The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-03-14

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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 (4)
Reference is undoubtedly made to Gener-
al Washington's proverbial truth telling, in
the second line, and to the succession of
John Quincy Adams 10 the place of his
father, in the third. "But not his sons
son," seems to point to Mr.. Charles Francis
Adams, who has universally failed in his as
pirations to become president. Between the
Adamsos did come three from lone place"
(Virginia), who, with the accidental John
Tyler made the fourth. Nor has the
"Mother of Presidents" since born a son
distinguished by even nomination to the
chief magistracy. The prophecy proceeds {:
The first sprung from these desund loins
In death his predecessor joins
Who beneath his son shall pass
And in heuse that different was
The next one shall have peace and wal;
The third shall brook no kingy star
When the quarter century's run,
Where sat the sire shall sit the son,
1t is difficult to interpret a portion of this
extract. Jefferson and John Adams it is
well known, died on the 4th day of July,
1926, their simultaneous deaths form
ing one of the most remarkabl5 coin
cidences 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 capitol,
but the latter building was part of the origi
nal one erected at the seat of government.
Mr.. Madisons administration witnessed
both the war with England and the period
of peace and prosperity which followed it /;
while the quarter century reckOned from
1900, saw the inaugural ceremonies of the
younger Adams.
| Here several of the lines are so obltera.
ted or defaced that they are unreadable.
Then comes he who should have been before
A soldier who shall not have any war,
"Qld Hickory's" record seems to bear this
ut, especially the last line The vigorous
manner in which he "sat down" upon the
nullifiers deferred" so Mr.. Bancroft says,
"the approaching civil war for many years. "
The prophecy continues
Il p 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.
(4) The hickory shall sprout out again
A soldier come from battle plain,
But shall not long remain,
Nor shall his heir bear sway again.
(5) Then a youth shall follow, who (sic)
And shall know, though none knew
Taken in their successive order, the above
lines ought to apply first to Martin Van Bu
rem (but why should he be called fox p
second, to General Harrison, who died al
most Immediately after his Inauguration
third to Tyler, whose conduct caused rup
ture in his party fourth, to Polk, who wa
popularly known as "Young Hickory" (se,
Benton's Thirty Years in the Senate" |
p. 37i), and fifth TO Franklin Pierce, tn
youngest up that time, and whose selection
was surprise to every body.
While the next probably Buchanan Dc
bear the rule,
To-morrow's sage is this days fool
There shall be trouble manifest,
North and South and East and West,
|. The strong man shall the weak befrend,
But it shall not be the end
Under the next Lincoln shall widow
mourn,
Thousands be slain, but millions bern ;
Death, in the strife, shall pass him by,
But when the peace cometh he shall die
A soldier after him shall be,
Who shall see his century.
The hero of Appomattox is here undoub
edly referred to, and the Centennial ceebr,
, tion at Philadelphia. But the most remarl
able part of this prophecy is the following