Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-07-01
MOnrOe-That "Neck of Woods"

EDITORS CHRONICLE: L am laDOrlng
under the influence of high state Of ex-
element. Hon. Mr.. Owen is just out in
three-fourths of column in the Sweet
water Enterprise, throwing, alternately,
big handfuls of light and darkness on the
great Monroe Legislative Chancery ques-
tion.@ Why, sirs, OUeo to Mr.. Owens
Estate paper" just issued-the advanced
proof sheets" of which appearing as a
FOretOdterE Enterprise correspondents
all of them-feel that they are thorough
ly scattered and most terribly demoralized.
In fact, i'm view of the light and darkness
as now shed upon it, the whole question,
together with its equity and geography, is
reduced to confounded condition. If
this correspondent could do so, he would
back square out and swear he had never
said or even thought anything on the sub
ject. But this he cannot well do; and SO
the next best thing is to take blackwell,
nearly all he has said on the subject, and
make new departure''-tha is, collate
the very little that is true which he has
heretofore written, with the large political
invoice contained i'm the late State paper
and thereby bless the e tire country with
a new, highly improved'and most strictly
true edition. So here goes. AS it it now
appears, the whole question was one of
architecture and meteorOligy instead, as
was supposed, of simple geography and
common geology.
That is, the building up of Temple
with or without Hale was the question
which tore, distorted, demoralized, discom-
fitted, revolutioniZed, deterritOrialized, met
amorphased and finally oOzed that very
singular community. The Estate Paper''
don't say erdctt, what kind of a Temple it
was which the "Monroesn (the tribe in
habiting that section) contributed so large
ly i'm building up, but after it was up, then
came the tug, the thud, the 6unap-in short
the great catittunpian explosion which
rent, riv, shivered, splintered, and as the
Irshman would say snaithereened the most
aboriginal of all aborginees. And it was
simply question of hdlc-or rather, of
hale or no hail. And here, again, / regret
to say, the "State Paper" is silent as 10
what kind of hail the natives wanted. it
is very pointedly intimated by the "Paperp
that it was not hale, sound, hcdlthy; but
whether it was hail, frozen drops of rain,
"HaIe to the Chief'', "HdJe Colu m bia' or
"AU Hale' is not stated, therefore this cor
respondent "weapeth." But looking over
the ground carefully, and walking around,
by and through it with measuring rod
and a water-witche's stick, this correspon-
dent is led to believe that it was purely
meteorological question growing, possibly,
out of misrepresentation as to the "storm
Signal reports III otileI "oIuo, tie
'.Monroes'' desired that the newly erected
Temple should be kept perpetually cool by
means of fixed supply of hate. 't
Failing in this, an opposite and most
extreme ertrcme was resorted to, to wit:
O,ucn to the failure of the hail scheme,
and as it were, upon the very "6aUge of
events.n "key' was constructed, or re-
constructed by the rusty-irOn spetter asso-
citation at Nashville, by means of which
the Temple aforesaid could be so unlocked
as to allow the very hottest south aoinds to
blow through, aOtere it had been, all the
time. Such seemeth to be full and fair
statement of the facts carefully collated
from what this correspondent already
"knew about political farming in that neck
of woOds,n revised and corrected by the
later lights and shdd0,Cs streaming on the
subject, OUen to the issuance of the late
Estate paper"
AS kind of foot note make the follow.
ing extracts from the 'State papes:n "N y,
only recourse was to abolish the court aC
MadisonvilIe and detach the county from
the Second, and attach it to the Third
Chancery Division. 1 am proud to know
that carried out my plans. ~ After
some debate the Legislature took us on
probation and we, now, have some assur-
ance that we will be received into full .fet-
yo,Uship "this fall.n But, now, suppose the
Legislature, "this fall" shoul refuse to do
SO on account of race, or color, or coldness,
or holiness, or because of some other like
geological or meteorological or storm-sig-
nal consideration! What, then? is the
tribe of Monfoes to become reprobates
Are they to be lost-forever lost?
| Oh! how dreadful the thought! An en-
tire section of human beings-well dis
posed, and i'm many leading respects, on
an average, good looking, by a mere at
tainment of full fellowship to sink down.
as political reprobates out of the sight OF
equitable civilization If such a thing
should happen, will the event not swallow
up wholly the meteorological question, and
thoroughly revive the geological and geo.
grdphicdte That is, will not experienced
and fearless miners have to be employed to
sink great moral and equitable shaft deep
down in that ''neek of woodsp and drift
outwards, and furrow around generally to
find the ancient and honorable Monroes ?