"Wave the stars and stripes high o'er us,"- this represents the support for the Union and promotes a sense of patriotism by displaying the American flag above the "singers". By doing this it makes the flag seem like something superior, something above them that should be honored and cherished.
"Let every freeman sing ... " - could be related to the abolitionist movement. Trying to get support for black soldiers. By saying let every freeman sing, they might mean "fight", because when you fight you sing ...
The phrase "Old King Cotton's dead and buried: Brave young Corn is King" relates to the economic positions of the North and the South. In the North the harvest had been very good and Britain was importing a lot of American corn from the North, which made them dependent on American trade and kept them from interfering with the Civil War. Even though about 75% of cotton manufactured in Britain came from America, they were not as dependent on the trade, because the last coupe of years they had been stocking up cotton. The death of King Cotton represents the economic distress in the South.
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