Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-22

filed with an attentive audience the majority
of whom were farmers from various portions of
East Tennessee, whose presence on this occa-
sion attested the importance attached TO this the
the first assemblage of farmers in this section.
The meeting was called TO order by Hon. o.
p. Temple, President Of the East Tennessee
Agricultural Society, who delivered following
ADDRESS OF wELcoME.
Gentlemen Of the Contention
To bid you hearty, cordial welcome is a
most pleasing duty.
The assembling Mt this place of no body of
men, within my recollection, has been the
cause of more just qualification than should this
be. have seen conventions of all other call
ngs and classes. For the first time in our his
tory have the iarmers-the most numerous, the
most important of all our classos-assembed in
convention as n body TO deliberate on their own
great interests. This fact IS astonishing. Let
us indulge the pleasing hope, lot us resotrc, in
deed, that this meeting shall not be the Inst;
but merely the beginning of n long series of an
nual, or semi-annual meetings, full of interest
and instruction, continuing indefinitely through
the future. Let the Farmers Convention be
the Mecca TO which you will, annually, with,
unfalterng determination make your pilgrim
age, and offer your devotions
1t is within the power of this convention, by
high resolves and generous and enlightened ac-
ton, to mark the beginning of n new era in ag
riculture; TO Ut tho farming profession to
higher plane ofusefulncss and influence; to COM
mand for itself more of that respect and honor
which has heretofore been bestowed on other
professions and to arrest the tide of poverty
and ideness which is now the curse as well as
the disgrace of our section. These things can
only be done by taking new departure in
farming. There is the 'Libcral movement"
| As long NJ the farmer looks to Cincinnati or
! Philadelphia or Baltimore, or TO any
political party or convention, instead of
| looking to Improvement of his own fields
| UOpks
ton of himself and his children, so
| long may we expect worn and exhausted fields,
| short crops, scarcity of money, miserable scrub
| stock hard times, no schools, dilapitated houses,
badly dressed people, general decline in the
| value of lands, houses and property, and an
almost universal rcstlcssness, and desire to sell
out and get away.
No, instead of calling on Hercules for help,
or looking TO government or party for relief,
the first great law, applicable to farmers above
all others, is. Help yourselves. Elevate your
own calling Educate yourselves. Help one on
operate stimulate and emulate one another.
Feel just pride in elevating and improving
your own class Encourage schools and coll
lcges, Educate your sons and daughters Send
them away from homo occasionally, Fix up
at home. Make home attractive, neat and hap
by. Fill it with books, papers and magazines
and so you shall keep your sons from the liquor
shop, or the haunts of the wicked. Subscribe
at once and before you leave here, for mt ieat
one farm magazine or paper. Purchase books
on farming Purchase Jersey COW for your
wife, for butter and cream, and Short Horn
for yourself to raise beef. Get improved stock
of all kinds Save your manure-all of it-a'
if it were gold. Go away from home-travel--
do take one trip up into Illinois or Oho-and
when there go out into the country, among the
farmers observe their many cunning ways
and then come home and initiate all that's good
in them,
And let each one Of US resolve here, this day
that we will move forward, instead of standing
Al. 1n..s
subscribed for at least one farm journal; tha
we will organize permanently as a Farmers
Convention that we will at once purchase some
blooded stock in word, that we VIII awake
from our sleep, and do something to arrest tn,
waste, deterioration, depreciation and poverty
that threaten to overthrow us in East Tennessee
Once more bid you welcome.
TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION.
1.-THE conclusion Of Judge Temple address
on motion of Mr.. Charlton, Col +. ). Heiskel
was elected temporary Chairman, and Messrs
Jno. i. Helms and q. II. BoInar chosen Secre
tares
Mr.. Heiskell on taking the Chair returned
thanks for tho honor conferrcd-ho had come
as listener and not with any idea Of directing
, Mr.. Robert p. Rhea, of Sullivan county
moved that the exercises be opened with pray e
and that special petition be made for refreshing
showers. The motion prevailed and Rev. Thos
w. Humes offered q fervcnt petition to thu
Throne Of Grace beseeching tho blessing o.
heaven upon the deliberations of the conven
ton.
Samuel Rodgers moved that committee otter
on permanent organization be appointed. Th
chair thereupon appointed the following gentle
men on said committee Samuel Rodgers
q Mckinney, Jacob Doyle, Il j Lenoir, d.
Lenoir, s ID Williams, Il Link, Ayers Maupin
! Robert p Rhea, w AWelcker, The committe
retired forconsultation, and during their absenc
the following business was transacted
Mr. II II Hubbard of Messy Creek, suggested
: that list Of tho delegates from tho yariou
counties DO made out
: Prof Hunter Nicholson suggested that tn
chairmen of tho various county delegations re
port list, respectively 20 the Secretaries. Car
, ried. -t. tt ~
LIST OF DELEGATES.
Tho following delegates were reported pres
ent:
7 Saliran cognty-R p Rhea, r Spurgeol
l and s Il Anderson.
MeMnH c2XHty-Josep Mathews, Franz
i Geltys, DIR A Slack, A Turley, Horace Rec
and Schell.
q Carter Colmty-Chas P Toncray and
Smith. 80.
, Loudon eopHty--TJ Mason, s A Rogers, ia
johnson Jas Mathews, q T z Davis. r p Ia
ton, j NJ Heiskell. John Duf, w ID Hope, j
. Wilson, q w Cole, w A Lenoir, A ID Khes
4 VIM Cannon, DIR Duncan, w F Lenoir and '
! Sccier connty-John w Andes, Nelson go