The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-11-20
ON THE MCCNTAIN-TOP.
Mount Mitchell in South Carolina Higher
Than Mount Washington in New
Hampshire.

Hampshire.
One of the most pleasing signs of .he
cordial relations existing between the
North and South-which We're recently
testing each others muscle and endur.
auce-is the frank and even forward
admission BY The former that Noun;
Mitchell, the highest peak in the Black
Mountains of North Carolina is higher
by several hundred feet than Noun,
Washington, III New Hampshire, and
tie modest manner in which the South
admits this glory. as if reluctant tc
wound Northern Sensibilities 1t NAV
be regret on both sides that the high.
esc point Of land east OF the Rocky
Mountains does rot bear the name OF
Washington. The peak in New Hamp-
shire was allotted to him in good faith
that it was the highest, and his shade
must be content With the good inten-
ton. Even The Father OF his Country
con not be permitted 10 sprawl all over
the continent TO the exclusion of all
stner aspirauts for high honor: and we
must be satisfied with giving him (in
the Washington Monument) the tallest
pile of stone built By anybody since the
Tower of Babel. and let Professor
Mitchell sleep in peace on his mountain
in the lOnesOmest ii not the highest
placed grave IN the republic. On the
summit OF that wooded peak, GIL feet
above the Atlantic. and almost that
height above Mount Vernon, Mitchell
lies amid the clouds and thunder
storms and aerial battles of the Black
Mountains. This individual eminence
= a stroke OF fortune. Washington did
what he could for his personal eleva-
ton; he cut his initials as high up on
the buttress OF the Natural Bridge as
he could climb in his stocking feet, and
iH other WAYS he deserved well of his
country; but Il professor of chemistry,
~ lucky chance of first measuring
this peak and announcing his discovery,
and by the equally lucky chance Cfor
his immortality OF losing his life in at
tempting TO establish the assertion that
This was the peak he had first .neasur-
Ell, and not q neiThboring one, as
Senator Clingman insisted, has secured
an eminence which all the character
and correctness Of life possessed by
George Washington could not give him
North Carolina, u course, has JUS
tiiiabia pride in this mcuntain-al
though she oas probably twenty peaks
about as high g Mount Washington
and before the WAR this NAV have been
an arrogant nrfdc; but now this is one
of the old North States contributions
to the glory OF the republic Before
tho war the Northern States might
have been ready 20 fight for the SUI
paTiority OF the New Hampshire hill,
o. at least TO have insisted that an adj
mission Of It's iEIei 1riry shonid be con-
sideied as one oi the compromises of
the Constitution; but now they take as
much national pride IN the bigness of
Mitchell as if ii were situated on Boston
Common. 1t is one of the amiable
traits of human nature that people
should take a sort Of credit TO them
selves for such eXcrescences on the sur
face OF the ear,A II the places they in
habit. The imitation of Western people
about their emincrccS is as harmless as
it is pleasing, and ne dwellers in lower
regions feel that their importance in
tire world is increased by the noble
hoirht OF their mountains: ard we
know that what some Enoi.snmen call
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