Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-08-24
Our MANIFEST DESTINY. .

ofarms and notices for our various Govern
ment,. state and National. In some in
stances, the devices and language OF an
cient heraldry are adopted; in others,
symbol. and words indicative of our natu-
raj features, or the institutions of our own
country.
y good deal Of history, of geography, of
upliticul economy, may be CLEANED from
these devices. The PROSTATE form, the
broken chain, and the sic scBQ)cr tyroHats
ON the coat of arms of the Old Dominion,
suggest readily the stirring scenes of the
Revolution. The Lone Star Of Texas at
once recalls the brief and exemplary career
of that community as an independent gov
eminent. when, kicking their old guardi-
an. Mexico, overheard, the enterprising
band of Americans, who had gone there
20 run the country, set up an independent
!, public, filled the offices, put the ma
cninery in operation, and INDUCED IL
general national spree, until the new gov
eminent, finding itself sadly out at the
elbows, in debt at every place it had been
a,lc 90 procure credit, and entirely out of
c.-h TO cuntil he the frolic longer. wisely
concluded to ask admission to the Union,
like Il spendthrft seeking to marry into a
wealthy family. Succeeding in which at
tempt Master Texas found himself in
comfortable quarters, with new suit of
clothes and all his debts paid.
The ploughshare breaking the virgin
prairie. the Indian and buffalo retreating
before the sound of the frontiersman's axe,
and the stalwart miner amid the golden
sands. these readily suggest the industries
and the destiny of the Western and the
Pacific States.
The arms and motto of our state, as dis
PLAYED on its great seal, are familiar. The
nlough. the grain sheaf, the heavy-laden
boat with the words " Agriculture and
.. Commerce" indicate well two great
means of prosperity and wealth FOR our
community, the only two which, IN the
nature of things, could at the birth of our
infant state be relied on.
But at the present day there is another
important source of advancement and
profit which we must not neglect unless we
are willing to submit calmly to be left be-
hind in the race for material prosperity.
To properly symbolic the resources and
the manifest destiny of Tennessee, there
should be added to her seal some such de-
vice as a tall factory with smoking CHM
news. and the motto Manufactures
With agriculture and commerce alone we
can never fully succeed. We have fertile
valleys, and we have position which re-
uuires much inland traffic to cross our soil,
but in the mere production of vast quanti-
ties of grain no portion of the Union or
perhaps of the world can hope to success
! fully compete with the great prairie Stc.es
| Of the West, while no inland territory can
/ ever rival in commerce one having direct
/ ocean communication.
While our farmers bring their ploughs.
/ their threshers and their reaping ma
! chimes, our blacksmiths their iron, their
nails and their anvils, our railroads their
| locomotives and our citizens in general
| their furniture their tools, and the thou
sand and one articles OF use and pleasure
I demanded by the needs of daily life, from
/ a distance of hundreds of miles, or even
I from across the ocean, into this land of in
exhaustble beds of iron and coal, forests of
the host of timber and abundance of mag
nificent wateI, 30 long must we go forward
onlv slowly and ineflciently, walking
with fettered feet, instead of the free and
rapid step we might otherwise attain.
Manufactures are with US the true phi
lO-Opher's stone. turning what is otherwise
crude and valueless into gold.
These are no mere idle speculations, but
vital truths, abundantly proved-uot' only
10y lac experience of communities much
les favored for the experiment by nature
tran our own. but by the gratifying sue
cess tnat mas attended tile rev ctlOftS tnat
have been made in that direction i'm East
Tennessee. \ certain spot of barren noun
tain side in Anderson county was, proba-
bly,. a few years ago, considered hardly
worth fifty dollars. Now, at the same
spot is dug every year tens Of thousands of
dollars worth of coal, which, not only at
home but beyond the borders of our State,
is aiding 70 melt the crude ore and set the
giant force of steam at work i'm the great
cause of manufactures. In our neighbOr-
ing county lof ROane, a little community
has sprung up as by magic, where the iron
| living hitherto useless in the bosom of the
earth is wrought into form fitted for the
use of man, and new wealth is added to
the community.
Right here at home, in our own city,
where so little has been done compared TO
what might and should have been accom-
plished, it might surprise some of our citi-
Zens TO learn for how many thrifty, wealth.
producing citizens, how many new build
ings and how great an increase in the val
| ne of real estate and in the aggregate
wealth of our community, we are indebted
| to our few manufacturing establishments
But where one dollar is invested i'm man
! ufactuTes here there should be a hundred
! We have every advantage by nature for
J the manufacturing of almost everything
| from pleasure carriage to a single nail
! from a bar Of blacksmith's iron to IA thresh-
/ in" machine, and we should supply not
only Tennessee but the Gulf States and