Item #58734 Song. / Tune -- Anacreon in Heaven. / While Round the full board, independent and free, [first line of the first stanza] / [followed by lyrics in six stanzas, the last five numbered at the head in Roman numerals, each stanza with eight lines, the last two lines reading "O, sage may Columbia forever remain / From the freedom of France and Religion of Paine!"].

Song. / Tune -- Anacreon in Heaven. / While Round the full board, independent and free, [first line of the first stanza] / [followed by lyrics in six stanzas, the last five numbered at the head in Roman numerals, each stanza with eight lines, the last two lines reading "O, sage may Columbia forever remain / From the freedom of France and Religion of Paine!"].

[Boston or Salem, MA?]: np, nd [ca. 1795-1805]. Printed broadside, 11 x 4 3/4 inches, the head printed in larger bold type. An anonymous American political song written from an intensely Massachusetts Federalist point of view, the lyrics include Federalist buzzwords of the time, used to denounce Republicans, often termed anarchic, French-sympathizing, conspiratorial, and deistic, a take on Robert Treat Paine's "Adams and Liberty," published in 1798. This song was included in the 1812 anthology "Patriotic Vocalist" (pp. 11-13; Salem, MA: Cushing & Appleton, 1812), with the lyrics attributed to "Mr Bigelow (1804)." Not in Shipton & Mooney or American Imprints, or any other reference consulted. Apparently not recorded on OCLC (which does locate a London, 1789, broadside of the same title, printing a song in praise of the French Revolution). Fine crisp example of a rare early 19th-century American political broadside song. Folded. (#6282). Item #58734

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