The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-04-03
Our Turnpike.

IDlAOh OlIlLEN - nOuSn Jne COIu
winter has held us for five long dreary
months In its cold embrace, the spring
grass, buds and flowers are bursting
forth everywhere to prepare old earth
with BETTING summer robe. 1t just
reminds No. 6 that he should put forth
every power which he possesses to &C
complish the task before him; that is,
perfccting his plan of constructing our
pike. Mr.. Editor, this thing of serving
the dear people In any capacity through
all the varied relations of life, from
Deputy Constable oil the district to
Chief Magistrate OF the Nation, is, as
one of my old neighbors used to say, ga
steep uphill business" But having
been accustomed from our earliest man
hood to hard beds, hard labor and soft,
rough roads, we are encouraged that
with the aid of Providence, our own
muscular 8Tms, and few more good,
rich, poor, white, black, old, young,
large and small men, we will be able to
make for the good citizens of our old
beloved No. smOOthe, hard road.
Sir, have had as many issues and con-
ilicting opinions to battle in getting my
subscription for this road as any man
ever had in canvassing the State for
Governor; yet 1 flattcr myself that l
have met and answered them success
fully, insomuch that / have got sub
scription of 800, where there was not
one ever obtained before, and every
body and the women and children want
it. SO, Mr.. Editor, you see 1 am san
guine of success, and all the money
want out of it is free passage for ME
and mine until my $500 certificate of
stock Is exhausted, and all the glory I
want is to hear the dear people say that
the little one was the main moving
cause OF their getting the road. If ev-
cry subscriber could put i'm 500 stock
and get n fat contract by which to
clear several thousand, we would soon
have every highway, byway and pig
path in the county paved; but alas it
takes little more investment of money
In stock than must be expected in gain,
with due admixture of that indispen-
sable and highly essential aid to every
enterprise = elbow grease = to effect
these things. Sir, am one of the few
men that believe the man that works
for the almighty dollar alone will never
have more than L had the last time l
crossed the river during the late I'M
pleasantness, and that was nary soIita-
ny red. But the man that exercises all
the powers with which beneficent
Creator has endowed him, for the COM
mon interest Of his fellow man, will get
enough to make him comfortable ia this
world and secure him the highest seat
I'm the next that his devoted action
merits. The hardest thing l have had
to combat in this thing is the idea that
iJ will cost so much, that unless every
man gives a thousand we can't build it.
BOsh! II every man In the bounds of
No. 6 will give me one hundred / win
do It; but here is our city that viii
give nearly that, and sister districts
will give something. YES" says one,
"but No. 6 knows nothing about the cost
of building roa( $, for he never broke
rock on one only as warRed hand on
the country road" Well, l am no gent
us, neither do l want to be, as the old
woman who has had considerable board
ing house experience defines it: "a
man who knows more'n he can find,
spills victuals on his clothes, and don't
pay his board regularly"
Now, Mr.. Editor, some may have
thought because the little Que was not
continually gassiHg on the street and
haunting his subscription list i'm the
face OF every passer by, that the pike
enterprise of No. 6 was dead. IL is not
so, but on the contrary it is still living,
active, growing critter. l don't know
but there may be one or more that
would be glad If 1t was dead, il it would
prevent them from contributing few
dollars they would have to Law out oi
for eighteen months or two years. But
it shall not die before the LIST Monday in
April, when I wish TO meet every sub
scriber and individual of every age.
sex, condition and complexion interest
ed, that we may organize company
and devise means to procure chartsr
at the next special term Of the Chance
~ Court, so that when our crops are
laid by the people on the projected road
may SO forward and build the road.
know have said enough, perhaps too
much, but after repeating a short anee-
dote to keep all In good humor until We
meet again on the 9Th 20 organize, viii
close. 1 may be thought by many 10 be
the wrong man In the wrong place, btit
I'll stand my ground ut least until the
7th. Like the sheriff in Florida, who