Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-10-28
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FAYETTEVILLE, Oct, 1851.
My Euer Dear amanda:
! Were itnot that I cherish for you
the sine crest friendship, / should be
disposed to rebuke you for youl
h needless ness. I always knew that
| y GU are prone, in the exuberance O
your spirits, to fly, without thought
from pld zee to place seeking enjoy
ment, AID little minding where you
| lay your books, your bonnet, or your
shawl. / did not think, however
that YOU would prize letter Of mine
so lightly as to permit it to be
picked |up" by setter Of types, and
be, by him, given to the public. To
keep YOU no longer in suspense, the
"ObserVer " a weekly paper published
here, has every line and word Iwrote
you in His last number, and he stat es,
as you will see by looking over the
COPY which l send you with this, Il lat
he pickR ap the letter in one Of his
raInbles. This may be so. And the
assertion may be ruse Of the print
er| S or a stratagem of your own. No
matter, 1 am not so highly offended
as to censure you, or quarrel with the
men of types And as never stoop
to low personalities, or assail anything
butt vice land u fulflled duties in j ny
letters to any one of either sex, I
have nothing to fear from their be-
coming public; and I shall take pc
cial care not to write aught of which
you or | need be ashamed. So, Oh
reflection, you have my lieTe to save
or lose my epistles as you choose, or
as it may chance.
In my former one, I promised to
speak in this of the amusements Of
the inhabitants of this goodly village.
Such, then, was my intention. But an
incident that am about to relate, has
diverted from my thoughts every
thing having the similitude ofgayety
On the only lovely morning Of last.
week, accompanied by one Of the
still more lovely maidens with which
our miniature city abounds, | took
stroll for the purpose of beholding,
with my own eyes, what remains to
be seen of the "a wages of the hurri-
cane which Frustrated much of the
town in February last. During our
walk,
by pensive cares oppressed"
we reached the grave yard Of the de-
Presbyterian Church. -
Here is a scene that demands an
ADLER pen than mine to paint it. No
words of mine can convey to you, nay
sensitive friend, any correct knowl-
edge Of the emotions which agitated
my bosom while l gazed. / was
reused from a reyerie altogether in
describable, by the indignant cry Of
shame! shame! from the lips Of my
companion.
You will remember, am certain,
how careful our teacher was, when we
recited our lessons in history, to point.
out the fact that all the nations of
the earth,+heathen, pagan and
Observation-Disclosures black, white, red,
or .tawny-aLL, Of whatever rank or
have venerated the dead,
and held sacred their remains.
Here, alas! in this happy cline,
upon this fruitful soil-among a truly
virtuous people, some blight would,
to a stranger, seem to have attached
itself to their affections-to have
scared their hearts, and blotted from
their memories. the dear ones who
here lie sepulchered. But this is in
only. For well | kno w
that none love more, truly, more de-
tina do the surviving paren is
and other relatives of those VIII
sleep hero.
1t is now October. The hurricane ,
[ am told, occurred on the morning of
the Oath of February. Eight mont hs
have fled since that unhappy event;
and-will you believe, my gent tie
young friend, can you believe til at
rom that morning until the prese int
moment, this cemetery has remain ed
Inc closed-entirely waste "a thor
,ughfare for wagons, domestic Gait lie,
md roofing swine!! Yet this Fl
yrieve to say its but too true.
Why is it, then, you may ask, I'll at
his sacred ground has not be en-
placed, long since, in such conditib n
IS the people l have described, must
lesire to see it in? ! can answer y bu
n no other way than by saying tia
t is owing, probably, to the fact I'll lat
10 individual feels willing to do bis
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