Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-06-29

EDIToRs CHRoNIcLE:-It appears
to Inc that the people of Tennessee are
greatly blessed in some matters. Ii
appears from the calls that have been
made through the press upon the
various distinguished men tof whom
there appears to be an egregious crop
in Tennessee az this time, TO become
candidates for the various offices-that
these Offices are held by the State
merely to be given as rewards for past
services. II seems to be thought by
these callers" that the offices, pro-
vided by the Constitution of Tennessee
and of the United States, are to be
given as rewards merely, and do not
demand any particular work or atten-
tion, or fitness on the part of the re-
cipicnts of these bounties
However generally these opinions
may be entertained, We think they are
erroneous-and if persisted in will
certainly ruin the State Men must
be selected who are adapted to the
work that is to be done, who arc alive,
active and energetic.
1t would indeed be glorious if our
old State was provided with sufficient
number of fat Offices to pension off the
entire list of distinguished men and let
them live in pleasure and suck the
blood of the people.
This would be very fine if the people
could afford it. There is the rub.
Tennessee is in the condition of the
lean boarder who demonstrated with
his landlady for allowing the bugs in
the bed He said he didn't mind the
bugs, but he really did not have the
blood to spare.
So Tennessee is not able to pension
any person. She must have qwid
pro quo for everything she pays. Every
servant she sends out must render
faithful and efficient service. She can
not spare anything at all.
Then the question should not be,
what was this man ten or twenty years
ago, but what is he at this time
What service can he render to the
State? Is he the most efficient, work
ing, intelligent and useful man thatwc
have for this or that Office?
Has he been presented as the expo
nent and slave of q ring of political
hucksters? If so he is not the man
for the people; he will not serve them,
for no man can serve two masters-he
will still be the slave of the ring.
But can we not, in looking over the
political surface of Tennessee, find
without difficulty man who is known
to all the people of the State, whose
character is well known and who is
readily distinguished from all the men
in the State, not as the most able man,
but as useful, energetic, active earn
est man, of first rate talents?
There are just two subjects now be-
fore the people of Tennessee of such
extraordinary public interest and i'm
portance that they cannot be over
looked. Tennessee has vast body OF
productive soil and much that is un-
productive and is now lying waste
How to build up the waste places and
make them productive, and how to
reap double harvest from the fertile
fields, have been and are now matters
of the greatest concern to the people
of Tennessee. She is an agricultural
State-in this way her resources are
vast and almost undeveloped, for there
is no science that requires greater
amount of mind, courage, endurance
perseverance and enterprise than the
science of agriculture.
Hon. j. b. Killebrew, of Montgom.
cry county, being man of most
thorough literary and scientific educa-
ton and also practical farmer ofgreat
Experience and success, seeing the
great need of the State in this respect
has devoted years of his valuable time
TO the task of arousing the people and
directing their minds to the investira-
ton of practical questions and the dis
semination of valuable ideas. The
work he has already done, will vastly
increase the wealth and happiness Of
the people of the State.
He next turned his attention TO the
system of education in Tennessee. He
was fully aware of the intimate con.
nection between efficient labor and
education. How can man who is a
dolt be successful farmer? And aside
from this he had drunk deep at the
Pyr3an spring and wishes all to sharC
the blessings of mental culture. You
correspondent need not tell You how
faithfully he has labored in behalf o.
these great public intcrcsts-'o- vhc {
his voice has not been heard his fluen
and powerful pen has awakenc am in
; tercst in these subjects not onl, in tn,
cultivated and fertile plains but ais,
on the sterile hills anu IN the silcn
gorges of the mountains. Here thei
is live, energetic, valuable man, VIII,
is master of the situation, and who i
known to the people of the State anc
who will better represent the State o
Tennessee N the Congress of tn
/; United States than any one man within
, its borders.
This representative position whicl
/ he now occupies has not been thrus
upon him by the manipuIations o
wire pullers lut he has taken il by In
general assent. lie represents in hi
I work the people of the State at large
and 1t is the interest of every man il
. the State To send him to Washington
=, We hope the people will see that thei
:, interest in this matter is attended to
We put up for the State at large "Th,
+ Hon. j. Is. killebrcw-thc Farmer O
y Montgomery. CITIZEN.
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/; Death OF nm Old Citizen.
: John Richardson, formerly rcsidin,