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HSAALL IT BE ASH OR MAGNOLIA a.


The above is quere Of the Richmond En-
qulrer, IN reporting the fact that pole has been
cut al Ashland, for the Clay Banner in the Balti-
more Convention. The editor alludes to the gift
OF The grand Towering Magnolia, sometime since
made TO Mr.. Clay:


The Heather Idols had each their favorite
tree The Oak was consecrated to Jupiter, the
Olive TO Minerva, the Myrtle to Venus &c. The
question now is, which tree shall be consecra,ed
70 Henry Clay? Itwas but a few weeks since,
that Horticulturist on the Banks Of the Missis-
slPpl sent Magnolia, and dedicated it to his
Divinity The Federal presses caught the sound,
and nothing was SO sublime, nothing so suitable
to the genius of Henry Clay, as this towering
and fower-bearing tree of the American forest"


but the recently cut Ash sapling leads Mr..
Richie to exclam:8


Ash, then, let it be- and cut from Ashland!
And henceforth Ash is to be the favorite tree OF
MI Clay. 1t is to constitute part of the mum
merry OF 1874; and let il be understood that Mr..
Clay does not hesitate to stoop to such mum
merry !"


Vi course, the gentlemen who thought that
General jackson would make about as good a
President as cock would sailor, would not
think that the use of the Hickory Pole might be
pleaded as precedent


But, IN reply to the question, we answer it
shall be both Ash and Magnolia When strength
and vigor are requisite, the tough Ash shall rep
resent the force and tenaciy Of purpose of the
great statesman; and when the consequences of
his labors for the happiness and prosperity Of the
nation shall be seen in the peoples happiness,
and his own elevation to the Presidency, then
what so appropriate as the gorgeous native flower
OF the American forest, whose beauty delights
the eye, while every section of the country is
made redolent with its far-reaching fragrance.


Let il then be both Magnolia and Ash. The
strength and beauty of the American fores, are
appropriate emblems of the beauty of the politi-
cal course, and the strength Of the political char
acter of HENRY CLAY.-U. s. Gazette.