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they were; for surely it is something to be
noted-this passage on 'the first train
through"
| THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER.
In little old book, entitled "The Ameri
can Musical Miscellany; Collection of the
Newest and Most Approved Songs, set to
Music" printed at Northampton, Massa.
chusetts, by Andrew Wright, for Daniel
| Wright s. Co., 1898, is found on page oil
song LXXXII, entitled adams and Lib
erty," by T. Paine.
By a perusal of the song, one will dis
| cover a great similarity in style and senti
ment, to the Star Spangled Banner OF
Francis C. Key, and the music to which the
song is set is identical with that in which
the Star Spangled Banner is sung.
Key, undoubtedly, was familiar with
that patriotic song, adams and Liberty,
both as to style and sentiment, and with
the tune in which it was sung; and un-
doubtedly composed the Star Spangled
Banner under the impulse of the occasion
of moment, taking his inspiration from that
older and more spirited production. adapt
ing the words as expressing his feelings to
the familiar tune of his boyhood.
Seldom or never is a song that lives COM
posed otherwise than to fit living strain OF
music. Music, to be real, must embOdy a
thought-an idea. and which every mind
must perceive more or less distinctly; while
a song fitted to that strain of music is but
an expression in words of some peculiar
manifestation of that idea, included in the
more comprehensive and general thought
as embodied in the music itself.
Adams and Liberty.
Ye sons of Columbia, who bravely have fought
For those ri. hts which unstained from your sires
had descended
May you long taste the blessings your valor has
bought,
And your reap the soil which your fathers
defended.
Mid the reign of mild peace,
May your nation increase.
With the glory of Rome and the wisdom OF
Greece;
And neer may the sons of Columbia be slaves,
While the earth bears plant, or the rolls its
waves.
In cline, whose rich wales feed the marts of the
world,
Whose shores are mistaken by Europe's COM
motion,
The trident of commerce should never be hurla
To increase the legitimate powers of the ocean.
But should pirates invade,
Though in thunder arrayed.
Let your cannon declare the free charter OF
trade,
For ner shall the sons, etc.
The fame of our arms, of our laws the mild sway,
Had justly ennobled our nation in story,
Till the dark clouds of faction obscured our young
day
And enveloped the sun of American glory.
But let traitors be told,
Who their country have sold,
And barter'd the God for his image in gold.
That ne er will the sons, etc.
While France her huge limbs battle recumbent in
blood,
And society's base. threats with wide dissolution
May peace like the dove who returnd from the
flood
Find an ark of abode in mild constitution!
But, though peace is our aim,
Yet the boon disclaim,
If bought by sovereignty, justice or fame
For ne'r shall the sons, etc.
It's the fire of the flint, each American warns
Let Rome's naughty victors beware of collision
Let them bring all the vassals of Europe in arms
We're world by ourselves and disdain division!
While, with patriot pride
To our laws we're allied,
No foe can subdue u.s. no faction divide.
For neer shall the sons etc.
Our mountains are crowned with imperial oak
Whose roots like our liberties, ages have nour-
ished,
But long, ere our nation submits to the yoke
Not tree shall be left OH the field where it flour
ished,
Should invasion impend,
Every grove would descend
From the hill tops they shaded, our shores to
defend.
For neer shall the sons etc.
Let our patriots destroy Anarchs pestient worm,
Lest our Liberty's growth should be checked by
corrosion
Then let clouds thic1en round u.s. we heed not the
storm,
Our realm fears no shock but the earth's own ex-
plosOn.
Foes assail us in vain
Though their fleets bridge the main,
For our affairs and laws with our lives Wen
maintain.
And ne 'er shall the sons etc.
Should the trumpet of war Overshadow our land,
Its bolts could ne'er rend Freedoms temple
asunder;
For unmOv'd at its portal would Washington stand,
And repulse with his breast the assaults of its
: thunder
His sword from the sleep,
Gifts seabbard would leap,
And conduct with its point every flash to the
deep.
For ne'er shall the sons, etc.
Let Fame to the world sound Americas voice
No intrigue can her sons from their government
sever,
Her pride is her Adams-his laws are her choice,
And shall flourish till Liberty sumbers forever;
Then unite heart and hand,
Like Leondas band,
And swear to the God of the ocean and land
That neer shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, .
"hile the earth bears plant or the sea rolls it's
waves.
A California journal has the following:
"Mr Paul Wendal. who has resided in
Santa Clara county since 1853, and is but
twenty-four. years of age, is about to COM
mence training for pedestrian trip of 3400
mics against time, upon stipulated terms,
with persons residing in the Atlantic
States. The trip is to be performed in less
than one hundred days, and independent of
any motive power but his own. All streams