The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-09-01
CUMBERLAND GAP.
YLATOR /" RISES TO EXPLAIN"
CUMBERLAND GAP, Tenn,
August "a, 1875.
To the Editor Of tho MorristOwn Gazette:

CUMBERLAND 0APy ENA.s
August "a. 1875.
To the Editor Of the Morristown Gazette:
My attention has been called to
an article appearing in recent num-
Der of your excellent journal, over
the signature Of MOP" rejecting
upon a certain "Alva'' the "nom de
plume" of a gentleman attached to
the Geological camp, that for a month
or two has enlivened the august pre-
cincts of the locality vaguely termed
the Cumberland Gap.
Recognizing Mop's" right to re-
ply to the unfortunate communica-
ton to the MountAia. Echo of '.Alya. =
/ should be loath to enter the arena
had not your " beading type given
a strength to tile communication
from !" Mop its own merits mover
could have gained.
Standing. as I do, between a corps
of educated gentlemen on the one
hand. and strata OF kind hearted,
but fossilized people on tile other,
enjoying u pleasant acquaintance
with the former, and possessing. a
thorough knowledge of the latter,
do not rush into print. but present
myself at the bar of yonr house to
harmonic the elements that Alva'
and Mop" have placed in an antag-
onism most serious and uncalled for.
We know our own people "enre-
vers'' we need only analyze the geo.
logical camp. For the past five years
the Gap has been afflicted with a
visitation of speculative blue bottles,
corruscatlng in the great English
and their "piece de resist
ance,'' the obese Chamberlain, the
speculative squib, has expired in the
exodus of those sweet characters,
Peyton and WIN. Swap, who,
a short time since, relieved the bal.
ance of power, and gtUe Honeyc"tt
The field by leaving the shadow of the
pinnacle for parts unknown.
Many and rich were the tears we shed.
And what would sum up ON the morrow,
Puzzled many a creditors head
Who had trusted these men to his sorrow.
The Geological Camp at Cumbcr-
and Gap is composite enterprise,
by the Kentucky Geo
ogical Survey aud the Harvard
School of Geology, the latter enter
Prise based upon the pattern devised
It the Isle of aPenikese. The gem
lemen embraced in this camp have
brought TO their work a skill unim-
,eached, a patient endurance, and |
IN untiIing industry. The result |
will be a report valuable to the geo.
ogical student, corrective to the |
typographical records of the country. |
md of no little use in Wall Street, |
hould we ever project, or carry out,
hat c., G. G. and G.. II. r., about
which, for the past thirty years, we
ave been in such throes. memorial
# which is found in those wondrous
butments adorned with MULLEN
Which adorn the banks of the pic
uresque Holston, en- rotfte from this
'oiDt to your good bU1gh. In word,
he good this Camp will accomplish
hould persuade us to receive. with
good grace. any sharp criticism up
n our pecnliarities that may eme.
ate from the ambitious knights of
he quill always to be found in an
composed of tho material
mbraced in the ranks of Camp
Harvard"
" Alva," the contributor TO the
fountuin Echo. was member of the
tudent force, and his article was
without the knowl-
dye of any of the Professors. 1t
Tould be asking too much to expect
n espionage that would check such
lgitive pieces as s.Alva'' has con-
and certainly. It's doing
ruel injustice to an assembly of
evenly or more. Professors and
20 hold them responsible
DR. the act. or effervescence, of full
rivate in their corps.
Further, dear Mr.. Editor, are we
eyond criticism? Are these oddi-
les. struck at by . Alva," the crea-
ions of jaundiced critic, or an ex-
,tent fact? Should we not rather
AXE the critique in good lunor and
lace ourselves beyond the reach of
nalysis of this kind? The fact is,
re have become calloused, blind, TO
lings of every day occurrence that
D q stranger, whose eye is not
rained to piercing the rough crust,
ppears appaliingly curious and stu
id. We are an old State. in fact
nd deed. However this fact may
ffend our vanity, a moments re-
ection will show us. that we are at
east fifty years behind the times,
nd advancing backwards and not
few of our worthy citizens glory in
Ills Rip Van Winkleism, and eye
18th suspicion any movement that
-ould initiate progress and place US
j the position Tennessee should &C
npy, the front rank. Ii any ambi-
Gus gentleman has his doubts on
lis point let him buckle on his ar
Tor and make charge on this social
,rpidity. IL he doesn't sit down
18th emphasis on the small of his
ack your correspondent doesn't
now what day the ground hog comes
ut on. or upon what sign to SOW
lrnips. Let US then laugh at "Alva."
nd while thanking ''BIop" for his de-
Otion. take '.Alva's" scoring as the
rench took their threshing from
leir Prussian foes. and learn war
ON the enemy. Let us correct our
eculiarities. and thus cancel weak
oints that place a manly and gener-
rs people at the mercy of any keen
Te aud really pen.
va r0I,