The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-02-01


esiiug portion of the Governors Message,
which was submitted to the Senate, on the
22d inst. {:
TIE FRANCHISE QUESTION.
l deem this proper occasion on which
to call your attention to other matters of
vital Importance.
. must, therefore, be permitted to ex-
press the hope that this General Assembly
will not close it present session, without
the passage of bill granting suffrage to
all loyal males, properly qualified by age
and citizenship. Onward is the watch
word WHICH inspires two Continents And
now is the time for Tennessee to show TO
the world, that she belongs to the advance
guard on the great question of equal suf-
frage. With the loyal men of the State al
lowed to vote, the government will remain
in loyal hands-without their votes, the
State will pass into disloyal hands and a
reign Of terror, not so easily described as
realized, will be the result
THE TENNESSEE AND PACIFIC RAILROAD.
l advise that additional State aid be
granted to the Tennessee and Pacific rail
road. This is not local, but general en-
terprise, in which each of the three Grand
Divisions of the State are alike interested.
Nay, it is great National measure, in
which the whole country is interested, and
no State more than Tennessee. as it will
tend to develop her great mineral and other
resources.
70 offer an argument in favor of the
great enterprise, I feel would be offering
an insult to the intelligence and patriotism
of the General Assembly.
DEFEAT OF THE SCHOOL BILL.
1t is with the deepest regret, have wit
messed the bad effect upon the best inter
ests of our State in other sections, of the
defeat of the School Bill"
The cry comes up from every quarter,
that men of enterprise and capital will not
settle where they cannot educate their chill
dren. The failure to pass the School Bill
is construed into opposition to the cause of
education, and if this impression is not re-
moved by the passage of a sound and libe-
raj School Law. the State will languish for
want Of immigration and capital.
CRIMINAL COURTS
Criminal prosecutions have 50 multiplied
in our Circuit court, since the war, that
parties having important civil suits have
been prevented from a hearing, to their
great injury and in many instances to their
ruin. propose to remedy this evil, by
providing Criminal Judge for every
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Criminal Judge. But if the Legislature,
in its wisdom, should not agree with me in
this recommendation, respectfully urge
that body to provide some other remedy
against this great and growing evil. The
State owes relief 70 her citizens, who have
important civil suits in the courts of the
country.
LIQUOR SELLING NEAR COLLEGES.
Frequent applications are being made to
the Legislature by petitions and otherwise
for special acts prohibiting the sale of ar
dent spirits within certain distances in the
vicinity of certain institutions of learning.
advise that general law be enacted, af-
fording this character of protection to every
I college and academy in the State. We
owe it to the cause Of christian morality.
to the cause of popular education, and to
the young and rising generation, to sepa-
r. &c hquor shops from our institutions of
learning. Should we neglect this work,
not only wilfthe terrible evils of intern
1 perance increase and multiply, TIL they
sweep away every yesuge of propriety,
peace, good order, aud liberty from the