The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-01-17
rev. AndreyV Shall3e 4, ettar,

l3|t GNSN. An0FSW pnoIlb L0Vtor'
Wsyhays always rsversnced old age, aad
admire the tttibute5 YfIoyatty n any nab.
This i, one feasOi that We giys publicity 70
the letter Of NJ SnSl. We bebsys him 70
be a chrigisn esEtlehaR and one among tAs
best uuiOp thsa 10 our e5hntryf tpt AZ The
same time We differ With him IN sons " tbS
points that be bss eDeAb make in his
letter, bdthAts Hot The spdse to csutsovsrt
them. Ne says "that those Who haze borne
the bdrdea and Heat 0flthb ldsy no thinks
should control the road, and reap TIE fruits
t6ereofH Who, we ask, built this foad9
We antweF thb men who %ers neither bora
not raised II tits county We have been
trediGly 7 Inclined, that tie late Dr. CAnhihg-
ham vas sAnt North to false money to build
tie road end without sBls KSrAtfa money
the B. T. &va9R. Rad would never have
BEEN constructed. why the tSFs land thAt.
MI. Shell now owns and ShitRR W6tth from.
thirty to forty dollars per eett #As not worth
more than ten dollars prior to tbs tSad being
built. II would have beet batter fBF the
,~fArtasrs who live on thslias VI the fost to
have debated or sold one half OF theif laid
and given the procUeastV the eOHAbany, for it
would haze snHanesd The fetaaihaet, more
than the whole Eaftas would haze sold for
before the road was built. flour scoafrTehd
Shell 10 so partitHlAF about NOttheFn men
holding offices on the road, We wOdid like to
nSSethe enquiry how mitch better would
It have been If hsfand bis ftletds had secured
a man to be superintendent Who was born
and raiHcd,In Ireland, than Mr., HOxSieg Who
had his birth and education in out own
native land" and under whose glorious dag
he hasalwayslived2 Why were Efforts made
to Gust Col, Braaner, One Of the best Rail-
road Presidents in the United states1 .ga .
Now we do sincerely hope, that this Sec
,tiOnalism that seems to have entreuched
itself in the hearts Of many of our psoplS
will be,east out and drowned in tho depths
of the sea Of oblivion, This thing B fcalling
men Foreigners who come from the Northern
portion of this great country Of ours 10 a
hunsbsg, and all who play npon such terms
are hunJUyyers ofthe worst character. What
would the South have been, now, If our
Northern brethren had not come to our did
at q time that tried mems sOulsr Judging
the future by the past few years, 1t would
have been q land Or war, and a waste, howl
ing wilderness, as far as law, religion and
civilization are concerned. We have an
Emigran: Aid Society in our State for the
purpose Of inducing YheA from the North,
and the old world to come and mako the
beautiful South their future homes in order
to aid us to develop the resources pr our min
sral and farming lands The movements Of
SOM men have atendeney to neutralise All
the Efforts that may be made BY our Agent
add others engaged III the good wStk. Al
far as our observation extends the men in cur
Country from the Moth are energetic and
honest men, and lore this, their adopted
State, We who have had our birth in tSis
land should welcome eur true loyal fsiendS
from whatever bection Of the county they
may come, and make then fec: that this is
their home. ~
The Southern people WhO hare travelled,
or who live in ths North have always been
treated kindly, and are made 70 feel that they
are people, those ancestors are Of the same
blood, Let Us therefore exhibit the same
spirit when men OF The North come atnong Us.