The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1912-09-07

| great historical import, as it is tn,
place where Coils. Shelby and Sevie
mustered their forces, which won th'
glorious victory over the British a
Kings Mountain. This event is shortl,
to be solemnized by the placing OF
bronze memorial at Shelving Rock.
mile distant, commemorating the fac
that the colonial soldiers slept there
over night, On route to Kings Noun.
tain, in 1880.
Just southof here, on the Doe river
under an outrageous sycamore tree
"Old Hickory" jackson, that royal
hater of John Quincy Adams, held the
first court convened in Tennessee. II
was in this favored spot that Andrew
johnson began his political career. 1t
vas here that his wife taught him his
A-B-C's.
A few miles away from here an an
cient monarch Of the forest still bears
| the legend, "Under this tree D Boone
cilled (killed) bar (bear)."
During the Civil War, this part OF
the country took sides with the Union
for the reason that they were non-slave
owners. This very feet was interpreted
by Gen. N. B. Forrest as a matter Of
treason. Landon G. Haynes, a gifted
orator, was born here, but he cast his
fortunes with the South, and when he
returned after the war he was not well
coined. AT banquet to the Bench
and Bar during a session of the Su-
preme Court held in Jackson, Tenn.,
soon after the war, Gen. N. B. Forrest
arose and said: "Gentlemen, propose
toast to the health of the eloquent
attorney from East Tennessee (turning
to Haynes>, country sometimes called
the God-forsaken."
Mr.. Haynes replied somewhat as fol-
lows:
81 plead guilty to the soft impeach-
ment. l was born in East Tennessee,
on the banks of the Wavtaga, which, in
the Indian vernacular, means "beauti-
full river; and beautiful river it is.
I have stood upon its banks in my
childhood and looked down upon it's
CLASSY waters and have seen heaven
below, and then looked up and beheld
heaven above, rejecting like two vast
mirrors, each in the other, its moons,
its planets, and its trembling stars.
Away from its banks OF rock and
cliff, hemlock and laurel, pine and
cedar, stretches vale back to the dis
tant mountains as beautiful and exquis.
ite as any in Italy or Switzerland.
4 There stand the great Unaka, th'
giant Roam, the Titanic Blacks, and
! tthe stupendous Smokes, among th'
!, loftiest peaks in America, on whose
J SUBMITS the clouds gather OF their owr
accord, even on the brightest day
There I have seen the great spirit o.
the storm king, after noontide, go ant
take his evening nap in his pavilion Of
darkness and clouds. have seen hin
aroused at midnight, as giant re-
freshed by slumber, and cover the heav'
ems with wrath, gloom and darkness
7 have seen him awake the tempest, ane
let loose the red lightnings that RAJ
t along the mountain tops for a Thousand
miles, swifter than an eagles fight il
] heaven.
Then have seen them stand up ant
: dance like angels of light in the clouds
to the music of that grand organ of ma
ture, whose keys seemed to have beel
: touched by the fingers of Divinity, il
n the hall of eternity, that responded i
!, notes of thunder resounding throug
: the universe.
: Then I saw the darkness drift ava
n beyond the horizon and Morn get u
: from her saffron bed like a queen. pu
: on her robes of light, come forth frol
a her palace in the sun, and stand "ti
I, toe expectant on the mountain top
: while sable Night fed before her gle
e rious face to his bed chamber at th
II poles and Aurora lighted with smil
II of sunshine the green valley and beau
10 tiful river where was born and wher
! l played in childhood.
e Oh beautiful land of the mountain
e with thy sun painted cliffs, how can
: ever forget thee!
j. This beautiful description, an apo!
l. strophe as eloquent as any in iteratur
d beautifully paints picture of the SCI
le merry here, perfect gem in itself.
h Just few miles from here, in Mort
re Carolina, land of moonshine and mar
70 hood, are two famous mountains, whicl
+ apart from the Roam, are the most ii
10 nous of all. Every school child hi
!; heard of Mount Mitchell, whose ba
r summit, lightning and vene
N able, pierces the sky Gill feet abo'
Id the waters OF Bay st. Louis. TIL
/ mountain, formerly called Black Dom
l. was baptized with the new name
10 Mitchell through deep tragedy. Re
se Elisha Mitchell, d. D., a citizen OF Coz
n necticut and a graduate of Yale, wa
IS in 1917, appointed professor Of math'
s. matics at Davidson College. A gre
IS rivalry sprang up among the yario,
I'd counties OF the various states throue
he which the Annalaehian rms az