Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-02-09
About those Conclusions.
For the Fayetteville Observer.

ADOuI CQOSo CONCLUSIONS.
For the Fayetteville Observer.
Nh. EDITOR LIN Last weeks
issue of the OBSERVER, a writer,
styling himself Sojourner, gives us
the benefit Of bis conclusions
founded upon certain supposed
state of facts and circumstances.
A stranger would, upon a casual
reading, very naturally understand
his remarks to be general in their
nature, and not aimed specially
at any particular place or commu-
nifty. But to one who is acquaint-
ed with the facts and circumstan-
ces thus seemingly supposed, and
who can discover between them
and the apparent condition of a.
particular town and, community O
peculiar identity, his article loses
its general and theoretical char
acter and application, and becomes
Enthusiastically special and point
ed thrust.) For, when the COM
ments of Sojourner are closely ex-
amined in respect of their differ
ent subjects, and their peculiar re-
levancy to our wants, place and
people, no citizen who is CONVEX
SAINT with our own history and con
dition, can fail to see that their
whole force is specially directed
and aimed at the people of Fayette.
vile and Lincoln county. .slug edt
Whether the motive of the wri-
ter, in thus giving sort of historic
cal account of our people under a
hypothetical form, was good or
otherwise, is a question beyond
our present purpose. Whether he
intended or hoped to infuse spir-
it Of public enterprise, and to en-.
courage us to laudable efforts for
improvement and progress, by ar
raging some of cur manifest natu-
raj advantages, or whether he de-
signed to throw shame and con-
tempt upon US, by publishing to
the country inferentially that we
are incapable of realizing these
advantages, or are too CARELESS and
Iethargic to turn item to proper
account, is matter about which we
will not now stop to inquire; for
/ whether he aimed at the one or
the other object, the result is all
the same. $40 5aat
But Curimmediate purpose now,
without attempting to contradict
the correctness of his conclusions,
sonly to give some additional facts
which may, or may not, have es-
capped the observation Of Sojourner,
but which are highly important
in fixing our estimation and atti.
tude before the general public.
For, however reprehensible may
be the past conduct of our popu-
lation either in the misapplication
of their means, or in neglecting to
appropriate their natural advan.
tages to the promotion of their
own good, the present disposition
of the people to look to their bet
ter interests, in some respects at
least, is evident. emqa
If Sojourner, during his stay in
our midst, visited only a par
ticular one of our town churches
to which the white population re-
sort, and supposed honestly but
rashly that the other two were on
a level with it, then indeed he
might possibly conjecture that we
are not over Jealous about the
worship of God, and the dissent.
nation of Bible truth. For, we
aGmit that one of them does not.
in all respects, present that ap-
pearanee of convenient and COM
fort which ought to characterize
houses of public worship But
even this one, though wretchedly
abused by military dissertation,
has been reclaimed by the expen-
Iditure of several hundred dollars
In repairs since the war. The
other two now stand as living
witnesses to the liberality of the
citizens by whose contributions
they have been almost entirely
renovated, re6tted and furnished,
and as monuments to the devotion
al spirit of the people who are
and have been, accustomed there
to assemble for worship. Indeed,
in this connection, we have one
remarkable thing to say, and that
! is, that the united capacity of our
town churches is sufficient per-
haps to seat the entire population.
So, on the score of provisions for
divine worship, the evidences of
merit in this respect are altogether
favorable.
Again he reader is referred to
the means of INSTRUMENTATION
between different neighborhoods
and their county town as an EVIL