Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-02-01
GOVERNOR sENTER,s VETO.

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our special dispatch from Nashville,
printed in another column, shows that
Gov. Eenter has done his full duty, and
vetoed the bill to remove the Agricultural
College fund from the East Tennessee
University. His objections are well taken
!, and tenable, in the opinion of some of the
s s5lest lawyers of Middle and West as well
as of East Tennessee. The trustees have
complied with every part of the law Civ
ing them the fund, and it cannot nowvbe
taken from them without violation of
public faith. The objection urged by Gov.
Senter that the removal of the fund would
endanger its forfeiture under the law of
Congress, is a strong one, and must have
great weight with every fair-minded leg
islator We think Gov. Senter has done a
good work in vetoing this bill. 1t was
passed by appeals to an illiberal sectional
spirit, and deserved the rebuke the Gov
ernor has given it. We say this, not be-
cause it affects East Tennessee particular
ly,but because its precedent on the statute
books would be pernicious and danger
sous.
The bill, to become a law, must pass over
the veto by majority of all the mem
bers elected to the House y having it under
consideration. (Sec. Is, Art. III, New
Constitution. The House has eighty
three members, and the Senate twenty
five. It will require forty-two votes in the
House and thirteen in the Senate to pass
the bill over the veto. Fifty-six votes con-
stitute quorum in the former, and seven
teen in the latter. Our dispatch, which
comes from source very reliable, says the
bill will probably fail for want of the re-
quired vote. 81 Fsss-s s
In thus guarding the interests of East
Tennessee and preserving the faith of the
State, Gov. Senter Is entitled to, and win
have, the thanks of every honest citizen.
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"A LARGE number of persons at the South
are so intensely Southern in their feelings,
that they have no love for anything that is
not Southern OF this class are those
who1are striving so hard to get up a
Southern T" literature. They want South
ern weeklies, monthlies and quarterlies, as
we'll as Southern textbooks to be used in
Southern schools for Southern children.
Now we have not alluded to this subject
for the purpose of saying that the Southern
people are incapable of making such things
succeed, for we believe we have men of ca
pacity at the South as well as in any other
locality. But what we do object to, is the
weak and foolish motives by which too
many Southern authors are governed.
They seem to have no higher aim than to
crafty the peculiar prejudices of a certain
class of people. This is the primary OBJ
ject, while the literary merit of the work
is a secondary matter. If a story is pub
lished it must be a recital Of something re-
1ecting on Yankees and landing Con-
federates. If Southern poet courts the
muse, it Is for the purpose of perpetuating
memories of the !" lost cause" and so on
When these foolish notions get out of the
heads of would-be authors of the South,
they may expect to meet with success.
They will then merit it. While they at
tempt to keep up prejudices peculiar to the
Southern people, they are travelling in the
wrong direction for literary success.
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