Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-15

as you pretend, the very effort you
make to stultify me and prove me
unworthy Of belief viii leave the i'm.
preston upon ingenious minds that
the ssil'aess Of your country is one of
the worst objections, whether they
believe or not a word have said
You are not ignorant of the fact that
the citizens of Micanopy have TO go
two aud a half miles to bury their
dead--the difficulty Of water inter.
cepting the sexton's operations, or
preventing decent interment in all
places contiguous to the village that
have been tried. And yet, sir, you
you weuId have noble Tennesseans'
believe your town and country are
what shall | say? High and dry
like a steamboat on a sand-bar. >
Ha-ha! one of the best planters Of
Florida, that have known all my
life to be a man Of sense and truth,
remarked one day in presence Of
Lincoln, ofthat dry country of yours,
! that it reminded him SO much Of a
certain wet country that be could not
keep from calling it the sMicanopy
Everglades, and we both laughed
heartily at the striking analogy.
But, sir, have not yet done that
fact about boating corn out of the
pond, Though you may kick at il
as you please, it was told me by one
Of the very best Of your neighbors
And as / knew him intimately to be
Trustworthy, and saw. the corn-stalks
submerged in water to the top, with
my own eyes, as Pat says, ! would
have been greater knave than fool
I to have asserted he gathered his corn
in a Wagon or cart '--without vir-
tually telling him as you have done
me. i know you say the "planters
always gather their corn in Wagons
or CARTS but it is ike some of your
other declarations that have been
considering-you have said what you
I did notknow. Anadditionalitemillus-
trating the truth Of this last asser-
sertion is furnished in this same con-
nection. You say 'ifany man ever have
boated his corn out Of his fields he
must first have been guilty Of plant
ing some low pond whose waters had
been drained by sink-hole,' etc.
The idea Of a 1ow pond being drained
by sink hole (if any one can at
tach an idea to such words) suggests
a whole train of ponds 1ow ponds, low
er ponds, lowest ponds, and Of course
highponds, higher ponds, highest pond
and sink-holes that is fatal to your
doctrine Of dry country about Mi
canopy. Suppose you drop your bad
nature and laugh with me at the sim
gular category in which your zeal to
prove me false has placed you. Ne.
groes and mules may plant and cult.
yate a high pond in corn, and the
planters may gather it in Wagons
and carts, bat am ] to understand
that Alligators and Mud. Turtles
plant and cultivate a low pond, and
then allow the planters to boat out
the harvest to their barns? If so,
you would confer favor on me by
buying me a few ,as will certainly be
down before long. Pugh, your 'low
pond doctrine viii not make nom
sense and is ridiculous. Now, Sir, I
wish you to read over your article
again and see if you do not consider
lit more one sided concern than all
Of my letters. ] noticed along with
the advantages Of Florida, some Of
its disdvantages-you are utterly
blind to its Disadvantages and write
as il it we're perfect. Now ifI, poor
Lincoln, have to be logged round the
world as liar for daring to mention
along with its advantages some of
its disadvantages, you would do well
10 stop writing lest you might be SO
successful as to induce many to emf
crate to that country who falling to
find it perfect would be provoked to
send you abroad as one that did not
tell the truth. So
Waving for the present the Sc
quence that because you are not a
land speculator, therefore you have
no purpose to serve will draw this
long article to close by telling you
that there is no danger Of my turn
ing Catalina to the interest Of Flofi-
da. My influence though weak upon
noble or ignoble Tennesseans bas
been exerted in favor Of your coun-
try. aud had you let my statement
Of facts alone your temerity had es-
caued A merited castigation. / al