Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-12-16
FoGGY FANFARoNADE.


Law, Of Nashville, has an extraordinary
gift of utterance, and has, in an grafton
delivered by him at Rome, Tennessee,
upon the eighty-third anniversary of
American Independence, enriched our
poor language with many choice addi-
tons. He opens with the following re-
markable exordium, which must have
amazed his auditors
Venerable, my Fellow Citizens, on. the
brilliant calendar of American Indepen-
dence is the day we celebrate. Venera-
bic as the revolving epoch in our ami
versaries of freedom is this avalanche of
time. Monument of Immortality we od-
orGte thy worth. Pharos of ages, we
hail thy glimmerings mid the cataracts
Of life. Almanac Of o,lr country, we
would utter our welcome with reverent
awe, The clap of thy welcome booms
along tesselated lawns, frcscoed arbors,
and Tipping rivulets while the surges OF
eloquence join the music of freedom.
Further on, warming with his subject,
he thus gives vent to his pent-up feeling
Were our intellecta volcano, we would
redden its lava and widen its mouth, as
we contemplate the Father of our Coun-
try leaping from bis grave, and hailiuq
the resurrection of his departed comrades
las we see the snowy forms, the lurid
glare, the frantic yell, drifting toward.
the shades of Mount Vernon; as we
watch the pensive heart, the telling look
the seraphic smile, crowding solicitud,
with tears, to play in the embrace Of ;
Westinghouse we picture the once no
bic forms and shiny equipages of thos,
now. rued heroes, gnawed with rust anC
digested by cts-all polished for i'm
mortality--as we view the martial steI
and prompt array of battalions and cava
lers martialled by the drumsticks o
another world, all eager for his Inaugu.
ral--as we think oftbcm headed with Oh
feathered ensign of Americas prid
streaming through Milky Ways and rain
bow domes for Jordan's banks, festiv
with cherubic songs, and crowded will
the boats of paradise, we would fancy
paradcs, and serenades mid its rura
gales, lepid glons, and truttaceous charms
and all ticketed for glory and charterinl
Immortality deetest steamer, they mus
ter the army, they unloosen the moorihgs
and pealing their last farewell from tina
hurricane-deck, they start for Satan
landing, and hearing from your disma
cell Arnold and his tralorons gane
squirming mid the risis Of ret,idution
they foil helIs batteries and scale its par
apets and doxologizing along the suburb
of that aristocratic city, they join thu
deputation from Heavens artillery, to b.
hailed by the may or in the citadel.
He dscourseth Of danger with grea
lucidity, as follows;
Too much danger drives reason from
its moorings and consistency to pitfall
too little throws circumspectien aud pol
icy off their guard A efficiency rec
titles excuses, brushes our morals an(
prognosticates our doom; deficiency
smokes our faculties, torpifes our enthu
siasm, and lallabies our fears. It's pres
ence is as essential and indispensable t.
a nations happiness as its absence woulc
be to its ruin. Omniyagent as air with
out one single leakage in humanity bu
death, tied to his identity with a Cyclic
pean knot, sircuizing its perceptions Will
a happy touch, and weaving nests fol
politicians simply to burrow aud hatch
that preachers may cackle disunion anC
woe, it now broods DER America.
We think these extracts will sullic,
for one day.