Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-11-06

revered by all true and patriotic
citizens, than that oil the unlet.
tered explorer, suldier and ex-
patriate, Daniel Boone, OF North
Carolina. Empires have waxe6
and waned; parties have arisen
and passed into oblivion; armies
have met in deadly conflict on
many a bloody field; science has
showered her blessings over a
smiling land; steam has lifted
the burden from the bended back
ottoil; and electricity. on prim-
rose paths, is bearing our MESA.
ges and drawing our vehicles
where erstwise the befringad and
moccasined "runner" and the
weary pack horse crept on tired
feet; but the story OF each and
all OF these has grown hackneyed
and stale when contrasted with
that Of Daniel Boone. For bis
fame has become monumental,
and his name has been placed be.
side those great captains of ex-
ploration and discovery-of Co.
lumbus and DtLeon, of Cortez
and DeSoto, and as long as the
story OF true herols'n ehaII stir
the blood of age and make the
heart ot youth TO glow and
bound shall his memory -four.
ish and keep green. The vast and
ever expanding pantheon of his
tory contains no other charac.
ter which hasbeen apotheosized
almost solely because OF it's re.
splendent background OF 70.
nance and adventure.
Nay. | tell you, that neither
the necromancy OF fairy land nor
the encbantment of the Arab.
an Nights, can Gust any such
spell over the imagination of A.
merican boyhood as is contain.
I'd in the wonder. tale of t h e
dauntless and intrepid Daniel
Boone, Indian fighter, hunter
and .explorer. And "when twi.
light approaches the season that
ever is sacred to song" and our
children gather around the WIN
ter hearthstone to hear The thrill.
ing story OF those veterans of
the Civil War, whose fast dimn-
ing eyes once blazed with the bat.
tie light of Malvern Hill, Get
tysburg, Chlcamauga,the Bloody
Angle and Antietam, how their
cheeks will burn and their pulses
beat when they learn that the
men who stoon with jackson,
Longstseet and with Lee, were
the grand-sons OF Daniel Boone
and those who helped him to
win for our glorious union the
imperial domain OF the Mlssissip.
pi Valley. For only the des cend.
ents OF such men could four long
years OF constant warfare
have withstood the embattled
North and the mercenaries o
Europe, and succumbpd only
when an army Of incendiaries
and pIuuderers had been sent
through the South to make war
upon our women aud our chill.
dren. by burning the homes over
their defenceless heads, and leav.
ing them to starye amid ruin
and desolation. We have a few
ofithese veterans with us here to-
day, but no one knows what
these manned and disease wreck
ed heroes endured both during
and since the close of that titan
ic struggle.
Story has told and Song has SUM
the deeds of other climes.
And the record OF mems victories i
statued in their rhimes
But the frugal lives Of honest tol
these wrecks Of war have led,
Will leave their imprint on this sol
when their hero hearts are dead.
We who yet live along the trai
OF Daniel Boone are said to have
the purest strain OF American
blood left on this continent; bu
at the same time certain sleel
philanthrODlsts tell ia that civil