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THE SPIRIT of the NATION Aa Expressed in Song and the Words of Famous Americans OLD GLORY By the driven snow-white and the living blood-red Of my bars, and their Heaven of stars overhead By the symbol conjoined of them all, skyward cast. As I float from the steeple, or flap from the mast, Or droop o'er the sod where the long grasses nod My name is as old as the glory of God. So I came by the name of Old Glory. James Whitcomb Riley Compliments of The State Commission of Immigration and Housing of California Copyrighted 1918 by W. L. & Co. The SPIRIT of the NATION As expressed in song and the words of famous Americans INDEX Title Page, "Old Glory," James Whitcomb Riley The Declaration of Independence _ 3 Allegiance Pledge _ 5 Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg 5 "Man Without a Country" (Extract), Edward Everett Hale 5 Woodrow Wilson's War Message (Selected Passages) 6 "Makers of the Flag," Franklin K. Lane 8 "When Freedom From Her Mountain Height" (Extract), Drake 8 "America's Purpose" (Extract), Woodrow Wilson 9 An Ode, William Jones _ _ 9 "Adams and Liberty" (Extract), William Paine _ 9 "Columbia, Columbia to Glory Arise" (Extract), Reverend Timothy Dwight 18 "New England" (Extract), James Gates Percival - 26 "Spirit of Republican Government" (Selected Passages), Alexis De Tocque- ville 27 Flag Day Address (Selected Passages), Woodrow Wilson. 28 SONGS "Star Spangled Banner," Francis Scott Key _ 10 "America," Samuel Francis Smith 11 New Version ; 29 "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," D. T. Shaw _ _ 12 "Battle Hymn of the Republic," Julia Ward Howe :.... 13 "Hail Columbia," J. Hopkinson _ 14 "Soldier's Farewell" IS "Battle Cry of Freedom," G. F. Root...- _ 16 "Dixie Land," D. Emmet 17 "Marching Through Georgia," H. C. Work 18 "My Old Kentucky Home," S. Foster 19 "Tramp ! Tramp 1 Tramp !" G. F. Root 20 "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," L. Lambert 21 "We're Tenting Tonight," W. Kittredge 22 "Yankee Doodle," Schaackbury _ 23 "Old Folks at Home" 24 "The Girl I Left Behind Me" _ _ 25 "Massa's In the Cold Ground," S. Foster 26 "Old Black Joe," S. Foster ... 27 The Declaration of Independence In Congress, July 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen united State* of America WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, That to secure these rights, Gov- ernments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or t<> abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety ', nd Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experi- ence hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right them- selves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to re- duce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which con- strains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct ob- ject the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a can- did world. He has refused his As- sent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those peo- ple would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and for- midable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of An- nihilation, have returned to the Peo- ple at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of inva- sion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to pre- vent the population of. these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreign- ers ; refusing to pass others to en- courage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new Appro- priations of Lands. He has ob- structed the Administration of Jus- tice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their sub- stance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legisla- tures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has com- bined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitu- tion, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation : For quar- The Declaration of Independence Continued tering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should com- mit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent : For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended of- fences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neigh- bouring Province, establishing there- in an Arbitrary government, and en- larging its Boundaries so as to ren- der it at once an example and fit in- strument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abol- ishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments. For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatso- ever. He has abdicated Govern- ment here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us: He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is all this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, des- olation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & per- fidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall them- selves by their Hands. He has ex- cited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undis- tinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Opressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms : Our repeated Peti- tions have been answered only by re- peated injury. A Prince, whose char- acter is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People. Nor have We been wanting in attention to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to ex- tend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have ap- pealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kin- dred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the ne- cessity, which denounces our Separa- tion, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appeal- ing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our inten- tions, do, in the Name, and by Au- thority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and de- clare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States ; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full power to levy War, con- clude Peace, contract Alliances, es- tablish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honour. Allegiance Pledge I pledge allegiance to my Flag, And to the Republic for which it stands; One Nation indivisible, With liberty and justice for all. Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg TpOURSCORE and seven years ago, ' our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new Nation, con- ceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are cre- ated equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that Na- tion so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come here to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that Nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or de- tract. The world will little note, or long remember, what we say here ; but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have, thus far, so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedi- cated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this Nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Extract from " The Man Without a Country." Y< what it is to be without a family, without a home, and without a country. And if you are ever tempted to say a word or to do a thing that shall put a bar between you and your family, your home, and your country, pray God in his mercy to take you that instant home to his own heaven. Stick by your family, boy ; forget you have a self, while you do every- thing for them. Think of your home, boy; write and send, and talk about it. Let it be nearer and nearer to your thought the farther you have to travel from it ; and rush back to it when you are free, as that poor black slave is doing now. And for your country, boy, and for that flag, never dream a dream but of serving her as she bids you, though the service carry you through a thousand hells. No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remem- ber, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers and government and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother." Edward Everett Hale. Selected Passages from The President's War Message Delivered to the Congrecs of the United States of America, April 2, 1917 By \Voodrow Wilson I HAVE called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making. ******* The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a war- fare against mankind. It is a war against all nations. American ships have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. There has been no discrimination. The challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it. The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness of judg- ment befitting our character and our motives as a nation. We must put excited feeling away. Our motives will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the phy- sical might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion. ******* There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making. We will not choose the path of sub- mission and suffer the most sacred rights of our nation and our people to be ignored or violated. The wrongs against which we now array ourselves are not common wrongs ; they cut to the very roots of human life. With a profound sense of the sol- emn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Gov- ernment to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of bellig- erent, which has thus been thrust upon it, and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but also to exert all its power and em- ploy all its resources to bring the government of the German Empire to terms and end the war. ******* Our object is to vindicate the prin- ciples of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self- governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure .the observ- ance of those principles. Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world is involved and the freedom of its peoples, and the menace to that peace and freedom lies in the exist- ence of autocratic governments backed by organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, not by the will of their people. We have seen the last of neutrality in such circumstances. We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states. We have no quarrel with the Ger- man people. We have no feeling toward them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined on in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools. Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies, or set the course of intrigue to bring about some critical posture of affairs which will give them an opportunity to strike and make conquest. Such designs can be successfully worked only under cover and where no one has the right to ask questions. Cunningly contrived plans of de- ception or aggression, carried, it may be, from generation to generation, can be worked out and kept from the light only within the privacy of The President's War Message Continued courts or behind the carefully guard- ed confidences of a narrow and privi- leged class. They are happily im- possible where public opinion com- mands and insists upon full informa- tion concerning all the nation's affairs. A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic government could be trusted to keep faith within it or con- serve its covenants. It must be a league of honor, a partnership of opinion. Intrigue would eat its vitals away; the plottings of inner circles who could plan what they would and ren- der account to no one would be a cor- ruption seated at its very heart. Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interests of man- kind to any narrow interest of their own. ******* We are now about to accept the gage of battle with this natural foe to liberty and shall, if necessary, spend the whole force of the nation to check and nullify its pretensions and its power. We are glad, now that we see the facts with no veil of false pretense about them, to fight thus for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included; for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedi- ence. