The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1869-12-16
Is Friday an UnluCky Day.

the popular superstition which has OBTAIN
ed among the ignorant and unlearned,
from time immemOrial, that "Friday is an
unlucky day." Yet we have heard some
persons say sit is unfortunate that the
great Assemblies consumated their union
on Friday"
We are we'll assured that, notwithstand-
ing this superstitious prejudice does not
prevail so universally as it did in days
gone by, there are many good meaning and
excellent people who feel reluctant to un-
dertake work of great moment or impor-
tance on a day which vain tradition has
marked as inauspicious in the calendar.
1t is seldom that ships set out on long
voyage on Friday. Hardened, sturdy and
daring tars who will spring to the top-gal-
liant and stand on the yard arm amidst the
surging of tempest-tossed ocean, and the
fearful rocking of the frail bark, have
'holy horror" of setting out on voyage
on that day.
1t is seldom that a lady or gentleman
walks to the hyMenial altar on Friday.
Many would look upon it as an omen that
foreboded much ill if the bands were eel
ebrated on what is sometimes called "hang-
mans day."
Few of our readers, we think, indulge
in any such feeling. There is no reason
why any should. The facts will not war
rant the assumption that Friday is day
of ill omen.
1t was on Friday that Christopher Co.
lumbuS set sail on his great voyage of dis
covery; on Friday he first discovered land,
and it was on the same day of the week
that he sailed on his return voyage to
Spain, where he arrived safely, also on
Friday.
Other important events in the history
of the United States transpired on Fri
day. 1t was on Friday, November 10,
1920, that the MayAower, freighted with
her precious cargo of Puritans, reached the
harbor of Provincetown. On the same
day these noble pioneers of Christian civ
ilization signed, in the presence of God and
of one another, the first constitution that
was framed within the limits of the Uni
ted States. "This," says Bancroft, "wa'
the birth of constitutional liberty. In the
cabin of the MayAower humanity recover
ed its rights and instituted government OIL
the basis of equal rights for the genera
good. AS the Pilgrims landed, their in
stitutions were already perfected. Dem
ocratic liberty and independent Christian
worship at once existed in America"
1t was on Friday that Henry VII, o
, England, gave John Cabot his commission
to proceed on a voyage of discovery to th
North American continent.
Saint Augustine, in Florida, the oldes
town in the United States, was founded
} by Melendez on Friday, September I'll
1865.
George Washington was born on Fri
day. Bunker Hill was seized, Saratog
, and Yorktown were surrendered on Fri
day. On the same day of the week, tn
treachery of Arnold was discovered.
1t was on Friday that John Adam
moved, and Richard Henry Lee seconded
resolution in Congress that the Unite'
Colonies were, and of right ought to be
,, free and independent.
l 1t may be looked upon by some as a re
markable coincidence that on the twohur
dred and forty-ninth anniversary of tn
l signing of the Cape Cod Constitution, tn
General Assemblies of the resbyteria
! Church should sign the "august compact
Z of perpetual Union.
: We may add that it was on Friday th
: Pilgrims landed finally upon Plymout
Rock.
y Who will say then that Friday is an III
]. lucky day in American history! Wehav
9 the strongest faith that the uniting of th
two Assemblies (Presbyterian) yesterda
y will be productive of the most blessed r'
: suits; that more abundant fruits even tina
those produced by the landing of the Pi
grims will flow from their cordial and fri
u ternal Union.-PiHsburr Gazette.