Weekly Trinity journal., 1878-12-14

'hihBs VI tho pnsb, anu puUilC dtleHllOH
was called to their apparent fulflment
Fragmentary portions Of the rhyme, which
Mrs. Marsh called "Colum bias Destiny
found their way into The Canadian news
papers, some of the extracts being now
in the possession of Dr.. Marsh. A re-
porter Obtained permission to copy the old
document, and they are herewith given,
together with the explanation which a
reference to the history of the last century
suggests. Thus it runs
Columbia, home of libertie,
Shall not twenty rulers see,
Ere there shall be battle smoke,
Ere peace shall seem TO be broke,
And in waves of peril tost
The ancient order shall bo deemed lost
1t is significant fact, when taken in
this connection, that r. B. Hayes is the
ninetoeth ruler of the United States. The
strange chronicler continues
The first shall, too the second be-
If the Fates tell truth, as even he
Where sits the sire shall sit the son,
But not the sons son.
And ere the son shall ruler be
One place shall send three;
Three with one shall make her four %,
A nd there shall be no more
Reference is undoubtedly made to
General Washington's proverbial truth
telling in the second line, and to tho sue
cession Of John Quincy Adams to the
place Of his father in the thir d. "But
not his sons son." seems to point to
Charles Francis Adams, who has uni
formly failed in his aspirations to become
President. Between the Adamses did
come three from zone place" (Virginia),
who with the accidental John Tyler made
the fourth /; nor has the "Mother of Pres
idents" since borne son distinguished
by even a nomination to the Chief Mag
istracy. The prophecy proceeds
The first sprung from these fecund loins,
In death his predecessor join;
Who beneath his son shall pass,
And in house that different was
The next one shall have peace and war;
The third shall brook no kingly star;
When the quarter century Is run,
w here sat he sire shall sit the son.
1t is difficult TO interpret portion of
this extract. Jefferson and John Adams,
it is we'll known, died on the 4th of July,
1926, their simultaneous death forming
one of the most remarkable condolences
in history; but the meaning OF the
clause, "And in a house that different
was" is rather vague. The venerable
ex-President died on the floor of the Cap
itol, but the latter building was part of
the original one erected at the seat Of
Government. Mr.. Madison's Admins
tration witnessed both the war with Eng
land and the period of peace and prosper
ity which followed it while the qu arter
century, reckoning from 1900, saw the in
augural ceremonies of the younger
Adams.
Here several lines in the paper are SO
obiterated or detaced that they are un-
readable.
Then comes who should have been before,
A soldier who shall not have any war.
"Old Hickory's" record seems to bear
this out, especially the last line. The
vigorous manner in which he "sat down"
upon the nullifers of that day deferred, :"
SO Mr.. Bancroft says, 'the approaching
civil war for many years" The pr0phe-
cy oRtinues :
Il, ,2) After the fox the lion shall
Be lOrdly ruler over all;
But death shall in the mansion WELD
Sword surer than in the tented field.
(3) After him there comes anon
One who had friends, but shall have
none.
(l) The hickory shall sprout again,
A soldier come from battle plain,
But shall not long remain,
Nor shall his heir bear sway again.
(5) Then youth shall follow, who (sic)
All shall know, though none knew.
Taken in their successive order the
above lines ought to apply to Martin
Van Burer (but why should he be called
a fox p second, to General Harrison, who
died almost Immediately after inaugura-
tion third to Tyler, whose conduct
caused a rupture in his party fourth to
Polk, who was popularity known as
"Young Hickory" (see Benton IS "Thirty
Years in the Senate" /, p. 374), and
eth to Franklin Pierce, the youngest up
to that time, and whose selection was a
surprise to everybody.
While the next [probably Buchanan do bear
tho rule,
To-morrow's rage tis his days fool;
There shall be trouble manifest,
North and South, and East and West
The strong man shall the weak befriend,
But it shall not be the end
Under the next Lincolnl shall widows mourn
Thousands be slain, but millions born;
Death, in the strife, shall pass him by,
But when the peace cometh, he shall die.
soldier after him shall be,
Who shall see his century.
The hero OF Appomattox is here un-
doubtedly referred to, and the Centennial
celebration at Philadelphia. But the
most remarkable part of this prophecy is
the following:
Rule afterward shall be not
By the one whose it was not
Men shall roar, and rage, and rave,
But he shall have who should not have.
When the tide of storm is over
Four shall make siz and not four.
He who was shall bo no more,
And all that's past not make SC ore.