The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-22
For the CITIZEN.
PULASKI, Oct. 18th, 1874.


Mr.. EDITOR Permit me again to tax
/ you with some OF my cogitatiOns. II
! has been said that Eve acknowledge No
I ruler but the Ruler of the skies,-nC
/ sovereign but that Of the universe, and
| " aShingtOH, like that of Elijah, dis
I charged his mission on earth and went
! nome TO heaven in a chariot of burning
( glory; and well might the Shepherds Of
the political Bethlehem have assembled
at his birth TO see the stars in the East.
BE 1t SO. Still sometimes | wonder wa,
the work of Washington and his Illus
triOuS successors a cheat-a deIusiOu .
and was this government founded only
| 10 blast expectations and to disappoinU
hope. If it should ever turn to be thus,
1t were tar better for us the government
had slept forever in tue wide abyss OF
possibility. II il is to be so, let us like
the ldumian, curse our natal day: yes
let the day be cursed in which | and
You were born aud the night that man
child has been conceived.
But let US join in the response of
Wallace to Edward:
Unto my God three times 1 daily bow +;
But like cOXcOmb Knights, pray what
art thou"
And let the spirit of the genius that
u
on our national emblem thrill our every
emotion, viz:
so the struck eagle stretched upon the plain
No more through rolling clouds to soar again
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart
Which winged the shaft that quivcred il his
heart,
Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel
lie nursed the pinion that impelled the steel;
bile the same Plumage that had warmed
his heart,
Drank the iife-drop of his bleeding heart
Bat in the spirit of submission let me
invoke you to fix yonr eyes upon that
bow OF promise that encircIes the brow
Of yOnder mountain peering in colossal
proportions far up which we see dimly
of order and quiet far above the plain
Of common humanity.
To realize more perfectly turn and
gaze Oh our bright and beautiful hills
their sunny slopes; our silvery streams
and smiling ValleyS-rich inheritance
a boon inappTeciable.
1t Is this happy realization that should
cheer US in and amid depressing shad-
Ows and let me invoke you and others
to let it nerve and support us in this
hour of trial, weakness and pain.
We must remember that we cannot
have the blessings of liberty without
the hazards of RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Let the potential voice of reason be
heard and let us find solace in the an
swer made by Newton when he was
asked how he had accomplished so much,
replied, at was by thought and energy
With all our risks, draw backs and dis
comforts with unreasonable oppression,
let us submit in passive acqUiescence in
principles, measures and policies which
can only be removed by exposing them
to the fires of our adYersaries and
but hope that the healthy irritation it
may create may save us from drifting
into the smooth calm of indifference
and apathy.
1t is truth we have great cause for dis
cOuragement in the rapid changes and
counter changes we are passing and
have passed through already. We see
with dismay our modes of thought
giving way to new ones; well settled
truths raveled out and torn to pieces to
make room for new ones of doubtful
import; well established doctrines and
principles almost sacred from their an
tiquity, modified to suit the shifting ca
prices of the times and it is but too true
of the affairs of life in Jhis our transit
ton state through the cycles allotted.
We hear strange noises in the air. and
it seems full of them. Yea, strange
voices are heard. Electric flashes are
seen; dread mutterings, as of distant
thunders, shake us. And truly many
anchors are getting loose and magic
fingers besmeared with venom are seen
tossing them from their mOorings, and
forked pOisOns are blown through the
air.
Still l invoke you and all of us to
think. Grow calm and dive down deep
eT in the my sterious Orderings of Prov
idence and scan more closely the move
ments of men and i'm the midst of these
strange sights floating through the
heavens we must remember however the |
rushing of huge comets on their path
way of fire do not interfere in the least
with the planets which still move on in /
their orbits through their majestic |
rounds on chariots of splendOr guided |
by settled power and silent motion |
which have been theirs from the early |
dawn of creation,
To encourage US let us bear in mind |
that the regions of immensely are IN /
disturbed by celestial eccentricities |
which alright the earth.
If we were to look at the ocean in the |
dark and fury of the storm we would /
think that there could be nothing still o. /
settled or orderly beneath, and yet the I
trouble is all on the surface. and still a |
few feet below the crystal depths sleep /
on as though no blast had sounded or /
wind had ever veXed the upper air. Let /.
US so hope it may be with our political, /
social and otherwise troubles.
1t has ever been that society, law and |
order in their boundless depths and hid !
den existence, have permitted this or /
that branch torn from their trunk by /
the whirlwinds of passion and discord, |
and that human schemes have trembled /
and been bent under the transitory agi- /
tations of the hour. But the great bulk /
Of truth and power and life can, nor /
never viii, give way so perfectly pro-
Iected in their multifarious organisms /
than can the rock of ages on which they |
stand. PIzARA.