Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-25
The TVarlick Barbecue.
MEssRs. EDITORS:

MEssRs. EDITORS:
Many citizens OF our town and its yicin-
ity. request me As their reporter and repre-
sentgsive. 90 express their grateful acknoWL
vi snd lsiis.s sSf day LEI I'll 4 w,
festigity, fun and froiie, gotten up a week
ago under their skillful and hospitable
management.
A party Of some fifty or sixty assembled
at an early hour Friday. 18th uIt., III War
lick's grove fitted by shade and cool water,
for the accommodation Of regiment
No party assembled under roof in the
most splendid and spacious dining hall
responsible for observing the conventional
titles Of sOciety-could have been 50 per-
fectly free and easy; free to sit, stand or
lie down; free TO appear in full dress, half
dress, or quarter dress, as taste or sense Of
comfort might dictate-to laugh a meas
ured laugh, or let of furious guffaw, that
would cause the woods TO resOund- No
programme defining the style OF manners,
dress or address. The day was full of en-
ployment, busy day. "fhe loud echo OF
th0ughtless hilarity" filed the woods.
Anecdotes, speeches and songs mingled
with numerous innocent games, saved the
company from suffering one moment Of en-
nui or Impotence. The quality and quanti-
" Of the Yiands showed that the engineers
of the feast deserved 20 rank as the most
skIllfui and prosperous Changers Of the
eastern part OF the county, Inc
skill shown in the cooking Of the meats,
exhibited their taste and judgement in fill-
ing the Offices of the kitchen cabinet. The
party were much edited and amused by a
number. Of speakers, who yielding grace
fully TO irresistible calls, were hoisted on
the table as 4 rostrum, and poured out
streams of elOquence on variety Of topics,
exhibiting gifts and graces of oratory not
often displayed in one day and on one Oc-
casiOn. The forest and the cave were the
localities preferred by Demosthenes for
rehearsalS, and l am satisfied
from the effect OF this days speaking-un-
der the broad canopy OF tree tops, with an
audience giving the free mouth OF applause,
that the forest should be preferred by
young elocutionists (as the scene of re-
hearsal) to heated city halls, filled with |
mixed critical audiences, ruling the young |
speaker down TO social and rhetorical pro- |
prieties, thus crsmping genius and clipping |
the wing Of fancy. Messrs. Blair, Caruthers, |
Rice. McCorry, Brooks, TOmlin, Bullock and |
W. p. Robertson made telling speeches OF /
political complexion, bringing down the /
woods in long and repeated bursts OF ap- /
plauSe, and when your reporter left, Mir. |
Hooker, never before known 70 our people |
for his gifts aud graces Of defamation, was /
his audience with speech de- |
livered iD.two languages, English and Ger |
as your reporter understood /
with great glee and eclat, with songs in /
OOln languages iOr the DenthL Oi the na- l
live and foreign element OF his audience. |
Though / could not get near enough to Mr.. |
Hooker 10 catch his words, the racket |
Of applause clearly indicated he was max !
ng a telling speech.
Such occasions are gratifying evidence |
that there Is "iife IN the old land yet" that |
here is pluck TO resist the depression OF |
short crorq and Eaonoys PsisSos and 80 tiaes /
Away with melancholy Let this indi- /
cation of good cheer and prosperity pass /
around in ali the neighbOrhOOds Of the |
,OuBty. They are apt TO invite rain as it. |
nd at vSarlick's. i
Respectfully Yours,