The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-02-18
Correspondence of The Cecil Whigl
Letter from 'Scraggs,'
Orr ARKANSAS CORRESPONDENTS.


tn"s-Prosperity Of the "Hhig."
Perhaps there are few men more ready than
to accord to editors generally, their need of
praise yet will venture to express my as
constituent at seeing some of them deprccate
and cry down ,rar, as hurtful to trade, and
retardatory of civil social and religious adj
vancemcnt! "MiruJiic dictur" If this be true,
in any other sense than merely i'll itsPrcse't,
temporary bearing, land even then it is only
partially so, and like all Establishments, how
ever wholesome, painful for the time and
''gricvous to be bornc') it would appear to
me II say it rcverently) that the Great Ruler
and Disposcr of nations, has, for a long, long
period occupied a very futile position. and
welded an excessively imbecilc policy, in the
course of his thcocracy But will not the
merest ty.o in sacred and profane history, cite
these lcngth-of. thcir-nosc sccrs and thinkers
to that clearly apparent, palrable fact, that
through all time almost. arar has been, in
HIS wise hands, the most potent engine or i'll
strumcnt, by means Of which TO work, to e.
fcctuatc his two-fold purpose of national
scourging, and national regeneration and ref
orma,ion? Else, why did HE fight for somc
(Joshua Y, and utterly destroy others! Else,
why did HE raise up, instruct, empower and
communal his ancient, military leaders. Moses
and Joshua txI XII, XIII and many other pa,
ccs) to take mholc lands from former occupants
~ al hnS tow tI,p,,, to- tI - ft,at
alone, but to destroy call that brcathcd ~
Else, why did HE institute, or set on foot the
religious prosecutions of our Revolutionary
ancestors in England, causing them to fly to
Plymouth Rock, and to a Western wilder
ness? Why? But thence, themselves and
through their posterity, to permcatc our then
sparscly populated Willis, and by supplanting
the red men and the buffalo, and substituting
for their crude habits, the arts and sciences of
religious, prosperous civilization, to cause
"thc desert to blossom as the rose and thus
to prepare national asylum for all the down.
troddcn of the world So it is, with all our
imperfections, too many, alas y we arc tna-
bled by the great ALLWISE, to present to the
gaze of an admiring world, the sublime pic
ture of the frecst, happicst, most enlightened
and self,govcrncd people on the globe
But, had it not been for supcrnal intcrvcn-
ton, through the temporary ills, nay, terrible
calamities of uur, (bittcrs arc necessary con-
comtants of sweets, in this life,) where would
have been the great men, the giants, (''in
those days there were giants'') and glorious
deeds and monuments of our ncvcr-to- be. for
gotten, cvcr-to-bc-remcmbercd Revolution
Where! Why to me, the very idea of no
WASHINGTON, rubs out half my uord!-
Where too, California's golden gate, pouring
its millions into our lap! She, TIE FUTURE
VINEYARD OF TIE WORLD From her flowing,
sparkling, supcrabundant, yet not incbriating
WINES, at no distant day, Temperance is d s.
tined to datca glorious jubllcan epoch Mark
that. Stick pin there, friend r, as know
you are if not an apostle az moins an ardent
disciple of the ahti-ardcm cause. Will YOU
Yes ?-Wcll do.
Now if your readers can come dorm from so
elevated a theme as the last, will just give
them grain of spice about my hunting recre-
atoms through gorge and mountain pass.
do not purposcly hut decr-too heavy for me
to pack: but when one comes in the uay of my
doublc-barrcl, London stub and twist, patent
biccch scdtter-gun, (no use for riHc:) it finds
too late. it has made a deer mistake. bag
ged' this season, Ia partridgcs ducks
IL turkeys-and much over 200 squirrels be-
sides pigeons, rabbits, coons, one otter, one
immense ground hog, and one very fat deer.
I've shot three turkeys at one pop. One day
whistled to single partridge, near noun
tain road, till approached so nigh as to lay
my gun on its back, in tuft from which it
had made one abortivc effort to raise, and
took it up unhurt. Like some other timid
folk, not being endowed with the indomitablc
never-say- fail spirit of Bruce and his pcrsevcr-
ing, Jail spider of historical celebrity, being
too easily disheartenod the poor little bird
q"il.ed. (Take lesson, boys. Don't be
dauntcd by first failure. THE turkeys have
"PPi'oShSd ~ hSsi ooi uOOI as W pass lIlIOuEn
the woodward, adjoining the house yard. A
few years ago, when settlements" were but
little sparscr, catamount, one day, attract
cd, presume, by the smell of some peltry in
the store, planted his fore feet on the door
Sill, and like Paul Pry, '.just looked in" a.
while. suppose he either thought or said
Hope don't intrude 2"
Our mountains could supply the ,rorM with
splendid building stone-and limestone, and
timber to burn it, ad ibit,rm; all at hand, just
for the taking. When we need tar, we burn
small kiln of our pine-hatboat gunnels,
drag them from the pineries to the river.
Wishing the "Whig" may take deep root
and Flourish Ikea green bay tree" that's,
like an Arkansas pine, and that ''its shadow
may never be less"
remain yours, ScRAGGs.
SYCAMORE, lizard Co., Ark, Jan. 7th "a.