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<blockquote data-quote="ON D BIT" data-source="post: 16452910" data-attributes="member: 10422"><p>Third verse in context:</p><p>“However, if you narrow the search to Key's time, 1780-1816, you will see that slave and hireling were each used in a pejorative fashion to describe free people carrying out the wishes of a more powerful person. This is similar to China's Communist newspapers calling our South Vietnamese allies "running dogs" or "puppets" during the Vietnam War.</p><p></p><p>As proof that all Key did in his third verse was employ a rhetorical device, I submit the following evidence. In 1813, in the midst of the War of 1812, and a full year before Key penned the "Defence of Fort M'Henry," another poet used the words hirelings and slaves in a poem to describe the King's soldiers during the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In the poem "The Death of Warren" from the Trenton True American, published on 15 May 1813 in the Lancaster Intelligencer and Journal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the poet describes:</p><p></p><p>",,,,,When tyrant George assailed our shore,</p><p></p><p>and thousands of his slaves sent o'er,</p><p></p><p>With power to kill, inflict each ill.</p><p></p><p>Our towns to burn that we might mourn.</p><p></p><p>And make us to his sway return.</p><p></p><p>A sway that was slavish and foreign."</p><p></p><p>The poet continues in a later verse:</p><p></p><p>"Now How(e), who had the chief command</p><p></p><p>of George's troops within our land,</p><p></p><p>Addresses thus his hireling band:</p><p></p><p>'To stand us they are not able.</p><p></p><p>Behold (he cries) the motly host,</p><p></p><p>And quickly drive them from their post;</p><p></p><p>And as you live no quarter give,</p><p></p><p>Mind no prayer, not one spare;</p><p></p><p>For vengeance we will have that's rare.</p><p></p><p>And destroy every Yankee Rebel.'”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ON D BIT, post: 16452910, member: 10422"] Third verse in context: “However, if you narrow the search to Key's time, 1780-1816, you will see that slave and hireling were each used in a pejorative fashion to describe free people carrying out the wishes of a more powerful person. This is similar to China's Communist newspapers calling our South Vietnamese allies "running dogs" or "puppets" during the Vietnam War. As proof that all Key did in his third verse was employ a rhetorical device, I submit the following evidence. In 1813, in the midst of the War of 1812, and a full year before Key penned the "Defence of Fort M'Henry," another poet used the words hirelings and slaves in a poem to describe the King's soldiers during the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In the poem "The Death of Warren" from the Trenton True American, published on 15 May 1813 in the Lancaster Intelligencer and Journal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the poet describes: ",,,,,When tyrant George assailed our shore, and thousands of his slaves sent o'er, With power to kill, inflict each ill. Our towns to burn that we might mourn. And make us to his sway return. A sway that was slavish and foreign." The poet continues in a later verse: "Now How(e), who had the chief command of George's troops within our land, Addresses thus his hireling band: 'To stand us they are not able. Behold (he cries) the motly host, And quickly drive them from their post; And as you live no quarter give, Mind no prayer, not one spare; For vengeance we will have that's rare. And destroy every Yankee Rebel.'” [/QUOTE]
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