Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-02-13
how OUR FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE
ARE APPRECIATED.

we are EXTREMITY modeSJ, (do dll NEWS
per men are) and therefore, feel called
upon to apologize for publishing the fol-
lowing testimonial. We have never made
public but very few of the letters of en-
couragement we receive, but the following
is too good in more sense than one to file
away un-neticed. This thing of inviting
and working for immigration is a "hobby'
we are trying to ride in connection with
several other enterprising citizens of
Knoxville, and we believe our efforts are
appreciated. We get our pay in the con
stantly increasing list of our subscribers,
in the good will of our people and in the
satisfaction of knowing that we are doing
East Tennessee great deal of good-gOOd
that will be appreciated more few years
hence than now. The italics are our cor
respondents:
METROPOLIS, MASSAC, Co., Ill.
February, D, ISL
MEssRs. RULE & KICKS: Enclosed find
90 cents, for which please continue the
WEEKLY CHRONICLE from Jan. 1st, if you
have the back numbers, AS we are plan"
ming a small colony for some country, and
are comparing the claim of East Tennes-
see with some other regions, we wish to
obtain some more light on the subject
through your paper. We have read and
studied your interesting letters on East
Tennessee with much interest and profit.
Your citizens owe you heavy debt OF
gratitude, if nothing more, for your noble
efforts in diffusing so much interesting in
telligence concerning your region. But |
hope they give you aid more substantial
than mere gratitude-that they do not
leave the whole financial burden on yOWr
shoulders. Those advertisements in the
New York Tribune and elsewhere, which
first attracted our attention to your region,
and then the collection and publishing of
such a mass of miscellaneous facts, finan-
cial, social, climatic, historic, &c., must
cost much time, talent and money. Such
efficient and perseVering efforts as yours,
in behalf of your country, would be gen.
erously and promptly sustained by any in
telligent and honorable people, did they
EROU, could they only realize or appreciate
as ue outsiders do, how great a work you
are doing for East Tennessee. How your
advertisement in Eastern and Northern
papers draws the attention of the expect
ant emigrant(and these are tens of thOus-
ands) first to your paper, and then how
your paper transfers their attention to, and
fixes it on your country, and there holds
it as if by some magic spell, as it is carried
from valley to valley, each more beautiful
and attractive than the other; then ffGm
mountain to mountain and mine to mine ;
where the hidden ore, the pure mountain
air and the heaven distilled beverage of
your sparkling springs are tantalizing
alike to the vOtary of wealth and to the as
pirant after richer joys of health and rural
happiness. Yes, how truly tantalizing
your vivid pictures of invigOrative noun
tain air and pure gushing springs to our
pale blOodless cheeks and feeble nerveleSS
nerves-as we are doomed to inhale
from month to month and from year
to year our damps and fogs and
death dealing miasms, or as we shiver
and shake with ague and fever, as we
swallow down our wagon loads of quinine
and pills, of Balsams, cruel Bitters, and
may be wind up with " COngeStiORn
and this is generally the last of us at least
for this life!. Yes, and why tantalize us
so with such pictures of your sunny wales
and winter flowers and balmy clime-us,
shivering and freezing as perched on our
Northern lcebergS, or surrounded with and
buried in our (if not perpetual, at least
SEMI everlasting snow? Would you only
invoke some colony Of swamp-reared, ca
nal-bound and ague-proof HOllanders or
some oil-fed iceberger from Lapland to buy
us out, how soon would we hasten to rcdt-
ize what you now so tantalize us with!
Well, now, Messrs. Editors, we are
frightened-we have "spoke right out in
meetin' I've have certainly done what
we did not dream of, when we sat down
to write three lines for 30 cents worth Of
your paper-but we were forced to record
our appreciation of your paper, in one SEN
teRcc as we began but that led to another,
and so on till you have got bore"
Please eXcuse-IUe did not mean 1T.
Yours, w. J. MURPHY.