The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-13

,,,ords to the great Civil War prevents it's acceptance in one portion or 'ne country.
 "Dixie." the war-song of the confeo- eracv. however, is as popular Ill Ne" England as in Texas. The associatioh ,,itb the south is recognized, but the x,ords have no political significance nes over Tn the south I have heara os' nlav Marching Through Georgla is have heard listeners lnquie VI toon 4iaa+ attlinp good tune?' It has not peeu 'iia' ,,, tbe south enough to make le t1,ar piaS IT is A. peculiar fact tila' ..ni,,a,, was the work of n nor'heln oo,nnoser. while the great marenihs spn5 :, os inc Union army, "John bfoYh pous, ~ oi s'is ,.;r,inallv A South Carolina eaihp
 rho first political application ol .,e .so ,.i,rirg tune of "DiXie' was Tar uhi sorant from that which attaeheo eo during the Civil War. The sons as ite apuearance in 1859. suppol ,t ;n Abraham Lincoln wrote Woros ,,tiioon 1seO and it was sung as .,at ,,oar oan,n.ign song in Illinois in Una, yea. e1- inco,n always liked it, and on tne ',to,.noo, of the day he was assasslhaeeu ,sa os,,ed a band which serenadea mn T, fx-f at tha White House to play biA'e, a,,ing that Richmond had been tahen' ana inc south's songs now oeioliseo eo tIo I-nion. His words were prophe.ie' Cor "Dixie' is now the greatest yel pro- ducer of all our patriotic airs.
 Daniel Decatur Emmett dleo Ill poN ertv at Mt. VerEnp O.. three yea,s ae,, ae He had writteif inAny. songs Ill at m,s snne any and TWO of thelh still live-his great sohs .tnixle,, and "Old Dan Tucker, He re- oe;,-ad s50o for "Dixe" and S1oo Tor oIo nan ,rucl,er'' Charles K. Harris made s5o ooo from After the Ball The con trast is a striking one. In lsoa Emmett wac singing with Dan Bryants negro ,,,nstrels on lower Broadway In New York The show had been dragging ana Bryant thought he saw disaster aheau. one Saturday he told Emmett that ne ne ,,,ust have a new negro 'twaik-around by Monday night. It was rainN ouii- dav and Emmett shut himself up. In a room with his violin. When he came out he brought pixie with him. It caught on instantly and all New York was whist ling it within tho week.
 It's adaptation nearly two years later AS the yar-song of the south was an ac- cident Mrs John Wood was appearing at the New Orleans Varieties theatre Tn "Pocahontas." On account or the rising tide of war ZOuaNe urlH was itti' duced into the show. The orchestra lead CT tried over several airs for the march, ana finally hit upon "Dixie.' The war cloud burst the next week and from New Orleans Dixie spread over all the south. At the north Fanny J. Crosby, the hymn writer, wrote a song for ''Dixie' which was strongly Union in sentiment. but the other side had pre-empted the air. Then a Boston company began singing John Browns Body and the whole north Joined in the glory. glory, halleujah
 Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's great poem, "rhe Battle Hymn of the Republic" ]" written for the John Brown" air. still survives but the soldiers never sang it. just as the southern soldiers could not be induced to accept Albert Pilze's poit ical version of "Dixie.' War songs do not depend upon the political argument incorporated in their words for populari- ty. The boys on .'hiSe" want tune John Browns Body was sung by Kit chener's British troops in the Soudan and by Lord Roberts men fighting the Boers making it almost a universal Anglo Saxon air.
 Yet the American soldiers in the war