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Issue Details: First known date: 1854... 7 January 1854 of The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator est. 1848-1856 The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator
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* Contents derived from the 1854 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A War Song for the Nineteenth Centuryi"The march of Knowledge hasten,", Charles Harpur , single work poetry
'A sincere if naive hymn on the march of intellect.' (Webby)
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Note, C. H. (1813-1868) , single work criticism

Charles Harpur's wide ranging note on the addition of a stanza to his poem A War Song for the Nineteenth Century discusses the meaning of republicanism and John Dunmore Lang's Australian League founded in 1850 'to encourage a sense of national identity, to resist any further convict transportation and to promote, by moral means exclusively, the entire freedom of the Australian colonies and their incorporation into one political federation.' (Baker, D. W. A., 'Lang, John Dunmore (1799-1878)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lang-john-dunmore-2326/text2953, accessed 7 November 2012.)

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