Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07
Tennessee.
HER ERRORS AND RESOURCES.
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hEk EERUhS ANU HtSUUhGtS.
From a communication touch
ing these matters IN the New Yorh
Metropolitan Record, we extrac,
. the following: eLs7is msa,
TAKE TENNESSEE AS AN EXAMPLE
Larger than New Hampshire
i Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New jersey
and Delaware, all combined-em
bracing scenery as varied and as
grand as that of Switzerland and
Italy, as magnificent as any thai
the sun, in all his travels, looks
down upon-with mountains tow.
ering above the clouds, and TEEN.
ling with untold stories Of mineral
wealth-with a soil of inexhaus-
tible fertility, that nours forth in
equally generous profnsion, the
rich products of the tropics, and
the life-supporting cereals of the
colder North-with clear and
sparkling streams, everywhere
tumbling in cataracts and cascades.
foaming in rapids, or rolling is 81
lent dignity through all her pie
turesque valleys, clattering and
splashing, ripping and dashing,
as if clamorously inviting the
great wheels of busy machinery
TO use their wanton strength
with everything TO make her
great and glorious; where "every
prospect pleases, and only (Radi.
cali man is vile"-she is an en-
ipire Of which any people, any
monarch might we'll be proud.
Located just between North
and South, she enjoys that chap
Ply medium" SO proverbiaIly hard
to hit. Her winters are short and
mild, requiring less fuel and cloth
/ ing, and less feeding of stock,
than are necessary further North
and her summers are such that
white men can stand the labors
of the field, as in Illinois or Penn
sylvania.
Here can be seen the broad
field of cotton unfolding its snowy
bolls, side by side with the heads
of the golden grain; the dark foil
age of the magnolia, and the soft
drapery of the myrtle, waving
beside the less pretentious apple
and pear, with their loads of rud-
dy fruit.
On her wonderful soil the great
staple Of the South hourishes with
the iuxuriance scarcely surpassed
In the far-famed bottom lands of
Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkan-
sas; while wheat, corn, oats, rye,
potatoes, apples, pears, peaches,
plums and cherries, produce as
finely, in quantity and quality, as
in Ohio or New Jersey.
Her hills are clothed with ce-
dars as comely and valuable as
those of ancient Lebanon; and
filed almost to bursting with coal,
marble, copper surprising that of
Wisconsin, and iron that is pro-
nouneed by competent judges
equal to the famous Swedish metal,
the very finest kind of ore.
The mountains in the less fer
tile district of East Tennessee, !
with their innumerable bold, |
swift, brawling streams, would |
furnish water-power enough tot
turn all the machinery in the |
world (including the wooden-nut-
meg and pastel board horn button
factories of godly New England, |
Whilst their rugged sides and
valleys clothed with |
grass that is almost perpetual, offer
pasturage all the year round, for
locks and herds, Gas the sand up
,n the seashore for multitude.
But why continue this feeble
enumeration? I
Her resources are absolutely
Imazing, astounding; they are
,oundless, incalculable, inconceiv-
Ible; but alas! truth compels US
oadd, ,unappreciated, undeyeloped,
.lmost unknown! j
Amid all this mighty accrmula-
ion of riches, her people are just
BILE to live-and that's all! +
The cedars which wrought into I
ousehold wares would be a cease
ses fountain Of revenue to the
tate, lie rotting on all her hill {
ides Her mines are unopened; +