Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-23
TWO VOICES FOR UNION.
The Palmetto and the Pme-A Southern Lady
Plea for Peace in 1876.


After reading the speech of Mr.. James G.
Blaine on the floor of the house of represents
tive5, in which the aninosities of the late civil
war were rshsarsed, and after another member
OF the house had answered in tone equally
fierce and implacable, an accomplished Tennes-
| see lady, Mrs. Virginia L. French, wrote the
Nashville american: T was p"'''A'' =" '"'
They planted thsm together--our gallant slres of
old
Though ono was crowned with crystal snow and
the other with solar gold;
They planted them together, ON the worlds ma
jsstic height
At aratosa's g deathless charge, at Eutaw stub
At midnight on the dark redoubt, mid plungin 6
shot and shell;
At nEsn,lde Ssaa gssplng in the crush of battles
With CORY hands and reeking brows. amid the
w,,.E mighty gn tray;
memorable day,
When they planted Independence, US a symbol
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. water
ed with our mothers tears;
In the strong, rich soil of Freedom with bo;In-
teOus bcnison,
From their Prophet, Priest aud Pioneer-our
Father, Washington.
Above them 1oated echoes of the ruin and the
wreck,
Like drums that beat ut Louisburg and thun-
dered at Quebec -
But the old lights sank in darkness rs the new
stars rose to shine
O'cr these emblems of the sectons-the Palmet-
to and the Pine.
And Wen plant them still together; for tits yet
the self same soil
Our fathers valor won for lis by victory and
tOll:
On Florida's fair everglades, by bold Optario's
flood.
And thro' them send electric life as leaps the
kindred blood.
For thus it is they taught us. who for Freedom
lived and died,
The Eternal's law Of justice must and shall be
justified;
That God has joined together, by fiat all di-
vine,
The destlnies of dwellers meath the Palm-tree
and the Pine.
Aye. Wen plant them yet together; tho the
cloud Is on their brows,
And winds antagonistic wrlthe and wrench the
stalwart bOughs,
CULTS of gloom,
Swerpins ages, cycles, systems, into vortices of
doom;
Though the waves Of faction rolling in triumnh
to the shore,
Are breaking down our bulwarks with their sui.
len rage and roar;
Serrled armaments Of ocean filling in line after
Washing up the deep foundations of Palmetto
AMI of Pine.
Shall this, the soil of Freedom, from their roots
BY the chatting of the pillows and the breaking
of the spray?
No; the Hand that rules the vortex, which is
surging now before us,
Above Its ''hell Of waters" sets the bow of
promise o 'er US;
And time will come when Discord shall be bur-
led in the Past,
The eriaamme of Love shall wave above the
breach at last,
And beneath that starry balner-type of unity
divine
Shall stand the stately signals-the Palmetto and
the Pine.
Shall the old victorious Eagle from their hourhs
be wrenched away
Bv the deuble-headed Vulture of Disunon and
Forbid it. Heaven Columbia, guard thine
enblems gathered here
To grace the brilliant dawning of this grand
And bear them: a, thou marchcst on with gon-
falons unfurled,
With thy foot upon the fetter. for the freeing OF
And guard thy Holy sepulchre. Mount vernon's
For this is Freedoms Holy Land-her promised
Palestine.
Soothe the turmoil and the tumult; bid this STRIFE
and sorrow cease.
O'er savannas, stepped in sunshine; over noun
taInS, dark " 18th rain,
Send the glad and thrilling tIdnss, in thy sweet
ly solemn strain;
Let snowy North and sunny South send up the
shout, "All's well,''
And the music Of thy coming strike our nearl-
strings with Its swell,
As to Jessie Brown at Lucknow struck the air
at "Auld Lang Syne''
From the Highland pipes of Havelock-saye 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 Wen grave
O
With b. ave historic legends of the glorious days
OF yore,
While the clear, exultant chorus, rising from
united bands.
The echo Of our triumph peals TO earth's remot-
est lands;
While .raith. Fraternity and Love- shall joy-
fully entwine
Around our chosen cmblems-the Palmetto anu
the Pine.
''Tosether,' shouts Niagara his thunder toned
degree;
Together" echo back the waves upon theMex,c
sea;
| Together" sing the sylvan hills where old
Atlantic roars; ~
Together, boom the breakers on the wild
Pacific shores; wa"
''rogether,' cry the people, and together
it shall be,
An everlasting charter bond forever for In. free.
or ,berty. the ssnct-seal, the eternal sim
BE these united enIblemS-the Palmetto anu ihn
Pine. NV