Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-18
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
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| ! K[,szeaE A sci NO, XVII - .,isS.sg A :,
We begin our sixteenth article by giving
the statement or corresponden1 whose
communication, because Of frahkness and
practical suggestions, is of peculiar inter-
est and value. It reaches Just the class we
are anxious to see come to East Tennessee
the class who want to take our lands and
work them, thereby adding TO our pfoduc-
tive wealth, and to the intelligence, worth
and numbers Eof the solid peopieEof our
country. We need more population, not
only men5who will bring money and EN-
barksih trade aud misunderstanding, but more
particularly men who will bring labor,
and direct it where we most need it-in
improving and making of value our waste
lands ana half worked farms. WesAaFe
too much land worked indifferertiy IF
we will cut up our large farms and sell and
rent them 70 good men we viii sbe Better
of. To the class who want to rent or buy
farms the following is OF interest:
EAST ,TENNEssEE BY - r CONNECTICUT,
a - Is 0V KANKEE u q 81 80 !
1 know of my own observation, that
there are in the manufacturing villages of
my native State, hundreds of men who
were bred on farms, and who look, with
longing hearts, to the green fields, and.
pine for the open air and healthy exercise
Of farm life.
But a farm life to them, where lands are
dear, is impossible except as hired laborers.
From this they shrink, and still work on
i'm the deadly gasses of Rubber shops, and
the poisonous dust Of brass working es-
adjustments.
Could these men be convinced of the adj
vantages offered in this country, there lis
no doubt that many would come. There
fore will contribute my mite i'm the effort
now making to spread wide the desired in
formation. q ftN
Firstly, then, there is no danger from ku-
klux or any other khan. In proof of this,
let me give "a bit of personal history. In
November, '6S, SO soon as the wires flashed
the joyful news that the people had decreed
that there should be peace" started for
Tennessee. Landing in Loudon ON FRI
day morning, / was, on Monday, hired TO
teach five months school three miles
from Loudon, by two directors, one of
whom was Union man and a refugee ,du-
dier, taken prisoner at Vicksburg. Mel
ther asked me for my political opinions,
though both pronounced me a''yankee" at
sight.
Until this present writing have re-
mafried IN Tennessee. i have had daily j
intercourse with those who fought, yes and
bled too, for the Confederacy, and do not
remember an uncivil word or an unkind
act having been said or done to me by
them. But I do rember many aets OF
neighborly kindness received alike from
Union men and rebels.
Secondly Let no one who is willing
to work fear to come because he has but
small capital. Lands of every kind wish
ed for can be rented. You may pay stand
ing rent, that lis, 30 nluchs money for so
rent for one-third, river bottom land in
good locations for one-half. Read the fol-
lowing figures, and judge for yourselves
whether the few hundred dollars you have
accumulated in the mephitic air of the
factory will give you a start in life and an
independence you do not now feel.