Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-05-02
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From tie Richmond Dispatch.
Dixie's Land.
The following fanciful and ingenious
Interpretation of "Dixie' is sent us by
a lady correspondent:
THE ENIGMA SOLVED.
"The owner of the copy-rig hit Of
Dixie's Land has realised four thousand
dollars by the sale of that song" This
item of intelligence, which has gone the
rounds of the newspapers, excited some
surprise in the minds of those who sim
ply consider Dixie's Land song like
other songs. "The air is pretty e.
nough,' they say, "but the words
why, they are perfectly absurd! What
can have given it such a sale?"
Do you not know, questioner, that
Dixie's Land has become the "National
Anthem of Secession?" That it is call.
ed for in Southern Theatres, and re.
ceived with cheers and applause, while
'sHail Columbia" and the "Star Span.
gled Banner" are Kissed down? What,
though it was composed by northern
man? Did not Baptise Lulli compose
"God save the King in honor of Lou
is the Fourteenth, and was not that
splendid anthem stolen, re-arranged
and anglicised for the glorifcation Of
"Great George, our King" by Handel
Why, Yankee Doodle itself was written,
air and words, by a Surgeon of the
British army, during the revolution, to
express his supreme contempt for the
Americans. But the Yankees captured
the tune and aggravated the mortifca-
tion of their bafiled oppressors by play
ing it to them-reminding them that
their defeat was sustained at the hands
of an enemy whom they had contempt
uously derided. Dixie's Land, then,
belongs to the South by right of seiz-
ure, as do the forts, the arsenals, the
mints, taken from the General Govern
ment by the seeding States.
And the words of that song. With
feelings of unaffected hesitation and gen
uine reverence do l approach the dis
cussion of this delicate subject. | crave
the earnest attention of all true South
erners to the great discovery am about
to make public. That poem, lightly de-
nounced as ''meaningless and CAB
surd'' by unimag ginative Submissionists
and taunting Republicans-that poem
is an alzegorical prophecy, quelling sus-
picion of it's true character by apparent
literalness, but in reality profound, ex-
act and awe-inspiring as the mysterious
oracles of ancient sybils, the wonderful
"second-sight' revelations of Thomas
the Rhymer and other Caledonian
seers, or the still more amazing pre-
dictions of Merlin, which, delivered in
King Arthur's time, are being even now
fulfilled in England.
do not speak unadvisedly or without
being able to bring ample proof of the
truth of my assertion. A very cursory
examination of the song itself will be
sufficient to convince any unprejudiced
mind of its allegorical shape and when
it is considered that the words were COM
posed more than a year ago, when the
events to which it so evidently refers
were yet in the womb of the future, and
the man, whose star has now risen tri-
umphantly above the political horizon,
had scarcely been heard of beyond his
own narrow circle, it's prophetic charac-
ter will appear undeniable.
To begin the analysis: The first verse
simply, but fcrcibly, recalls to the mind
of Southerner on foreign shore,
''his own, his native land," where his
childhood's happy days were spent
where the endearing ties of memory and
association are still remembered; and
then, in the spirit of Allan Cunning
hams we'll known lines
'.Its halnc, hamc, ianle, that fan would he
Hame, hanc, halne, in my ain countrie;'
the chorus bursts forth with a passion
ate wish to return to his beloved mother
land: an earnest resolve to live and die
in her bosom. This first verse is literal,
and serves as a further mask to the OBJ
securities which follow.
Now begins the allegory:
sold Mistress married WILL the Weaver.
William Il gay deceivcr-
Dixie Land.
Here is wisdom. The fgurative cold
mistress is Columbia longer, alas
a happy land-who, with blind conf
dence places her fate in the hands Of
Of whom? Who is the second metaphor
ical parsonage? No other than Abra-
ham Lincoln, President Of the United
States. The significant title, ''Weaver, -
has been, from time immemorial, ap-
piled to spiders, and from them trans
ferred to politicans-''weavers' Of cum
ming plots.
The name, William, is added partly
for the sake of ALTERATION, and partly
(as in Scriptural phophecies dynasties
are mentioned as single Kings, to unite
into one person, influenced by the same
motives, resolved to carry out the same
line of conduct, the President and his
principal adviser, his guiding spirit
whose given name, singularly enough
it really is, and in a secondary sense
the whole Republican party is implied
by that phrase.
This artful schemer's moral character
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