Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-12-02
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WHAT A STRANGER THINKS Oh
"a CLARKsvII.LE. a li,s

u OAo No'isSS nAts A|0ASOts 40 Ocs soiuty
q very delightful place--so pictur.
esque as she sits upon her seven hill.
the Empress OF the Cumberland
80 attractive IN her artistic irregular
tiles, and SO quantity pretty a. tbt
light CLOVIS upon her hill-tops and
the shadows play along her valleys
1t does q resident Of q more northern
latitute good, now and then, to visit
her genial cline; 1t brings back t.
the heart the good old feeling of Other
and better days to clasp hands with
her hospitable citizens, and partaks
Of their unstinted bounty.
2 There is no good reason why Clarks.
vile should not he as famous for hel
enterprise, as she already is for the
intelligence of her men and the beau.
ty Of her women. There is no reason
why she should not lie as widely
known for her mechanical industry
as she now is, as tobacco mart
Her superiority In many respects oveI
other places of her size In the South
is decided and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
beautiful river upon whose banks
she is situated, is navigable above
and below, and affords water power
sufficient for any character Of manu-.
features imaginable. She has direct
communication by railroads North
and South, and indirect communities
ton East and West. Her fame as 9
tobacco market is not only co-exten'
sive with this country, but she Is vel
known "beyond the waters' to the
capitalists and cities Of the Old Worlt
Ian honor Of which her States cap
itol can scarcely boast; she has m
inexhaustible wealth of rich iron
mines lying at her very door, which
will pour into her lap a golden stream
when touched by the magic wand o
enterprising capital, as did the rock
of old gush forth its waters when
smitten by the Prophets rod; she
has vast coal fields near enough t.
keep a hundred factories necessarily
humming the song of prosperity and
wealth. She has institutions Of learn.
ing--msle and female, of such ex-
ceuence as to make her great intel
lectual and literary centre-institu'
tons of which not only she, but the
entire State may well be proud T; SHE
has soil around her from whose rich
depths the hand of industry eau
gather In abundance all the fruits
which her CLINE can yield she has
q society, polite, elegant and refined
she In common with her State, has
been emancipated from the CALLING
bondage Of Radical rule and tyran'
ny, and is now free to work out heI
own bright destiny, or carve her own
tombstone; and above all she has
capital and brains. What else Il
needed TO make her merit the title o
the Empress Of the Cumberland ?'
What else is necessary to equip heI
fully for the battle of life and death
which she Is now wagins? Nothing,
except that the hand Of enterprise
shall grasp the helm. tN gf
The revolution OF 1875 has chang
ed the financial, AS well rs the polit.
zeal destiny of the South, to forget
the bitterness OF this change and EN-
brace its advantages Is to take the
tide at It's flood, which will 'lead on
to fortune" She has fought the bat
tie for political Independence on many
u bloody field and lost she Is now
waging the contest for domestic and
financial Independence, and this bat
tie she must win, and will win
when Southern enterprise nanufac