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

even guess at the meaning Of "short
|duration'' ID the counexion.---I
The tshOrt dufation' Of q thing
which ! falsifed in saying existed
at all! Wboop--but you are GET
ting 'foggy. Besides, ..short"
lis q relative term, compared with
something longer, and may be APP
piled to things that transpire in q
moment or day, or week, or month,
or year, so that ! am again left in
the "fog'' to guess whether you
mean they last a short day, or short
day, or month, etc.; which latter sup
position would be a pretty serious
objection to your country to all low
ers of sun-lighs, especially if they
soccurred from six o-twelve times \
year." as you say. But, sir, your
saying that they sneyer interrupt
business needs good many quail
fcations. remember 'fog" in.
terrupted the sailing of the "Steamer
Florida, las. winter, fourteen hours,
when was aboard, causing failure
to connect with the inland stage
from Pilatks, which materially light
ened the purses Of some Of those
aboard. ] remember a good many
occasions when '''fogs" were assigned
las the occasion of small failures by
/ my friend Of the Micanopy Post-Of-
fee. .AndI remembers time whenmy
friend a physician, (who certainly
gave Alachua some facts. about Elk
River mentioned below was called
to see a patient at night, and q foe
prevailing was soon. lost in a neigh
boring hammock to his no small dis
comfort, and this was his business.
So, sir, you see that your declaration
that they '.never interrupted busi-
ness needs sundry qualifications
Again you are disposed to ridieule
on them | had dropped as to the heat
and enervating character Of the eli
mate, but let any one spend two, or
three months in Micanopy at any
time Of the year, and if be does not
come to the same conclusion | am
no judge of mankind. l did not
exercise very laboriously, yet ] sweat
sometimes very freely Tin the winter
at that) and reasoned with myself,
ifso warm in January, February, and
! March, what would it be in June,
July, August, and September? Now,
sir, because ] published this opinion,
lyou are publishing me to the world
as talebearer. Pray, sir, tell us
how many "noble or ignoble Tennes-
seeans" you expect to 60 to Florida
by holding out the opposite idea,
that Florida is a cool 6racing climate.
But your next paragraph is the
most odious OF all-because your
ideas if not your words, were bor-
irowed from the "6sh-market." You
are thunderstruck and almost she'd
ding Crocodile tears at Lincoln 8
recklcssness and "total disregard Of
TRUTH in asserting that she knovs Of
| no course that he could travel a mile
in a straight line without wading il
not as deep any how as vide as Elk
River" and wind up by asserting
that you could point out scores Of
places where the journey might be
performed. Now Why did you not
give one course and point, if SO ma
ny7 How unmanly to put the very
worst construction upon my language
that it would or would not bear, when
a bitter one was admissible. But
to follow you, sir, l admit slight
inaccuracy 10 the expression, for this
moment . remember that there are
several courses varying from a hori-
zontal to a perpendicular line ia the
air, in which the journey might be
performed, provided you had a road
or had devoured enough Of such win
dy articles as that under review to
supply the place of wings, and would
undertake the journey of a dry (not
foggy) day. Now, sir, the declara-
ton was penned with reflection, and
was Thought true at the time and
might yet be verified for several days
after heavy falls Of rain as had prece-
ded the date Of that letter your
establishment and vile insinuations to
the contrary Notwithstanding. /
had Travelled the several roads leading
from the Florida House towards the /
cardinal points over that distance,
and found the roads in splash from
ten to a hundred yards wide, and
you know how crooked some Of the
roads are, and made SO on purpose
to avoid some ap0nd or lake" like |