Polynesian., 1861-06-29
From the Richmond, Va, Dispatch !

Dixie's Land.
- The following fanciful and ingenious inter-
probation of - Dixie" is sent to US by lady cor
respondent
. The owner of the copyright of Dixie's Land
realized $4,000 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 simply consider Dixies Land song
like other songs. Sc The cir is pretty enough, -
they say, . but the words-why, they are perfectly
absurd What can have given it such sale9 -
Do you not know, questoner, that Dixies Land
has become the - National Anthem Of Secession -
That it is called for in Southern theaters. and re-
ceived with cheers and applause, while Hail Co
lumbia and the Star Spangled Banner are hissed
down? What though it was composed by North
ern man! Did not Baptiste Lulli compose " God
save the King in honor of Louis the Fourteenth,
and was not that spleudd anthem stolen, rearrang-
ed, and AngliciSed for the gorifcatiOn Of Great
George, our King" by Handel Why, Yankee
Doodle itself was written, air and words, by a
surgeon in the British Army, during the Revolu-
tion, to express his supreme contempt for the
Americans. But the Yankees captured the tune,
and aggravated the modification of their bafled
Oppress0rs by playing it to them-remindiug them
that their defeat was Sustained at the hands of an
enemy whom they had contemptuously derided
Dixie's Land, then belongs to the South by right
of seizure as do = forts, the arsenals, the mnts
taken from tue US1eTdl uONeEulHeHL Nv the Dtceu-
ing States.
And the words of that song. With feelings of
unaffected hesitation and genuine reverence do
approach the discussion Of this delicate subject
crave the earnest attention of all true Southern
ers to the great discovery | am about to make
public That poem lightly denounced as '' mean
ingless'' and ''absurd'' by unimaginatiye Sub
missionists and taunting Republieans-that poem
is an Geg0ricai prophecy quelling suspicion of its
L. b,,k
ality, profound, exact and awe-inspiring the
mysterious oracles of ancient sybils, the wonderful
second sight revelations of Thomas the Rhymer
and other Caledonian seerS, or the still more amaz
ing predictions 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 asser-
tion. A very cursory examination of the song
itself will be sufficient to convince any unprejudiced
mind of its allegOrical shape; and when it is con-
sidered that the words were composed more than
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 trump phantly above
the political horizon, had scarcely been heard of
beyond his own narrow circle, its prophetic char
acter will appear undeniable.
To begin the analysis The first verse simply,
but forcbly, recalls to the mind of a Southerner
on foreign shore, - his own, his native land,''
where his childhood's happy days spent;
where the endearing ties of memory and associa-
tion are still remembered; and then in the spirit
Of Allan Cunningham's well-known lines:
"It's hame. hame, hame, that tam would be-
Hame, hame, hame in my ain countries"
the chorus bursts forth with passionate wish TO
return to his beloved motherland /; an earnest de-
sire to live and die in her bosom. This verse is
literal, and serves as further mask to the OBJ
scurites which follow.
Now begins the allegory:
Old mistress married Will the Weaver,
William he deceiver-
Look away, look away, look away,
Dixie Land!"
Here il wisdom. The fgurative sold mistress
is Columbia, no longer. alas, happy land, who
with blind confidence, places her fate in the hands
of-of whom Who is the second metaphorical
personagcl No other than Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States. The significant
title " Weaver has been from time immemorial
applied to spiders, and from them transferred to
politicians weavers'' of cunning plots.
The name William, is added partly for the sake
of ALTERATION. and partly (as in Scriptura proph-
ecies dynastes are mentioned as single kings) to