Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-07
THE HEART OF MID BOURBON.

the Mountain Democrat, oi racer
Vile, FL Dorado county, California, had
it nineteenth birthday On the first OF
January What is said upon that occa-
sion OF two-fol1 importance is approx
ingly quoted by the san Francisco En-
,tlRiter. Here follows the quotation:
ave are not disposed TO lie over-sx-
acting. We don't ask nor expect as
much connection about our twenty
third as is inevitable about the nation 5
centennial ven.. We have not grown in
proportions, and wealth. and power. "a
the nation has. But we find elf
suffusing with glow Of placid self con-
tent when, in some other respects. we
compare the Democrats 23l with the
nation's Tooth year"
There is little need to explain what
this. means. IL is the very elixir Of
Bourbon. 1t is becoming in paper
which dates back TO the unwaverinS. i'm
purturbahle Democracy of Dan Gel
wicks. The article, ore recognizes at
once, as having been written while the
elitor' curve n.cked cane was calmly
clinSiag TO the shiny cu.f of his good
left sleeve. He looks on the age of Rad
icalism with = sigh which comes from
place deeper down than contempt:
l. gathers his skirts about him, lacks back
8 on his well-worn barrel chair and hing
the rscollectiOus Of the earlier and pureE
days of the Republic. We would not
disturb him if that were possible-which
it isnot. Hepreserves TO rs the flavor
Of another age and awakens the stiiuvia
of a civilization, cor an hallucir atom,
which is rapidly passing away. That
this impervious reverence for the past
hath vitality all it. own, this weighing
of itself against the memories and
pretensions If the centennial year Is a
beautiful. almost a touching. proof.
We have noticed among the younger
growth OF Southerners an astonishing
precocity. We could name not few who
seem to have come swaddled in the very
diapers of incipient greatness, full
armed. full dedged, full-chesked. pitting
with UnhindeIed confidence, tie full
measure of a baby giants strength
against the pretensions and positions If
all Corners, regardless Of age or fame
These spurn all puerilities and stand
forth In the full ga1b of mature intellect.
putting to shame the modest pretepsiors
af III .Ian,k
beardless assurance. IL is fact that
these Infant Phenomena, spUrn Is I'M
worthy trifles, the lighter plays and
pleasures Of Youth If We may be per
mitted the expression. they tackle the
entities and harness the abstruse Age
cannot wither nor custom stale their uu-
doubling self assurance. Berg mature |
when others Of their own aye are yet III |
the sap, they gov into dried, julceless !
and dwsried old aye, the splnsters OF
masculine humanity. pure but not
lovely. These become drarfs with age;
and they take dWasf's privilege. They
have more 10 say in forming the South
orD lnlnu IMAM one likes u Dt!icNt.
There is a super-reversuce among our
deluded bretheTen Of the sunny section
for fansiful standards of purity. These
are formed partly on the dictss Of these
dwaIf-. partly Oh the hallucination thai |
the court OF Charles the Second Is KEEP.
up in certain sacred quarters impeI- ,
etrable TO Yankee eyes, panty On - eort |
Of weak and pIIi,bie literal construction /!
of Sir Walter SCOTS stories 81 chivalrs |
and the glories OF TIL tournament. IL |
eye. tau. trained how c..... Y,,nkee look |
otherwise than uuchivaliicl ,nd vulgar: !
Now on the other hald hook at the re
suits of these hundred years again. /
which yon gentle, signing bourbon feels !
. small resentment. Ghe dwarfrl notion |
Of shich We have sr.Aen as having /
wide haiitation down South has come
to maturity. II has no sympathy with /
the bouncing, awkward. vulgar strides
of Yankeedom and the spirit Of the
age" Advancement means youth and
hob, dehoy hood. These are not grace
full. Andolescent health, or healthfui
adolescence, rather. hardly even
Is. Often II insuits. tuuinteu-
tionally and out Of a native
thnug htlsssn-ss). the nice notions Which
are b@gotten Of the narrowing tuteiage
We have limited at. But vulgar and a~k