Polynesian., 1861-06-29
No. g..

unite into one person, influenced by the same mo-
tves, resolved to carry out the same line of con-
duet, the President and his principal adviser, his
guiding spirit, whose given name sinpuIarly
enough it really is, and in secondary sense, the
whole Republican party is implied by that phrase
This artful schemer's moral character is then
summed up in one comprehensive phrase which
needs comment and the Southland is entreated
to turn away her eyes from the sad spectacle of
misplaced confdence-of affection doomed to base
betrayal. Next follows a terse description of the
herceness of his CONFERENCE.-The outward sign of
ferociOus and pitiless disposition,
IS His face sharp &C.
The dark threats of coming storm-the warnings
OF approaching danger, which alarm all around
her, are unnoticed. unfeared by the infatuated
Columbia. And again the chorus peals out that
longing, patriotic cry-again avows that bold de-
termination to stand by our altars and our fires
to die, IT tate wills 1T, for our sunny land.
Sudden and awful is Columbia S awakening from
her dream of peace and repose, when she is ire
yocaby in the power of her terrible master, whose
very smile is as terrible the flash of a cannon
Ay, look away, hapless children of doomed
mother In her is no help Protect Yourselves
Raise your own banner Keep your oft-reiterated
VOW to stand fast by your laws and liberties
And then comes the catastrophe. Cold and pale,
at last, lies the noble form of Columbia victim of
an lll-assorted union, of infatuated trust in design
ing politicians. Sadly to the sky still rises the
wailing refrain
Look away,-ook awsy,-look away
Dixie Land!"
But for us who survive, better days are dawnine
Secessa, benignant goddess smiles on our stand
ard and stretches her protecting aegis over us. In
the concluding cOuplet Of the lay with which she
has inspired her chosen bard, (for 90 he buided
better than he knew. and but dimIy understood
the vast import of his verses,) she assumes the
drotectlon of the South-not only of the States
who first invoked her aiG, but of all others who
may join them. A mistress of different stamp
from Columbia will this new protectress be. No
divided cOunsels, no clashiDg interests mark her
regime. Her cool-headed statesmen will lecislate
with dignifed wisdom in the halls of her Capitol
Her soldiers, whose fame is above suspicion, and
her sagacious and experienced military engineers,
will guard her well-fortfed coasts. Where is the
doomed foe who shall dare attack theml
snow here's health old NIissus
And 10 all the gals what want to kiss us.''
Virginia Kentucky! Tennessee Will you
not join your sisters Do you not yearn to bestow
upon them an embrace of sisterly loyel Will YOU
not fly from the baleful sway Of William the
Weaver, and take refuge in Secessia's open arms
elm Dixie's Land take up your stand,
To live and die in Dixie -
Can any one now fail to see that, in the verses
of this deservedly popular song, an epitome is
given OF the events which. since last November,
have shaken this land The election of Lincoln,
the decay and dismemberment of the United States
the threats Of civil war and the rise of a new
power in the South. are all foretod and even an
invitation to join this nascent empire extended to
the surrounding States The most skeptical must
at least confess that these verses contain such an
extraordinary series of condolences as was never
before heaped together by the hand of chance