SIGN'S OF THE TIMES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1873, 17 January 1870, Page 7

SIGN'S OF THE TIMES.

"If this thing goee on," sputtered a negro who had been unduly long under water at a baptism-—" if this thing goes on, fust thing, aomebody'll lose a nigger." So we may eay of the Nora Scotians, that if they go on as they are going, somebody will presently lose a colony. Here is a political ballad which is just now popular in Nova Scotia, and is printed in the Halifax Cktonicle • — When British drums aro silent, And British guns are gone, We'll our chains no longer, We'll bow us dowa to none. i The North may come against us, The gladder we will bo, For we'll call our men together, And we'll march up from the sea ; 'Twill be free and royal marching, That marching from the sea. Let Canada come eastward, With all her traitor knaves, We'll meet them on the mountains, And give them foreign graves ; With rifle and with bayonet We'll keep the country free, And we'll die upon the mountains For our homes beside the sea. Men can die upon the mountains Who were born beside the sea. With tariff and with taxes They ho!d our people down, ut their reign will soon be over When they lose the British crow a ; IW like the men of Boston Who threw overboard-the tea, We'll take Canadian chattels And we'll cast them in the sea. We'll have wealth within our headland, We'll have ships upon the sea.