The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-09-14
All Hail! the Sun!
From the Lacrosse wis Democrat

not for the existence of the sun this world
would be a black ball-a dark swinging
pendulum, its inhabitants CROPPING in dark
ness and knowing nothing of whao was be-
yond the reach of their extremiLies?
Earth, moon, and stars. derive their light
from the sun. Were it not for that orb,
we should see no blue sky, no diamond
studded dome glilteriug for all-no chang
ing moon-no varied landscape-no blush
of beauty-no blooming fOwers-no carpet
of luxuriant grass and moss-nO vigorous
plants. Instead. there would be darkness,
cropping, and uncertainty. We should be
lost whenever we Yentured beyond the
sound Of home voices. We should live in
fear and ignoronce all our lives
And what the sun is to the earth, moon
and stars, Democracy is to the people, the
country and posterity. It is the light
which alone Eliminates our national path
and surrounds US with blessings innumer-
able. When the sun sets, all is dark.
When Democracy-the great sun Of the
populi-went down there came a bloody
darkness terrible night upon the earth.
Men CROPPED their way from rapne to plum
der-tbey cut each others threats, they
robbed the defenseless-they imprisoned
the true patriots-they mobbed the limo
cent-they murdered those who cried for
light-they ravished the goddess Of liberty
and made harlots of those who renamed at
home watching for the return of the gallant
bravesl
May God grant that the sun may soon
rise, and forever lift the miasmatic malaria
of New England puritanism, abolitionism
and sectional hate from the earth.
We see over the Western hills the sun
arising in its glory It will not be long till
the morning! From where we stand we
can see the sun rising in glorious majesty
up the slope.
Thousands upon thousands of our brother
watchers on the plains and prairies-on the
mountains and in the valleys, are watching
and girding their loins for the morning
march.
There is a tint of red in the skyl
There is a backward scudding of fauati
cal clouds.
There is a stampede of devils and tyrants,
and demons, and of false prophets, as the
tint deepens and the long red bank of clouds
roll away toward the east, leaving clear
blue sky behind!
God sent quails, and mama, and water,
and guide to those who wandered in the
wilderness
God sent the waves to drown those who
for five years had prosecuted the innocent,
and who reveled in rich raiment and who
Jared sumptuously every day!
God made the brazen serpent-the origi-
nal oopperhead-a signal and healthy
sign for the oppressed and those bitten and
poisoned!
God kept the ezeven brethren alive and in
health through the years of famine!
God preached peace on earth and good
will to all men!
God said blessed are the peace makers!
God said those who trespass against my
laws will I smite into the earth!
God sent little David to pierce the brain
of ia wicked Goliah who long had gone rough
shod up and down, to and fro, ignoring the
rights of the people!-bessed be the name
of Godl
STAND FIRM
Brothers in,the battle for the right
Sres
Sons
Freemen
Patriots
Victims of hate-victims of taxation
victims of tyranny--victims of usurpation!
Stand ike men
Go ye neither TO the right nor to the left,
for Democracy is no will-o' the-wish, ris-
ing here and there to lure to destruction,
but a glorious light from God, rising al
ways steadily and truly.
Nerve for the morningl
Grid up your weakened loins!
Train your eyes to follow certain line!
And if needs be, follow the tint till it is
lost on Plymouth Rock, and then in patri
otto unison shout aloud TO hail the blue sky
which will follow the red line and the dead
line ever and forever!
Aud you who have not eyes to look at
the rising sun-who are too sleepy, or too
hungry to watch its certain rise. get We to
the bowers, the grottoes, tie temples of the
money changers and the hospitals. there to
remain till the tint rolls ANY
ALL HAIL THE Sun
COMMON nails heated red hot and dropped
into cold water. will clinch and answer the