Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-02
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it. who are found dabbling in the stream of North
ern trade This readily admit to be true, but as
effects always follow causes, let us examine the
have II so. They long for anything that comes
from far off market. 1t is better, cheaper, and
has facination about It which pleases the imagi-
nation. This caprice has become so difiused
among the entire community, that the home manu-
facturer is placed in the same attitude as the miller
who stands in the mill door with folded arms look
ing reluctantly on the water which, instead OF
turning his Wheel is leaking out of the dam, leav-
ing him high and dry, and seeing the poor house
Steadily approaching them on the one hand, and
their mcrciless and remoseless Southern creditors
pressing upon them with all their vigor to their
great CONSERVATION and modification find that their
own guns are turned upon their rear, knock
ing down the underpinning of their feeble manufac-
tories. They hear, too the well known. dice Of
their Old friend the Clarksville CHRONICLE hitherto
the steady advocate Of their long cherished prin-
ciples now joining in the hue and cry against them,
by proclaiming to the world, that there is not a
buggy or rqgon now running the streets of Clarks-
are only put togetherp At this they are dispar-
tingly forced to exclnni, 'and thou too, Brutus ?
Our enemies We can take care of but deliver MS
from some of our friends. Thus it is plain, that
there is now no alternative, but for mechanics TO
throw themselves into the whrl of Northern trade
flowing with irresistible impett osity past their own
dlapidated doors, and should they be about to
= Il.
chance some Yankee voyager may rescue them in
this another time Of peril. There is no denying
the fact, that men who riU work. and who pill
pay when they can, for that very reason, pur-
sued more relentlessly and shown less quarter by a
large portion of. their creditors, than others who
nable barriers between them and the creditor, or
because 'ther hands were never made to work"
Common sense teaches that SO long as the goose
lays golden eggs let her 60 on in The regular ana
legitimate way, but kill her from impatience and
avarice, what then ''rhe hunt is up" You get
lone egg it Is true but when it is too late find out
that it is the last instalment one well knows
this is true in literal sense, but how few see or
practice the moral
Now, Mr.. Editor freely acknowledge that do
not, fora moment, entertain the belief that the
remarks alluded to in the CHRONICLE, were reintended
do injury to the occupations in the premises, We
knoc better, but as they literally stand, coming
from so responsible a source, do believe that to
lsuperfcal observers up tree, it would appear as
though a cheat had been practced on the commu.
nifty for many years past by persons protesting tc
have manufactured ''buggies and wagons in Clarks-
vilie" But as am not responsible for this acute
discovery, | leave the CHEoNIcLE to settle its owr
flights of fancy iI its own way after giving. the
following eucidation of the, whole matter be-
leve it stands simply on the same principle, that
DOCTOR who does not discern the disease OF hi!
patient boldly administers strong dose of thu
. wrong medicine, and the patient dies Or, th'
lawyer who uuintentionally defeats his own ellen
by advocating his cause. Or the engineer who doe
not comprehend the machinery he Is working
bursts the boiler and away so the passengers :
. And hence maintain the position, that "bugge
, and wagons are manufactured in and are tunninl
through the streets Of Clarksyille, any opinion Il
r the contrary Notwithstanding shall now PROV
. they are manufactured here, as they are in an,
other place, using your own logic, as the basis
We are charged with only quitting carriages to
gether," because We use Springs, oil cloth ar
leather which are manufactured at the North. ]
is well known to every intelligent mind, that 1t j
so ordered in the very nature Of things, that on
. section of country produces everything that W
= eat, drink, or wear as to the Injuries of life
! : neither does one section furnish everything be
longing TO so complicated machine as a desirabl
d pleasure carriage And, If zee use the aboy
named art cleS, from the North, the manufacturer
in Connecticut use to some extent springs whicl
we're made in England, Much of the, fine broai
o cloth. aud all Of their silks. are impaired iron
!. France and England, including yarnshes, paint7
4 carpeting, plated ware, &c fon from Sweden
= England, and other countries rolled out in sizes
are used by cutting into various shapes and thei
: they "oly put them together Some of the State
North furnish others with the component parts Q
carriages in n finished condition. Connecticut sup
plies Philadelphia, and the latter supplies th
former, and with others, yet sfrangc that pcori'
!, say, that carriages are manufactured in thos
places for according to the logic Of the CHRONICLE
'thcy are only put together Much Of the tim
ber used there is the growth Of Canada and else
! where, and many Of the tools. used 10 its manuiac
ture, are made, ia England, Then, il they ar
only "put togetherT there, I'ask where are the
Is manufactured? | shall pursue this argument n
farther than to say, that If carriages have not teer
and are not manufactured in Clarksyile t,Not
. to the commonly received definition of that leru
:, governed by the circumstances Ns above stateC
and universally allowed, then the conclusion mui
O. be, that they are not made anywhere
,. Chrisendom, and the question arses, where i
they come from? shall only add my defnito
of putting together Which is, wIeh we rccei'
carriages ready made, fit for immediate use, he