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the trusted foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for our- selves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been as secure as the faith and the free- dom of the nations can make them. Just because \v. fight without ran- cor, animus, not in enmity toward a people nor with the desire to bring any injury or disadvantage upon them, but only in armed opposition to an irresponsible government which has thrown aside all considerations of humanity and of right and is run- ning amuck. We are, let me say again, the sin- cere friends of the German people and shall desire nothing so much as the early reestablishment of inti- mate relations of mutual advantage between us however hard it may be for them, for the time being, to be- lieve that this is spoken from our hearts. We have borne with their present government through all these bitter months because of that friend- ship exercising a patience and fore- bearance which would otherwise have been impossible. We shall happily, still have an opportunity to prove that friendship in our daily attitude and action toward the millions of men and women of German birth and na- tive sympathy who live amongst us and share our life, and we shall be proud to prove it toward all who are in fact loyal to their neighbors and to this government in the hour of test. They are, most of them, as true and loyal Americans as if they had never known any other fealty or al- legiance. They will be prompt to stand with us in rebuking and restraining the few who may be of a different mind and purpose. If there should be disloyalty, it will be dealt with with a firm hand of stern repression ; but, if it lifts its head at all, it will lift it only here and there and without countenance except from a lawless and malignant few. It is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus ad- dressing you. There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacri- fice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful country into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization it- self seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts for democracy* for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a uni- versal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations, and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the princi- ples that gave her birth and happi- ness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other, Makers of the Flag Delivered on Flag Day. 1914. Before the Employees of the Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C., by Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior THIS morning, as I passed into the Land Office, The Flag dropped me a most cordial salutation, and from its rippling folds 1 heard it say : "Good morning. Mr. Flag Maker." "I beg your pardon, Old Glory," I said, "aren't you mistaken? I am not the President of the United States, nor a member of Congress, nor even a general in the army. I am only a government clerk." "I greet you again, Mr. Flag Maker," replied the gay voice, "I know you well. You are the man who worked in the swelter of yesterday straightening out the tangle of that farmer's homestead in Idaho, or per- haps you found the mistake in that Indian contract in Oklahoma, or helped to clear that patent for the hopeful inventor in New York, or pushed the opening of that new ditch in Colorado, or made that mine in Illinois more safe, or brought relief to the old soldier in Wyoming. No matter; whichever one of these bene- ficent individuals you may happen to be, I give you greeting, Mr. Flag Maker." I was about to pass on when The Flag stopped me with these words ; "Yesterday the President spoke a word that made happier the future of ten million peons in Mexico; but that act looms no larger on the flag than the struggle which the boy in Georgia is making to win the Corn Club prize this summer. "Yesterday the Congress spoke a word which will open the door of Alaska; but a mother in Michigan worked from sunrise until far into the night to give her boy an educa- tion. She. too, is making the flag. "Yesterday we made a new law to prevent financial panics, and yester- day, maybe, a school teacher in Ohio taught his first letters to a boy who will one day write a song that will pive cheer to the millions of our race. We are all making the flag." "But," I said impatiently, "these people were only working!" Then came a great shout from The Flag: -"The work that we do is the mak- ing of the flag. "I am not the flag; not at all. I am but its shadow. "I am whatever you make me, nothing more. "I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a People may become. "I live a changing life, a life of moods and passions, of heart breaks and tired muscles. "Sometimes I am strong with pride, when men do an honest work, fitting the rails together truly. -"Sometimes I droop, for then pur- pose has gone from me, and cynically I play the coward. "Sometimes I am loud, garish, and full of that ego that blasts judgment. "But always, I am all that you hope to be, and have the courage to try for. "I am song and fear, struggle and panic, and ennobling hope. "I am the day's work of the weak- est man, and the largest dream of the most daring. "I am the constitution and the courts, statutes and the statute makers, soldier and dreadnaught, drayman and street sweep, cook, counselor and clerk. "I am the battle of yesterday, and the mistake of to-morrow. "I am the mystery of the men who do without knowing why. "I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. "I am no more than what you be- lieve me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. "I am what you make me, nothing more. "I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this na- tion. My stars and stripes are your dream and your labors. They are bright with cheer, brilliant with cour- age, firm with faith, because you have made them so out of your hearts. For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making." "When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dies The milky baldric of the skies ; And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light." Drake, 8 America's Purpose By President Wilson, at Arlington, Memorial Day, 1917 IN one sense, the great struggle into which we have now entered is an American struggle, because it is in the sense of American honor and American rights, but it is some- thing even greater than that; it is a world struggle. It is a struggle of men who love liberty everywhere, and in this cause America will show herself greater than ever, because she will rise to a greater thing. We have said in the beginning that we planned this great Government that men who wish freedom might have a place of refuge and a place where their hope could be realized, and now, having established such a Government, having preserved such a Government, having vindicated the power of such a government, we are saying to all mankind, "We did not set this Government up in order that we might have a selfish and separate liberty, for we are now ready to come to your assistance and fight out upon the fields of the world the cause of human liberty." In this thing America attains her full dignity and the full fruition of her great purpose. An Ode In Imitation of Alcaeus, by William Jones What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State; And sovereign Law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend, Dissension, like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Adams and Liberty By Thomas Paine Ye sons of Columbia, who bravely have fought, For those rights, which unstained from your Sires had descended, May you long taste the blessings your valour has bought, And your sons reap the soil which their fathers defended. 