Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-07-04
The Fou xru or JuLY-E PtUnrBus Usux-

The FoU kIH OF JULY-E PLURIBUs UsuM-
AND ALI. TaAr--A brief review Of the caus-
es which led to the establishment OF the
well known institution called the Fourth of
July, and synopsis of the little Rev oldtion
airy incidents which followed Immediately
thereafter, might not be uninteresting to the
reader, as it would be entirely new; but
want OF time and space compels us to defer
the pleasing task till this date next year, or
the year after.
Eighty-three years ago to-day, JOHN HAN
COCK achieved his three-story autograph at
the bottom of the original draft of the Declar-
alton of American Independence, "a fac siuile
of which you all see once year in the Pic
torial Fourth-oi-July Brother Jonathan, )and
| handed his pen to his fellow-continentals, each
| a whom attached his fist to the instrument,
| and Uncle Sam went into business on his own
hook His capital was small; but what little he
had, he invested boldly and we must do him
the justice to say, that by energy and persever-
| ance and a strict attention to business, be
has succeeded beyond our most sangune ex-
4 pectations. He has done well. Indeed,
thrown upon the world at a tender age, aud
left entirely to his own resources, as be was,
we may say he has done very well. 1t is
true that since JAMES BUCHANAN was appoint
ed chief superintendent Of his affairs, he has
proven defaulter to the large amount of
| forty dollars; but this was The result of
piece of rascaity-of quite number of pieces
of rascality. in fact-which not foreseeing,
he could not avert. The contract made with
the present superintendent will expire in
just twenty months from tonight at IL
o'clock, when he and the scurvy horde he
has gathered around him, who have so shame
fully plundered the old mans money draw
err, will be iucoutincntly kicked into the
street, better order of things will be insti-
tuted and the forty-dOllar debt, which is due
gentleman of this State honorably paid to
the last red, if some property has to be sold
to do it
Eighty-threc years ago to-day, Uncle Sam
repudaLed the right of England to control his
time his actions and his means, and took the
overground railroad for the Zee States. Eng
land at once summoned a posse ana attempt
ed to arrest him by force. but couldn't. At
one time, perhaps at two times, she got him
in her clutches; bat by good deal OF hard
fighting and some little fast running. and
with the help of writ of haJeds corpus sued
out by bis fair friend Madame la belle France.
he affected his escape and got clean off. At
last, by a continental coup d'tdt at Yorktown,
he compelled England, who had pr tty well
run herself down aud was growing short of
breath. to sign, seal and deliver his free-pa-
pers; and for "a number of years thereafter he
reposed quietly beneath his own grapevine
and cot on-plant, where none dared modest
him. nor possessed the power to make him
afraid
Things went on swimmngly in this way.
until somewhere along about the year 1872
when England determined to come over
again and give our then young but now ven
cradle Uncle sound drubbing and bring
him back to servitude. She accordingly
fetched him few severe digs about the short
ribs, and even went so far as to burn down the
dwelling of his overseer, and number of out
houses on the same premises; but Samuel
then in the thirty -sixth or seventh year of his
age hit back again, bruising up his old mis-
| tGesS suaIneluly. Tludily lucy met Oue COiu-
Portable day about the middle of January,
near New Orleans; and England, believing
that she had caught the young rascal out by
himself, went into him with the determination
to wipe him out on the spot. The result was
the rash creature got her hoops broke, her
clothes tore. and her bead caved in miserably
Finding this thing of whipping full grown
: individual a shade or two beyond the fun it
had been cracked up to he, she threw down her
switches and went home, and has never tried
: it since; not on this side of the creek, no how
So much for the Fourth of July. Fol
u further particulars, go out to Goodlettsville
: Brentwood, or Spring Hill where they Intend
TO go into full history of the case and
barbecue