When This Old Hat Was New.

94

When this old hat was new, the people used to say,
The best among the Democrats were Harrison and Clay;
The Locos now assume the name, a title most untrue,
And most unlike their party name when my old hat was new.

95

When my old hat was new, Van Buren was a Fed,
An enemy to every man who labored for his bread;
And if the people of New York have kept their records true,
He voted 'gainst the poor man's rights, when my old hat was new.

When my old hat was new, Buchanan was the man
Best fitted in the Key-stone State to lead the Federal clan,
He swore ‘if Democratic blood should make his veins look blue,
He'd cure them by Phlebotomy,’ when my old hat was new.

When my old hat was new, ('was eighteen hundred eleven,)
Charles Ingersoll did then declare, by all his hopes of Heaven,
‘Had he been able to reflect, he'd been a tory true,
And ne'er have thought it a reproach,’ when my old hat was new.

When my old hat was new, of Richard Rush 'twas said,
To figure well among the feds, he wore a black cockade;
Deny this, locos, if you please, for every word is true,
I knew full well old Dicky Rush, when my old hat was new.

When my old hat was new, the Senator from Maine,
Destroyed by fire an effigy, t'immortalize his name.
The effigy was Madison's, if common fame be true,
So Reuel Williams was a Fed, when my old hat was new.

96

When my old hat was new, 'twas in the Granite State,
That Henry Hubbard asked each town to send a Delegate
To meet in council at the time when Federalism blue
Made Hartford look like indigo, when my old hat was new.

When my old hat was new, Sam Cushman did declare
‘That should a soldier cross the lines, he hoped he'd perish there,
And leave his bones in Canada for enemies to view,’
So much for his Democracy, when my old hat was new.

When my old hat was new, Old Governor Provost
The States invaded, at the head of numerous British hosts,
Then mark, ye Locos, what did Martin Chittenden then do?
Forbid Green Mountain Boys to fight when my old hat was new.

When this old hat was new, Woodbury and Van Ness,
E. Allen Brown, and Stephen Haight, were of the Federal mess,
A. H. Everett, Martin Field, and Sam C. Allen too,
NOW PATENT Democrats, were Feds, when my old hat was new.

When my old hat was new, these worthies did oppose
The cause, and friends of liberty, and stood among their foes;
Not so with ‘Granny’ Harrison, for at Tippecanoe
He bravely fought the savage foe, when my old hat was new.

97

When my old hat was new, the friends of Liberty
Knew well the merits of old Tip while fighting at Maumee:
Come now, huzza for Harrison, just as we used to do,
When first we heard of Proctor's fall, when my old was new.