The following Campaign Song was written by Samuel Copp, Esq., aged 75 years, for the “Lincoln and Hamlin Club” of Stonington, Conn., a place rendered memorable by the gallant repulse of a naval attack by the British, on the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th of Aug., 1814, in which four days’ contest Mr. Copp took a part. The original song is furnished to us by the author’s friend, Samuel C. Brewster, Esq.:
What mean the joyful shouts that ring
So gladly through the air?
A better day is opening—
A day all bright and fair!
Lincoln and Hamlin, wise and great,
Our star-lit standard bear
Triumphant to the helm of State,
And these their heralds are.
They rise, from hamlet, city, town,