Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-11-09

SATURDAY, NON. y, lSG
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Whatever the result Of the election
on Tuesday, t should not even modifj
the policy of tire South. It has, eve
since the war; been guilty of The gray,
error Of looking to change of The
administrative policy Of the Fedora
Government for relief from the wrongs
it Has so patiently endured. However
praiseworthy the effort to effect thi:
change, experience, as well as practi.
cal common scfise, teaches the folly OF
looking beyond our own materials and
wisely directed energies for that per-
mancnt relief which can be found, only
i'll such development of our natural
resources as will create wealth and
invite immigration. The North will
not aid us to do this, because our policy
Of supplying it with the raw material,
h.. from the manufacture Of which it de-
riyes most of its vast wealth. is the pre-
else condition which it desires VIC shall
maintain towards it, indefinitely. A
sectional administration will not aid
~, partly, for the same reason, and
partly because 1T is the embodiment
of sectional hate and corruption and
because its sectional policy is to keep
the South impoverished, dependent
and politically weak. And however
unnatural it may seem, it is neyerthe-
less true, that the South accepts the
situation as one Of the results of the
war and drags the ball and chain tied
around its neck, by Radicalsm, with
all the subservicncy of a whipped
spaniel. er
The remedy for all this cannot be
found in Federal politics, nor will it
ever be found, except in the opening
up of our mines of mineral wealth, In
the erection of machinery for work
ing up raw Observation-Disclosures it be
cotton, wool, iron, copper or the ex-
hlustless supply of valuable timber
now being shipped to our northern
taskmasters, and last though not least,
such a change in our system of agri-
riculture as will insure an ample sup
ply Of food for man and beast-look-
ing TO the surplus as the farmers am
pie income.
Every Factory erected in the South
will invite skilled labor aud cluster
aroundi it Industrious settlers; it will
multiply consumers and furnish a
home market for home products-the
very condition which the wisest politi-
cal economists have indicated as most
conducive to individual aud aggregate
happiness and prosperity. From such
At policy will follow subdvided farms
and economy of labor, by making one
acre yield as much, or more, as is OBJ
tanned from two under our present
slovcnly and exhaustive mode Of til
lagc. Emulation and interest will lead
10 the study of the characteristics of
various soils and the surest means for
their preservation and increase of their
fertility. The practical results from
this policy, if judiciously pursued, will
be saving Of at least half the labor
now wastelully employed, and making
ample room for population three OF
four times rs great a. at present, ant
it is upon such increase of population
that we must rely for exemption from
northern oppression, and for that civil
service Reform by which the govern
meat can be made honest and restrict
cd within the limits prescribed by tn,
Constitution.
The election of no Liberal Rcpub
lican or old line Democrat to III
Presidency, can bring about thi
change in the southern policy, AM
" thout this change, we can obtain n
relief from the Federal government
because the North is the dominan
power through its population, and il
common interest in making the Sout
sibscryicnt to its commercial wealth
With this change of policy we can be
come independent of the North an
force il to do us justice, by making
dependent upon us for the souther
staples we raise and upon which
relies for so much of its commcrcii
prosperity, and change still further il
naughty aud yindictiyc bearing towar
u by coasing to furnish il mark,
for its various manufactures 1t
strange that it is still necessary to al
glc in defense of proposition so sci
evident, and we can account for tll
chaotic blindness of the South TO i
vast Importance upon the sole groun
that it' prolonged habit Of volunto,
scyitudc TO tho North, has remove
every incentive to sclf-asScrtion an
deidoncd every moral and mental IA
ulty which Scll-rospect and the spir
oil manly independence can arouse
action, The ante bcilaR theory of Il
Democratic party, that the South W
thin, and must ever remain essential
agricultural and leave manulacuril
for the North, Is developing its err
in the present adherence of our poop
10 tho dangerous theory of that do
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