_Air_—“Scots Wha Hae.”
FREEMEN, banish all your fears,
Lo! the promised morn appears,
Long foretold by Freedom’s seers—
Lincoln takes the field.
Victory flashes in his eye,
Speaks in every battle-cry,
Rings along the vaulted sky,
Blazes on his shield.
See the Western prairies flame
At the mention of his name;
Hear a people’s loud acclaim,
Conscious of their might;
Then behold the guilty foe,
Glutted with a nation’s woe—
Patriots, do you fear them?—No.
God will speed the right.
Standing on the sacred sod,
Where our fearless fathers trod;
Must _we_ tamely kiss the rod,
Bowing low the knee?
Foemen of your country’s weal,
Bid your pampered hirelings kneel,
Crush _them_ with your iron heel—
We, at least, are free.
And by all we love on earth,
By the land that gave us birth,
Friends of toil and honest worth,
Like our honored sires,
Heart to heart, and hand in hand,
We will march, a conquering band,
Till the altars of our land
Glow with Freedom’s fires.
“WIDE-AWAKE CLUB” SONG.
_Tune_—“A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea.”
OH, hear you not the wild huzzas
That come from every State?
For honest Uncle Abraham,
The People’s candidate?
He is our choice, our nominee,
A self-made man, and true;
We’ll show the Democrats this fall
What honest Abe can do.
Then give us Abe, and Hamlin, too,
To guide our gallant ship,
With Seward, Sumner, Chase, and Clay,
And then a merry trip.
Come, Granny Buck, you’d better go
While you can see the way,
For I fear your nerves won’t stand the shock
On next election day.
So take your hat—what’s that you say?
You are so cold you shiver—
Why, that’s the way you feel, my dear,
When sailing up Salt River.
Then give us Abe, and Hamlin, too, etc.
I hear that Dug. is half inclined
To give us all leg-bail,
Preferring exercise on foot
To riding on a rail.
For Abe has one already mauled
Upon the White House plan;
If once Dug. gets astride of that,
He is a used-up man.
Then give us Abe, and Hamlin, too, etc.
Come rally with us here to-night,
Be “Wide-Awake” for fun,
For we shall surely win the day
Before old sixty-one.
From North to South, from East to West,
Our power shall be felt;
I tell you fight with all your might,
For Abe shall have the _Belt_.
Then give us Abe, and Hamlin, too,
To guide our gallant ship,
With Seward, Sumner, Chase, and Clay,
And then a merry trip.