Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-09-30

/, while Let us eep the mother and child By the
hearthstone. to greet the father with welcom-
: ing kiss as he returns from some other and more
> pleasing labor. which we surely find for him
in land like ours.
: While earnestly dispute the morality and
manhness OF that mercenary policy. which seeks
before the calamity of an over crowded popula-
ton has come to us and forced it, to bark our
! people in calings for life. which ever have and
, | ever must inevitably make the rich not only
: | richer. but meaner, and the poor not Only poor
| or. but more hopeless. IS earnestly demand
that they shall be allowed to work. shall be
8 | made to work II needs be- but to so work that
, | while they make our common country grow
, richer. che workers and the wives and children
shall er)w happier and wiser and nobler.
urge you to send to protest all paper pre-
sented to your capital and labor in behalf of
these schemes to build up in your midst these
grand arenas of strife and strikes and riots, of
labor leagues and loyal leagues. of relief unions
and all other unions. and join me In accepting,
and necessary in indorsing all drafts drawn on
our common substance by the mechanical en-
| terprises already organized in our midst by men
who are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh
and that are to-day in the whole length of the
land pinlng for want of patronage and almost
| per1shlng at our doors.
| Instead of skipping with quasi insane glee,
| as some flint lock old fogieS of Nashville are
doing, around the foundation stones. and pub
| fishing as our most honorable roll of fame the
names of the stockholders of a great S300OOO
factory. to be filed with Yankees, imported or
manu- 'actured. and which never viii or can
amount TO more than a quarter of cent yard
on few thousand yards, more or less, of negro
shifting. let US engage in some sublimer duty
and seek some more beneheent end.
| Suppose we pledge ourselves to-day to begin
| the Organization of similar fund for the bene-
fit of the languishing mechanical interests
mutely but hourly appealing to our sense ofduty
| and our true interests on every side of US.
| There are already, ath0usand small mechan-
zeal 1nsu buttons manufactures sirs, if you pre-
| fer the term, among the people of Central Ten
| neSsee, in which master and man can and do
| work together in the mutual and perpetual
fraternity, which fosters the manhood and pride
dozen that could not treble their usefulness and
| capacity for production, If their pro rata of
1 such sum was secured to them and by them,
| end not one Of them could beg or borrow sins |
/ gle cent from those who so increasingly howl for
| manufacturing stock.
| For their sake and our own. beg of you to |
| let us see that they get such share of our sur
plus as they merit, and can use for our common |
good, before dollar of our substance is sent |
| away to bring among us the diseord Of Yankee /
lives and Yankee machines-the most popular of /
all which, is the one they use to grind the i
faces of the poor.
Capital has a goodiy inheritance in our
country, it has princely income, and, thus far
an uncOrTupted heart, and believe can be in
ducei to so beStow its bounty upon labor, which
respects capital here as labor no where else re-
spectsi t-as to embody our whole territory into
one grand Tennessee Central Association Of I
prOspering and happy friends and brothers.
When our capital has thus strengthened and
built up our own Institutions, so as TO enable us
to begin supplying all our home wants. and our |
wants for better homes, at the hands of our own
skillful and willing artisans and machinists |
and wagon makers, and house builders and
house decorators; is it possible that any one can |
doubt, that such prosperity will ensue, as will
pay TO US and our posterity such abundant |
dividends of money and ofjoy. as no calculating
boss of million spinning Jennles could force |
his heertless figures to exhibit.
My imaginatiOn and yours clearly fOresee such
prospective future possible, and surely to be |
attained, by thus fostering our mechanical in |
terests, and can as readily realize the effect |
of the combination, when we have added to it |
the triumphal achievements of an agriculture,
judiciOusly developed in soil fitted for the pro-
ductiOn of every harvest that can bring food, |
comfort and luxury to man.
How many are tn re among US who closing
their eyes will see not the picture-who stop |
ping their ears will hear not the melody-whO |
shutting their mouths will respond not the
Amen Hallelujah; and will still persist IN turn
ing up their eyes, piteOusly looking for some i
strange God, will still listen longlngly for re-
newal of their favorite anthem. I'VE are coming |
father Abraham 700 more;" will still plead |
plainly for cup of plain water from Yankee, |
Dutch or Chinese to cool their parchlng thirst |
for gold?
If there is one among US, for Gods sake and !
ours, let us give the ungrateful ana ungTaclous |
scalawag lock of our hair, and bid him 60, and |
stand not upon the order OF his going to the en-
lightened borders of that higher law" civili> |
zatiOn, where everything abouuds which seems |
necessary to fill the measure of his cup of life.
He will find genial companions by the way, Just |
carpet baggers, who. with dead head tickets |
from Gov Senter, are moving eagerly forward |
to enter the grand arena of politics in Gods |
country" and contend for the belt With the |
champion liars of Radicalism.
