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And now, next, about this Rifle pamphlet. Every page carries its date honestly, and several very curiously. In some of the editions there appears a rifle ballad of mine, written in 1845, and published in 1846 (in the first issue of my Ballads and Poems--Hall & Virtue) with the strange title Rise Britannia, _a Stirring Song for Patriots in the Year 1860_:
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Without mentioning names, several--since distinguished as prominent in Rifledom--were once, to my certain knowledge, and still to be evidenced by their extant letters, bitterly opposed to the whole movement,--and I cannot conclude these remarks better or more appositely than by adding here, with real dates, the three following ballads, which tell their own tale briefly and suggestively.