'Mid the reign of mild Peace, May your nation increase, With the glory of Rome, and the wisdom of Greece; And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. STAR SPANGLED BANNER Words by Francis Scott Key No patriotic song has a more thrilling or inspiring history than the national anthem of our country, "The Star-Spangled Banner." It was during the war of 1812, after the British had failed to reduce Fort McHenry, the defense of Baltimore, that Francit Scott Key, held prisoner by Lord Cockburn, the British admiral, wrote the first lines of the "Star-Spangled Banner." Key had gone to the flagship under a flag of truce for the purpose of requesting the release of a friend who was being held as a prisoner. The British admiral had just completed his plans for the attack on Fort McHenry, and instead of releasing Key's friend, made Key a temporary prisoner. The battle began on September 13, 1814, and lasted until the morning of the following day. From his prison ship Key watt bed the prog- ress of the bombardment hopeful but not confident that the "Stars and Stripes" would still wave above the fort when the battle ended. Now he would catch a glimpse of the flag for a second as the smoke and fog cleared away, and then it would be hidden from view again as the British guns belched forth shot, fire and smoke. Night fell and the bombardment continued. Anxiously the prisoner peered through the darkness for a glimpse of the flag. For an instant, as a bomb or a rocket would burst perilously close to its staff, ne would see it, only to have darkness close in again and with darkness came uncertainty. The hours passed slowly, but Key remained at his post watching, hoping against hope. Morning broke at last, and above the fort "Old Glory" still floated defiantly in the breeze. The British had failed, and withdrew. It was then that Key, on the inspiration of the moment, put down the first lines or notes from which he later wrote the "Star-Spangled Banner." A week later the verses were published In a Baltimore paper, under the title of "The Defense of Fort McHenry." A short time later they were set to the tune of the old air, "To Ancreon in Heaven," and were taken up at once by the troops camped in Baltimore, and from that time the song grew in popularity until to-day it is given first place among our national tongs. From "Songs of Our Country." SOLO OR QUARTET. V >P f} : r- 2 ^ N a S N- -*-- M J^-'V I ' 1. Oh,.... say, can you 2. On the shore dim - ly r^r - 1 gg.Efl i i -i 3 *^- LcJ d J-LJ J ^_l r see, by the dawn's ear ly seen thro' the mists of the Lg_E-t_4^t=*q : 3 j. -1*- j. j s- light, What so proud - ly we deep, Where the foe's baught-y ^ ^^ , * ^-& *-= F t p^5p ^^ 1 V V 1 =F= 1 - JL - f^g^- 1 Q b c *- rf- 1 - j J j. fr" fe" -/-^ 1 T^ -, r-- 1 ' W C^ 9 hailed at the host in dread twi. si r-t r f jt- ^ j f r <- * - light's last gleam ing, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the lence re pos es, What is that which the breeze, o'er the j , . i , ; j f- 1 r^P ^ * H F 9 , & a* * C-'P } -g C I 1 | l>*~ i per il ous fight, O'er the ram parts we watched were so gal lant ly streaming? tow er ing steep, As it fit ful ly blows, half con-ceals, half dis clos Es? _ ^ n T And the rock - ets* red glare, the bombs burst - ing in air, Gave... proof thro'- the Now it catch es the gleam of the morn-ing's first beam. In full glo . ry re tfcfc ^^^ 10 STAR SPANGLED BANNER Continued Q fr 1 ^ j^ | \ 1 r ^ to~ night that oar flag was stilt there. Oh, . . . fleet cd, now shines on the stream: Tis the **? r ~T~ say, does that star span - gled star span gled ban ner; oh, * ' f *' f ^* t V., \ r ' THIRD STANZA And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's con- fusion, \ home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash'd out their foul foot- steps' pollution. No refuge can save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star spangled bannet in triumph doth wave (Ver the land of the free and the home of the brave. FOURTH STANZA O thus be it ever when free-men shall stand Between their lov'd home and the war's deso- lation ; Blessed with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n- rescued land Praise the pow'r that hath made and presenr'd us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust," And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. AMERICA Words by Samuel Francis Smith Music by Henry Carey Samuel Francis Smith, D. D., for many years the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Newton, Mass., wrote the words of "America" when he was a student at Andover Academy in the winter of 1831-32. It was first used publicly several years later at a Sunday school celebration of July Fourth in the Park Street Church, Boston. The music is that of "God Save the King." From "Songs of Our Country." 1. My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of ty. Of thee I sing; Land where my nee, ofi-t-t iniiu ui iiu er - \.y, \ji inee i sing* Lan 2. My na - live conn. try. fhi-e. Land of the no - ble free. Thy name I love;' I love thy 3. Let inu sic swell the breeze, A ml rin g from all the trees Sweet freedom 'ssone; Let mor - tal 4. Our f thers'G V rjM K t. K + w- PT6 t * -J J J J"T-_E tramp ling out build ed Him deal with my sift ing out glo - ry in ft*)! fr to-r ] to-r- f *: f *: f -jV-f , . ^S , g- _ the vin > tage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath an al - tar in the eve - ning dews and damps; I can coo tern - ners, so with yon my grace shall deal;" Let the the 'hearts of men be - fore His judg - ment seat ; Oh, be His bos om that trans fig - urea you and me ; As He -p- -p- -p- . to-: to to-s 1 1 T 1 T ^-fr fa ft p 5 E * r-"- HP to: * to m -t^ F * 1 5 * ' Jfh 2 f* *-^ K- : 1* J. to t C s ^ c ~~h d i 'nil $* f : ff* j^p^fczz.b loosed the faith ful light-ning of His read His right ecus sen - tence by the He - ro born of wo - man, crush the swift, my soul, to an swer Him! be died to majce men ho - . ly, let us < t , . . m m ri". j to . j j si* ^5 1 1 a ter - ri ble swift sword, His truth s march-ing on. dim and flar - ing lamps, His day s march-ing on. ser - pent with his heel, Since God s march-ing on. iu - bi - lant, my feet! Our God s march -ing on. die to make men free, While God is march-ing on. \* b (%-* * * r g p -"-e-c r i i i i / CHORfs. eon tptrito. " ryl glo ryl Hal le - lu jah! His ' truth is march -ing on 13 HAIL COLUMBIA Words by J. Hopkinson Music by J. Phyla "Hall Columbia" Is the oldest patriotic song of the United States. The words were written in 1798 by Joseph Hopkinson, a Philadelphia lawyer, and its music dates back to Washington's inaugura- tion in 1789. Although Hopkinson was the author of the verses, it was an actor who first conceived the idea. In 1798 France and England were at war and feeling in the United States ran high as to which side we should take. Gilbert, a Philadelphia player, suggested to Hopkinson that he write patriotic verses which might be set to the then popular "President's March." In writing the verses Hopkinson attempted to portray the true American spirit. His success in doing this was proven when the song was first rendered at a Philadelphia theater. It was received with great enthusiasm and found favor with those of British and French sentiment alike. During the season President Adams and his cabinet attended the theater in a body to hear it. The music of "Hail Columbia," originally known as "The President's March," was written by a composer named Phyla and was first played in 1789. From "Songs of Our Country." u / M'trtinlf. 9*-*-^* 5' -*- ^ ^:5t 1. Hail, Co lum - bia, liap - py land! 2. Im - raor - tal pa-triots! rise once more, De 8. Sound, sound the trump of fame! Hail, ye he - rocs! leav'n-born band! fend your rights, de - fend your shore; Let Wash - ing - ton's great name 4. Be - hold the Chief who now com- mands, Once more coun - try stands, Who fought anil bled in Let iiD rude foe with Ring through the world with The rock on which the Free- dora's cause, Who fought and bled in Free-dom's cause im - pious hand, Let no rude foe with im - pious hand, loud ap - plausc, Ring through tlic world with loud ap plause storm will beat, The rock on which the storm will beat; jppf^ Let in -de- pend- cure be While off 'ring peace, sin cere vVith e quil skill, with god \Vhen hope was sink ing in our boast, Kv er mind fill what and just, In heav'n we' place a man like pow'r, He g~" - erns in I In- fear - ful dis may, When gloom ob-scured Co lum bias cost ; trust. That HAIL COLUMBIA Continued Ev - er grate- ful for the prize ..... Let its al - tar reach the ski. s. Truth and Jus - tice will pre vail, And er - 'ry scheme of bond age fail. hor rid war; or guides with ease The hap - pier times of stead - j mind, from chau ges free, Re solved on death or hon - est peace. lib - er - ty. CHORUS. eon fofza. n +-. S r^ I 4 j J ri ^ ^_ ,- (&. J j ~y~g~f ~* * . -f f J-=-= Firm, u ^ m ni - ted, ^^ r r let us be, J3 j|' Rally - ing round our rp 1 L -M lib - er . r~5 1 tj; Q- U_ f f j ip : r n ^=f= Andante IST AMD 2o TENO*. SOLDIER'S FAREWELL Music by J. Kinkle u n u-\ v * ^ . -^ i ^ ^ ra. .- fr ini I fr ^r c)* ^ 1 1^ * 1 f 1 1. How can I bear to leave thee? One 2. Ne'er more may I be - hold thee, Or 3. I think of thee with long - ing, Think IST AND 2i> BAM. i j 1 P fc tt * gf." c F 1 -^--' F : ' * 1 - *= pan - ing kiss I give thee ; And to this heart en - fold thee ; With thou, w hep tears are throng -ing, That --0: <~ f-f-p P ^~ i J ^n lf 1 ^ > U 1 1 1 1 -f &^r F=M ^-r^s i rfV. J; f bg g 1 Iff) " -= P f F tr p 1 then what -e'er be - falls me, I -5p_ ^ 1 go where hon - or calls me. Fare - spear and pen - non glanc - ing, I see the foe ad vane - ing. Fare - with my last faint sigh - Ing, I'll whis - per soft, while dy - ing, Fare - crts. (M; |> J . J j j r 1 j f 1 f" f * 4= "j i? * ' ^ TranquiUo e moUa etprttt. ff\ ^ f>f) rit. well, fare -well, my own true love; Fare -well, fare - well, my own true love ' D> '-^ m 1 15 BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM March G. F. Root "The Battle Cry of Freedom" was written by George F. Root in 1861. President Lincoln had just issued his second call for troops and Root was impressed by the significance of the proclamation. He caught the spirit of the hour and there began to evolve in his mind a rallying song. In an out- burst of patriotic fervor he conceived the words and music of the song and it was presented to the public the following day. It spread throughout the country as if impelled by some magnetic influence and did much to swell the ranks of the army. On one occasion it is said to have been the deciding factor in a battle. From "Songs of Our Gauntry." . Qfl .T riii JJ.- , 1 .^^ i ^ i. Yes, we'll 3. We are 3. Oh, then, ral - ly 'round the flag, boys, we'll spring-ing to the call, Of our ral - ly 'round our flag, boys.where 1 -^ - C ral - ly once a - gain, broth-ers gone be - fore, -ev - er it may wave, tf -*- g'g'C- f-rH 5 -H 1 -r^ rf C_ -J " -f-f -f-t Shout- ing the bat-tle-cry of Shout- ing the bat-tle-cry of Shout- ing the bat-tle-cry of free-dom, We will free - dom , And we'll free - dom, From the ral ly from the hill - side, we'll fill the va- cant ranks With a North-land tried and true, From the gath-er from the plain; mil- lion pa- triots more, South- land ev - er brave, Shout-ing the bat-tle-cry of Shout-ing the bat-tle-cry of Shout-ing the bat-tle-cry of free free free dom. dom . The dom s^-rlF shines ev -'ry star, While we ral - ly 'round the flag, boys, Shout - ing the bat - tie - cry of 16 DIXIE'S LAND Words by D. Emmet The version of "Dixie" which la best known is the composition of Dan. E. Emmett, a well-known minstrel of yean gone by, and was first sung in New York in 1860. Another version of the song which waa used during the Civil War by the South, was written by General Albert Pike, a Confederate officer. The tune is thought to be that of an old negro melody. From "Songs of Our Country." f) Allegro. '.