9.75x10.5" in 15.25x19.25" frame. Song written by Robert Treat Paine Jr. in 1798 and is considered the first significant campaign song in American history. Set to the tune To Anacreon In Heaven the same tune as Francis Scott Key would later set The Star Spangled Banner to. Among the many stirring stanzas touching on the woes of mercantilism, XYZ affair is this gem dealing w/political factionalism- "The fame of our arms, of our laws the mild sway,/Had justly ennobled our nation in story/Till the dark clouds of faction obscur'd our young day,/An envelop'd the sun of American glory./Let Traitors be told,/Who their country have sold, And barter'd the God for his image in gold-/The ne'er will the sons of Columbia be slaves,/While the earth bears a plant, or the seal roll in/waves." Paper loss along right affecting text. Good. Archivally mounted for stabilization and housed in a museum quality frame. An impressive document among the earliest artifacts of American Presidential campaigning. Rex & Patti Stark Collection.