The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-06
TIE ENTERPRISE.
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The Truth About Tennessee.

The Wing and Register says; Every
week. We get information from almost
every county in the State, through the
various county newspapers, by which
we are enabled toform q very fair opin-
ion Of what the people of GeRpessee-a are
thinking about aud what they are doing
For many years We have been reading
these papers, and we can not call to
mind any period when there was a
healthier tone ofpubhc sentiment when
there was less discomfort, less excite
ment, less politics. The country papers,
themselves, give happy evidence Of this
change for tho better. Scarcely any Of
them are b6thering themselves or wor-
rying their readers with political affairs,
either State or National. Almost with
out exception, they are discussing local
affairs, suggesting new improvements, on
encouraging the prosecution Of those
already begun. AS q consequence, the
papers are much improved, and we know
must be more highly appreciated at
home, where certainly they arc more
useful than in the olden time, when they
were nothing if not partisan, and not
partisan if not personal and abusive.
Now, they look more after local affairs,
and are getting to be newspapers-in
fact, rs well us in name,
But this change in the character of
the country newspapers is only one OF
many like results flowing from q change
in the people. The people are no long
er occupied with politics, they no longer
care for parties as partisans. As q CON
sequence the press Of the country and
city alike has been compelled to change
its tone. AS an evidence of this, witness
the fact that The two leading dailies at
the capital have been called ON to open
special departments devoted to agricul-
ture and the mechanic arts, and to, em-
ploy men of acknowledged ability and
standing to conduct them. In the old
days of party despotism, neither the
Banner, nor Union nd American, Could
have been induced to devote q column
of their dailies to agriculture, simply be-
cause they were too busy with. party af-
fairs. The people were divided intopar
ties and wanted nothing but political
reading and they got it. Now they
want something else, and they get it.
We are but relating facts patent to every
reader, yet, facts that are worth more in
determining the true spirit that actu-
ates the people of Tennessee, than allthe
speeches and resolutions Of mass meet
ings or conventions could possibly be.
These facts show that the people Of Ten
nessee have accepted the situation in
whichth are placed with philosophical
patience, and have gone to work to build
mp their broken fortunes and win anew
something of the prosperity which, in
times past, they enjoyed. In this spirit
the entire people are at work and there
are, we venture to assert, fewer breaches
Of law and order committed in Tennes-
SEQ, to-day, han in any other State in
the Union. And where these breaches
do occur, a candid examination of the,
causes will discover them to be either
whisky or personal luminosity, and in no
case to be politics. The TACT is, the peo-
pie Of Tennessee are not thinking about
politics or parties they are thinking
about corn and oats and hay and grass.
potatoes, beef and pork. IL 5.h al, s71
These are the simple facts about Ten
nesssc land what is true Q t Tennessee,
is tue Of u greater part of the entire.
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