The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-04-21
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correspondence Of the Marietta Journal
CoFrEEvILLE, UpsHUR Co., Texas,
April 9Th, 1871 }
Editor Marietta journal:
DEAR SIR:-To think of your pa
per is to think of home. | am now
from many dear enjoyments
and among them, miss the pleasant
hours | used to spend, sitting around
the "Old Parental Hearth-stone,"
reading your ever welcome JOURNAL.
1t was always pleasure to me to
gather around the fire, with Father,
Mother, Brothers and Sisters, and be
warned, advised, instructed and in
tercstedIby perusal of your columns.
/ hope that every family desiring to
make home pleasant in the "Old
Empire State" will avail themselves
Of your publications.
have been travelling over the
"West," the last twelve months and
have let no opportunity pass unno-
ticed to gain information concerning
labor, and now have my convic-
tions Just as they have been I'M
pressed upon me from time to time,
This country stands in great need
of more farmers men who want to
make their bread between the pillow
handles men who are not afraid to
soil their hands at honest labor men
who are not hunting some easy way
to make money men who will go
forth to Stay the forrest with the axe !;
men who want to build up a home
and then live at it; men who take
an interest in the field, in the Gov
eminent, and in the Church in a
word, men who know their places
and fill them.
We arc supplied with all sorts of
'quacks, carpet baggers and thieves.
Almost every trade and profession is
represented in Texas by full choir.
There is Mechanics, Lawyers and
Doctors, plenty idlers, loafers and
vagabonds, plenty ; money-lovers,
ofice-seekers, and Psalm singing
hypocrites, plenty; spectators, hum
bugs and extortioners, plenty
| What we now want, is what every
State wants-what every community
wants-yes, what everybody wants,
is honest laborers. Men who do not
indulge in the He'll born drug, whisky
men who will not hunt deer, Sun
day-men who build up the Church,
the Sunday School and the Temper
anco Society. Where can we get
such young men-where is the one
who will not finch from dnty. The
one who serves God under all circum-
stances; the one who loves his neigh
Dor; the one who deals outjust weight
and measure to all men alike; who is
not allured by the fiowery ways of sin.
All such young men are needed in
Texas-they will meet with congrat-
ulations on every hand.
We also want old men, men of en-
terprise, whose minds reach beyond
their yard fence-who will help to
build School houses, Churches, and
help to build up society. Old men
who are not afraid to get upon their
knees and pray to Almighty God in
Churches men who will encourage
young men to do right, and are not
afraid to approach and advise them.
We want men here who will carry
on Prayer Meetings through the
week men who recollect their reli-
gion through the week as we'll as
when assembled on Sunday. | am
a young man and | can see now
what a young man wants. One
word of advice, instruction or warn
ing, spoken to young man by a
neighbour, brother in the church, or
even a stranger, may save a soul
it may cause reprobate to become
a good citizen-a useful member of
society-a lifetime friend of the one
who cares for him. There is too
little attention paid to young men by
the old men of their acquaintance
Young men should be exhorted,
warned and instructed by their faith
ers, their friends, and their neigh
bors. Give them a chance and
think the complaint will be less of
their proneness to vanity and fashion.
This is good section of Country,
the land is rich and cheap. Stock
is cheap-provisions are cheap, and
in fact, most all of the necessaries of
life are easier here than in Georgia.
A little labor here pays fourfold.-I
The negroes have held counsel in
many sections of this State and adop-
ted resolutions to work at no less
than one dollar and fifty cents per
day. Split rails for no less than two
dollars per hundred, &C.; but the
citizens do not agree with them, so
they have been obliged to decrease
their price somewhat.
Labor is very high here, good farm
hands get 81 so cents per day-but
the Texas farmer can afford to give
81 so cents per day for hands as well