The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-04-29
A VOICE FROM THE PAST.


vance, or "a 90 if the publisher had
to wait till the end of the year and
take a good deal of it out in good will
and promises.
To us, this is most interesting
paper. The last fifty years mark an
era ip the history of our country in
Improvement, scientific
invention and the birth of grand |
tn st five hundred years
mad never marked before.
Think of it; since this paper was |
published nearly two generations
have been fought on American soil
Que, adding to it an empire the other
completely changing the destiny of
twenty millions OF people. Men aud
measures have passed away so COM
pletely that to-day as we read this
venerable sheet with its red-hOt
editorials against Martin Van BuIen
The LocOf0cOs," Gov. Polk aud
others, we cannot refrain smile in
spite of it=.grey hairs. How earnestly
they battled; how tOuchous was their
honor; how quickly they resented;
how boldly they proclaimed their
doctrines, as if the future of all ages
depended on what they said or did;
and now how completely are they
forgotten and how deeply has the
past swallowed them up.
Since that paper was published on
that balny day in May, 1872, we have
passed through an era of progress and
invention never before dreamed of.
Bring back to life the dead and for
gotten readers of this paper, and they
would feel as If they had landed in
new world. On rising in the morning
and calling for their early drirk-for
old habits are not easily brOken-they
Ouid shy around GClumbia's street
car, 40 doubt iakiI e ii, with it's -leepy
mules, for some station AIRY cotton gin
and who AMONG their friends woulu
attempt To swer all their questions
about the telegraph, the telephone, or
even the common locomotive? If
farmer, the new implements OF agri
Cull Nbl'i ANNC nan Wv
of tue year to Investigate.
In giaucing over this paper we see
the nanle4 of some long since passed
away, sleeping now their undIsiurOed
sleep in the Old cemetery on the river
la. k; others o.. distant battle-f fields
III Mexico and Virginia, where theiI
bravery aud devotion have carried
the S uthesn battle flag through
fielts of slaughter and planted it Oh
the heights of fame. And one, the
ch efest aud greatest, statesman aud
T.: esidcnt, is sleeping in neighbor-
lug city, with memory honOred OF
all people.
We IuUii h these not entirely to
s.mu=e the young. but, if possible, to
Instruct them; but chr fly to interest
these old people who yet iinger i'll our
mi,i-t-the shadow of whose sun al
most touches the dark valley. May
the names and excerpts below touch
i tender chord in them of the past,
AMI awaken memories of better days
W. are sorry our space Will not per-
mis- us 90 publish in full some of the
edi oriais Published. They are well
written, terse and strong; they are
chiefly agains5 thc Democratic party,
rl'he Observer was Wing in politics.
and Martin Van Buren,. They don't
read well 10 Democrat even now,
when time has changed the asperi-
ties of these parties, and events have
wiped our old rival, the Wing from
existence. y long editorial goes to
show that the Democratic powers
that be, had spent $40,OO0,OOO to
run the government in 1871. Such
extravaganza was unheard of. We
wonder what the editor would think
now of $30O,OOO,OO0 yearly.
In another editorial it draws the
line between a Wing and a Demo-
crat. 1t says Democrat is against
a tariff and for national debt; while
the Wings are for the former as
means of avoiding the latter"
Another column is devoted TO an
account of ex-President Van Buren's
visit to Columbia, on saturday last
at about Il o'clock" Van Buren,, it
seems, was crowned, if this paper
may be believed, Queen of May.
"Just imagine" says the writer, "a
fat, chunky, bald-headed, squint-
eyed, red whiskered, aristOcratic-
| Tipped man, receiving on his bald
pate a crown of the lovely flowers Of
May. This is the first browning of an
mate queen of May that has come to
our knowledge" 1t concludes:
Every plain, honest citizen must be
disgusted with all such fOolery in an
eX-President of the United States,
particularly.when he is to be candi-
date again in the next election
Again: "On Saturday night Messrs.
| Van Buren, and Paulding were COM
plimented with a party by EX-GOv.
| Polk, and early on Monday morning
| rhey left this place (Mr. Van Buren,,
we are told, in his striped brooches
for a number of the 'sovereigns'
were expected at Spring HID for
| Nashville and the Hermitage, where
they remain a short time previous to
visiting Messrs. Clay and johnson, of
! Kentucky"
In another column JAS. NJ. White
offers himself as a candidate for Lieu
tenant Colonel of the seventy-eighth
Regiment of Tennessee Militia.
CahaI x White offer their professional
services as lawyers. Taylor's Balsam
of Lfverworth is extensively adVer-
tfsed by John Z. Erwin, druggist.
Samuel Moseley, Sec'ty and Treas. of
the Columbia, Pulaski, Elkton x Ala.
Turnpike Co. calls a meeting of the
| Directors.
A. b. Estes advertises "A negro wO-
man for sale or hire; an excellent
cook or washer" The same has Berk-
shire pigs for sale. John II. Erwin
advertises millet seeds, also white
lead and linseed oil, 100 gallons of the
latter. L. II. Estes wants to buy
beeswax and feathers, while David
L0oney is out in his law card.