Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-05-04
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To East Tennessee Republicans.


CLINTON, TENN, April Goth, 1870.
We all desire the success of the great
Republican party believing its principles
calculated to promote the welfare, progress,
advancement and happiness of the people.
Apart from all mere party considerations,
we have closely at heart the success of the
great principles of Republicanism-free
schools, general education, free ballot
box, development of American enterprise
and industry, home manufactures, rail-
roads, progress, enterprise and improve
ment.
Now is there any way in which, just at
this time we can better promote the ad-
vancement of these causes than by each of
us getting subscribers to the CHRONICLE?
Let us see. You would not begrudge the
time and trouble of a few minutes talk
with wel-meaning but misinformed
neighbor to contradict some Islander of our
enemies on our party, our principles, our
President or other public officers and to
show him his error and confirm him in his
| faith. The same time and trouble spent in
obtaining his name as a subscriber to the
! CHRONICLE would give him friend that,
every week in the year, would furnish him
| more information, more convincing argu
ments, more intelligence on political sub
jects than you could possibly do. You do
not grudge several times year to spend a
day in attending convention, or in work
| ing diligently at the polls to ensure the
success of the party. A single day, or half
a day, spent among your neighbors, or
| among the people in town on court day,
| would suffice to get handsome club of
subscribers, and thereby accomplish vastly
more good to the party than your efforts
at the polls could do. Is it not so?
| We see already, though but a few num-
beers of the CHRONICLE have been issued,
how its influence is consolidating strength
ening and building up the party, giving us
union and strength, and communication
with and confidence in each other, and in
a corresponding degree discouraging and
weakening our political opponents, who
formerly had matters nearly all their own
way in respect to newspaper influence.
The CHRONICLE will be worth thousands
of votes to us in the coming elections.
! You would not begrudge day or aweek
or liberal money contribution to erect
school house in your neighborhood, and TO
employ a competent teacher, or to attend a
fair and promote the cause of improved
| agriculture, arts and manufactures.
| A small fraction of that space of iue
would enable you to get large number Of
subscribers to a journal that will ably bat
| tie for the cause of free common schools,
| universal education, and improvement in
| arts, agriculture and manufactures, and
You will thus accomplish work to which
your unaided aim and voice would be un-
equal Do all you can yourself, and aid
also to set the printers types at work in the
same cause
Let me add to all this that apart from all
considerations of party and of desire to aid
i'll the improvement of the country, the
CHRONICLE is well worth several times its
| price to every subscriber, in the informa-
ton, intelligence and interest to be derived
from it. Every one who has seen it knows.
| this to be the fact.
| j would say to every Republican who has
not already done so, send at once your own
name and all the names you can obtain
| among your neighbors as subscribers to the
! CHRONICLE. Raise a club if you cam II
can be done in almost any neighborhood.
II one has already gone on It is often prac-
ticable to raise another. If not send in
your own name and that of at least one or
more of your neighbors.
Our political enemies have displayed
much energy in extending the circulation
of their journals.
| Let us not be behind them. Let every
one put his shoulder to the wheel, and the
work will be done. Let us act, and act
| nor. RURAL.
| The seven wonders of the world acre.
| lst.-The Egyptian Pyramids. The lar
| gest of these is 603 feet square and 469 feet