Published by C. and A. Conrad and Co. Philadelphia; Conrad, Lucas and Co. Baltimore. Fry and Kammerer, Printers 1809. District of Pennsylvania, to wit: ***** ****** BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-fourth SEAL. * day of December, in the thirty-second year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1807, C. and A. Conrad and Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book the right whereof they claim as proprietors in the words following, to wit: "THE COLUMBIAD A POEM. BY JOEL BARLOW." In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, intituled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act entitled “An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District Court. ARGUMENT. British cruelty to American prisoners. Prison Ship. Retreat of Washington with the relics of his army, pursued by Howe. Washington recrossing the Delaware in the night, to surprise the British van, is opposed by uncommon obstacles. His success in this audacious enterprise lays the foundation of the American empire. A monument to be erected on the bank of the Delaware. Approach of Burgoyne, sailing up the St. Laurence with an army of Britons and various other nations. Indignant energy of the colonies, compared to that of Greece in opposing the invasion of Xerxes. Formation of an army of citizens under the command of Gates. Review of the American and British armies, and of the savage tribes who join the British standard. Battle of Saratoga. Story of Lucinda. Second battle, and capture of Burgoyne and his army. THE COLUMBIAD. BOOK VI. BUT of all tales that war's black annals hold New modes of torture wait the shameful strife, Cold-blooded Cruelty, first fiend of hell, Ah think no more with savage hordes to dwell; Boast not thy deeds in Moloch's shrines of old, Leave Barbary's pirates to their blood-bought gold, 10 Let Holland steal her victims, force them o’er To toils and death on Java's morbid shore; Some cloke, some color all these crimes may plead; Tis avarice, passion, blind religion's deed; |