Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-08-14
GREELEY IN VIRGINIA.
HIS Views on the Franchise and Az.
rfcultural neeonstruetiena.4

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Horace Greeley was IN Lynchburg
on the 9th ut, and made q speech
in response TO sercnade. We ex-
tract the following from the Repu5-
Hcan's report:
Tn regard to the political situation
of the State he took occasion TO ex-
press his unqualified disaproval of
those measures sought to be imposed
by the extremists, looking to the |
Acknowledgement and disability of a
large element of the people. 1t
was In truth no hardship to q man of
Intelligence and education, that the
law disabled him from sitting as JUS
tice of the Peace, but the commune
ty suffered o hardship in being de-
prived Of such q mans services
Prescriptions must be banished, he
had always maintained, SO soon as
the public Is calmed down, and feels |
secure that they can be safely dis
pensed with. Such had been the de. |
eision Of the American people. He
thought that the trainers Of the Vir-
gfnia Constitution in going beyond
the Reconstruction legislation of Con-
gress, and imposing more stringent
disabilities had acted unwisely. He
did not presume to judge their mo-
tives or condemn them. Perhaps
they thought 1t necessary to adopt
such measures. But the people had
decided that no class should be ig-
nored and deprived of its proper voice
In the government of this free coun-
try. He thought that Governor
Wells ought tc have repudiated the
proscriptive clauses of that Constitu-
ton. 1t was hardship that the ne
groes who were in large minority,
and still larger minority in point Of
property and intelligence, should be
induced to vote in bulk for those
measures which the more educated Of
their own party leaders did not APP
prove, and did not vote to sustain
Mr.. Greeley said that he had seen
and conversed with Governor Walker
and he believed he would render ex-
do what he (Mr. Greeley would do
the attention and thoughts of the
and memories of the past, and direct
pruvement of the mineral and agri-
Walker would secure the rights of
the colored people faithfully and hon
estly. He would not ask whether q
man had voted for or against him,
but what was the law, and what
rights were guaranteed to each man
under the Constitution. And while
his efforts would be directed, as the
speaker thought they should be, to
the removal of disabilities and the
restoration of good citizens to the ex-
ercise of the suffrage, he would also
see that those were secured in their
newly acquired rights who had re-
Gently been subjected to still more
stringent and invidious disability
He should be supported by the earn
est sympathy and cooperation of all
classes of the people. Hehad q most
difficult task before him. Walker,
he thought, would have more diff
Guilty with the men who elected him
than with those who opposed him.
There would be old prejudices and d.
verse interests to oppose and embar-
rass him. But he believed Walker
would secure fairer and grander des-
tiny for Virginia than had ever been
realized by her. He would direct at
tention to material and practical con.
siderations and not to political differ.
ences. What the people of Virgins
needed was not so much Northern
calital or immigration from abroad
rs unity and determination among
her own people to develop their OWL
resources. OF course capital wa.
needed, but the power to improve wa
in the hands of the people them
selves. He had just been travelling
through the State with IN earnes
andlwatchful eye. He had regretted
to see such blasted and ruined crop
of corn. People would say that tn
season had been very dry and hot
That might be so, but the dry seasoI
ought not to occasion the destruction
of any crop. People he argued, wer
put hero in the world, not to Weld /
the oaprices and whims of natur,
but 10 study and ultimately contrc
them. He had passed by thousand
of places where n little labor in dau
ming streams and diverting water s
as to irrigate the soil, would hay
saved crops that are now perishinS 1
the sun. Millions of acres might
rescued and made fertile oy II
streams that Row from among O,
magnificent hills and mountains.
An old and experienced farmer
Westminster county, New York, h,
expressed his opinion that water w
the cheapest and most efficient fe
tilizer. Such also was the speaker
conviction and experience. He HI
travelled in Lombardy, Italy, whe
every drop OF water IL convert
toward improving and enriching [
soil. So in Utah. The mormo
found it twenty years ago, a desolg
spot in the wilderness. There w,
no rains there in summer. But
utilizing the rills and streal
they had made their fields able
sustain great crops Of grain. This
what Virginia must do, laboriou,
and Systematically, until, with sci,
tiflc agriculture and other impro'
ments, her products may be quad
pied. -H...
He had also observed that [
ground was not propererly plowed
He had noticed many places VIII
proper blowing and cultivation wo,
have been the salvation of the or,
Fertilizers were not properly and $
iiciently applied. An application
the fields of these bare hillsides
one dollar of gypsum per acre wol
realize at least three dollars per a
ON the yield. This was the rec,
struction that Virginia needed, m
than any political reconstruction.
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How TO SToP CHEWING ToB.
CON- recently published pa
phlet, the Rev. Mr.. Trask gives
following advice TO tobacco chewe
/. Make the most of your Will
Drop tobacco, and resolve never
use IL again, in any form.