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    CONNECTICUT

    WIDE-AWAKE

    SONGSTER.


    EDITED BY
    JOHN W. HUTCHINSON,
    OF THE HUTCHINSON FAMILY OF SINGERS;

    ASSISTED BY
    BENJAMIN JEPSON.


    “Lincoln and Liberty.”


    NEW YORK:
    O. HUTCHINSON, PUBLISHER,
    272 GREENWICH STREET.
    1860.




PURCHASING AGENCY.


FOR the accommodation of my numerous friends in various parts of the
country who prefer not to be at the expense of frequent visits to New
York, I have made arrangements with some of the most reliable houses in
the city to supply those who may favor me with their orders for

    BOOKS, STATIONERY,
    Hats and Caps, Dry-Goods,
    DRUGS, HARDWARE, FURNITURE,
    CARPETS, WALL-PAPERS, GROCERIES,
    ETC., ETC.,

on such terms as can not but be satisfactory to the purchasers.

The disposition on the part of many merchants to overreach their
customers when they have an opportunity of doing so, renders it almost
as necessary for merchants to give references to their customers as
for customers to give references of their standing to the merchants;
hence I have been careful to make arrangements only with honorable and
responsible houses who can be fully relied on.

As my trade with those houses will be large in the aggregate, they can
afford to allow me a trifling commission and still supply my customers
at their _lowest rates_, which I will engage shall be as low as any
regular houses will supply them.

My friends and others are requested to try the experiment by forwarding
me orders for anything they may chance to want, and if not satisfied, I
will not ask them to repeat the experiment.

Those visiting the city are invited to give me a call before making
their purchases, and test the prices of the houses to whom I can with
confidence introduce them.

Bills for small lots of goods, if sent by express, can be paid for on
delivery, or arrangements can be made for supplying responsible parties
on time.

Address,

    =O. HUTCHINSON, New York=.




    CONNECTICUT

    WIDE-AWAKE

    SONGSTER.


    EDITED BY
    JOHN W. HUTCHINSON,
    OF THE HUTCHINSON FAMILY OF SINGERS;

    ASSISTED BY
    BENJAMIN JEPSON.


    “Lincoln and Liberty.”


    NEW YORK:
    O. HUTCHINSON, PUBLISHER,
    272 GREENWICH STREET.
    1860.




    Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by

    JOHN W. HUTCHINSON,

    In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for
    the Southern District of New York.


    DAVIES & KENT,

    STEREOTYPERS AND ELECTROTYPERS,

    _113 Nassau Street, N. Y._




Contents.


          PAGE

    The Republican Platform                                        5
    Lincoln and Victory                                            9
    Strike for the Right                                          10
    Hurrah Chorus                                                 11
    Hurrah for Abe Lincoln                                        12
    Lincoln and Liberty                                           14
    The People’s Nominee                                          15
    Flag of the Brave                                             17
    Come On!                                                      18
    Abe of Illinois                                               19
    Our Country’s Call                                            20
    The Grand Rally                                               21
    Lincoln Going to Washington                                   22
    For Freedom and Reform                                        24
    Lincoln and Hamlin                                            25
    Campaign Song                                                 26
    Ridden by the Slave Power                                     27
    “Vive La Honest Abe”                                          29
    The Gathering of the Republican Army                          30
    Lincoln’s Nomination                                          31
    Freedom’s Call                                                32
    Hope for the Slave                                            33
    Freemen Win when Lincoln Leads                                34
    Uncle Sam’s Farm                                              35
    Song of Freedom                                               37
    The “Neb-Rascality.”                                          38
    Free Soil Chorus                                              40
    The Bay State Hurrah                                          42
    For Liberty                                                   43
    Voice of Freedom                                              44
    The Cause of Liberty                                          45
    Lincoln, the Pride of the Nation                              46
    Rallying Song                                                 47
    Abe Lincoln is the Man                                        48
    The Fate of a Fowler                                          49
    Rallying Song of Rocky Mountain Club                          51
    The Liberty Army                                              52
    Have You Heard the Loud Alarm?                                53
    Hark! ye Freemen                                              55
    From Bad to Worse                                             56
    The March of the Free                                         57
    Our Flag is There                                             58
    Lincoln and Victory                                           59
    “Wide Awake”                                                  61
    We’ll Send Buchanan Home                                      62
    Rallying Song                                                 64
    Lincoln                                                       65
    Song                                                          66
    Campaign Song                                                 68
    Freemen, Banish All Your Fears                                69
    “Wide-Awake Club” Song                                        70
    A Jolly Good Crew We’ll Have                                  71




THE

REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.


_Resolved_, That we, the delegated representatives of the Republican
electors of the United States, in convention assembled, in the
discharge of the duty we owe to our constituents and our country, unite
in the following declarations:

_First_—That the history of the nation, during the last four years, has
fully established the propriety and necessity of the organization and
perpetuation of the Republican party, and that the causes which called
it into existence are permanent in their nature, and now, more than
ever before, demand its peaceful and constitutional triumph.