-. -->'- c . I wish I was in de land ob cot ton. Old times dar am not for pot ten . Old Mis - sus mar ' ry "'Will de . wea - her," Will- iuin wu< a gay dc - oeab c-r; His face was sharp as a bulcli er's cli-u bt-r, But dat did not seem to givab'er- 1. I 2 I Look a-way! Look a ny ! I/x>k a-\vav! Dix -ie Land. In Dix-ie Land wliar I was born in. Look a-way! Look a - way! Look a-wny! Dix - ie Land. But when he put his arm a-round'er. He Look a-way! Look a - way! Look fi-wny! Dix -ie Land. Old Mis- sus act ed the fool-ish part. And Z FT } *H =FI Ear IT on one fros ty morn-in'. Look a-way! Look a - way! Look ;i - way! Dix-ie Land. smiled as fierce as a for - ty pounder, Look a-waj j Look. a - way! Look a - way! Dix -ie Land. died for a man . dat broke her heart, Look a-way! Look a - way! Look a way I Dix-ie Land. CHORUS. Den I wish I was in Dix- ie. Hoo ray! Hoo-ray! In Dix ie Land, I'll r *^*- took my stand To . lib an' die in Dix ie, A - way, A - way, A :*^*EEj=; * * FT ray* down outh in Dix - ie, A way, A waf, A - way down south in Pu ie 4 Now here's a health to the next old Missus, And all de gals dat want to kiss us; Look away! etc. But if you want to drive 'way sorrow, Come and hear dls song to-morrow Look away! etc. 5 Dars buck-wheat cakes an' Ingin batter, Makes you fat or a little fatter; Look away! etc. Den hoe it down an' scratch your grabble, To Dixie's land I'm bound to trabble, Look away I etc. 17 MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA Animated H. C Work 1. Bring the good old bu - gle, boys.we'll 2. HOM' the dark-ies shout - ed when they 8. Yes and there -were Un - ion men who 4. "Sher- man's dash-ing Yan - kee boys will sing an- oth - er song, heard the joy - ful sound, wept with joy - ful tears, nev - er reach the coast " Sing it with a spirit that will How the turkeys gobbldwhich our start the world a-long com-mis-sa - ry found! Whentheysawthehonordflagthey had not seen foryears ; So the sau-cy rebels said, and 'twas a handsome boast, Sing it as weusedtosing it Howthesweetpotatoes ev - en Hardlycouldtheybe restraindfrom Hadthcynot for-got a-las to fif - ty thous-and strong, start -ed from the ground, break- ing forth in cheers, reck- on with the host, While we were marching thro' Geor . gia. Hur- While weweremardungthro 9- COLUMBIA, COLUMBIA, TO GLORY ARISE Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies ! Thy genius commands thee; with rapture be- hy ge hold, While ages on ages thy splendors unfold. Thy reign is the last, and the noblest of time, Most fruitful thy soil, most inviting thy clime; Let the crimes of the east ne'er encrimson thy name, Be freedom, and science, and virtue thy fame. Reverend Timothy Dwight. 18 MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME Moderate 4 '^L S. Foster s. dim. I The 2. They 3 The sun shines bright in the hunt no more forthe lead must bow, old Ken4uck-y home,'Tts pos-sum and the coon, On andthepack will have to bend,Wher- summer the darkies are gc meadow,the hill and the shore ev- er thedark-eymay int , They gO; A corn-top's ripe and the sing no more by the glimmer of few more days and the trou-ble all mead-ow's in bloom, While the birds make mu-sic all the the moon, On the bench by the old cab-in will end, In the fieldswhere su-garcanes T day. The door. The grow. A young folks roll on the day goes by like a few more days for to lit -tie cob-in floor, All shad-ow o'er the heart, Withjsor tote the wea-ry load, No mer-ry, all hap-py and brig -row, where all was de- mat-ter 'twill nev-er be B'yh light-, The bright; A bye hard times comes a- time has come when the few more days 'til we knocking at- the door, dark-ies have to part , Then my tot - ter on the road, old Ken4uck-y home, good-night old Ken-tuck- y home, For my 19 TRAMP! TRAMP! TRAMP! March Time G. F. Root pris-oa cell I sit, Thiak-lng, bat - tie front we stood, Whea their la the pris - oa cell, We are moth-er dear, of you, And our f ler- cest charge they made, And they wait -Ing for the day, That shall 3f cresc dim bright 'and hap - py home so far a swept us off a bun - dred men or come to o - pen wide the i - ron way; more; door; And the But be And the K&i= = J. j J JT^I i 1 J. = cresc P=i?^- = * "- tears they fill my eyes, Spite of fore we reach'd their lines, They were hoi - low eye grows bright, And the TO= f E=fe a ^ a j 1 H all that I can do, Tho 1 I bea - ten back dis - may'd, And -are poor heart al - most gay, As we j f ,-4= 1 " 1 1 9 1 fife \, \ 4- i - 3=^ P / i try to cheer my com - radcs and be heard the cry of vie - t'ry o'er and think of see - ing home' and friends once i,j f . - f o'er, more. f r^j i i sa * 1 -, P== 1 / p M= I J ^ TrampI trampt trampl the jgji. i t i boys are J 8 march ing, ffi =F =5 d Saa -m n r j-i P Cheer up, com- rades T-T 1 1 they will *== come, And be- neath the star-ry flag, We shall J. ^ J 4 -F J ^ J J * -* * TRAMP! TRAMP! TRAMP ! Continued . .1, r ^ e 1 1 r^ r^n r^ r J - ' ' breathe the air J J ~f^ a gain, Of the free land in our owrr be lov ed j; h ome > ^7 =f= J f i I , f . I ^ i * H J r j r 1 * WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME March Time L. Lambert JSf. o= -n j- j | J ! ffiM n-&- J JTJ J ^ I.When 2. The John- ny comes march- inj old .church bell wi i home a - gain, Hur - peal with joy, Hur - rahl rahl Hur- Hur- m }. Get read - y for the ju - bi - lee, Hur - 1* r ah! * Hur- A&F J J -K j - -3 j"" j' r^M ' W^ll give him a heart - y wel - come then, Hur - rahl To wel - < :ome home our dar - ling boy, Hur - rah! . ._ We'll the he - ro three times three, Hur - 1 T-i V j , S =5= L_E p L 1 1 J T r ' 1 J r ^^ ^^ ^ rahl rahl rahl Hur Hur Hur rah! rah! rahl The_ The_ The_ men "will cheer, the vil - lage fads and lau - rel wreath- is \x\\> j j=a=: ^=q j j-i >=^=^ i _ - 1 f b ' ^ ^ 4*= boys will shout, The las - sies say, With rea - dy now, To w. i % 31 -f i * ^=d la - dies they will ro - ses they will place up - on his j v e v= ^^ all turn out, strew the way, And we'll loy al brow, P| ^ ^ ? -i . 7 r 7 _J 3 B 1 1 ^^ F i John- ny comes march - ing 21 WE'RE TENTING TONIGHT W. Kittredge Slowly jr *tt" it P H d J- =H- 1- 1 1 1 1 1 1 nh * ! P"H 1 -C r j-= song of gave us the Iftft their 1 =?= aome, _ tiand,_ iomes,_ dy - ing, and and the friends we love so tear that said "Good - oth - ers been wound- ed man - y are in -p r e *- dear, bye!" long, tears. some . are *y/ p i = : ' \\ f 1 1 1 -'*' f II CHORUS f J r Man-y are the hearts that are wea-ry to-night, Wish-ing for the war to M R#*t^ 1 [ _|^ ~3 1 T"~l 1 \^ K H , h 1 " . NF*^ nd; Man - y are the hearts look - ii Lg J: t ' ai for the right, To \-' H | E- r - r it H !^ ff r fi v~~ * ?^- " f - r <- see the dawn of TrtH h peace. v Tent - ing to - night, TV 22 WE'RE TENTING TONIGHT Continued * it cresc A. M n 1 H 1 * Ending for Verses I}.H< > r 1 1 T II \ \ \ I J. || i i fi Tent -ing to - night, J r J J J f tent - ing on the c 1 \ ^ Id camp f=^ 4 ground. r F -\r* Verse D.C. ditn f oco a P co W= =*f=-^ =*p= : == / J- Dy - ing on the old camp ground f): O -i 1 ir- g 1 - f i ,r -^ r f == ^ 3 YANKEE DOODLE Words by Schaackbury 1. Fath'r and' 1 ' went down to camp, A long with Cap- tain Good- 'in, And ihere we saw the 3. And there we see a thous-and men, As rich as Squire Da - vid ; And what they wasted 3 And there was Cap- tain Wash- iug- ton Up -on a slap-ping stal - linn, A giv - ing or-ders 4. And then thefeath-ers on his hat, They look'dso ver - y fine, ah! I want -ed pesk- i - r *M*- CHO*US. qs^=Js x ^ men and boys As thick a>*^ has ty pud- din.'