The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-04-01
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From The NeiO York Erening Post.
An Eloquent Plea for Peace.
sourHERg woNASs roErIcAL TRIBUTE TO THE
PALMETTO AND THE PINE

An Eloquent Plea for Peace.
a AsourHERs woMASs roErIcAL TRIBUTE TO THE
PALMETTO AND THE PINE.
After reading the speech Of Mr.. James O..
Blaine on the floor of the House of Repre-
sentatyes, in which the animosities of the late
civil war were appealed to with what seemed
to us misplaced ehergy, and after another
member of the House had answered in tone
equally fierce and implacable, an accomplish
ed Tennessee lady, Mrs. Virginia L. French,
wrote the poem which we give below for the
Nashville american. 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. Freneh's spirited
lines might well make one suspect this to be
a mistake. They are an impassioned plea for
peace, and more than peace, for an affection
ate brotherhood and the revival of friendly
memories older than the late civil strife.
Here is the poem;
THE PALMETTO AND THE PINE.
They planted them together-our gallant sires Of
Old
Though one was crowned with crystal snow, and one
with solar gold
They planted them togethcr--on the worlds majes7
tic height
At saratogas deathless charge, at Eutaws stubborn
fight;
At midnight on the dark redoubt mid plunging
shot and shell
At noontlde gasping in the crush of battles bloody
SWELL
With CORY hands and reeking brows, amid the
mighty fray,
which surged and swelled around them on that
memorable day,
When they planted independence, as symbol and
sign,
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 bOunteous
benison
From their Prophet, Priest and Pionecr-our Father
Washington
Above them loated echoes ofthe ruin and the wreck
Like drums that beat ut Loulsburg and thundrsd
at Quebec"
But the old lights sank In darkness as the new stars
rose to shine
Der those embems Of the sectons-the Palmetto and
the Pine.
And wen plant them still together-for lis yet the
selfsame soil
Our fathers vaor won for us by victory and toll
On Floridas fair everglades, by bold 0ntarlos food
And thro them sent electric life leaps the kindred
blood!
For thus 1t is they taught US who for Freedom lived
and died.
The Eternals law of Justice must and shall be jus.
tilted
That God has Joined together by fiat all divine
The destiny of dweller meath the Palm tree and the
Pine.
Aye wen plant them yet together-tho the cloud
Is ON their brows
And winds antagonistic writhe and wrench the stall
wart boughs
Driving winds that dr the nations into gaping gulf
ofgloom;
Sweeping ages cycles systems into vortices 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 armaments of ocean filing in line after line
Washing up the deep foundations of Palmetto and Of
Pine.
Shall this the soil of Freedom from their roots be
washed away
BY the chatting Of the billows and the breaking OF
the spray7
No the Hand which rules the vortex which Is surg
Ing now before US
Above It's hell Of waters" sets the bow OF promise
DER
And the time will come when Discord shall be bur.
led in the Past.
The orihamme of Love shall wave above the breach
at last,
And beneath that starry banner-type of unity di.
Shall stand these stately sgnals-the Palmetto and
the Pine.
Shall the old victorious Eagle from their boughs be
wrenched away
By the double-headed vulture of DisunIOn and De.
cay?
Forbid IT, Heavenl Columbia, guard thine emblems
gathered here
To grace the brilliant dawnng of this grand Centen-
nial year.
And bear them as thou marchest on with gonfalons
unfurled.
With thy foot upon the fetter for the freeing Of the
And guard thy Holy scpulchrc- Mount vernon's sa.
For this is Freedoms Holy Land-her promised Pal.
estne.
Oh thou voice Of God outfowing from the lips of
holy Peace,
soothe the turmoil and the tumult-bid this strife
and sorrow cease
Der sayannas stepped In sunshine, over mountains
dark with rain,
Send the glad and thrilling tidings in thy sweetly
solemn strain
Let snowy North and sunny South send up the shout
"Alls wellr
And the music Of thy coming strike our heart strings
with Its swell,
las Jessie Brown at Lucknow struck the air Of
Aud Lang syne"
From the Highland pipes of Hayelockl-saye the
Palm and save the Pine.
God plant them still together let them flourish side
by side
In the halls of our Centennal-ma In more than
marble pride;
With kindly deeds and noble names we II grave them
DER and DER.
With brave historic legends of the glorious days of
yore,
While the clear, exntant chorus rising from united
bands,
The echo OF our triumphant peals to earths remoest
lands
While Faith, fraternity and Love-" shall joyfully
entwine
Around our chosen emblems-the Palmetto and the |
Pine
Together shouts Niagan his thunder toned de- |
cree
Togetherr p echo back the waves upoa the Mexic