The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
Speech Of ID. A. Dugger.

At the speaking Of tie candidates for
County Officers at Carter's Greek last
Saturday, the many gentlemen emulous
of county honors yielded the first
speech to our able candidate tor County
Representative, MIR. ID. A. Digger, and
cur special reporter became so salu
brious over his fluid speech that he
fails to notice any other. We append
the speech in full, and as this was his
first effort at forensic declaration we
NAV hope for greater things in the
future countenances:
"FELLow-CIIIzsrs: ] arise to announce
myself as q candidate for The Legislature of
the State of Tennessee, 10, represent the
great County of Maury; and when look
around upon the faces that surround me,
/ feel thai you are the true and loyal de-
sccndaBts u The noble band of heroes who
first settled this cOlatry and caused the
wilderness TO blossom as the rose, and ] feel
the inspiration of the scene and of the
manly countenanceS thai surround me.
What a lovely sight How grand in scenery!
How picturesque in beauty How magnifi-
cent in harvest promises! Its hills are
green, IFS woods anu pr.SEects fair; its fields
are fertile, and TO crown the whole IN one
delightful sentence, you have a magnificent
wheat crop, for which Will pay you the
highest Nashville prices with the freight of.
Fellow citizens, you can look around and
lection, from your forests down to your little
children around your fresides, and when in
future SCSTg ynu have reaped a full harvest
and gathered In yopI aIiEle store and the
mantle of your usefulness tflih Gracefully
upon their young shoulders tell them it was
purchased with means you received from
ID. A. Digger for your wheat at the Highest
Nashville prices with the freight OIL. 1es,
fellow-citizens. you are a great and blessed
ppnple: rs the iron horse goes putting along,
awasenipg thousand everlasting echoes
in your hills 49, you can place 1 your
goes my wheat I sold TO Dugger al The iilsa-
est Nashville prices with the freight off.
In all the recorded pages of history, sacred
| and profane, there il but one other spot in
| Gods green earth 10 compare with ours i'll
loneliness, and that was the Garden of Eden;
ana " srrnaSs that in the fact that we have
,noa aS ~ ,Sat our 3P r, have So msom
yield "A respectful tilial salute, was 81 qis-
treSsed al the fact that he had no Bought0n
| or Sad Frierson seed that, in his troubled
abstraction, he bit the forbidden fruit, and
! went forth TO find n Gind where the mellow
evening Sind, rs il waited the perfume OF a
| thousand fragrant EoWerS, might stir lul
laby from the ruStlih9 n nelt IN calm his
troubled soul; and If 1 had come aSn,,ss hin,
/ would have bought his first wheat crop,
and paid him the highest Nashville prices
with the freight of, just as l will do you,
frIlow-citiZens, ALL RIGHT.
~ a.n in a great degree, identified with
the laboriHg glasses of the land; in my
youth could say wiIA ,hs poet,
4 am little farmer boy, l live upon a,i4Tm
l j
keep from harm.
/ can reap and can NOW,
can pillow and can hoe,
/ sell bgtter, [ sell cheese.
sell honey from the bees.
know the wants of this class, and, as they
are the bone and sinew of the land, l. snail
faithfully represent them. / have right 10
rim for this Office and To ask you for your
votes, have right 10 go TO the Legislature
II you cleci a,}i me, and l have as much
right as any other InaE T. draw my pay, ana
use il in paving you for your MEeat at the
highest Nashville prices with the freight oH,
which VIII do, ALL RIGHT. And when un-
gslch an administration of constitutional
law ana order as shall dictate to the repre-
Sentatiyes, the golden car of Ceres shall
again glide in poetic motion across the
war-blasted fields of our sunny land. q cry
of gladnesS shall go up from our harvest
fields TO the groves OF magnolia and citron,
until the waves of the mighty southern
gulf shall eaten the sound and bear IL on
their bosom TO the land Of the MonteZumas
softening their rude wars TO peace, like oil
upon he troubled waters. The starspangled
: banner shall again float on breeZes laden
with the busy hum of gladness from happy
swain and lovely maiden; and the proud
emblem bird Of America, as he seeks his
aerie home will no longer scream, e pluribus