Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-01-04
NEW YEAR sALUTATIoN.

Improvements which we have success
fully eonsummated, it may be proper to
present to our readers a prospective
view of the course which We mean to
pursue. The politics of the CHRONICLE,
and the maturely formed and consis-
tentiy adhered to opinions and senti-
ments of its political editor, are we'll
known and thoroughly understood.
Indeed, so generally has this depart
naent of our paper been appreciated,
that Its leading articles have very fire.
quently been copied by various news
papers Of high character, not only in
this State. but also in distant parts,
and even in the London Times. The
name of our political editor is a suf-
fcent guaranty Of the soundness Of
the CHRONICLES political faith And
1t will be in perfect accordance with
his views, that the measures, of which
we are about to speak, will be advoca-
ted. These, though not belonging TO
the domain Of partizan politics, that is,
not considered political in the usual
acceptation of that word, are neverthe-
less matters in which our readers have
an interest of vital importance.
GAINESVILLE is the natural CONNER
cial center of large extent Ofcountry
in this State and in Kentucky, rich in
agricultural resources and possessed of
the most admirable facilities for man
ufactures and trade. Whatever is ad-
vantageous to this city must also pro-
mote the welfare of this extensive, fer
tile and highly favored region. The
interests of the city and of the sur
rounding country are mutual and recip-
rocal. If more abundant crops are
raised in the country, the city, as a
mart for the increased products, has a
larger volume of trade If more nu-
merous and larger manufactures are
established in the city, there will be
better market for all kinds of country
produce. The bounds of our cireula-
ton, therefore, embrace a. section
whose material interests are undivided,
and all center in this city. And, in
considering these material interests.
reference must be had, not only to our
own particular section, but also to the
relations of this section to the State
at large, to the South and to the Union.
Let us notice the points which now
most prominently present themselves.
/. The very life of business activity
and enterprise in this section depends
upon the early establishment of man
ufaetories, to work up the pr0digiOus
supplies of raw materials, with which
nature has so literally supplied us
In GAINESVILLE especially the advant-
ages for hot blast furnaces naturally
strike the minds of the most thought
less observers with great force Tan
neries, factories for making agricultur-
al implements and many similar enter
prises must be advocated until they
are put into successful operation. We
cannot stand idle and Indifferent.
Retrogression will be ruin; progress
is our only safety.
,. The present miserable manage
ment of the affairs of the poor, of
county roads and bridges and of the
public schools must be reformed, so as
to put them more directly under the
control of those most concerned in
their judiciOus and economical admin
istration. Local self government in
the civil districts must be organized.
Instead of bringing district matters to
the county seat, and putting them I'M
der the centralized control of the
county court, we shall urge that they
be left to the good sense and practical
judgment of the people of each civil
district, or the officers elected by them.
Such a reform would relieve the peo-
pie from much of their heavy burden of
taxation, as well as put an end to
the farcical absurdities so often per-
petrated in our county courts. Farces
they are, indeed; but farces for which
a tax laden people pay entirely two
dearly.
, In common with the entire South
this section demands the solution of a
most difficult problem which, the
presence, in the same community, of
two widely different and inharmonious
races inevitably forces upon us. In
its political aspect the question
takes the shape of an amalgamation,
(for it can be called nothing else to
which Northern coercion aims to drive
us. To blend the two races. not only
politically, but socially as well, is now
the design OF certain politicians at the
North. As a political question this
infamous measure viii be properly dis
cussed. as heretofore, by the political
editor in his own department of this
paper. But this matter also concerns
the material interests of the country
generally, and will be discussed apart
from its political significance. The
philosophy of history and the powerful
logic OF facts and the experience fman-
Kind will be found of some value in
settling this question, as well as the
platforms aud dogmas of contending
parties. 1t viii be seen, perhaps, chat
Kindness to both races, and the saliva
ton aud happiness of each, demand
that they be peaceably separated; that
the voluntary emigration Of the ne
grocs and their settlement in African
colonies will present happy, peaceful
and profitable solution to this problem,
N L Aware that to treat any Of the
foregoing subjects as hobbies would re-
suit disastrously, they shall receive
only selnach attention as they deserve
Nor shall We neglect other important
featgfes of a good family newspaper
Of[one thing, at least, we trust we
shall De especially careful. The week