The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-03-31
POETRY.
THE PALMETTO AND THE PINE.
4 Southern Lady's Plea for Peace.

THE PALMETTO AND THE PINE.
4 Southern Ladys Plea for Peace.
After reading the speech of Mr.. James q. Blaineon
the foor of the House of Representatives, in which
the animosties of the late appealed to with
misplaced energy, and after another member of the
House had answered in tone equally fierce and i'm
placable. an accomplished Tennessee lady, Mrs. .Vr.
gina L. French, wrote the poem which we give below
from the Nashville Anericdn 1t has been said that
the women of the South retain more of the hostile
feeling engendered by the late unhappy strife than the
men. Mrs French's spirited lines might well make
one suspect this to be mistake They are an impas
stoned plea for peace more than peace, for aec
tionate brotherhood and the revival of friendly MEM
cries older than the late civil strife Here is the poem
THE PALMETTO AND THE FINE.
They planted them together our gallant sires Of old
Though one was crowned with crystal snow, and one
with solar gold;
They planted them together on the worlds majestic
height,
At saratoga's deathless charge at Eutaws stubborn
fight;
At midnight on the dark redoubt, md plunging shot
and she'll
At noontide gaping IN the crush of battles bloody
swell
With cory hands and reeking brows amid the mighty
fray,
Which surged and sweled around them on that mem
orable day,
When they planted Independence, as symbol and a
They struck deep soil and planted the Palmetto and
the Pine!
They planted them together-by the river of the
Years
Watered with our fathers hearts blood watered with
our mothers tears:
In the strong rich soil of Freedom, with bolnteous
benson
From their Prophet, Priest and Pioneer-our Father,
Washington!
Above them foaed echoes of the ruin and the wreck,
at Quebec"
But the old lights sank in darkness as the new stars
rose to shine
O'er those emblems of the sections--the Palmetto
and the Pine.
And We'll plant them still together, for tits yet the
sefsame soil
Our fathers vaor won for us by victory and toll;
On Florida's fair everglades by old Ontarios flood,
And thro them send electric life leaps the kindred
blood!
EUE tLls III IL tueS Taught US WnU r4tSuoth
and died,
The Eternal law of Justice must and shall be justified
That God has joined together by a fiat all divine
The destiny of dweers meath the Palm tree and the
Pine.
Aye! we'll plant them yet togethertho' the cloud is
on their brows, --t-.
And winds antagonistic writhe and wrench the stall
wart boughs
Driving winds that drift the nations into gapine CULTS
of gloom,
Sweeping ages cycles systems into vortces of DOOM
Though the waves of faction. rolling in triumphant
to the shore,
Are breaking down our bulwarks with their sullen
rage and roar;
Serted ornaments of ocean filing in line after line,
Washing up the deep foundations of Palmetto and of
Pine
sha this, the soil of Freedom, from their roots be
washed away
By the chatting of the billows and the breaking OF the
spray?
No! the hand which rules the vortex which is surging
now before us
Above its "hell of waters sets the bow of promise
DER US
And the time will come when Discord shall be buried
in the Past,
The oramme of Love shall wave above the breach at
last,
And beneath that starry banner-type of unity divine
Shall stand those stately signas--the Palmetto and
the Pine.
Shall the old victorious Eagle from their boughs be
wrenched away
By the double headed yulture of Dsunion and Decay7
Forbid it, Heaven Columbia. guard thine emblems
gathered here
To grace the brilliant dawning of this grand Centen-
niaI year.
And bear them as thou marchest on with gonfalons
unfurled,
With thy foot upon the feter for the freeing of the
world!
And guard thy holy sepuchre--Mount Vernon's sacred
shrine
For this is freedoms Holy Land-her promised Pal
estine,
Oh! thou voice of God outfowing from the lips of
holy Peace,
soothe the turmoil and the tumulbid this strife and
sorrow cease!
Ger sayannahs STEPPED in sunshine, over mountains
dark with rain,
Send the glad and thrilling tidngs in thy sweetly
Let snowy north and sunny South send up the shout
"Alls well -
And the music Of thy coming strike our heartstfings
with its swell.
[ As to Jessie Brown at Lucknow struck the air OF
s'Auid Lang Syne"
From the Highland pipes of Haveock] Save the
Palm, and save the Pine
God plant them still together let them flourish side
by side,
In the halls of our Centennial mailed in more than
marble pride;
With kindly deeds and noble names we'I grave them
DER and DER,
With brave historic legends of the gorsus deeds OF
yore,
While the clear exultant chorus rising from united
bands,
The echo of our triumph peals to earth's remotest
lands,
While Faith, Fraternity and Love I" shall ioyfully
entwine
Around our chosen emblems-the Palmetto and the
. Togetherl" shouts Niagara his thunder-toned de-
cree
g Together" echo back the waves upon the Mexic
Sea-
Together" sings the sylvan hills where old Atlantic
roars-
. Together boom the breakers on the wild Pacific
Together cry the People and s. together it shall
be,
An everlasting charter-b bond forever for the free;
of liberty the signet seal the one eternal sign
Be those united embems the Palmetto and the Fine.
Failure of Daniel Drew.