Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-03-03
[ Written ts1 the fayetteville. Observer.l
A LECTURES

Than just a kind "Memento,''
But how the subject-theme may gang
| Let time and chance determine;
Perhaps it may turn out sang,
Perhaps turn out ermon."--Bwns.
Here we go, sliding down the nine
teenth century, like "a thousand o
;, brick, and up to the eyes insall sorts
of isnls and osiHes and humbugs that
ever disturbed the human race, or
the rest of mankind. Yes! and : /
know we are sliding fast; for even
since my recollection, l can discover
a remarkable difference between the
young hopefuls of my day and gener-
alton ofbare feet and copperas-breech-.
es, and those pusillanimous pigmies,
who represent the Young America Of
the present day; and who like young
ducks assume the responsibility Of
padding their oma canoe almost as
lsoon as they come into existence. -.
Where are Chesterfield and Goblet,
and the rest Of our friends who wrote
books teaching our young tobacco
squirts how to behave themselves.
1t seems from the signs of the times
that they have gone to the place
where all the good books 60 in these
: days Of progress and precocity.-
They are laid in the dusty garnet, to
become the companions of romping
mice and nibbling crickets. o tenn
pora! 0 mores! Gas the poet said }
but what did he know about the
times and customs If he were
Sc! down among this generation for a
few weeks, we'll might he exclaim O
Temporal o Mores and scratch his
, head when it was not itching Gf you
will allow the expression.) We are
10 the midst Of elements which, il
; not controlled by higher power than
man can WELD, will some day make
this mighty temple of liberty totter
to its lowest foundation. We are in
the midst of wars and commotions
which will sap the foundation of OUT
government and tear up the roots OF
The tree of Liberty. We are 10 the
midst of discordant elements, which,
: If let alone, would sweeplike nigh
; ty avalanche over the fertile plains Of
our country, leaving blood and DESC
lation in their cursed track. We ara
: hemmed in on one side by the red
D mouthed abolitionists, who spit fire
and venom at US on all occasions;
,, and on the other hand by the wooly-
, beaded niggers who, but short time
! ago, threatened to rise and murder us
: all, 50 that Fremont might be elected,
and they &c: to pilFer and rob hen
roosts with IMMUNITY. We have also
been surrounded by an owl-eyed, bat.
D winged, night.walkiug sort Of folks
e whose coaclayes used to be SO secret
] that they went in at hole and then
took the hole in after them. Idare
say that in the days Of Jackson, such
D folks would have been blown as high as
: "a coon could climb; but for the
e sake of variety we still let them have
; name and place among US. We
are sliding down the bill of Time
like a parcel Of boys in. time Of a
!. hard freeze, and We 60 it With 4 per-
: feet rush. Every new lam that comes
around is just the very thing itself;
SO here we, go, every body pitching
in like aAock of sheep Into forbidden
clover lots, and after while many
come pitching out about as fast as
they went in; but great many, for
: the sake of something new, win re-
i main and make the most of a bad
: bargain, We are eultiyating a spirit
of independent, don't-care, daredevil
sort of reeklessness, which, if not
q curbed, will soon lead US into the
s vortex of destruction, with weeping
q wives and screaming infants and all
the paraphernalia of disorder and
wicked misrule. We are literally