The New Hampshire Gazette

Miscellaneous Repository.

From the Vermont Gazette.

A new Song, on the cession of LOUISIANA, to the UNITED STATES.

HAIL Jefferson, thy country's voice,
Shall tell thy acts in joyful strains,
Beneath thy wise designs rejoice,
While peace and plenty deck the plains.
Monarchic wiles, and grandeur's schemes
Shall vanish like phantastic dreams.
When insult justly rais'd thy frown,
Thou didst to wrath discretion join,
And bade the royal Spanish crown
Lay justice to the travers'd line.
The monarch hears—without delay
The rank'ling cause is swept away.
No childless widows mourn their slain,
No war-contractors gripe the poor,
No hostile armies cross the plain,
No cripples beg from door to door,
But all is stillness all is peace,
And joys from hour to hour increase.
While Britain madly pants for war,
And France indignant checks her pride,
Though Europe shake,—without a jar,
Here peace and plenty shall reside,
And through our wide republic raise
The songs of gratitude and praise.
Columbia! Hail the happy day,
When worth and diplomatic skill,
With honest but commanding sway,
Bids even rivalry be still,
By reason's mild, alluring art,
Adds a new empire to our chart.
New-Orleans purchas'd, and thy tide,
Vast Mississippi all our own,
Here adverse barks in peace shall ride,
Nor acts of enmity be known,
Orleans, like sister cities free,
Shout Jefferson and Liberty.
Louisiana's vast domain
Annexed to our union stands,
Nor shall her sovereignty again,
Revert into European hands,
Her sister states, her love shall claim,
And gently fan her genial flame.
Throughout the empire's widening bound,
New towns and states will swiftly rise,
European crowds will press the ground
Emerging from less favored skies,
Of equal rights and laws secure,
Host following host shall seek this shore.
Blessed are the Men who foster peace,
Who strike no hasty needless blow,
Who love to see the arts increase.
And riches from industry flow :
Who keep no pampered Pimps in pay,
To varnish guilt in colours gay.