Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-11
WEST TENNESSEE---AN NORTHERN
= RADICALS EYES OPENED
WHAT HE SEES OF THE SOUTH
ERIN PEOPLE.

WEST TENNESSEE---AN NORTHERN
i RADICALS EYES OPENED ---
WHAT HE SEES OF THE SOUTH
ERIN PEOPLE.
Certain home Radicals having been dill
igently engaged for some time past in
originating and circulating false reports as
to the action of our Legislature and Con
stitutional Convention and the public SEN
timent Of the State, for the sole pur-
pose of having the State placed under
military rule, we publish as partial
response thereto the following letter from
Northern Radical to the Cincinnati En-
Qatirer.'
MILAN TENN, Feb. /, 1870.-To a
Northern man prospecting in the South,
things wear quite different aspect from
what they do to him at home, relying,
as he must, upon the prejudiced and too
often one-sided, showing of 'the well
informed gentleman" who gets his infor-
nation from Mr.. Browns cousin who
heard it from Cuffee during the late war.
Reared in Ohio in the Shot bed" of Re
publicanism, the Western Reserve, and
being young during the late war, i ac-
| knowledge to having, at very recent
date, entertained feelings notat all COM
plimentary to the Southern man. The
preaching of the Northern press, the cant
| of the politician, had left their mark, and
| | felt that all Southern men were some
| thing less than we of the North. Phsri-
saical, l know it is, but nevertheless,
true. l was told that the South was re-
bellious that its people were the cause of
the reconstruction acts by not submitting
| to, but actually resisting, the execution
of the laws that they were lazy and igno-
rant, and that the great resources of the
country were not developed for want of
energy on the part of the people. l in
part believed these reports, and dubbed
| the Southern man, if not a nobody, at
least a little below US of the Pharisaical
North. The rigid climate not suiting me
at the North, started few months ago
on prospecting tour through the South,
determined, if possible, to find the place
| to suit me, and at last cry out Eureka, "
for have found it. Kentucky, East and
Middle Tennessee, West Virginia, North
Georgia, North Alabama, Mississippi, l
searched, pronouncing each one unsuited
to my tastes. Finally, getting on the
Memphis and Louisville Railroad, l
determined to search out West Ten
nessee, the great cotton growing region
| of the State. l visited Jackson, pretty
little city of some 1000 inhabitants, then
Brownsville, then Humboldt, all the
towns on the Mobile and Ohio, Memphis
and Louisville, and Nashville and North
western roads, but without finding place
to suit me better than the beautiful little
city in which now am. True, there are
a number of beautiful towns and cities
all along the lines of these roads, but To-
|. cation, health, water, combined with the
other advantages of the fast growing lit
tie city of Milan, better agrees with my
ideas than any others have seen. Stu
ated as it is on the Memphis and Louis
vile railroad, ninety miles from Memphis,
and two hundred and eighty south of
Louisville, in ahealthy country, an exceed
ingly quiet, religious and highly educated
and accomplished people, it presents ad-
vantages not usually found in one town
Milan is about three years old, has pop
ulation of 1900 and still increasing; has
a fine male and female college, three
churches, two hotels, about fifteen stores,
and is one mile square. 1t
has spirited weekly paper-the Times
edited by Frank Monroe; has two law
yers, five physicians, artisans, mechanics,
livery stables, ETC., and bids fair to be the
largest place, outside of Memphis, in West
Tennessee. l am fixture here, and say
to all Ohioans that the people here are in
telligent, honest, industrious, and extend
a hearty welcome to honest men from any
section. Cotton is king, and the land will
produce a bale to the acre if properly
cultivated. Lands are cheap here, con-
sidering their quality, and the great Won
der is that the people of the North do not
see the advantage to be gained by coming
South and investing their money in cheap
and valuable land. In Ohio, where the
winters are long and severe, it requires as
much to get horse through winter as it
does here to keep him through the year.
But one thing / advise any man to do that
aims to remove TO the South, and that is
not to come impressed with the belief that
Southern men are fools or knaves. | write
this for the benefit of Northern men.