Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1902-07-31
JACKSONIAN DEMOCRAT.
Written for the News.

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AT last! at last! we have come to
the closing chapter in our present
career, AT last we have reached
the summit of our Alps and the
plains of Italy lie out before us
You have heard it said that "Be,
yond the heights there lies repose,"
but from these heights we see new
fields for endeavor. We have
sworn vengeance upon the enemy.
The Hellespontino pontoons have
been mended, and our hosts, as
desperate as the barbaric Scythians
and as immeasurable as the errors
of man, have crossed the dreaded
HellespOnt, and the battle of There
mOpylae has been fought. and left
the enemy nothing save their re.
spective six feet. Marathon has
been fought, and at last the seige
of 1! re is broken. Carthage has
been sacked and razed to the
ground, and the desperate hords Of
Atila have passed through the land
and natures growth has ceased to
thrive meath tyranny's iron hoof.
The Bastile- the divine rights ins>
titution to crib the masses-has, to
our sorrow, ceased to be, and the
plowshare, the stubborn glebe Of
the kings pleasure grounds is bro-
ken.
We are back from our memoir.
able trip to Moscow where The op,
pressor learned that he could be op.
pressed. We beat the uncouth
continentals from Bunker's Hill
and made Washington feel incom-
potency at Long Island. We gave
them trouble with Bryant and
| Stratton in Mohawk Valley and
incidentally gathered some scalps
to dangle from our belts. We saw
their footprints on the winters
frozen snow and made fare barely
tolerable at Valley Forge. We fell
their steel at Trenton and their de-
termination to win their liberty al
Saratoga. We made a feint al
New York but the willy "Fabius'
saw our trick and met us at York
town. There we lost our cause dut
to the aid of France, but still WI
MAINTAIN our identity and it car
, be traced down through the veins
of history to the present. Verify
: the way of the oppressor is easv.
The Jacksonian has promised tC
= give those of his caste "a touch o
high life" on the eve of the election
We now come to that almost un
precedented occasion, We wan
all those of our ilk to assemble il
Jasper the day before the election
(Aug g. and receive instruction
: how to vote. A banquetting hal
has been constructed in which t.
hold our festivities. We drew OIL
the campaign fund which has beer
, wrested from the people, and turn
+ ed the plan and construction owe
to an architect and builder. w
: secured stone from several states
viz, Vermont, Indiana and Geor
a gia. 1t is a structure that moderI
d advancement has not rivalled.
is much finer than was the Tempt
IT of Diana. 1t surpasses even th
splendor OF Solomon's Temple.
y is three ana one half story build
ing with basement beneath. ]
covers one acre of ground, and il
y dome looms up into the azul
5 depths. The building is quit
beautiful on the inside with il
(. long halls and broad stairways {
white marble, the baseboards an
trimmings of which are rose colo
+ ed marble. The effect is indee
as pretty. The second and third foC
y halls are set of with huge picturi
8, Of our famous men, such as Ben
At At dict Arnold, Aaron Burr, Brighar
Young and Grover Clevelan
Climbing the winding stairws
leading to the dome one NAV o.
- tain a splendid view of the eli
IS and surrounding country. III
II corner stone has scuIptured up,
ng it in life size John Brown aud h
twenty-one followers. The c.
umns and decorations are Cori
4. tl,ion aud ON tho vvhula fla "a