Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1907-05-02
it is not fit for q decent dog.

We would have the world tc
know that we are not savages
dwelling in huts, caves and dug,
outs as has been represented to
our northern brethren by some
hellish hypocritical heretics pre-.
tending to raise missionary funds
to send some idiotic, howling,
soldering hypocrite eamong us to
teach us some damnable heresy
We would have the world to know
that our mountain people are re-
spectacle people, with hearts as
open as the sky above t h e I
heads; their love is as immeasur-
able as the sunshine aronno them
and as pure as the snow t h a
caps our mountain peaks.
We stand upon the topm ost
peak of manhood and woman
hood the peer of anybody. Here
among the mountains, away up
near the heavens, where we can
almost hear the rustic of t h e
angels wings, where the air is so
pure, the srnso bright, the water
so clear, the flowers so sweet, is
a good place TO raise fine men
and women. No man never has
nor never will become great or
good only in propotion to the
extent that he is free. If we are
not a free people now, we don't
know where to 90 in order to he
free. Every bodies woods q n d
forests are our hunting grounds,
every bodies waters are our fish
ing streams. We have no locks
on our doors, no ba.s over our
Our doors are ever
open inviting whatsoever will, to
come in and sup with us. 1t is
here that the hungry is never
turned away, and the weary tray
aler can always find rest-and in
the majority of cases without
money and without price. 1t is
in our veins that the best blood
flows, because we are freest from
other races. 1t is in our breast
that the bravest hearts beats.
Brave because we have been
pioneers for 200 years, and have
been educated by the stern teach
n of nature. In time of peace we
ire on the moutains clearing the
crest, or in the valley plowing
he field and watching the cattle
eed upon the slopes. In time of
var you find our boys on the
ield OF battle in defence of home
md country, to the last drop of
'lood in their veins. In time of
'eace you find our beautiful
daughters at home like the rose
hat cluster about the door, Civ
ne forth sweetness and perfum-
NO the atmosphere in which they
we. Then while their loved ones
re gone in their defense, their
carts GO along to cheer them,
lille they still remain at home
nd battle with any obstacle
hat may appear. Such is the
eople of western North Carolina
nd east Tennessee.
While there is many a genius,
tatesman and poet among us.
he writer hasrecorded the tourist
as told tales, and the poet has
ing OF the beauty and grandure
I Switzerland, and the luxuriant
OF the sunny hills Of
pain, but they are not interest
lg to us, because we only have
} turn our eyes westward to be-
old the balsome clad mountains
owering away to the skies, with
leir waterfalls and catarac ts as
rand as Switzerland ever dare /
} be. Then we turn to the east
ard and behold these Noun i
lins making away into the hilly
,gions of the Piedmont beltwith 1
leir. .plunging crystal streams, ]
water power sufficient
} run the machinery ofthe whole {
outh. I
From the mountainsto the sea !
g find almost every conceive
1lp form of natlil.a baouty ond