Kentucky Gazette And General Advertiser

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 fantastic dreams
When insult justly rais'd thy frown,
Thou did'st to wrath discretion join,
And bade the royal Spanish crown
Lay justice to the travers'd line.

The monarch hears—without delay
The rankling cause is swept away.
No hostile armies cross the plain,
No war-contractors gripe the poor;
No childless widows mourn their slain,
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 part.
New-Orleans purchas'd, and thy tide
Vast Mississippi, all our own,
Here adverse barques 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 wid'ning bound,
New towns & states will swiftly rise;
European crowds will press the ground,
Emerging from less favored skies:

Of equal rights and laws secure,
Hosts following hosts shall seek this shore.
Blest are the men who foster peace,
Who strike no needless, hasty blow;
Who love to see the arts increase,
And riches from industry flow:

Who keep no pamper'd pimps in pay,
To varnish guilt in colours gay.