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title: Roll along, roll along, shout the campaign battle song
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/roll-along-campaign-song-hayes-1876/
description: Cover of a Republican campaign song for Hayes, published by Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston (1876).
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** 1876 Hayes campaign songsheet cover with a period caricature of two Black youths. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Roll along, roll along, shout the campaign battle song](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/roll-along-campaign-song-hayes-1876.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/roll-along-campaign-song-hayes-1876.jpg)

# Roll along, roll along, shout the campaign battle song

Cover of a Republican campaign song for Hayes, published by Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston (1876). Uncle Sam sits on a hay wain labelled 'Hayes' pulled by oxen carrying state names toward the Capitol; the wheel reads 'Hard Money Wheeler Gold Basis', the bridge crosses bags of 'Rag Money', and a banner reads 'A Good Honest Load of Hayes on the Way to Washington'. Two Black youths cheer from a fence, drawn in period caricature.

[← Our nation's choice, Rutherford B. Hayes, William A. Wheeler](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/our-nations-choice-hayes-wheeler-1876/) [The political farce of 1876 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/political-farce-of-1876-1877/)

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