The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-02-16
FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROMAN
OLD CORRESPONDENT.


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PRIMITIVE RESTAURANTS AMI
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THE BLUE RIDGE RoAD-THE NEW
TRIBUNE.
DEAR john EDwARo: Pondering
the other day, upon divers and sun.
dry shortcomings Of mine-amongsi
them loomed up promise made tt
you, long since, that / would occa.
sionally send you q screed" for the
GAZETTE As you well know. am
az iEdolent a dog as is to be found
in all our old bailiwick-except your.
self--and it is hard to get me start
ed-but when once my pen IS set
a-going. it is equally as futile trying
to stop it until | have had my say,
and pretty efectually bored out my
readers. Poor old John M, of
Knoxville, once compiimented me
very highly by the remark" you
are d. good wr-r.rite-r!'' endeav-
oring thereby to cajole me into writ
ing an account of certain amatory
adventures of " fool 10. W." which
would hardly have borne printing or
even telling to ears polite. 1t would
seem that when writer sets out to
cOncoct something for publication,
he ought to so manage matters
that If he cannot instruct his read
ers he should at least Lot bore them
too numerically. He should endea-
vor to be "divertin' as the old
farmer once said TO Mitchell & Swan,
of the Knoxville Citizen. When he
came home at night. from his hard
days work. he wanted, he said.
something divertin' to read. | sus-
pect the cd fellow found too much
10 the Citizen about the King of Da-
honey and his cannibalistic subjects,
and not enough of the Divine Novel
order. just as Gro. r. objected
that the paper was not sufficiently
devoted to the "great Democratic
party" Hence the episode about
s. Bullen'' which / have already re-
lated-so, keeping in mind my own
caution above written, / will not
bore you with a repetition Of it, good
as it is.
Speaking of the Citizen the edi-
tors thereof were, to my thinking,
two of the most gifted men-as re-
spects native intellect-that ] have
ever known. Had their energies |
been steadily and properly directed. |
there is no saying what they might |
nave accomplished. VIM. G.. Swan
knew better than l did Mitchell
md those who viewed him as a mere
sharp politician, little knew
he depth and brilliancy of the mans
mind. There is q man now in Con-
yress who always reminds me of
swan. His mental characteristics
ire very similar, while in personal
eatures and manner he is not unlike
swan. | allude to Benjamin II. Hill.
man to-day regarded by the South
s the most brilliant man on the floor
f the House of Representatives.
here is difference of opinion as to
he policy" displayed in his recent
peech. But its facts cannot be
and I, for one, would not
ava Que word Withdrawn. The fan
tical, bowling crew who wish TO keep
live the smouldering embers of the
ASSIGNS eukindled by the late war,
OF never a word they did not richly
lerit-while the true patriots among
ne old Union men were greeted with
ne respect and affection they deserve
t our hands. Mr.. Blaine, fear,
as given the Centennial a backset (
-om which it cannot entirely recov-
r. But the Republican National
at Cincinnati will reward 7
i'm for his treachery to the cause of t
eace and re-Union and Harmony
y leaving him off their ticket-and
they should fail in that, the DEM !
now rejuyenated. {