[Broadside] CELEBRATION, ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF OUR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE, JULY 4TH, 1838. ORDER OF EXERCISES. [American Independence]

[Vermont: 1838] Single sheet. 1pp. 15 x 7 ¼ inches. Toned with spots of stain. Creased at folds with contemporary manuscript notation to verso bleeding through. Good. An unrecorded broadside celebrating the 62nd anniversary of the Independence of the United States. According to the manuscript on verso, the happy land anthem was sung by the "coir", W.H. Foster, Lyman Herns? And S.L.H. Camps? at East Sheldon, [VT]. W.H. Foster is almost certainly Wade H. Foster (1811-1889), of East Sheldon, VT. The program begins with Anthem by the choir "Before Jehovah's awful throne", followed by Prayer, Hail Columbia, Declaration of Independence, Pilgrim Fathers, Oration, National Hymn [My Country! Tis of thee], Prayer and Air by the Band. 'My Country, Tis of Thee', written 7 years before the printing of this broadside became the American national anthem until it was replaced by The Star-Spangled Banner. [American Independence - 1776-1838]