The union Democrat., 1869-06-19
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Have zoo ever been 10 the Big Tree erove
Csiaseras countyf 1fno,, you are both loser
and gamer; lceer, in that you have no,
oeheid these wonders and glories Of the for.
eat, gamer because your eyes have been
spared the sight Of q profound piece Of loyal,
patriotic and prejudiced desecration.
l walked through the grove in the stiffness
Of che earliest morn. The silence was ths,
Ut the primevsl forest, ere man bad peue.
trated its recesses. Il vas in itself sublime.
Even the fall Of the smallest leaf or twig,
descending through these lofty masses Of
foliage, could be heard. 1t seemed like the
dimly lit interior of one Of those great cath-.
drals Of the Old World, in which the worship.
pers silently and reverentially steal to kneel
and pray. And at times slight eoughin.
Of the breeze through the pine trees seemed
like the family heard strain from some dis.
tant choir.
Suddenly, found myself before one oi
those great living pillars Of the temple. On
il, saw af6xed white commercial, trade
mark looking tablet, cross between such a
biz Of wood as you label the name Of your
streets upon. and u lawyers sign. 1t bore
the name Of William Henry Seward!
recoiied aghast and turned partly around
but to see another mighty tree bearing the
name Of Gen. William I Sherman! I fell
back from thar only TO be brought up BY an.
hnS l,k
right was anot her forest king, agoni4ing un.
der the inAic,ion Of Gen. Sheridan. And to
the left was another groaning under the load
Of Henry Ward Beecher. Ard ~ would
flee from such perversion of all true senti.
ment, as the conversion of this mighty grove
into an advertising gallery for our modern
generals, politicians aud preachers. q mighty
trunk condemned to wear collar bearing the
name of Andy johnson smote me on the right
and as | walked away in sorrnw and imiigna-
tinn at this American vandalism another la
belled Bishop Kip brought me up all standing
on the left.
When Cesar with his legions paused for n
moment bef,re the Rubicon, these trees ex.
ulted in vigorous infancy when in the hush
OF death, the bend of the Christ sunk upon
the cross, and the darkness, the earth throes
and the rendlnS of the temcle's vail, pro-
claimed that the Great Sacrifice was consum-
mated, those trees were expanding and shnot-
ing up heavenward /; when Magma Charta.
sprang fr IN the plain of Runnymede, still in
grand silence, they were marking in ring
after ring the passage Of the centuries. The
continent was discovered far away on its
eastern shores in the days of "'76" another
great conflict waged for human right was sue
cessfully fought; still they stood as they
stand to-day the Caucasian's march west
ward year after year over the mountains and
plains came nearer and nearer /; at last at
tracted BY the glitter of gold it swooped over
the Slerras; wandering hunter penetrated
these dim end mystic recesses he gazes in
astUnishment at its wonders; his companions
follow; the Nineteenth Century rushes in
and what next?
The men of the hour, neither whose chur-
| ters nor deeds have undergone the sure and
trying test of time, the men who fifty or a
hundred years hence will take their trne
places, some in Oblivion others but as specks
in the history Of the past. these men are
deemed worthy of giving their names To mon
uments grown by the Great God OF Nature,
monuments whose age is TO q generation AS
the ocean to the mountain lake.
Find US another grove! Find bigger trees
and older trees Create more mushroom
greatness. Let it be borne by Jones. Smith
and Brown. Then send the toads along with
their little black lettered white slabs and let
the mightiest monarch Of the forest be chris
tened Smith? Our forest sketches then shall
read "J"nes is 800 feet in height and meas
ures SO feet in diameter at the base Brown,
most appropriately named after the loyal
and patriotic Tom Brown, whose action in the
National Congress in opposition to the tax on
beans will never 5e eliminated from the
hearts of his grateful countrymen is etc.
When the Indian would name some of ma
lures wonders. he svmbOlized them by crea-
tions OF his imagination. He too, has his
great men, but neither he nor they ask tina,
the Mississippi bear their names. II is the
Father of Waters. To him. we owe the inn
posing sound IF Niagara. His eye gazes on
the grandest "f valleys. He applies TO it the
name. Yo-Sem-te in itself pnesy. Had our
own race been its first beholders, it would
surely have been in danger Of being Butler
ized. Lincoltized or McClellsnized.
Aided by the appliances and genius of civ
i;izat'on, We may yet launch into space and
plant our fect on the conv.xity Of the moon.
Among 'he first 10 g". will be the pioneer
man with the paint pot. In characters of
white. plainly distinguishable through Lnrd
R"sss telescope. he shall stix upon that orb
Try Wards Shirts" "Buy the waterfall
tie" Aud when at last, the planets hung
in the empvrean shnve are reached, this same
man shall still paint OF. the name of Jupiter
shall be erased Grant shall be substituted
in if- place it~ satellites shall he called after
the Cabinet aud toadyism shall be happy!
PRENTICE MULFoRB.
Nor AN ExcITANr Persons nnarqusinted
with therapeutics are apt to supp Sc tha,