_Second_—That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the
Declaration of Independence, and embodied in our federal Constitution,
is essential to the preservation of our Republican institutions, and
that the federal Constitution, the rights of the States, and the Union
of the States must and shall be preserved.

_Third_—That to the Union of the States this nation owes its
unprecedented increase in population; its surprising development of
material resources; its rapid augmentation of wealth; its happiness
at home and its honor abroad, and we hold in abhorrence all schemes
for disunion, come from whatever source they may; and we congratulate
the country that no Republican member of Congress has uttered or
countenanced a threat of disunion, so often made by Democratic members
of Congress, without rebuke and with applause from their political
associates; and we denounce those threats of disunion, in case of a
popular overthrow of their ascendancy, as denying the vital principles
of a free government, and as an avowal of contemplated treason, which
it is the imperative duty of an indignant people strongly to rebuke and
forever silence.

_Fourth_—That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States,
and especially the right of each State to order and control its own
domestic institutions, according to its own judgment exclusively,
is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and
endurance of our political faith depend, and we denounce the lawless
invasion by armed force of any state or territory, no matter under what
pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.

_Fifth_—That the present Democratic administration has far exceeded
our worst apprehensions, in its measureless subserviency to the
exactions of a sectional interest, as is especially evident in its
desperate exertions to force the infamous Lecompton Constitution upon
the protesting people of Kansas—in construing the personal relation
between master and servant, to involve an unqualified property in
persons—in its attempted enforcement everywhere, on land and sea,
through the intervention of Congress and the federal courts, of the
extreme pretensions of a purely local interest, and in its general and
unvarying abuse of the power intrusted to it by a confiding people.

_Sixth_—That the people justly view with alarm the reckless
extravagance which pervades every department of the federal government;
that a return to rigid economy and accountability is indispensable
to arrest the system of plunder of the public treasury by favored
partisans; while the recent startling developments of fraud and
corruption at the federal metropolis show that an entire change of
administration is imperatively demanded.

_Seventh_—That the new dogma that the constitution of its own force
carries slavery into any or all the territories of the United States,
is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit
provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition,
and with legislative and judicial precedent, is revolutionary in its
tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.

_Eighth_—That the normal condition of all the territory of the United
States is that of freedom; that as our republican fathers, when
they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained
that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law, it becomes our duty, by legislation,
whenever legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of
the constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny
the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any
individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the
United States.

_Ninth_—That we brand the recent reopening of the African slave trade,
under the cover of our national flag, aided by perversions of judicial
power, as a crime against humanity, a burning shame to our country and
age, and we call upon Congress to take prompt and efficient measures
for the total and final suppression of that execrable traffic.

_Tenth_—That in the recent vetoes by their federal governors of the
acts of the Legislature of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery
in those territories, we find a practical illustration of the boasted
Democratic principle of non-intervention and popular sovereignty,
embodied in the Kansas and Nebraska bill, and a denunciation of the
deception and fraud involved therein.

_Eleventh_—That Kansas should of right be immediately admitted as a
State under the constitution recently formed and adopted by her people,
and accepted by the House of Representatives.

_Twelfth_—That while providing revenue for the support of the general
government, by duties upon imposts, sound policy requires such an
adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development of the
industrial interest of the whole country, and we commend that policy
of national exchanges which secures to the workingmen liberal wages,
to agriculture remunerating prices, to mechanics and manufacturers an
adequate reward for their skill, labor, and enterprise, and to the
nation commercial prosperity and independence.

_Thirteenth_—That we protest against any sale or alienation to others
of the public lands held by actual settlers, and against any view of
the free homestead policy, which regards the settlers as paupers or
supplicants for public bounty, and we demand the passage by Congress
of the complete and satisfactory homestead measure, which has already
passed the house.

_Fourteenth_—That the National Republican party is opposed to any
change in our naturalization laws, or any State legislation by which
the rights of citizenship, hitherto accorded to immigrants from foreign
lands shall be abridged or impaired; and in favor of giving a full and
efficient protection to the rights of all classes of citizens, whether
native or naturalized, both at home or abroad.

_Fifteenth_—That appropriations by Congress for river and harbor
improvements of a national character, required for the accommodation
and security of an existing commerce, are authorized by the
constitution, and justified by an obligation of the government to
protect the lives and property of its citizens.

_Sixteenth_—That a railroad to the Pacific Ocean is imperatively
demanded by the interests of the whole country; that the federal
government ought to render immediate and efficient aid in its
construction, and that, as preliminary thereto, a daily overland mail
should be promptly established.

_Seventeenth_—Finally, having thus set forth our distinctive principles
and views, we invite the co-operation of all citizens, however
differing on other questions, who substantially agree with us in their
affirmance and support.




CONNECTICUT WIDE-AWAKE SONGSTER.




LINCOLN AND VICTORY.

BY W. SCOTT.


    ARISE, arise, Republicans!
      And bear the banner of the free
    To where the star of empire lights
      Us on to victory.
              Then let the watch-word be
              Lincoln and Victory!
              Sound it from sea to sea,
              Lincoln and Victory!

