Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-29
TIE NEW STATE MOVEMENT.

We are pleased to see that the AppeA
and Avalanche have followed the LEDaEI
in opposition to the new State move
ment. The Register favors the scheme
and is now wrestling with the baphsmal
name of the infant, and advocates the
unmelodious one of Chickasaw. The
Appeal of the Dist rather favored the
proiect in a leader headed The New
State Movement.
If the Congress of the United States
will assent 10 the creation OF new
State. Of which Memphis will surely be
the commercial capital, we can promise
that as respectable body ofgentlemen,
morally and intellectually, will repre-
sent il In Washington as ever went up
from any Southern Commonwealth .
The scheme itself is a good one, and
only Objectionable because Congress,
for partisan reasons, will oppose it. As
an isolated question OF local interest
there are no two sides to the question.
We bave no such community OF interests
with other districts of Tennessee as are
unnaturally supposed to exist by laws
made at Nashville. Whatever promotes
the interests of East Tennessee, in a
majority of instances, is detrimental to
this portion of the State. We are sep
arated from East Tennessee by eternal
mountain barriers which railways have
never even attempted to overleap-
But yesterday Appeal had the true
Tennessee ring about it when 1t pro
posed the question, Shall we give up
old TENNESSEE" and answered its leader
of the Dist instant as follows;
But If all the people interested we're
willing that the dissection and political
and geographical synthesis should take
place. would il be wise to make the ex-
periment2. Can West Tennessee afford
10 lose the mineral weal.h-the coal and
iron of East TENNESSEE or East Ten
nessee give up her mutual interest in the
commercial and agricultural expansion
and fertility of the west2 There is
nothing 10 Southern Kentucky or IN
North Mississippi to compensate West
Tennessee for the loss Of the mineral re-
sources of the eastern half of the State.
And so our new State movement finds
horrors upon horrors head accumu-
late" Still we are not in the controver-
sial circle. We are determined to see
fair play, and will gladly help our friends
to an equitable solution Of their perata
qu9stto.
The scheme is not feasible, nay, it is
an impossibility, and the labors Of the
jackson Convention in session to-day
will develepe nothing but paper resolu-
tions to be forgotten within twenty-four
hours. The eighteen North Mississippi
counties included in the segration are
hopelessly within the grasp Of Radical
negro majority, and we do not blame the
white citizens OF these oppressed conn
ties for wishing to escape from bondage
so CALLING. The people Of the seven
Kentucky counties west Of the Tsnnes-
see river enjoy liberty in its best devel-
opments, nor do we believe that they
would be willing TO tear loose from old
Kentucky in order to be united with ne
groized North Mississippi. The citizens
of the nineteen counties Of West Ten
nessee feel proud Of the old Volunteer
State and viii be 10th to accept this
proportion to form a new State. Not
single plausible argument has as yet
been advanced by the friends Of the en-
terprise The movement will prove an
abortion in this State Our motto is:
No disinte grafton Of Tennessee.