History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . as stripedin its field with thirteen alternate red and white stripes, emblematicof the union of the thirteen colonies against the oppressive acts ofthe ministerial government of the Kingdom of Great Britain, whosesymbol they nevertheless retained. We now have arrived at theperiod when this last symbol of loyalty was abandoned, and thestripe
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . as stripedin its field with thirteen alternate red and white stripes, emblematicof the union of the thirteen colonies against the oppressive acts ofthe ministerial government of the Kingdom of Great Britain, whosesymbol they nevertheless retained. We now have arrived at theperiod when this last symbol of loyalty was abandoned, and thestriped union flag of the colonies received added beauty and newsignificance by the erasure of the blended crosses of St. George andSt. Andrew, and showing in their place a canopy of white stars on ablue field, representing a new constellation in the western politicalheavens, an entire separation of the colonies from Great Britain, andthe advent among nations of a new power, which, by its Declarationa few months previous, had solemnly proclaimed a free and indepen-dent State, under the name of The United States of America. 1 American Archives, 5th series, vol. i. p. 173. 2 American Archives, 5th series, vol. iii. j). 637. THE STARS and STRIPES. PROPOSED STANDARD1818
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