St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-30


Pretty much all of the Republican pretense
of benefit to the material interests of the
country is only pretence, and can be explo-
ded by touch of ridicule like Mr.. Pendle-
toms.
Songs that Have Moved Nations Who
Wrete Them and What Inspired Them.
The greatest poem of the war was written
at Washington by Julia Ward Howe, under
the title of ''The Battle Hymn of the Repub-
lic." 1t is sung to the tune Of ''Johh
Brown" and commences, "Mine eyes have
seen the glory of the coming of the Lord"
Mrs. Howe wrote it early one morning and
tits said she penned the lines with her eyes
shut. The night before she had been out
riding in the country near Washington and
her party had narrowly escaped being cap
tured by troop OF confederates. AS they
came into Washington they sang "John
Browns Body" and the tune kept ringing
in Mrs. Howe's head all night. When she
awoke before daylight she began to make
verses to it, and in the fear that she would
forget them she wrote them off, according
to habit she had formed to save
her eyes, without looking at the paper,
Mrs. Howe is still living and she ranks
among the leaders of the woman's rights
| movement
Speaking of 'John Browns Body" the
tune itself is an old Methodist camp meet
ing tune and the words were adopted to it by
a glee club of Boston in 1861. 1t was first
published at Charlestown, Mass. Capt.
James Greenleaf, an organist of the Har-
| ward church, set the notes for music, and a
Massachusetts. regiment made them first
noted by singing them at Fort Warren
| in 1861.
The author of 'tMarylaud, Ny Maryland"
lives in Washington, and you may see him
in the press galleries of congress almost any
day during the session. He writes gossipy
letters to the Augusta Chronicle. His name is
James r. Randall, and he is a modest look
ing, dark complexioned man OF forty. He
must have been very young when he wrote
that beautiful poem. His ideas are broader
now, and he is as liberal in his views as any
member of the gallery.
America" was written by the Rev. Samuel
Francis Smith in 1882, and it was first sung
in Boston on the Fourth of July of that year.
Like the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" ii
| was inspired by great tune, viz, "God
Save the King" This tune is in use in
nearly every country, and it has been as
cribed to Handel. The writer of the words
still lives in Massachusetts, and he says he
wrote the song at a sitting. He is now
seventy-six years old, and he graduated al
Harvard in the same class with Oliver Wen
dell Holmes.
John Howard Payne's ''Home, Sweet
Home" was written for an opera, and he
never got anything for it but his tombstone
in Oak Hill cemetery. 1t was first sung in
the Covent Garden theatre, at London, and
made a big hit. One hundred thousand
copies were sold the first year, and by the
end of the second its publishers had cleared
$40, 900 from it.
Robert Treat Paine wrote ''Ye Sons OF
Colum bia, - early in 1880, under the title OF
"Adams and Liberty" and was paid $3.50
for it. Paine was the son of one of the sign
ers of the Declaration of Independence. He
was christened Tom Paine; but on account
of his dislike to Tom Paine's infldel tenden-
cies, he had the Massachusetts legislature
change his name, and give him what he
called Christian one.
Foster got Sl5, 900 for writing "Old Folks
at Home" Crouch, the writer of ''Kathleen
Mayourneen," received S25 for the produc-
ton, and afterwards became begging tramp
while his publisher could have built brown
stone front out OF its sales. George. P.
Morris wrote ''Woodman, Spare that Tree -
because the purchaser of a friends estate
wanted to cut down tree which his grand
father had planted.
Hail Columbia was written by Joseph
Hopkinson, in the summer of 179S, and il
was first called the presidents March" 1t
was always sung when Washington came
into the theater and one of the objects of
its writing was the cultivation of a patriotic
spirit among the people Of the new republic.
1t was first put to music by German music
teacher named Roth.
''The Star Spangled Banner was written
by Francis Scott Key, while watching the
BON bardment of Fort McHenry, in 1914.
He was in a small vessel among the British
ships, aud he saw his countrymen win the
victory. All through the fight he watched
anxiously to see if the flag was still stand
ing, looking for it at night by the flash of
the bombshells, and anxiOusly waiting the
dawning. The song was printed in the Bal
timore american eight days after the battle,
under the title OF 1.-THE Defense of Fort Nc
Henry
Many people will be surprised to learn that
s'Yankee Doodle' is not of American origin.
Even the words date back beyond the days
of Queen Anne, and the tune is still older.
In the wars of the Roundheads, says Com
modore Preble, in his book on the flag of
the United States, yankee Doodle" or
''Nankee Doodle was applied in derision
to Oliver Cromwell, and Professor Rimbault,
a prominent musician of London, wrote a
song directed at Cromwell under this title
The jingle of these two songs is about the
same, and the words are not much different.
DR.. Sbuchburg first introduced the song into
this country in 1855, and this was also in
contempt of the ragged colonial soldiers.
At Concord and Lexington the British, when
advancing to fight, brsvely played ''God
Save the King" and after they were defeated
the Yankees, as they watched their retreat,
struck up Yankee Doodle. " Carp in