Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-11-13
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
How Grants Reelection Will
Aid the south
No. LXNNIV.

For some weeks the CHRONICLE has en-
deavored to impress upon the people of
Tennessee, the fact that in no way could
they more surely promote their material
interests than by casting their votes for
the reelection of General Grant who has
always been, in fact, a true friend of the
South. We have endeavored to show the
voters of the State that as business prop
osition it was clearly to their interest to
put themselves in that political position
where their sympathes and motives could
not misjudged The fact is that the mass
es of the people North believe East Ten
nessee a safer and more congenial home
for them than other sections of the
South, because its people were loyal
during the war and have been
republican in sentiment since. 1t is
not the time now to discuss the justic of
this prevailing opinion. 1t is enough to
know that it exists. With this knowledge
common sense suggests that we use it to
our advantage and place all of Tennessee
on the vantage ground occupied by East
Tennessee. The CHRONICLE does not
wonder that such q belief obtains abroad,
for we know that where Republican prin-
ciples predominant there free schools, in
dustrial establishments, good public roads
and general prosperity exist
The result of the election in Tennessee
has been all that the most sanguine Re-
publican predicted. We have elected three
fourths of our Congressional delegation !;
have chosen, together with Union Con-
.servatives elect, a majority of the Legisla-
ture, and have lost our Governor by a
small adverse majority. This change in
the political situation is wonderful. 1t
indicates thorough revolution in public
sentiment.
THE RESULT FAVORABLE TO INNuGRA-
- TIoN.
/. augurs favorable to immigration be-
cause it will be accepted abroad as more
truly meaning reconciliation than the
farcical "clasping hands over the bloody
chasm'' proffered by the military ringn
of our State. The revolution in popular
sentiment means n rebuke to the policy of
the dominant party that has failed to give
every county in the State free schools, and
to encourage immigration from abroad and
industry at home. We have now q school
law that leaves it optional with the Coun-
ty Courts to have schools or not. We
need law that shall give us a State sys-
tenn that will open the school house door
everywhere, and this we hope now to have.
The result of Tuesdays election means
again, that the spirit that Ostracises immi-
grants on account of their birth is anti
American and destructive of the peoples
interests. 1t means a national spirit that
shall take every American or foreigner by
the hand and say, 'you have as many
rights here as we have; come, we welcome
you to our State to help us build it up ~ as
against aSectjOndLor State spirit, that claims
exclusive privileges to Tennesseeans be-
cause of the accident of BIRTH We shall
not hereafter find it so popular to make
war on men because of their nationality,
rs it has been i'll some sections of the
South,
THE TINE TO COME SOUTH.
We say to our friends North, nOac is the
time to come South. The recent elections
have brought about wonderful changes in
public sentiment. The results seem to be
accepted everywhere in the best of humor
and with unusual good grace. We never
before saw such a universal desire for inn
migration and for n general fraterniZation
of the people of the TWO sections. AT no
time since the war has the feeling towards
Northern men and foreigners been kind
ler than now. Come, then, we say TO our
Northern friends, and see for yourselves
that this sentiment truly exists. Come in
this beautiful November month when our
forests bear their autumnal colors when
our genial Indian summer breeZes will
bring health and Vigor TO your systems
come when our land shows just what itisand
what it can be made; come when you can
see how mild and favorable our winter
climate will be, and when you will find
our people ready to extend cordially the
hand of welcome. We, one and all, now
feel the need of more busy hands to rescue
us from the troubles that besetus. We all
feel the need of more capital and more
snen to work our mines, mills and idle
lands, and now immigrants will find lands
cheaper than usual and greeting triendlieT
than ever.
Do not 90 West where the terrible
severe winters will imperil your health
and where you consume, in the dreary
months of the cold weather. all you have
earned in your harvests. Come South
where nature favors your agricultural and
industrial efforts; where winters are never
severe or of long duration. Come where
you can work out of doors, in your fields,
every month in the year, and where you
will find good markets for all your pro-
duce.
Come to East Tennessee and see foI
yourselves that what the CHRONICLE now
tells and has told you for two years. lis true.
Come and do yourselves good and help
Tennessee.
Miss Nellie Grant.
Mrs Grundy,n ofthe New York WOrld