within his lines filling up, accordingly, with a great body of refugees from the neighboring towns and country-sides. [Illustration: THE LIBERTY SONG The LIBERTY SONG. _In Freedom we’re born, &c._ Come join hand in hand brave Americans all, And rouse your bold hearts at fair Liberty’s call. No tyrannous acts shall suppress your just claim, Or stain with dishonour America’s name. _In Freedom we’re_ born _and in Freedom we’ll_ live, _Our purses are ready._ _Steady, Friends, Steady._ _Not as Slaves, but as Freemen our money we’ll give._ Our worthy Forefathers—Let’s give them a cheer To Climates unknown did courageously steer; Thro’ Oceans, to deserts, for freedom they came, And dying bequeath’d us their freedom and Fame. _In freedom we’re_ born _&c._ Their generous bosoms all dangers despis’d, So highly, so wisely, their _Birthrights_ they priz’d; We’ll keep what they gave, we will piously keep, Nor frustrate their toils on the land and the deep. _In Freedom we’re_ born, _&c._ The Tree their own hands had to liberty rear’d; They liv’d to behold growing strong and rever’d, With transport they cry’d, “now our wishes we gain, For our children shall gather the fruits of our pain.” _In Freedom we’re_ born _&c._ Swarms of placemen and pensioners soon will appear Like locusts deforming the charms of the year; Suns vainly will rise, Showers vainly descend, If we are to drudge for what other shall spend. _In Freedom we’re_ born _&c._ Then join hand in hand brave Americans all, By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall; In so Righteous a cause let us hope to succeed, For Heaven approves of each generous deed. _In Freedom we’re_ born, _&c._ All ages shall speak with amaze and applause, Of the courage we’ll shew in support of our laws; To die we can bear—but to serve we disdain, For shame is to Freedom more dreadful than pain. _In Freedom we’re_ born, _&c._ This bumper & crown for our Sovereign’s health, And this for Britannia’s glory and wealth; That wealth and that glory immortal may be, If she is but just—and if we are but Free. _In Freedom we’re_ born _&c._] It gave those who led the agitation the greater confidence and the greater influence that the ministers of the churches were for the most part on their side. The control of Parliament had come, in the eyes of the New England clergy, to mean the control also of bishops and the supremacy of the Establishment. Now, as always before, since the very foundation of the colony, the independence of their little commonwealths seemed but another side of the independence of their churches; and none watched the course of government over sea more jealously than the Puritan pastors.