Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1859-10-26

Fr"m the Knoxville Regsi Z
Texas EinieIation.

NJ Editor Within the last ten days thrye
has len this county, in the limits of hva miles
square, over twu hundred of our citizens for rrg,
as. and South, Western Missouri. MANY oil these
were good Democrats aud true, and some were
X, NJ. Whigs, Opposition, and anything you
might please, la the main, ihay were GOO eitl.
zens, aud are. and will he missed in the RESP ctyr
localities they LETT. We have some experienoo 0n
the subject of the cause which lead 10 heavy emil
grations, and have always found necessity moro
than speculation, to be the "primum mobile " r.
was 30 in this case ut least. 0nsrnus aSu.i1n
has. within the last few years, driven more ute.
inl and enterprsing citisHns from East Tenncssts
than all other local considerations: and thero Rrb
many still behind who pant to be gone upon tho
same principle, could they sell their property h.
lands, sc. When the fact that taxation reached
its acme so rapidly by a forced march npor the
public mind as 20 involve the people for the pro.
motion of objects they neither understood. nor
had they been honestly interpreted, would they
have felt sufficient interes 10 have taken the
fast and deep hold they did to involve thcinacves
aud their children, that the interests Of tho rich
might be advanced while the laboring pcaslntry
would be doomed to toll on and ON to keep grow.
ing monopolics which form the basis OF q purse
bloatei aristocraoy. When the people in cOnycn.
tial capacity came up and asked quite mini um
OF additional taxation for the permanent advance.
ment Of popular education for the schol .s.ic
innsses OF the country, the proposition WAS scout
cd as discrediable to the intelligence of the use,
and the country IL is fact not to be dis, u,s
ed that the common literature of East Tennessee
is retrogradng for the want OF popular support
nor will the amplitude of the fund invested Cor
this object meet the exigency Of the case. The
fund is insufficient for this purpose by $4,000 /
600, to meet the present literary wants Of our
children. Hence, citizens of Tennessee do r, ,ht /
to leave country whose authorities refuse TO
provide means for literary culture, ad, anceme1t
Of intellectual improvement, and demagogueism
occupies the position it does in our country, tho
gaping crowds attending stump orations, as sub
ects Of mental inaniton, they are prepared to
receive engrafted upon the original stock of in
tellectuality, any sentiment but that of honor
my principle but that of virtue; hence the vacant
stare and idotic grin displayed so often upon NO
puar occasions after our political gladators favo
oandied u few personal reproaches. told a few ir-
elevant anecdotes, and drank a few jubilaas
glasses of sold corn with the 'ssovereigns"
1t is time, Mr. Editor, that this state Of things
vas altered, we are deteriorating rapidly enough
n all good conscience, without facilitating Ivy
,ur apathy and inaction, this downward tendon
" of things Knoxvilians may not agree IL
here said by the writer. We hope
,ot, we want, not to be "su generis," to have
ome originality of thought if we can, as we'll ~
ther great men BREKNU.