    Arise, arise, Republicans!
      And sweep the prairies of the West,
    The teeming hill-sides of the East,
      For Lincoln of the West.
            Then let the watch-word be, etc.

    Arise, arise, Republicans!
      Our leader is an honest man;
    We’ll follow on through good or ill—
      For Lincoln leads the van.
            Then let the watch-word be, etc.




STRIKE FOR THE RIGHT.


    ONCE more to the combat with rekindled zeal,
    Our flag to the breeze, and our hands to the steel!
    We strike for the right, and we ask no delay,
    We’re ready and eager to rush to the fray.
      Strike for the right, men, strike for the right!
      Close up your ranks, men, show them your might!
      Rulers may tremble, and power may quail;
      We strike for the right, and the right shall prevail.

    Our forests and lakes, from Wisconsin to Maine,
    Send out their brave sons to the conflict again;
    While mountain and prairie with camp-fires aglow,
    Re-echo the war-cry and welcome the blow.
                        Strike for the right, etc.

    The trumpets are sounding, the battle’s begun,
    There’s danger to face, and there’s work to be done:
    The timid and sluggard may shrink from the fray,
    The glory compensates our struggles to-day.
                        Strike for the right, etc.

    Already their peril is felt by our foes,
    Already they falter and shrink from our blows
    The shout of our comrades rings thrilling and clear:
    The victory’s certain, the victory’s near.
                        Strike for the right, etc.

    A cheer for our leaders, the twin-hearted braves!
    A cheer for the banner that over us waves!
    With Lincoln and Hamlin we’ve nothing to fear:
    The victory’s certain, the victory’s near.
                        Strike for the right, etc.




HURRAH CHORUS.


    FOR Lincoln now we sing our lay,
      Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!
    For he’s the man, say what you may,
      Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!
    Now Illinois has one great son,
    Who over the course swift will run.
      He is the man, an honest one,
      Oh, he’s the man for me.

    Old Abe can maul, or he can thrash,
      Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!
    He’ll give it to your Loco trash,
      Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!
    Your two-faced man is naught to him,
    E’en now his prospects are all dim,
      Abe is the man, an honest man,
      He is the man for me.

    Abe is not rich in worldly goods,
      Oh no, oh no, oh no!
    But in his thoughts, his works, his words,
      He’s true, he’s true, he’s true.
    ’Tis he who loves his wife and friends,
    And o’er his duty daily bends.
      He is the man, an honest man,
      He is the man for me.

    Upon the Eagle he shall ride,
      Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!
    And of our nation be the pride,
      Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!
    While Douglas shall remain below,
    And his own horn still have to blow.
      Abe is the man, an honest man,
      He is the man for me.




HURRAH FOR ABE LINCOLN!

_Tune_—“Boatman Dance.”


    HURRAH! hurrah! did you hear the news?
      The Democrats have got the blues;
    They’re puzzled now, and all afraid,
      Because we’ve nominated Abe.
          Then shout, freemen, shout!
          Shout, freemen, shout!
                We’ll all unite
                And bravely fight
          For the Star of Freedom’s dawning.
              Hi! ho! we’ll put them through,
              Split their rails, and haul them too;
              Hi! ho! we’ll put them through,
              Split their rails, and haul them too.

    In all their ranks they can not find
      A candidate to suit their mind;
    They kick and squirm, but ’tis no use,
      Their game is up, their platform’s loose.
          Then shout, freemen, shout!
          Shout, freemen, shout!
                We’ll all unite
                And bravely fight
          For the Star of Freedom’s dawning.
                          Hi! ho! etc.

    They know that they will lose the day
      If they take up with _Stephen A._;
    And so to add to their humbug swell,
      I think they’d better take up _Bell_.
          Then shout, freemen, shout!
          Shout, freemen, shout!
                We’ll all unite
                And bravely fight
          For the Star of Freedom’s dawning.
                          Hi! ho! etc.

    I hear they’ve bought an old steam-tug,
      On which to place poor little DUG;
    For President too late they’ve found
      His coat tail comes too near the ground.
          Then shout, freemen, shout!
          Shout, freemen, shout!
                We’ll all unite
                And bravely fight
          For the Star of Freedom’s dawning.
                          Hi! ho! etc.

    We’ll give them HAM enough this fall,
      To satisfy them one and all;
    Served up in style quite neat and plain,
      Just imported from _Old Maine_.
          Then shout, freemen, shout!
          Shout, freemen, shout!
                We’ll all unite
                And bravely fight
          For the Star of Freedom’s dawning.
                          Hi! ho! etc.

    Hurrah! hurrah! we are sure to win,
      And the way we’ll beat will be a sin;
    The coming year’s impending blast
    Will show them they have crowed their last.
          Then shout, freemen, shout!
          Shout, freemen, shout!
                We’ll all unite
                And bravely fight
          For the Star of Freedom’s dawning.
              Hi! ho! we’ll put them through,
              Split