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MS-W.783.016
29 May 1783:31 (631)
By the Hartford Post. Philadelphia, May 7. On Thursday
last [in an account of St. Tammany's Day celebration by 250
"Sons of St. Tammany," various comic ceremonies are
described in 25 lines followed by] The Company gave three
cheers, the cannon fired, and the band struck up St.
Tammany's Day. . . [8 lines follow on a "bury the hachet"
ceremony]
The cannon fired, and the band played Yankee Doodle. . . [13
lines follow on smoking the calumet]
The cannon again fired and the band played Great Washington.
. .
[53 lines follow on "feast of the day" and 13 toasts, the
10th being] The friends of liberty in Ireland. May the harp
be tuned to independence, and be touched by skillful hands.
. . [53 more lines followed by] At the giving of each toast
the cannon fired, and the whole company gave three cheers;
but when General Washington and the army were named, they
swelled spontaneously to thirteen, and upon naming "The
friends of liberty in Ireland" and the "tuneing the harp to
independence," the Sons of St. Tammany, anticipating the day
in which the brave sons of St. Patrick shall be free and
happy as ourselves, burst into thirteen shouts of Joy and
the band struck up St. Patrick's Day in the morning.
When the toasts were ended, our chief sung the first
stanza of the original song in praise of St. Tammany, and
the remainder was sung with great spirit by Mr. Leacock.
Other songs in honour of our Saint, were likewise sung. The
warriors were so highly pleased with the gaiety and spirit
of our chief, that they bore him on their shoulders from the
green to his cabbin, amidst the shouts of all present.
After sunset the colours were struck by a signal from the
cannon; our chief, his sachems and warriors marched into the
city, in proper file, the band playing St. Tammany's Day
before them:
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