Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-01-22

stone built by anybody since the Tow
er Of Babel, and let Professor Mitchell
sleep in peace on his mountain in the
| lonesomest if not the highest-placed
grave in the republic. On the summit
of that wo ,ded peak, 6,711 feet above
Ithe Atlantic, and almost that height |
and eriaI battles Of the b.at.eel ai.el,esl elias
tains. This individual eminence Is |
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 Bsidge as
he could climb in his stocking feet,
and in other ways he deserved well OF
his country; but a professor OF chem
istry, by a laely chance OF hrst meas
: uriny this peak and announcing his
7 discovery, and by the equally lucky
i chance (for his Immortality of losing
5 his life in attempting to establish the
e assertion that this was the peak he
t had first measured, and not neigh
e. boring one, as Senator Ciingnan m
e sisted. has secured an eminence Whlcn
e all the character and correctness OF
e life possessed by George Washington
= could not give him.
l. North Carolina, of COURSE has a
iustifable pride in this mountain
though she has probably twenty peaks
in about as high as Mount Washington
at and before the war this may have beer
o. an arrogant pride; but now this !:
ne one of the old North States contribu
or tions, to, the -glory of the republic. BE
h, fore the war the Northern State
in might have been ready to fight TO
ii. the superiority of the New Hampshir
on hill. or at least to have insisted tina
of an admission of its inferiority shoul
it he considered as one of the comprt
he misses of the Constitution but no.
he thew take as much national pride /
tn, the bigness of Mitchell as II 1t wei
his situated on Boston Common. It
ed, one of the amiable traits OF huma
ice, nature that people should take so
: q of czsedit to themselves for such excre
J us cences on the surface Of the earth
no the places they inhabit, The infiatle
est, of Western people about their en-
OF nences is as harmless as it is pleasln
!. and we dwellers in lower regions fe
that their Importance in the world
i increased bv the noole height OF the
=. mountains and we know that wi
= some Englishmen call boastfuinass
! P9p, s;,r til sm, is merely the reflection OF
aster a generous scale on which nature is Il
e re- cut west of the Mississippi XIV
what We all share, in way; III the
e. tinction which the Rockeies and 81
QUO ras give our country. 1t the II
ana come when we shall desire the ann
nay alton of Mexico, the. possession
! .ne Popocatepetl will be weight IN
ofen scale of our desire. =
man We cannot leave this fruitful thu
the without a suggestion that may SC
man. to moderate any lingering feelin
sectional rivalry of envy in ign
rv;se.. minds in regard to thas resPee
letter. heights of theas two respects
nd all mountains. The White Mount
:, s, ~. u are of granite, and even their +
! trying climate likely outlasts ths
public in their integrety. But
a''-'sa Black Mountains are built OF g
material. and would be subject
old, p md ! more rapid degradation if they
aended stripped of their protecting We!
Syrup; ton and subject TO the wash OF
'amen' n frequent rams. Even the best N
tains are slowly wearing away