. er 'ry day, 1 wish it could be sav - ed. ( y k D d) . it to his men: I guess there was a mil - lion, f Yan ly to get To give to my Je - mi - ma. up, Yan 1PI==S=I I / ^^y^g^JT^ | J^^ Jiee Doo-dle dan dy. Mind the mu- sic and the. step. And with the girls be han - dy. '* r P _ i ! .__ ,*'* -** f ft 5 And there I see a swamping gun, Large as a log of maple, Upon a mighty little cart; A load for father's cattle. 6 And every time they fired it off, It took a horn of powder; It made a noise like father's gun, Only a nation louder. 7 And there I see a little keg, Its head all made of leather, They knocked upon't with little sticks, To call the folks together. 8 And Cap'n Davis had a gun, He kind o' clapt his hand on't And stuck a crooked stabbing-iron Upon the little end on't. 9 The troopers, too, would gallop up And fire right in our faces; It scared me almost half to death To see them run such races. 10 It scared me so I hooked it off, Nor stopped, as I remember, Nor turned about till I got home, Locked up in mother's chamber. 23 OLD FOLKS AT HOME m_f i n rj =J 1. Way down up -on the 2. All round de lit tie 3. One lit -tie hut a - Swa-nee rib - er, farm I . wan-dered, mongde bush-es, Tf Far, far a - When I was One dat I way; young; love; Dere's wha 1 my heart is Den maa-y hap-py Still sad - ly to my r" turn -ing eb - er, days I squan-dered, mem-'ry rush-es, Dere's wha' de old folks Man - y de songs I No mat-ter where I stay, sung, rove. i jMji i -=r -~. , <=^ *= == i ffl g) J^ J J j '-f r AU Up and down de whole ere a - tion, When I was play - Ing wid my brud - der, When will I see de bees a - hum - mmg, f= =p f i =t= |j/ " f 1 1 i r 1 j - - ...^ i i > i Sad - li T I roam; 4= Still lo -J JL=*= tig - ing for de Hap - py was I; Oh, take me to my All 'round de comb; When will I hear de .* 1 iff MiJ J J ?=3 1 Si r ''' ff r T t 1 - -f- -* u; ^**< L4 i fl U 4f=^ r 1 f hr^ SE fr 1 J j:-^ rj * Jr 1 " i * V* old plan - ta - tion, And for de old folks at home. kind old mad - der, Dere let me live and die. ban - Jo turn - ming, Down In my good old home? ; , p | r i Hi g "^"ps -j - gj i -J 24 THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME Alltgrt tto. 1. I'm. . .lone - some 2. Oh!., ne'er shall 3. The-. . bee shall 4. My*., mind her since I hon form I for cross'd the get the ey ' taste no shall still re 1 hill, night. more, tain, T=3 And The The In o'er stais dove sleep and the moor were bright a be come a... ing or... in... val ley; Such hear - y thoughts my heart do fill. Since part ing with my bove' me, And gent - ly lent their silv - 'ry light. When first she vowed sho ran - ger, The dash ing waves shall cease to roar, Ere she's to me a wak ing, Un til 1 see my love a gain. For whom my heart is ly. I seek no more the fine and gay, For each does but re - loved me. But., now I'm bound to Brigh ton camp, Kind Heaven, may fa vor stran - ger; The., vows we've reg is - ter'd a - bove Shall ev . er cheer and break- ing. If ... ev '- er I should see the day When Mars shall have .re Z * -*^*- f- -, *- -& * mind me Ho* swift the hours did find me, And send me safe - ly bind me, .In., con - stan cy to signed me', For ev er - more I'll pass a way With the. girl I've left be hind ma back a - gain To the girl I've -left be hind me. her I love, The girl I've' left be - hind me. glad ly stay With the girl I've left be - hind me. LIBERTY TREE In a chariot of light from the regions of day, The Goddess of Liberty came; Ten thousand celestials directed the way, And hither conducted the dame. A fair budding branch from the gardens above, Where millions with millions agree, She brought in her hand as a pledge of her lore, And the plant she named, Liberty Tree. Thomai Paine. 25 : h > 3^f MASSA'S IN THE COLD GROUND Words and Music by Stephen C. Foster 4- f jr 1. Round de mea-dovrs ani a- ring-ing 2. When de au -tumn leaves were fall - ing, 3. Mas - sa make de dark-eys love him, urn - fid De dark - ey's mourn - fid 6ong, When de days were cold, Cayse he was so kind, While do 'Twas hard to Now, dey S*f> -x- mock-ing bin! am sing - ing. Hap - py as de day hear old inas-sa call- ing, Cayse he was so weak sad - ly weep a - bove him, Mourning cayse he leave am long, and old. dcm behind. Where de i - vy am a Now de or-ange trees am I can - not work be - fore to - creep - ing, O'er de grass - y mound, bloom - ing, On de sand - y shore, mor - row, Cayse de tear - drop flow ; Dare old mas sa am a - sleep - ing, Now de sum - mer days am cdfti - ing, I try to drive a - way my sor - row, :S=fc=d Sleep - ing in de cold, cold ground. Down in de corn - field Hear dat mourn - f ul Mas sa neb > ber calls no more. Pick - in' on de old ban - jo. J: J' sound ; All de dark - eys am a - weep - ing, Mas - sa's in de cold, cold ground. g g t ^ NEW ENGLAND Hail to the land whereon we tread, Our fondest boast; The sepulchre of mighty dead, The truest hearts that ever bled, Who sleep on glory's bright bed, A fearless host: No slave is here our unchain'd feet Walk freely, as the waves that beat Our coast. James Gate* Percival. 26 OLD BLACK JOE Andante espressivo Words and Music by S. C. Foster 4 >l \f -^ -3^| -T 1 1 -1 2 ---_- 1. Gone .IP- 2. Why ( th<- -lays I W.M-P 11 J when my when my i * i i heart was young and g.- heart should feel no pa - y y\ - in? .'iWh'-rt- .ip 1 the h.Mirb on 3= ?e so hap' - py a nd so fr :e? Tli - *' ; <>r J j^ V ^ 1 r r j ,-T ? " _^ Gone are my friends from the Why do I sigh that my chil - dren so dear, that I cot ton fields a - way; friends come not a - gain? held up - on my knee? Q ftji --= F=^= 1 J J 1 f J ^= 1 1 ^=} Gone Griev Gone =J-= from ing to =3= i the earth for forms the shore -^4 1 to a now de - where my -J b. ])a BO 2 9 & :t - ter land I know rt - ed long a - go? ul has longed to go. J ' J === -J I = = L iLJ^ ^^ 9 ^^ L -t -^ . 