Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-03
SUMNER COUNTY.
Organization OF tho Patrons OF Nus.
bandry.
To the TTuion and American.


bandry.
To the Union and American:
PROFESSIONALLY, Oct. 2, 1S73.-Even-
ing before last club of the Patrons Of In
dustry was organized at this place. Unusual
interest was manifest d, considering the
lar iness with which our farmers here re-
spanded toSthe grand movement inaugu-
rated By the western farmers sometime ago,
and which is now assuming such gigantic
proportions, that perslventure, the entire
farming and agricultural interests OF the
country will soon be reduced to systsm-
attic organization, having for its object he
common welfare of the farming community,
an attainment which can be reached only
by this unanimity of action. The Patrons
of ,Husbsndry, or Oranges, IS they are
often styled, array themselves in mortal
combat against all species of monopolies,
rings, corners, pools, etc, the cheiefest among
which, are railroads and grain coruers.
These combinations are inspired into exist
ence according as their creators see their
subjects easy victims to avaricious machin-
atoms, rendered 50 too, by disqualification
aud that want of concert of action move
ment, directs by proper brain forces, such
SIS are now getting on foot, and of which
our particular grange proposes to form q
lacnnstitue nt slement.E Sa 81 AaS
vRailroadihg as legitimate business, we
mean TO encourage and sustain, but as en-
gines whose steam is avarice and whose
fuel ia corruption, piled TO the detriment,
and you may say fatally to the producers
interest, we viii be found antagonizing Jn-
til q healthy and legitimate business regime
| is established; until railroads are develoDed
into handmaidens to Ceres, Pome ma and
Flora, instead OF being disturbing elements
| in our system, to be lashed into harness by
| the bull -wllips of our oserseers--divert the
lash from the backs of slaves to the backs OF
monopolies, whose embryo existence was q
Northern ovum, and which could have been
developed to any stage TO satisfy puritanic
greed for filthy lucre, before some of the
Western, and all Vt the Southern producers,
! were deprived of these facilities which made
| production easy, and which tended to su.
| perinduce disposition to luxurious quiet
| and inaction, rather than rigid and close
scrutiny into the causes of the many evils
then existent, which the new condition OF
things have brought ONE to him, and made
| him feel, by impressions physical, rather
| than cognizance through mental medium.
Those Inonied combinations which are
exclusively of Northern origin, are the re-
suit Of large capital in the hands Of and
controlled by manufacturers, bankers and
merchants, as direct outgrowth of slave
labor, and this source of their vitality being
materially modified by the intelligence that
utilized this labor, now having to divide its
| brain with its muscle, in order to make the
| labor at all fruitful, results in inquiry
which discovers the many circumstances
that conduce to obstruct and form impedi-
ments In the channel of free, smooth and
remunerstive direction of agricultural labor,
and to remedy which the grange system be-
| comes desideratQm.
Your correspondent sat DOWN to make
you out letter, and viii have to forego the
satisfaction,of indicting several items of in-
| terest on account of just having received
intelligence, from distant parts, Of the near
approach unto deaths door of dear rela-
| tive-one of the brightest and most prom
Using boys of the earth. God forbid that
Flora's contributions may bloom prema-
turely, in a southern cline, upon the
hillocks underneath which reposes all that
is material of little. Jimmie. LoGCHINK.