The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-08-25
A Card from Mr.. Boyd.
SwEETwATER, Aug, %, 1870.
MesSrs. Austin Fry, w. L. Price, +
W. PhiIEna nnd nIhnno

c'EhA"AlEh aug - low
Messrs. Austin Fry, W. L. Price, F..
VI. Phillips and others
GENTLEMEN My surprise at your
call upon me to become u candidate to
represent you in the lower branch OF the
General Assembly of the State of Ten
nessee is only equalled by my gratitude.
| appreciate this indication of your conf
dence the more because it comes from
those With whom l have been intimately
associated and connected for the past Ave
years, for whose opinion | have a high re-
gard, i'll whose judgment | place the most
implicit confidence, and whose good will l
esteem in no ordinary degree. 10 enjoy
the friendship and possess the confidence
of those with whom l have been connected
in business, and socially, is a compliment
of which every gentleman feels proud /;
the more so at the present time when we
are just emerging from an ordeal sufficient
to try mems souls, and fully test their
moral, social and political worth.
The events of the last five years are
full of interest to the people of this once
happy and prosperous county, but those of
the next five will be far more so. While
those of the past, fraught with evil and
noted for oppression, should stand out as
monuments for our guidance in the future,
the present aud future will present to us
questions which will require the counsel
and services of our best and wisest men
men of wisdom, experience and mOdera-
tion-men who are,willing to sacrifice per-
sonal interest sOr the good of the country.
In view Of these facts / respectfully de-
clineto become a candidate for the import
ant position indicated.
To the people | would say, do not ex-
poet too much from the law-making power.
Don't look to your legislators to restore the
country at once. 1t will require a long
time, with patient aud wise action, before
your dear country can be restored to its
former prosperity. 1t is the province of
the laH-making power to guard well your
liberties, personal and public to reduce
your taxes, and by moderation and ecOno-
my, to place you in a condition that you
may apply your earnings to the improve
ment of your farms and of your general
business. Whef the laW-making power
has done this it has done all for which it
was intended, and then you must build up
the country. TO you we look with conf
denco for that prosperity which it should
be our high privilege to enjoy. Lay down
the prejudices of former days. Upon the
ruins of your late contentious build affairs
of love; determine to rise above the filth
Ofparty strife, and soon we shall be ena-
bled to chronicle a better and happier era
for ournoble Tennessee. Prosperity will
be within her borders and its influences
felt aud enjoyed by all her noble people.
Gentlemen, [ take pleasure in suggest
ing to you u few out of many names of
citizens who would make honorable and
intelligent representatives, and who would
doubtless take great pleasure in leaving
for a time the enjoyment of home and its
comforts for the public good: |. Il. lie
'noir, esq, Colonel II. B. YearwoOd, Ed
or Robert Snead, T.. Il. Griffith, esq, II.
A. Chambers, esq, Joseph A. Peck, esq,
Col. James A. Coffin, Joseph E. Houston,
esq, John r. Gaines, esq, W. l.. Price.
esq, Hon. NJ. h. johnson, Capt. Lon.
Forkner, Hon. Jesse Ovens, Archibald
Mason, esq, James H. Pickel, esq; all of
whom are men of intelligence, experience
and energy. fG.s ..I1lr.
Again thanking you, I am, gentlemen,
Yours Obediently, r..-sD
THoMAs G. BoYp.