IN announcing to you to-day, Nv hat think |
about" all the disgusting clamOr that has been |
papers in behalf not only of the humbuggery |
of great manufacturing problems and the9Tems: |
but of grand Immigration schemes DO not I
care TO be understood as refusing TO welcome TO l
an invited or properly introduced visitor. who |
might ask the favor of the rights of citizenship |
at our hands-for his own sake and not ours
I vnVv11 ryl1a he A
pitality of my home to any invited or properly |
introduced guest who presents himself, decently |
approaching the relative rights of each.
But while the Irish blood that is in me would |
not tolerate, as a guest IN my home an in |
truder who walks in, without knocking or lnvi-
tation, cOolly hangs up his hat. kindly inf rms |
US that he has considerably come to help us |
eat our dinner. and while carrying on little |
agreeable coquetry at the table with Miss |
Dinah, che negro waiter, suggests pleasantly,
u rhaps, that we invite Mrs. Gritty, the COOK, |
to the entertainment, that she may join him IN |
q toast to equal rights or some other calamity; |
neither will the Rebel blood that is in me yet, |
appreciate an intruder who without any intro |
ductiO1 or other credentials, than his locality |
and his loyalty. comes specifically among us |
for our good and as coolly as the other proceeds
bummiDgly to help uS-by consuming our sub |
stance, coquettishly demOraliZing our labor, |
constitutiOnaly amending the sentiments OF |
our hearts and households and while violently
slapping US upon the right cheek, cries PIT.
eously aloud to the great and good Melish |
to punish US fer not turning the LETT alsO. 49, |
en- \
him? Who wants to draw to a pair like him?
How many will you take in ''yOurnE' There |
are few more left OF them? Yes anot her
300 900 more.
want my chi 'dren to grow up and grow old |
and die among no better people, no richer peo-
pie, no smarter people. no happier people, no |
more congenlal people. no more people: tnan
a Kind God has bestowed the magnificent l
kingdom of Central Tennessee, and shall as
suredly never step aside, individually, from my
OIL of nd /
straggleT to deposit his carpet bag IN our midst,
though possibly we may allow an angel to pass
us unaWares.
This monstrous hue and cry, Immigratel I'm
migrated Immigratol which has so filled the arr
for the last five years that we could taste 1t IN
our cOhes. and which has not brought I'VE I'M
migrants to the country, As thus far done a
great harm to our people by holding them 20
long in the degraded attitude of meadlcants'
to be regarded by all the world as
THE genuine. no mistake Tom 1humos,
Little people begging for eat peoples
crumbs"
1t has done this and far greater harm by
palsying our energies and efforts toward a
praisewor thy working out OF our own salva-
ton, and by keeping us waiting hstessly Tor
of rich people, and good people: and working
people would rush enthuslastseally IRON
pre- emily to be discovered Utopia-lIit Us char-
itably from some fanci mire of poverty and /
sin and sharing with us the purple and ine
linen of wealth and reconstruction, let us
have peace" that somehow was to pass all I'M
derstandlng
Stand YOU no longer, my friends, all the day |
| idle This has been all Bokum and Buncombe,
all fuss and folly, signifying nothing. gu need
| no help and there is none coming, and am
| glad of it. Whom do you want? Why do you
want anybody? Whom can you possibly gel?
Producing mankind consists of three classes
the rich, the middle class and the labsrer.
You surely do not expect or desire the rlch 10 i
come and leave their earthen vessel filled with /
| treasure behind them, and you know they |
won't come AID bring it with them to share /
with your poor, for they have long since stopped /
| thus lending to our Lord, who IS not their
Lord.
If the middle class comes they will have no /
monies equal to the price of your lands and |
you wouldn't sell them an acre II they had, and
There are not ten farms in Rutherford county /
to. day that can be bought for double the price
| the ealthiest immigrant ever dreamed OF CIV
| ing; and in three crops from now, there will not
| be an acre of land in the county that can De |
| bought by any amount that mere paper currency /
| can pile up. Then with the rich refusing, and /
| the middle class being refused there are none
1 lett to come but the labOrer, looking for his /
hire; and if he we're to come, you must want |
| him to work alongside with Cuhee. and he /
| knows it, and he had rather Ku-klux him |
| a single day, and you know this too.
Then think we should cease at orcs and for |
| all time to come, this vain, worthless cry I'm
| migrate, immigrate, immigrate, and putting a |
| new song in our mouths. cry aloud, Cul tivate,
| cultivate cultivate" Cultivate our lands Gull
| tivate our laborers, cultivate ourselves.
Let the peddling Dutchman with his newt,
able pack filled init shust few nice goots and
/ seheap clos" go Flooding thoughttuly through
| other lands. where the beer is better, seeking
| some new redeemer it will not pay him to be- |
Let the careless Paddy with his pet pig and |
his stumpy pipe and "shlllalah be jasus" trudge
joyially along at the tail end of his dump cart
to some Finnegan paradise of free religion, free
| whisky and free fights at the west end of some |
| great Pacific railroad
Let the 100000 of Jno. Cinnamon stay