On their banners emblazoned, behold;
A name that is peer of the best
To the breezes of Autumn unrolled-

'Tis Lincoln, the Pride of the West!
With him shall the People prevail,

And the spoilsmen be swept from his path,
Like weeds beaten down by the hail,

Like leaves in the hurricane's wrath!

With songs and huzzas and the roll of the drum,
And the tantararas of the bugle they come-
Tantarara! Tantarara!

The People shall triumph in Liberty's War!

All wave hands, tossing hats into air. Another boy steps forward and recites "Viva La Republique." All join in reciting last two lines of every stanza.

VIVA LA REPUBLIQUE.

LING out the broad banner! make ready each hand,
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For the cry of disunion is heard in the land;

Each day may behold the fierce warfare begun,
And hard may the fight be e'er victory be won.
Then loud let the challenge ring out to the South!
"Republicans have but one heart and one mouth
For the freedom we love-for the land we adore!
For the Union and Abraham Lincoln-hurrah!"

What! brothers and countrymen! then will you part?
With a curse on each lip and revenge in each heart?
What! fly as our English invaders have fled,
From the land where our forefathers conquered and bled?
No! loud let the shout ring from North and from South,
"We have but one country, one heart and one mouth,
For the freedom we love—for the land we adore!
For the Union and Abraham Lincoln-hurrah!"

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Let enemies thicken, we'll never despair;
Where our candidate is, behold victory there!
Disunite, in the ruins of Freedom you lie !

In the Union, you conquer-without it, you die !

It shall come from the North, it shall come from the South,
"We have but one country, one heart and one mouth,
For the freedom we love for the land we adore!

For the Union and Abraham Lincoln-hurrah!”

All go through following movements with torches:

Raise torches high, wave them back and forward, then back to shoulder.

Lift torches out front R., then back to shoulder.

Lift torches out front L., then back to shoulder.

Lift torches out front center, holding staff with both hands. MUSIC: "Garryowen."

First line faces R. side of stage, second line faces L. side of stage, third line faces R. side of stage; first line leads the way and the rest follow, singing "Irish Wide-Awake Quickstep Song." IRISH WIDE-AWAKE QUICKSTEP SONG.

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AIR: "Garryowen."

H, success to the men who are true to the cause

Of Freedom and free lands, and Union and laws;
Success to the men who for free labor stand,

And success in the Wide-Awakes gallant and grand.
Come grasp your torch each Wide-Awake,
And with your cheers the welkin shake,
Each fortress from the foemen take,
Hurrah for Lincoln's triumph.

Come, fling your standard to the wind,
The coast is clear-the cause defined,
Though Freedom's foes have all combined,
Yet Lincoln sure shall triumph.

You'll vote for Lincoln, workingmen,

He toiled like you through "thick and thin,”
To his success first cry, Amen,

Then work for Lincoln's triumph.

Hark, that blast from the Keystone State,
As it pealed forth by the trump of fate,
And now, New York shall hear the note,
To swell the notes of triumph.

The motley groups that try to fuse,
And only do themselves confuse;
Now they see that we refuse

To lessen Lincoln's triumph.
Then onward to the ballot-field,
With steady hand that weapon wield,
Nor stop, nor stray, nor stay, nor yield,
But roll up Lincoln's triumph.

Lo, the States of the Free West,

The brightest gems in our Nation's crest,

Nor night, nor day will they seek rest

Till Lincoln's final triumph.

From East and West and South and North,

A Union shout will then come forth,

And Union men will pledge their troth

To stand by Lincoln's triumph

Repeat first four lines of stanza after every stanza.

March as follows:

Single file to stage rear, then all around stage to stage rear again.

In couples, to stage front center, to R. and L. sides in couples, to back center.

In fours, to stage center, one four side-stepping to R. of stage center four steps; next four side-stepping to L. of stage center

four steps; next four marching between first two four to place in front of first four; next four marching to place in front of second four; next four marching between previous fours, to place in front of R. fours; next four marching between other fours and to place in front of L. fours; remaining six march forward in threes to center between the fours and group themselves in center in group. The fours form wings to center group and march in straight lines around center, just like spokes of a wheel revolve. Having marched around one way, they reverse and march around other way. All swing into one long line beginning with center boys leading out to stage front center, each arm of four falling in behind in turn. All exit singing gaily.

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BIOGRAPHICAL EXERCISE FOR LINCOLN'S DAY.

PUPIL 1.-Birth of Lincoln.

BRAHAM LINCOLN was born in Hardin County, Ky., February 12, 1809. His birthplace was a cabin in a wilderness. Thomas Lincoln, father of Abraham, was a restless, thriftless man, living by jobs of carpentry and other work, until finally, deciding to try farming, he settled down in a cabin beside a spring of good water, but in a barren region. In this cabin Abraham was born.

PUPIL 2.-Mother of Lincoln.

The mother of Abraham Lincoln was Nancy Hanks. In her youth she was bright and handsome, with considerable intellectual force; she might have fitly adorned a higher sphere of life. Though she died when her son was nine years old, he cherished the memory of his "angel mother," saying that to her he owed "all he was or hoped to be."

PUPIL 3.-Boyhood of Lincoln.

As boy, Lincoln was fond of hunting and fishing, but at an early age he began to grow serious. The furniture of the Lincoln

home was home-made, hewn out of forest trees. Abraham worked during the day, helping his father and mother. After his mother had been dead about a year, his father married again. His stepmother did all she could to make him happy. After he had become famous, she said: "Abe never gave me a cross word or look, and never refused to do anything I asked him; Abe was the best boy I ever saw."

PUPIL 4.-Lincoln's School Days.

Schools were few, irregular, and poor in the backwoods where the Lincolns were living, but Abraham took advantage of every opportunity. There was a log schoolhouse in the woods a long distance away, and he went to the school there a short time. Lincoln's step-mother encouraged him in his studies. The first letter that he ever wrote was at the time of his mother's death, when he wrote to a Kentucky preacher, asking him to come and preach a sermon over the grave in the wilderness. He had not more than half a dozen books in all, yet he read and re-read these until he could repeat whole pages of them.

PUPIL 5.-Lincoln as Young Man.

When Lincoln was sixteen years of age he was more than six feet in height, wiry and strong, with large hands and feet. He wore coarse, home-made clothes and a coon-skin cap. But this overgrown boy had one beauty, that of character—he was always good-natured. He read everything within his reach. His first knowledge of law came from reading the statutes of Indiana, borrowed from a constable. He worked on a ferry-boat for nine months, getting $6 a month. He worked on his father's farm, splitting rails to enclose it; from this work he received the sobriquet of "rail-splitter." He delighted in making speeches, and upon the slightest encouragement would mount a stump and practice upon fellow-laborers. A journey to New Orleans as deckhand on a flat-boat widened his experience, and gave him his first glimpse of slavery. For several years he served as steamboat