Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-02-21
For the Fayetteville Observer.
LINCOLN AND IT'S NEEDS.
NUMBER THREE.

Mr. W @. Understanding to
promise, ] will proceed to notice an
other evil much complained Of by the
lpeopleof adjoining counties, and which
exerts a bad influence upon some of
our own people. refer to that con-
tempt which is so abundantly poured
upon us because Of our "despicable
homes" Just pass our county lines
in any direction, and Lincoln holds
| the unenviable reputation of "the last
place. Our people are illuminated
as ignorant, poverty-stricken, liquor
loving fogies, a hundred years behind
the age; and as though they were sun
der. the thumb Of few guiding spir-
its. Our politics are particularly Of
fensive to many, and as demagogues
have uniformly failed to convert us
from the error of our ways when sent
upon missions to this dark corner, they
generally go back to their satellites
and report a cargo of ridicule at our
expense, and thus have turned public
opinion against Lincoln Democracy,
not so much because it is a political
creed, as because it is held and main
tanned by those semi-civiliGed Lincoln
ties. Who has not heard of the con-
temptible satire Of exhibiting the Gu
riosity of a covered wagon to the
three hundred Lineolnites that never
saw one''-of building wall around
Lincoln and letting them have things
in their own way &C., as though our
people were as ignorant of all the
arts of civilization as Hottentots, and
as blinded deyotees of political doc
trines as the stupidest asses. Our
country is represented as kind Of
selection from all mountain districts,
Just to show what a mountainous coun-
/ try can be; and the people a little
rougher than the country our houses
as the merest log-cabins in an utterly
dilapidated condition, and our people
of just one idea, Democracy This
you know, Mr.. Editor, is bat a hint at
the estimate in which we and our coun-
ty are held by outsiders. I-haye had
to hear such slang until l really
wished I had either had few of the
"b'hoys" along with me to put stop
to il, or could have claimed citizen
shipin some other country. Some
how, Inever could stand to hear either
my native State OF my adopted coun-
ty and home ridiculed, without exhib-
iting someof my poreupineal proper
sites, and you can guess how | feel
when one Of these wind-bag DISCLAIMERS
begins ridiculing my home. Now
though I attach little importance to
such ridicule, still have ever found it
wise and most polite to give due
weight to the openness of enemies, as
they are seldom promulgated without
some shadow of foundation. As to
the contempt heaped upon our homes
because of political considerations, it
deserves to be passed over in silence;
but there are many who are politically
our friends, who seem to contemn us
for everything but our politics, and
these people have some foundation for |
their opinions, OF they would not cer-i
tainly express them unprovoked.-
Some of our best citizens, too, seem
to act as though there were sufficient
causes for making Lincoln the but of
all the ridicule that is heaped on us,
and rather than bearit have left us to
go further and, / fear, fare worse. Is
it true, then, that Lincoln soil and Lin
coin people are so hopelessIy clownish,I
that the only possible plan Of esca-
ping such annoying jeers is to either
patiently bear it or fly the country to
escape it? Is Lincoln so hopelessly
"loggy," that she never can be aroused
from her Rip Van Wrinkle slumbers, /
to take up the line Of march on to- f
ward @progress?" Or is she so desti-
bute of means THAT while every other +
section of country ran emnloy thoir fol q