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The New York Tribune, November 6, 1860, p. 8, c. 2

VIVE LA REPUBLIQUE

Fling out the broad banner! make ready each hand,
For the cry of Disunion is heard in the land;
Each day may behold the fierce warfa re begun,
And hard may the fight be, ere 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 --hurra!"

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 shou t 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--hurra!"

Let enemies thicken, we'll never despair;
Where our candida te 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--hurra!"