{"id":97775,"date":"2020-09-25T13:33:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T18:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=97775"},"modified":"2020-09-25T14:27:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T19:27:38","slug":"go-it-while-youre-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/go-it-while-youre-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Go it while you’re young."},"content":{"rendered":"

?<\/span>\"Young<\/a>
\nYoung America Rising at the Ballot Box and Strangling the Serpents Disunion and Secession<\/span><\/p>\n

Columbia: “Well done, Sonny! ‘Go it while you’re young, for when you’re old you can’t<\/em>.'”<\/p>\n

The potential for secession and disunion because of the issue of slavery was part of the contentious election campaigns of 1860.<\/p>\n

The quoted phrase in this September 1860 political cartoon from Harper’s Weekly<\/em> appears to be from a tune, “Go It While You Are Young” that can be dated at least as early as 1845.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n\n\n\n
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Publisher<\/strong>: Keith’s Music Publishing House, 67 & 69 Court St.
\nPublisher Location<\/strong>: Boston
\nPublication Date<\/strong> 1845
\nForm of Composition<\/strong>: strophic with chorus
\nInstrumentation<\/strong>: piano and voice
\nEngraver, Lithographer, Artist<\/strong>: Lith. of E.W. Bouve<\/p>\n

The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, T.G. Booth’s Celebrated Comic Songs, Go it While You’re Young<\/a>, (accessed 9-25-2020)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

? Young America Rising at the Ballot Box and Strangling the Serpents Disunion and Secession Columbia: “Well done, Sonny! ‘Go it while you’re young, for when you’re old you can’t.’” The potential for secession and disunion because of the issue of slavery was part of the contentious election campaigns of 1860. The quoted phrase in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-97775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-civil-war","7":"category-harpers-weekly"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}