The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-07-18
esquire SimplIins on the Glorious
Forth 20 RI .&
70 the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:

To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
q. Hurrah for G. Washington!
Hurrah for Tilden and Hayes!
Hurrah for the Returning Boarde !
| Hurrah for Every Body!
What is there like Patriotism
! feller citizuns? Nothin', not even
gingerbread car he compeared to
i'll I'm glad Pm aliYe-Pm glad
] ou' re alive-T IN glad everybody is
alive Why am 1 glad I'm alive
If I wuzzent alive could know that
thys wuz the greatest contry under
the sllinin' sun? If / wuzzent alive
could | fele my buzzum swell with
pryde at bein borned a frea Amer
icun citizun? Could / clame George
Washington for my father, and
Hayes and Wheeler for my Elder
brother? Could / look at them stairs
and stripes u fotein' to the zeffers
and sing Hale Columbya" with
happie harte? How could | do
emmy of them things. feller citizuns,
and me ded? No. my contry men,
I'm alive, and I'm gia / Of it
How my harte swelIs when | think
of the nifty deeds Of my Ancestors,
and I'm sorry for sum pore people
that haint got no ancestors to be
proude of! Yes, my trends, as [
was a sayin' my Antcestors-I see
there grateness a shinin' in the blue
skill here it resoundin' in the tyre
crakers, and most of all in the SOLE
thrillin ski-racketts; the mountings
looks blewer-the grass is 9rener,
the chickens crous fierster. and all
natur has put on her Sundy close III
honur of this CRATE and glorus
Forth !! .....E
Look at George Washington!
who would a thawt that to see him
quietly cuttin' his father cherrie trea
that he ware. Designed to be the
gratest man that ever lived, exceptin
one or too, which bein present 1 wont
mention no names. Look at him
George Washington, I mene-a eros
sin the Potomuck and with lutte
handful of men and whippin' them
Brytish and thare Mermadens at
Bull Run. Yes, and they did run too
until the last man of 'em had jumped
into the Pacific ishun. Think of all
The trouble he must have had with
,he Injuns bush-whakin' his men. and
him all the TYNE half run mad--pore
nan with tryin' to keep the carpet
0aggers outen the South. Yes,
ieller contrymen, "butifal and brite
lie STOOD" as the poet has sed about |
lin, calm and scream sterin' the old I
Ship of Stait threw the fierce tenn
PESTS and ragin' billers-yes, the |
agin' billers of civel-my contrymen
lystory fales to tell just exac ly
What it wuz he stored her threw, but
'ou may be shore it was somethin'
George Washington
first in peece, first in war, and first
n the hartes of the colored man."
lie sPd ." let US have peece," and my
rends we will have pecce if we have
o kill every man in the Strait to get
t. But let US come down to more
noierate times. Look at Horace
TreaIey with his noble face beemin'
own from the sculpturous marble,
eemin' to say, "Go West Young
IAN" Look at Josh Billin's with
is AImawax-look at the Messy
;reek Independent that valves over
he land of the frea and the home of
he braive-look at Missus Hiram
yes, my contrymen,
ook at ME! -
/ stand a livin' momemental of the
!ory of this frea republick! !! What
id Ihave to begin life with? Who
ould thawt to see me startin' out
rom the peternal rufe with nothin'
ut one suite of close and the Decler.
tion of Independence tide up in a
ocket handkerchief, that 1 would
yer get to be the man / am? A
ustice OF the Peece-respected by
wi, and hopin' next year to run for
Iy Sheriff! What is Crate Britain?
What is China? What is a,ty,ohere
to such a land as ours.
there the eegle flaps its snowy
inyuns, and the stairs and stripes
alute the passer by. What other
and has got so menny newspapers
so menny frea churches-sich a
resident? Yes, and what othe.
and has got Forth of July!
None! My contrymen None
-. s Messy CREEK.
July 4, 1877. $3.50 ri. .a.- -~