The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-06-26

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From mountain high to broad and
rapid stream;
From Holston's4 source-Clinch Noun
tain's rugged gate
To where the mighty Rivers waters
CLEAN,
Is gathered here, on this historic spot,
Where wisdom's votaries slumber un
forgot.
IT'S welll The Press here spoke its high
commands,
When Holston's waves were bound by
tangled wild;
When sturdy yeomen came from other
lands,
To win an empire from the forest
child.
Now to those spirits, grand in Drawn
and brain,
We here should rear and consecrate a
fame. ~ S55A
Here Jackson, Blount and White and
Johnson dwelt,
Endowed by Genius with a wand of
power; a
Their precepts wise, and force of thought
once felt,
Are still the ruling spirits of the hour.
Their deeds, which Ramsey's Annals
illustrate,
Heroes and statesmen well may emulate.
Here dwelt champion of the Press's
right,
A man vino made his foeman feel his
steel;
Yet while he wrote an enemy to blight
He, for friend, would at deaths al
tar kneel.
Peaco to his ashes! We the cypress
wave &
AS friend and foe clasp hands at Brown
lows grave.
Recall the hourl when loud the bugle's
blast
Pealed out shrill tones of fratricidal
war; a-..s l.. s.g
When startled thousands on abstraction
cast
A hope which lured, yet Knocked them
from afar;
While desolation spread its havoc wide
DER fields where brave men fought and
bled and died.
In those sad days the thunderstorm of
Ragged fercest here; and here they
bore its brunt;
star,
IMPLYING slaughter stalkod along the
b front.
Here deaths dark banner madly waved
-. on high
When Union or Disunion was the cry.
But smiling peace resumed her gentle
reign A&
Art, science, wealth, crushed by the
dread turmoil,
Returned To life, and city, hill and plain
Are thronged once moro by busy sons
of tolls
And where, bat now, we saw destfuc-
tiQG F4ga,
Behold! the progress of peaceful age.
Reared from the ruins of those direful
days,
This goodly CITY = now In roseate
bloom
Like Theseus' son-who met the wond.
ering gaze, asat $50 -.
AS back to life returned he from the :.
tomb se.
Seems gFaHdeF far, Than in those by
gone hours,
With female beauty, wealth, CONNER
eial powers. SOS sa Pal
Men of the Press may here lesson
learn.
This Union, left you by patriot host.
Is yours to serve, to govern-therefore
yearn
To teach the youth what fEeemep lack
the most.
Ger your vast power resistance bears no
sway,
So let your teachings be the proper ecay. 2
Lift up the Press, and on its page I'M
furled
Let fraud and falsehood wear deep.
er brand.
Teach wisdom, honor to thoughtless
world, eG q
And drive the demon distrust from
the land.
Be true to truth-the plainest task il
ours,
To weave FOR her crown of fadeless
flowers. =.
And when your States fair credit is as.
sailed, ae a8 haa I'D
Rush to the breach; rsaigt the wretch !
cd aeheme.
REFURIATIosl Godsl Who hath not
quailed
Before the rnohstep OF that hideous
j dreams So
Rep,ess4tiasa must to honor gtetl--
With this your motto rise and win the
aesa,
But Let me end this dull. untutored lay.
wish the thing had never been begun.
This willing Fhyme s ga easy thug.
iheyssay, ia ~
But. for my part. cannot see The fun.
Ny winged hofse-the scfub-hatll ne'er
a wing,
And hence it is q am sa5iest when
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