The next year Dr. Hopkins was again chosen
to write the New Year's verses in The Echo
series, — "The Guillotina; or, A Democratic
Dirge : A Poem. By the Author of Demo-
cratiad." They first appeared in the Connecticut
Courant, January i, 1796, and were afterward
published as a pamphlet, possibly also as a broad-
side.-*^ The bald witticisms are recognized as
those of Hopkins, as in the stanza :

Come sing again! since Ninety-Five,

Has left some Antis still alive.
Some Jacobins as pert as ever,

Tho' much was hoped from Yellow-fever.
" Copies of The Philadelphia Jockey Club and The Demo-
cratiad are in the Connecticut Historical Society, the Histori-
cal Societies of New York and Pennsylvania, and the Library
of Congress. Both were issued in Philadelphia.
"Another "Guillotina for 1797" was issued as a broad-
side (Hudson & Goodwin, Hartford). It is unsigned and was
not printed in The Echo,



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"The Political Green-House for 1798" was
another widely quoted composition by this group.
According to the record by Trumbull, in his copy
of The Echo, this was written by Lemuel Hop-
kins, Richard Alsop, and Theodore Dwight.^^
With earnest patriotism and wit blended, the
verses began:

Oft has the NEW YEAR'S Muse essay'd,

To quit the annual rhyming trade,

Oft has she hop'd the period nigh,

When fools would cease, and knaves would die.
But each succeeding year has tax'd her

With "more last words of Mr. Baxter.''

And most of all has Ninety-Eight

Outstripp'd the years of former date.
And while a Jacobin remains,

While Frenchmen live and Faction reigns,

Her voice, array'd in awful rhyme.
Shall thunder down the steep of Time.
