Evening journal., 1894-06-28
LIE sTAa soAMoLso BANNeR.
Story Of tho Stirring National Song
Told Anew.


Told Anew.
John c Carpenter tells the story Of
81 he Star Spangled Binner' In the July
number Of the Century. The article Is
illustrated by the reproduction Of a pho
tograph Of the old ag Of Fort McHenry,
which, hanging over the ramparts dur
ing the bombardment by the British, in
spired The song by a portrait Of Key
engraved by johnson from an oil painting
IN possession Of f. X Pendleton. and by
fac-simile Of tho manuscript OF the
song, in possession OF Mrs. Edward
Sbippen, or Baltimore. Mr. Carpenter
tells anew the story of the birth of the
song, and sketches in brief the career Of
Francis Scott Key.
OF all national airs IL breathes the
purest patriotism, he says. Those Of
England Russia and Austria are based
upon sentimental loyalty long eutgrown
by the agrarlan and practical age The
''Marseillaise" is stirring call to arms,
and upholds only the woist-the passion
ate mlitary-side Of nations charac-
tor. The Star-Spangltd Banner, &"
while Il is animated, patriotic, defiant.
neither cTingts nor boasts; Il is as
national in its spirit as it is adequate in
the expression OF that spirit Believing,
then. that Keys poem will be the ma
tlonal air OF succeeding generations Of
Americans, the fac-simile OF the original
draft Is here reproduced by the kindness
Of Mrs Edward Shipper, grand
daughter Of that Judge Nicholson who
took the hrst copy OF the poem to the
American office, and had It set up
in broad sheet form by Samuel Sands,
printers apprentice OF ~ He
was alone in the lice. sll the men having
gone to the Lefense OF the city. IL Is
written in Keys hand The changes
made in drafting the copy will be seen
at once, the principal one being that
Key started to write They have washed
out in blood their foul footsteps pollu-
ton, ana changed it for Their blood
has washed out their foul footsteps
pollution In the second stanza, also,
the dash after "'r Is the star -spaugled
banner" makes the change more abrupt
the line more spirited, aud the burst oil
feeling more intense, than the usua
semicolm. The other variations are IN
important. Some OF them were made il
1910, when Key wrote out several copies
for his friends
The song, in It's broad sheet ferns, wa
soon sung in all the camps around III,
city. When the Baltimore theatre, closed
during the attack. was reopened, Mr.
Hardiuge, one OF its setons. WAS an
nouuced to sing "a new song by a gen
tleman Of Maryland" The same modest
title OF authorship prefscss the song II
the American. From Baltimore the ali
was carried South, and was played b,
one OF the Tegimentsl bands at the battle
OF New Orleans
The tune Of "Anacreon in Heaven" hat
been objected to as foreign" but IL
truth IL is an estray, and Key 3 and thl
American peoples by adoption IL Is Al
lesst American enough now 10 be know
to every schoolboy; to have preeede,
Burr TO New Orleans, and Fremont u
the Ptc,dc to have been the inspiration
OF the soldiers Of three ware; aud TO havl
cheered the hearts OF American sailors II
peril II enemies on he sea from Algiert
TO Apia harbor.
After telling Of the playing o. 9Th
Star Spauged Banner" b. the band o
the Trenton as that devoted vessel va
swept on the beach at A pia by the hurri-
cane. Mr.. Carpenter adds: mo: It is to
late 10 divorce words and music. Bal
timore News