Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-10

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OUR people are beginning to see tie
necessity of taking hold of new enter
prises, Of bringing in labor, building
railroads and steamboats,, and encour-
aging manufactures, as a means to
success, prosperity and greatness.
And withal, we are glad to see, that,
considering the exhaustion OF war,
the depression caused by high taxa
tion and disagreement, and the ac-
tual impoverishment suffered, they
are now also subscribing to, and en-
couraging and aiding these enterprises.
The fact should give great encourage
ment to all. The exhibition of a pub
lie spirited liberality, and disposition
for Harmonious cooperation, gives as
suranee of results, success, progress,
growth, wealth. No city ever failed
to spring forward at a gigantic bound,
where the energetic cooperation Of its
citizens has been thus assured. Pow
erty, distress, exhaustion, may pro-
duce a lethargy and depression, such
as that from which we are emerging,
but union. cooperation, energy,
are masters of the situation, and will
triumph even when q people have
gone to the very verge of dispair.
With every mans shoulder at the
wheel and the hearty cheer and de-
termined indomitable will, what is too
great to be accomplished? The future
of Memphis is now in the hands Of
its own people, The tyranny and
abuses of government are about to be
removed, and they will now renew
and redouble their energy of 1860,
give proof that there is a way, as well
as a will, and by their combination Of
mind aad means renew the rivalry
with the great cities of the valley.
With the best position on the great
/ river, and in the center Of the largest
circumference of the richest soil of the
continent, what is to hinder the i'm
mediate growth of a city which is des-
tined to be gigantic? We have gone
to the bOttom of the hill, we have
commenced the ascent, and we shall
soon be cheered with brighter views
of a prosperity, which is as
sured in the future, and cannot
be reasonably doubted by any
sensible men who look existing facts
in the face, see the great resources of.
our city and vicinity, and think how
absolutely impossible it must be for
artificial causes to chain down the
| rising energies of our vast domain,
about to be rapidly peopled from every
quarter under heaven. The will to be
great makes assurance sure.
We have no particular fancy for
croakers. We never saw one who
knew how to make money, except by
clinehing some poor lone and starve-
ling penny, or grinding the faces Of
| the o o No crOaker has enterprise,
or Will cooperate with those who
have. To every body else he is use
less like the fifth wheel of a coach.
And to the community in which he
lives he is a milestone hung on the
neck of the public prosperity. 1t is
well that the worlds not OvercrOwded
with that genus, though it must be
confessed there are too MANY of them.
They weigh down enterprise, cripple
business, public and private improve
ments, and dispirit and discourage
the enterprise Of genius, and retard
the success of the inventor, the dis
coverer, the daring and the adven-
t%urous, who are the jewels of all lands,
and on whose ~exertions depends SO
largely all important and wealth-giv-
ing results. DIR. FRANKLIN discov-
cred one of these in his day, and de-
seribes him as follows:
"There are croakers in every cOUn-
try, always bOding its ruin. Such a
one there lived in Philadelphia; a
person of note, an elderly man, with
& EiGs look, and q very grave manner
of speakingf his naI4e YVES Samuel
Mickle. This gentleman, a stranger
to me, stopped me one day at my
door, and asked me if | was the young
man who had lately opened a new
E1:rtin~ house. Being answered in
The atiiruauV6, &c eria he was sorry
| for me, because ii wax In expensive
undertaking, and the expense would
be lost; for Philadelphia was a sinking
place, the people already half bank
fupts, or near beihG sos all
the appearances of the con-
traFy, such rs new buildings
! and the rise Of rents, being ~ his
certain knowledge fallaoiousi for they
! were in fact the things that would ruin
us. Then ne gave me such Il detail OF
misfortunes nov existing, or that were
Soon t. exist, that he left me hall
| melancholy. Had / known MIA b
fore | engaged in this business, proba-
bly, l never should have done it, This
person continued to live in this de
caying place, and to declaim In the
same Strain, refusing for many years
to buy a house there, because all was
going TO destruction; and st last
had the pleasure Ct seeing him give
five times as much for one, as he might
have bought it for when he first began