Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-08-04
Public improvements.
For the Fayetteville Observer.


great end and purpose of mans
creation-first and highest, the
honor and glory of his Maker and
Preserver secondly, his own hap
piness, temporal end eternal; and
thirdly, the general good of his
fellow mortals both here and here
after. Whoever, therefore, is
recreant to any one or all of those
prime purposes of human life can
not be held innocent, but is, pro
tanto, guilty of en- offense of high
grade. If this recreancy springs
from q wilful and obstinate REBEL
ion against the original designs of
his being, then every member of
society whose interests have been
injured or endangered by such
rebellion has not only the right,
but is bound by the spirit of the
grand constitution of his creation
to prefer and prosecute charges
against such delinquent or tres
passer with a view to effect a prop
er atonement, and a restoration
of injured or threatened interests
to safe and secure grounds. But
if this opposition, however vio-
lent in its nature, has its origin in
any previous mental demoraliza-
ton of the delinquent or aggres-
sive party, or in any ancient per-
version of the souls affections,
then the wiser and more generous
policy would suggest, in view of
such a arrangement of natural
and constitutional functions, that
his encroachments and omissions
as to the interests of the others
be overlooked for the time being,
and that efforts constant and will.
ing be made to restore to him his
balance of mind, reason to her
lost throne, and pure purposes to
the great reservoir of his heart.
But now, it is a well and long
settled principle in the science of
things and clearly set forth in the
scientific treatises of medical wri-
tiers that a careful and skillful
diagnosis of the disease under
which the patient is laboring ought
to be made before medicines,
whether curative, remedial or
palliative, can be successfully or
even safely administered. Hence
the cautious physician always ex-
amines infinitely into the condi-
ton of the vital organs and in
quires closely into the probable
causes, both present and past, of
any functional arrangement, be-
fore he undertakes to make out
any prescription. These facts
and principles are particularly ap-
plicable where the patient is at in
I dividual and integral part of the
Genus Homo. But we are also
told with much gravity, by learned
lawyers, that nations, states, cities
and private corporations are real,
living and acting organizations
and are responsible, in the same
manner as men, to the laws Of
the great creating power which
gave them life and action. Then
we have the joint declaration of
lawyers and doctors land where
they unite there is no possible
chance of escape) that these col
lections ofindividual members un-
der certain specific rules are bod
les polite, and liable to suffer from
many Of the same diseases which
prey upon the vitals and either
gradually or suddenly absorb the
life-giving blood of individual men.
Now, therefore, having fairly and
legitimately reached the conclusion
that Fayetteville, like ether towns,
is de facto a living(?) organic crea.
ture and is capable, through her
official majesty of making herself
felt, feared and respected, and
likewise of sustaining loss of hon.
or, influence and money through the
action or non-action of her con-
stituent members, and being of
opinion that as a tody polite she
is now sinking under the dead in
fuence of some vital arrangement,
and feeling deeply interested in
her partial, if not total recovery
from ouch threatened prostration,
| want in some way to present to
Isympathizing friends and those
skilled in the art and science of
restoring health and vigor to de-
clining constitutions some of the
principal symptoms of the malady
or compound of maladies under
which her vitality is now ebbing
away, trusting that they will, by
prescription at least, put her on
course of conduct that will re-
store health to her body, and JOY
to her friends.
First, a few words in reference
to age, her surrounding circum-
stances in life, and her relative.