Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1862-01-31
For the Chronicle.
Life and Times Of jefferson Freeirade
via his last Wi1 md Testament Annered.

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BE was born in the sunny South, and although
in the midst Of cotton bales Was wrapped in swad-
ding cloths of Massachusetts, manufacture--wa,
surrounded by wilderness of choice timber, yet
he was rocked in Cincinnati cradle, to the tune Of
Yankee Doodle. In process of time he wended his
way to school with Boston primer in his satchel,
and the first words he learned to spell were horse
pronounced hos" and COW, pronounced "keouw.!
As he waxed in age, and in strength of body and
mind, he received from his maternal parent theo-
retchl contempt for all Southern handicrat and me-
chanical inventions From his paternal guide, he
learned its practical illustration. Arriving at ma
joriy he embraced the political dogma of freetrade
and pursued It as his polar star. Consequently,
when settled upon his paternal estate, he at once
developed mind at war with the best interests of
the South-he became a radical ffeetiade politician,
and as a consequence (tho unwillingly) subservent
to monied power at the North, and to great ex-
tent dependant upon it.
But ne was honest in this strange ballucination,
and practiced what he preached; for he was uni-
formly clothed from the crown Of his head to the
soles of his feet in Northern manufactures. His
threshing machine, wagons carts, ploughs, harrows
hoes pitchforks, axes, axe-handles, goose yokes,
dog collars, mouse traps, and fly traps were all of
Yankee manufacture. His carriage hailed from
New York. and the shoes and nails, upon his horses
feet were made in Pittsburg. His whiskey was Of
tie improved Cincinnati poison and II was great
satisfaction to him TO believe that he bought them
'theap," and that they were not made at home.
lis fnanciering and commercial talents were
eluidated when he sold his tobacco at 10 cts per
ID. ba New York merchant and after it had there
beer rolled up in the shape of Havana segars,
sprinCied with rose water or acauoravalus pur-
chasel the same tobacco at the rate of $40 per ID.
but he had the pleasure of knowing that they were
from ibrOad. He also sold hickory wood to ped
lels in Ohio at 81 per cord, and bought it back in
the sinpe of axe-handIes at the rate of $50 per
cord. ', fact he lived, moved, and transformed his
original Icing into his favorite theme.
But hewas hospitable to a faut-hs latch string
was ever outside TO welcome the peregrinating
Yankee peer TO his hearth-stone, with free access
to his barn after his guest had retired he found
that had Sought wagon with ra,c-hide tires ON
VIC "heels snu huItnegS mace OF hck0Ty WOOD =.
but he presered his temper by remembering that
they were "vey cheap" and the shrevdness which
had gulled hin excited his astonishment if not ad-
mration as hewas won't to relate it in social cir
cles, for the AMUSEMENT of his friends But in the
course of human events, his fsvorite policy swal-
lowed up manyf the mechanical workshops of bis
native South, an breathed sickly inHueice into
those which labord to exist followed by tbe block
ade of the dictatolof the North, by which he was
cut OH from his fo'ner traffic and associations.
Jefferson now be Ime furious in the defense of
Southern rights. al with his sword in one hand,
and the banner of n strade in the other he rushed
forwatd to the bal te-feld where he CALAMITY
fought bled, and dice to secure the independence
of his beloved South. As he was a man of fore
thought and the rulit pHssion being stronger at
death, he was careful, fore that time arrived, to
procure Yankee coffin nd tombstone, the former
in which he was buriedand the latter now marks
the spot and "Consistecy thou art d Jewel'
is the epitaph Reader lern, mark, and ihwardly
digest the history of his deusion.