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Historical SummaryTyler was a judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont who made an avocation of light verse and political paragraphs. He was also a successful dramatist. These mildly satirical verses were directed against the rural Democrats of New England. — Bibliography: Channing and Hart, Guide, § § 160, 162.
"Independence Day" (1796)
BY JUDGE ROYALL TYLER
SQUEAK the fife, and beat the drum, INDEPENDENCE DAY is come!! Let the roasting pig be bled, Quick twist off the cockerel’s head, Quickly rub the pewter platter, Heap the nutcakes, fried in batter. Set the cups, and beaker glass, The pumpkin, and the apple sauce, Send the keg to shop for brandy; Maple sugar we have handy, Independent, staggering Dick, A noggin mix of swinging thick, Sal, put on your russel skirt, Jotham get your boughten shirt. To day we dance to tiddle diddle. — Here comes Sambo with his fiddle; Sambo, take a dram of whisky, And play up Yankee doodle frisky. Moll, come leave your witched tricks, And let us have a reel of six. Father and mother shall make two;
Sal, Moll and I stand all a row, Sambo, play and dance with quality; This is the day of blest Equality. Father and mother are but men, And Sambo — is a Citizen. Come foot it, Sal — Moll, figure in, And, Mother, you dance up to him; Now saw as fast as e’er you can do, And Father, you cross o’er to Sambo. — Thus we dance, and thus we play, On glorious Independent Day. — Rub more rosin on your bow, And let us have another go. Zounds, as sure as eggs and bacon, Here’s ensign Sneak, and uncle Deacon, Aunt Thiah, and their Bets behind her On blundering mare, than beetle blinder. And there’s the ’squire too with his lady — Sal, hold his beast, I’ll take the baby. Moll, bring the ’squire our great arm chair, Good folks, we’re glad to see you here. Jotham, get the great case bottle, Your teeth can pull its corn cob stopple. Ensign, — Deacon, never mind; ’Squire, drink until you’re blind; Come here’s the French — and Guillotine, qqq And here is good ’squire Gallatin, And here’s each noisy Jacobin. Here’s friend Madison so hearty, And here’s confusion to the treaty. Come, one more swig to southern Demos, Who represent our brother negroes. Thus we drink and dance away, This glorious INDEPENDENT DAY!
(Walpole, N. H.), July 19, 1796.
Chicago: Royall Tyler, The Newhampshire and Vermont Journal: or, the Farmer’s Weekly Museum, ed. Walpole, N. H. in American History Told by Contemporaries, ed. Albert Bushnell Hart (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902), 299. Original Sources, accessed April 11, 2025, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ZV96T64BSSSKPL9.
MLA: Tyler, Royall. The Newhampshire and Vermont Journal: or, the Farmer’s Weekly Museum, edited by Walpole, N. H., in American History Told by Contemporaries, edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Vol. 3, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1902, page 299. Original Sources. 11 Apr. 2025. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ZV96T64BSSSKPL9.
Harvard: Tyler, R, The Newhampshire and Vermont Journal: or, the Farmer’s Weekly Museum, ed. . cited in 1902, American History Told by Contemporaries, ed. , The Macmillan Company, New York, pp.299. Original Sources, retrieved 11 April 2025, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ZV96T64BSSSKPL9.
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