The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-03-15
For the Citizen.l
Vale Mills.

has been turned out OF office, ana ]!
now slumbering among the ice
bergs of the North. His was a Sc
we're reign truly, but let us rejoice
that warmer, milder, SUMMER days
are beginning to peep through the
wind-tattered curtains of March
and that we shall soon get a smell
of some such odors as delighted the
olfactories of our first parents, as
they sat weaving love knots in the
gay bowers OF Eden, or picking the
violets that surrounded the cradle
of new born spring. Nature, al
though comparatively dormant, is
not dead. Every day exhibits new
symptoms of returning animation,
and we will soon see her habited in
a new dress of green and with the
young buds of promise wreathed in
her ringlets. The infant blossoms
that lead the floral year will shortly
rear their tiny heads upon the vel
vet lawns, and laugh for joy at the
glad prospect before them. The
little birds too will come and en-
liven us with their carolings. Soon
the earth, which has lately been a
sepulchre for the dead, will be con-
verted into a garland of life and in
dustry. Damask roses will bloom
upon winters barren grave, and
green garlands hang upon every
leafeless bough.
The Inauguration is over, Hayes
is President, and Grant gone to an
endless unknownity, with dirt and
filth enough about him to attract
and support toads, tumble bugs,
muck worms and ground mice, to
spend life as uneasy as one would
feel sleeping 10 bed infested with
heas and favored with chintzes, and
should he die as he has lived, in
stead of being allowed to bedaub
the costly furniture within the walls
of salvation with his slime, he will
receive orders from the ramparts
above, to march downward to the
quickstep tune of go to the devil
and shake yourself" To ponder
upon such sad relics of pride, am
bition and power breed thoughts
too big to be delivered in a lump
and too nauseating to be retained
upon an empty stomach. Hayes
has slipped in with an outside as
clean and as smooth as dog licked
plate. but with an inside as foul as
an old musket.
Nimrod and his men once under
took to build a town upon the plains
of Shina, the top of which was to
have pierced the very heavens; but
the ever watchful angels who stood
upon the outer walls of terra firma,
hurled such bolts of wrath and in
dignation upon their unprotected
heads, as to crack their sconses,
confuse their tongues and cause
them to cease their unhallowed de
signs. This monument of their
wicked folly now lies in broken
fragments upon a desolate wild,
and naught remains but a heap of
rubbish to mark the spot where a
just Divinity put such damper on
human arrogance and ambition.
Caesar had his Brutus, DC. True,
the prospects are now tormentingly
conglomerous, but no reason for
despair. The loftiest SUBMITS of
nope are surrounded with the deep
est valleys of dependency; the
whitest foam dances upon the dark
est billow, and the stars shine the
brightest when surrounded by the
b ackest clouds. When floods of
oppression descend and mans ark
is drifted about on the waters of
adversely, the dove of liberty speeds
heavenward its fight, and finds no
lest until it returns with a sprig of
comfort. So, let everybody go to
work, pay debts. take the papers,
read them, and pay the printer.
But if you are dishonest, low mind
ed, no reputation to loose, no char
acter to sustain, no morals to cult
vate, 1 don't suppose you'll ever
take the paper or pay the printer;
but if you don't do it. your path to
the tomb will be strewn with thorRs.
You Will have to gather your bread
from brambles; your children will
die of the dysentery, and you your
selves never enjoy the blessings of
health. l heard of sick man once
whom the doctors had given up as a
gone case. His friends asked him
if he had made his peace with his
Maker. He said he thought he had
squared up. They asked him if he
had forgiven all his enemies. He
replied yes. They then asked him
if he had paid his printer. He hes
itated a minute, and then said he
thought he owed about two dollars
and half which he desired to be
paid before he baoe good bye to the
world. His desire was Immediately
complied with, and from that mo
ment he became convalescent. He
is now living in good health and
prosperity-at peace with his con-
science. his God and the whole
world. Let this be an example,
patronize the printer, take the pa
per and pay for it; above all keep
paying by daily instalments that
everlasting debt of gratitude which
YOU owe to Him from whom you