Show ACCORDING TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE I TUNE DIXIE WAS CAPTURED IN WAR V AR n Feb 6 Dixie is a AnaI na MiaL air ar and not the property of the vuth alone according to toa a declaration today day ja by Joseph Joaeph Nimmo jr one of the tho th ew surviving friends of Abraham Lin in Ir Mr Ir statement was caused cau Y a report published here that Pros tnt nt Schneider of the Chicago board of ti had la forbidden the singing of Ith at the th Lincoln centennial That Tat Dixie is treasonable I am repa to deny front from m tn personal I ex said Mr Ir Nimmo Early lie te morning In the month cf of April the ne news reached Y that R had been evacuated There Thereas lias as j ru t Ol j to the White House Hou Soon n hr dr Lincoln appeared at the windows Oer ver the front He lIed entrance replied rei to I 10 demand ernand for a speech I well re rember his closing words which were is a aTh s follows There Th ere is a song or tune which I Ito Ito td to to hear with great pleasure before the wa w but our friends across the river have appropriated it to their use during the last four years eats It is the tune called Dixie But I we have captured It At any rate I con with the attorney general this morning and he expressed the opinion that Dixie may be fairly fald regarded as captured property So I shall shaH ba b glad to hear Dixie by the band Ever Eer since then Dixie has been re regarded regarded regarded as a national air beloved by b the people of the north and the south SOt soi The tune of Dixie was composed by Dan Emmett a northern man who wrote the words It will remain for all aU time timea a truly trul national song made so by the humor of Abraham Lin Lincoln Lincoln coln coIn Chicago Feb 6 order forbidding the ngIng singing of Dixie Dixe at the Lincoln centennial here has been Issued ac according according according cording to Richard C Hail Hall president of the Chicago Association of ot Com Corn Commerce Commerce merce |