7 ^_^ S CHORUS hear those gen -tie voi-ces caD-ing SPIRIT OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT What is understood by a republican govern- ment in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself. It is a reg- ular state of things really founded upon the en- lightened will of the people. It is a concilia- tory government under which resolutions are allowed time to ripen; and in which they are deliberately discussed, and executed with ma- ture judgment The republicans in the United States sR a high value upon morality, respect religious belief, and acknowledge the existence of rights. They profess to think that a people ought to be moral, religious, and temperate, in proportion as it is free. What is called the re- public in the United States, is the tranquil rule it the majority, which, after having had time to examine itself, and to give proof of its exist- ence, is the common source of all the powers of the state. ******* That Providence has given to every human being the degree of reason necessary to direct himself in the affairs which interest him ex- clusively; such is the grand maxim upon which civil and political society rests in the United States. The father of a family applies it to hia children; the master to his servants; the town- ship to its officers; the province to its town- ships; the State to the provinces; the Union to the States; and when extended to the nation, it becomes the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people. Alexis De Tocqueville. 27 Selected Passages from The President's Flag Day Address By Woodrow Wilson. June 14, 1917 MY fellow citizens: We meet to celebrate Flag Day because this flag which we honor and under which we serve is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a Nation. It has no other character than that which we give it from generation to generation. The choices are ours. It floats in majes- tic silence above the hosts that exe- cute those choices, whether in peace or in war. And yet, though silent, it speaks to us speaks to us of the past, of the men and women who went before us and of the records they wrote upon it. We celebrate the day of its birth ; and from its birth until now it has witnessed a great history, has floated on high the symbol of great events, of a great plan of life worked out by a great people. We are about to carry it into bat- tle, to lift it where it will draw the fire of our enemies. We are about to bid thousands, hundreds of thou- sands, it may be millions of our men, the young, the strong, the capable men of the Nation, to go forth and die beneath it on fields of blood far away for what? For some unaccustomed thing? For something for which it has never sought the fire before? American armies were never before sent across the seas. Why are they sent now? For some new purpose, for which this great flag has never been carried be- fore, or for some old, familiar, heroic purposes for which it has seen men, its own men, die on every battlefield upon which Americans have borne arms since the revolution? These are questions which must be answered. We are Americans. We in turn serve America and can serve her with no private purpose. We must use her flag as she has always used it. We are accountable at the bar of history and must plead in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve. ******* Facts are patent to all the world and nowhere are they more plainly seen than in the United States, where we are accustomed to deal with facts and not with sophistries; and the great fact that stands out above all the rest is that this is a people's war, a war for freedom and justice and self-government amongst all the na- tions of the world, a war to make the world safe for the peoples who live upon it and have made it their own, the German people themselves in- cluded, and that with us rests the choice to break through all these hypocrisies and patent cheats and masks of brute force and help set the world free, or else stand aside and let it be dominated along through the ages by sheer weight of arms and arbitrary mandates of self-consti- tuted masters, by the nation which can maintain the biggest armies and the most irresistible armament a power to which the world has afford- ed no parallel and in the face of which political freedom must wither and perish. For us there is but one choice. We have made it. Woe be to the man or group of men that seeks to stand in our way in this day of high reso- lution when every principle we hold dearest is to be vindicated and made secure for the salvation of the na- tions. We are ready to plead at the bar of history and our flag shall wear a new lustre. Once more we shall make good with our lives and fortunes the great faith to which we were born and a new glory shall shine in the face of our people. 28 For a Broader Patriotism One evening the Head Resident of Friendly House tried to join in the singing of America which closed the session of the classes in English at the University of Chicago Settlement. He soon found that the America of. which he was singing "the land where the Pilgrims pride" was not the America of these New Americans from over-seas. That evening the visitor found a new song of patriotism and gained a view of a different America, an America broader in conception than the America of the Smith poem, a greater America, surely, an America that any native-born may revere and sing his admiration for with hand clasped in the hand of another sort of American, an American in soul and spirit, American in all except the accident of birth. A NEW AMERICA A Patriotic Song That Americans, Wherever Born, May. Sing. 1. Our fathers' God, to Thee, 3. Author of liberty, In every clime; May we all brothers be In this, our country free, Makers of unity, In this, our time. 2. New land, of thee we sing, 4. Our hearts, our hands we bring, Thee let us serve. Let us the cities rear, And without slavish fear, Build here a nation dear In freedom's name. Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song. Let mortal tongues awake, Let all that breathe partake, Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong. Our Fathers' God, to Thee, Author of Liberty, To Thee we sing; Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light. Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King. There is a future look in this verse that Miss Mary McDowell has written, the forward look, and brotherhood, freedom, toil and aspiration, optimism, trust in God from whom comes liberty in every land. It may be that Americans by inheritance have all along been lacking in courtesy in insisting that Americans through choice should voice their patriotism in words which for them can have neither dedication nor devo- tion. When a New American sings, "My Native Country, Thee," and "Land where My Fathers Died," he pays tribute to a country to which he renounced allegiance when he became an American. Friendly House, January 1918. 29 University of California SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1388 Return this material to the library from which It was borrowed. A 000907038 4 Ur