Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-01-13

pulous in their dealings 1.-THE end Justfylng the
means" Stalk abroad amongst us trdducing and
lying against our own feeble manufactures and
workmanship, as a satisfactory recommendation of
their own virtues. And yet, under all these circum-
stances the mechanics of GAINESVILLE informed
that they
"Are getting rich and happy, with
Each day and passing hour"
The peddlcr sells out, for cash, and on credit
shaves off the notes. in a few days is ready to de-
part with full purse and in the aggregate good
profit while our own mechanics are looking on with
their hands stuffed in empty pockets, witnessing
the departure of the former perchance to his Abo-
hhon home, and as security for his promised guar
rmtees bids his confding customers adieu' with his
thumb and fingers projecting from the end of his
nasal organ. Chuckhng over the cash he has re-
ceived from a creduous people and their ultra lib
eraty in bestowing their smiles and patronage to
unknown and often times irresponsible straglers.
Thereby building up with Southern money! North !
ern cities towns and villages shipping and Rail-
roads; while the latter in our Orn section are drag
! ging their slow length along, for the want of that
''material aid" Reader! not these stubborn
incontrovertable factsl This is ian irrepreSsible
conflict" in which you are eventually the loser
1 And yet the South holds in her hands the weight
which if applied. would kick the beam in favor of
their own manufactures and mechanics. Will she
do it2
While hating between two opinions, remember
that twice year. your towns and villages are be-
segcd by Northern d,ms-every house and cabin
throughout the entire country is called upon to pay
up the tribute money. And as our rivers naturally
flow South so our money flows North on artificial
currents. And yet people wonder what has become
of their circulating medium! The universal cry is
pay me what thou owestl and it is under such cir
cumstances, that own mechanics are assured
that "all should be happy small and great" Then
paironize home industry for as it is your own me
chancs the corst paid, and the last paid of any
of our fellow-citizens. Patronize them from mo-
tives of principle, and not wholly from convenience
or necessity. Patronage does not const in their
being offered horses and cows, chips and whetstones
lat enormous prces) for their labor, and upon their
refusal, the applicant to purchase abroad nth the
cash
i But it is objected, and urged by some, that en-
couragement of home industry will create a monop-
oily in our midst; and enhance the prices. This
position is untenabe. and scarcely deserves an ar
gument. For home patronage will produce home
competition, prices like water, would seek and oc-
cupy their level.
Young men, instead of wasting their time away
in idleness or in "learned professions" in many
other walks of life, would be inclined and encour-
aged 10 learn the arts and mysteries of some homo
rable trade And if II be urged that northern men
would come among us as citizens, striving with rs
for the mastery, we say. lei them come there is
room enough lOf ALL lneN WOuu HOb De udngtT-
Gus citizens 20 the STATED for here the carcass is
there the eagles will be gathered together "Where
n mans treasure is there will his heart be also. =
A generation would not pass away before they
would become "bone of our bone, and flesh of ouI
flesh r. and our money to great extent would be
circulating at home. Our mutual Indebtedness
could be more easily cancelled or at least its dis
tresses greatly ameliorated. Where idlencss now
stalks abroad as nuisance to the great body poll
tic mo matter from what cause) the cheering hum
of industrious pursuits would be heard, and VIC
should no more be tainted with being dependency
as regards the mechanic arts. Our Town would
rush into new life! an impetus would be given to
all kinds of trade and then, indeed it might be said
and sung that our mechanics and working men in
general, are getting rich and happy"
The mechanics Clarksyilleh have patronized their
own fellow citizens in other branches Of trade, eI.
pecting reciprocity Of business but in this, they
have ever been disappointed general rule
And for the little patronage they receive, they arr
too often. the last men to be paid by the eOmmuni
ty at large.
|, The present number OF mechanical establishment
in Clarksville is ahont twenty-five, all told abou
six. more than there were here eight years ago.
Some ~ the present time manufacturing mucl
= kss thaA they did formerly. The cause is the de
! mand for northern work, alteSdy stated. Read
erl these things so. When we meet man ra
> wing, frothng, and clustering, with upliftcd arm
political and social rights, and threatening to burs
their boilers, and blow them sky Hight We say
let us examine his position, wesha find him clotheC
from head To foot in northern manufactured articles
II His implements of husbandry, from the wsgo'
which eRFries his produce TO market, down TO TIL
axe, including IKE very helve and, as a co1pletiOI
to the whole the pleasure vehicle Of his family. Il
long as this policy is pursued with avidity, so long
will Clarksville be deprived Of that prosperity which
as yet remsins undeveIoped and Co which high pc
sition she is by nature and right eminently emit
tied. And il is a fact to be regretted, that onI
as our own citizens in town and country vithhoL
their influence and patronage from Southern work
shops or manufactures from native and adopte,
citizens, who stand in the front ranks in defense o
southern rights so long will northern abolition
lists and fanatics laugh at southern tribute beinI
a paid By our free will and choice, and look will
contempt at the feeble attempts OF southern work
a ingmen 10 Arrest H. Particularly as exhibited II
n the Getty Of Clarksvile"
8 Then We ask. II The southern mechanic can fur
nish as good an article as Can b had elsewhere