Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1860-06-28
The Fourth of July

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not the advocate Of too strict r
s eve on such an exuitant occasion
There is 70 excuse for being ehur
is h, and none fer being mean. Th
heart that cannot feel grateful j
view Of The blessings that Prov
dence has shoRered down on its eoun
try for m IRE than four score years
is not ct TO live amid the expansive
institutions of liberty, and gratitude
if not patriotism. should inspire q
such a season the mobiles. outpoar
iDgs of our nature.
We have entirely too few holidays
in this country. We are%doyoted
too much to the accumulation Of
money. We labor too constantly
We leave 10 room for proper IN n
tai and physical relaxation We
are lacking in those public memorials,
when The better instincts are devel.
oped into wholesome action, and the
sordid hopes and feelings are chas-
tened down into their appropriate
place 10 the system Of social human
ity. We do not bslieye that We
SHOULD, any of Us, be dollar les;
affluent had we dozen holidays in
the yearAler our toll would be ths
more cheeful in he intervals, and our
spirits the lighter, as veil as our
hearts made the more keenly alive
to humanising influences and emo
lions. :.
We are glad to see, therefore, as
indicated by the following card, the
preparations made by our friends OF
~ ncbburg and Mulberry to render
next Wednesday day Of rational
enjoyment. Ii is right and proper
that we should enjoy ourselves on
that day. Let US 60 to our friend
Waagoner'S grove and listen to the
utterancc ofpatriotio sentiments, and
drink in the glorious music, or else
take a quiet stroll out into the
green fields, where the waving grass,
and the bowling trees, and the fresh
air, and the music Of birds, furnish
delightful sensations.
Close up your house for the nonce,
and 60 out into the broad world and
the brave sunlight! Go 20 Null
berry if you can; but if that is i'm.
possible, take your wife under your
arm, and go out resolved to be bap-
by! Take your children, if you
have any, and ii not, borrow few
from your neigbbor who may have
a super1aity, and see if you cannot
make their little bosoms bound
with innocent satisfaction; see If you
cannot make them scream out with
ioy. and shout and clap their tiny
hands for want Of better means Of
expressing their exuberance OF feel
ing-for depend upon it, the music
of their grateful voices will ascend
aike.a perpetual hymn in your Ia
y,r, aud will be the best testimony
70 the fact, when you come before
that dread tribunal, that you have
led-a life full Of the diviner impulses,
and marred only by those errors
natural to orr imperfect nature.
But we have said enough. and
more, too, It may be, on the subject.
Below is he card referred to:-
Tho citizens of Lynehbnrg and
Mulberry, in connection with those Of
their surrounding and ,ntermedi'
ate yieinities, hayeamade extensive
prepara,ions for celebration on the
fourth ofsJaIy, in q beautiful grove
or the farm Of Mr. Felix Waggoner
on the Fayetteville and Tailahoma
turnpike, midway between Lynch
burg and Mulberry Villages. =
Speeches appropriate 70 the occasion
win DO delivered. A baud of good
music will be present to add to the