| Show JAMES RANDALL POET THE AUTHOn OP MARYLAND AND HIS GARBED Ill vrorltlnmon Ijrhi Mn tl < All HrorU lie Ie N n w an Allxhv nt the InliMl Hum tkMleIli Other 1 pile Indnetiuus HUD merit la n bghtrews song li I n passport at 1r which no sentry will quwllon and J song Before pines rp bad been declared Maryland M y Maryland that fiery bit ot rhymnl I eloquence had jf croseed the enemy lines and exacted III meed of praise from the Hlenrr critic crit-ic at Iho North OllverWendellHolme tiny ot It It was the best poem produced pro-duced I on cither stile during the war And the poet tilmnelf write Soon after ha appearance abundant evldcuee was borno to me that whatever the fate ot the confederacy might be my tone would urvllo It It crossed the ocean and when It come out In England Eng-land 1 Mr Itandall received an autograph auto-graph letter from n member of Lord Hurons family filled with eiprenloni of admiration of It and containing A request re-quest for n manuscript copy anti nn Invitation to tho author to visit his correspondent In London About this lime Mr John It Thompson for so many year connected with the Southern South-ern Literary Messenger happened to be abroad and upon the return ho said to Mr Itandall I envy von above all men Why nsled tho poet llecause said Mr Thompson when I wan In London I met In n rawlngroom ono of tho most beautlfu oath charming of women who ranked nn If I would not like to hear a song or ny southern country and upon my replying i re-plying In the affirmative went to the ilano and sang Maryland My Mary and After she had finished she turned to me moping When you fee tho friend that wrote hat tell him that you beard It sung by a Itusslan girl who lives at Arch inccl north of Siberia and IcarncJ tIng t-Ing It there Ten thousand people surrounded the iVashlngton monument In lliltlmoro lit he reception given to Ibo Trench visIon vis-Ion to the Yorktown Centennial and when the Dodwortb bind pla > ed Mary land My Maryland and the gucit hearing that It was a distinctive air roio and boned low tho crowd cheery cheer-y rr 1 r r JAMES IlYDKIl IIANDAL Ing madly Among the crowd alien and unsuspected stood James Ilydcr Ilamlall who at thin demonstration felt a hand laid upon his arm while 0 voice at his ildoiild Do ou not as a Marylander fee proud of that tonI R ton-I dont know rtpllad Ilaudall I am nfrald that I am rather practice and I feel convinced If ho were to Ik It that there is I not n man In thla vas throng who would lend thin author IS Yes said the slranjer but they will Rive him a splendid funeral Through his mother Mr Randall li I do cendtd from Item Leblanc the gen tie notary In Longfellow poem Evangcllno Ills father wai a merchant mer-chant of Iloltlmore and In that city IIn Jan 11839 the poet was born Ono of lila earliest teacher Irofcisor ClArk had formerly been a tutor of Edgar AI Ian Ioe and up to 18ES was still Ilvln In Ilaltlmoro at the age of 90 In 181 young Handall entered the old Jeult college In CJcortelown Ilefore his graduation however circumstance obliged him to abandon his studies end after a brief experience In a Daltlmor I book store and a term of service as n teacher In tbo wild of 1lorlda ho drifted to New Orleans where he filled a position ai clerk In a merchant shipping ship-ping ounce Among tho potli other patriot verse are Thfrea Life In tho Oli Land Yet BlJnewall Jacksou and the tattle Cry of the South but be regards At Arlington written at 0 later date and founded upon a highly poetic Incident the brat poem he has over produced Near tho close of tbo warS + hlle trav cling In n railroad car Mr Ilnndo borrowed n newspaper from a lady aIL ting noar him Tho lady then a stranger to him Wan Alias Hammon his future wife the paper was the Au gusto Chronicle ef which he afterwards became the editor Other paper with which he had been editorially and others IM connected are the Haltlraor American the CHhollo Mirror and the tlcorgla Constitutionalist At present Mr Randall hold an nl flco under tho ergi > antatarras of the United State senate and Is the correspondent corres-pondent of a number of paper Ills lot ler from tho capital being widely cop led Its homo is I In Augusta da and there In the Intervnla unclaimed by official duties his life Is pained with his hisI iwir1iU illdrtn and gtanOehlMrtn about hIm To his gift M a poet and Journalist ho adds thchrm of brilliant oonver tlonal power and those who hava seen him of late describe him liS poi 1assstl 1 of all the oldtlm tmlhu U m of IIJIttIOb and manner and still In appear aoee a young man without a bush ot 11Ir In his hair During tho last sean sea-n Mr Itindall ban hid a number of attsrlnR effete for a lecture tour through the country but the author ot Maryland My Maryland Is I singularly larly Indifferent lo tho emoluments otIs ot-Is world and can My what few poet are able to claim that hd line never written a line of verse for money |
