Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-12
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erument. When such corporations
are sbscautesy necessary 10 attain some
great and beneficial end, not otherwise
attainable, they may form an excep-
ton; but, even then, the State should
reserves supervising power sufficient to
protect its citizens from their .baneful
influence.
Internal Improvements by the Gen.
eral Government are unwise, and ought
never to be undertaken, except in cases
of paramount necessity, and when
single State power is insufficient or
impracticable. From this rule, |
would expressly except the Mississippi
river aud its Important tributaries, such
as the Tennessee, Cumberland, Ohio
and Others. In the language ofone of
our greatest statesmen, it is rather an
inland sea than q common river.
The great drawback to agriculture
being the high rate of transportation,
1t is the duty of the Government to
use every possible constitutional power
10 afford water transportation, whereby
the farmer may obtain q market for
his produce, at such rates as will re-
lieve him from dependence upon the
caprices and combinations of specula-
tors = - H "a
Whilethe public lands should, as
general rule, be sacredly held for ac-
tnal settlers, the Government having
already bestowed large quantities of
the public domain to Northern and
Middle Pacific roads, a sense of justice
and equality would suggest The dona-
,tion of a sufficient quantity to insure
the speedy completion of Southern
Pacific railroad-so necessary to the
growth and development of the South,
and especially of Tennessee.
In that connection | would, within
constitutional limits, foster directlines
OF commerce with European markets,
as tending to lessen the cost of srans-
porting both exports and imports. d.
rectly benefting the producing, as well
as all other classes IN the South, and
bringing much needed immigration.
The South needs nothing more than
migration from the North and West,
and immigration from abroad, of afru-
gal and thrifty class
With direct and bold action based
on these and kindred principles, the
constitution, the law of the land,
peace, order and quietude restored In
all the States, rigid economy in ex-
penditure, useless offices abolished,
and corruption, peculation, fraud and
bribery exposed and punished, re-
formed civil service, the government
will be indeed restored TO its ancient
purity and simplicity.
The lesson taught by the recent vic
tory is worthy our careful attention.
The American people have proclaimed
in tones more potent than the thun-
aers of artillery, the union of these
States, and the constitution preserved
in its integrity. 49, iran
The lesson of the civil war was but
the half of it. Then one section was
arrayed against the other. and the les
son to all of US, whether We held one
view or the other, whether one doc
trine or the other was theoretically
correct; was practically the perpetuity,
and integrity of the Union. Now the
people of the whole country, seeing
that party, composed of citizens of
both section. had gone, not only ont
side of the Union of our fathers, but
outside of the constitution, to estab-
iish a Union of force, have spoken
with one voice, and the lesson is again
the Union and its perpetuity, the con-
Stltution and its integrity, inviolable.
The Republican party was fast sever
ing the ligaments which were intended
60 bind together,coequal States. The
bond of the bayonet was usurping the
bonds of brotherhood, common inter-
ests and a common lineage. If the
diSunion of secession was subversive
of the government, the union Of force
is equally so-equally disunion.
As a remedy for the one, power en-
forced the union of the States; and
now the people complete the task of
restoring the Union by applying the
remedy for the other-supplanting the
union of force and bayonets by the ties
of law and constitutional guarantees,
brotherly love and common interests.
Against this second effort at subver-
sion, made, not by the South, nor by
any section, but BY President and a
Congress, whose high privilege and
duty 1t was TO preserve the Union res
tored, the people of every State and
every race have pronounced with an
emphatic condemnation. With the
proclamation of their will comes a re-
newed brotherhood of delivered peo-
ple-another 76 draws near, and the
bloody business" of the bloody de-
cnde just passed, is forgotten and for
given, The associations of l776, pass
ing along the pathway of a hundred
years, take no note of the intervening
time as they mingle with the rejoicings
ola free, united and happy people in the
dawn Of d new century-lS76-a new
era of peace and prosperity.
The people wandering like the child
rem OF Israel in the wilderness of
Yin, weary ana fainting, have cried
aloud for the water that cools the
parched tongue and stills the wild and
fevered pulse, and the pure and limpid
stream, in obedience to the same d.
vine will, has gushed from the riven
rock and flows over the parched sands.
The desert grows green with the un-
expected moisture, and a whole people
bow down and drink of the cooling
waters. .-..r-st.. -s-a.sfE r
With this general declaration of
views. respectfully submit myself to
the Judgment of the General Assembly,
expecting their surfaces, if at all,
upon such fitness as | may have for
the position, asking, and expecting,
and desiring no vote upon the demer-
its of others, if any they have, prefer
ing rather defeat in generous rivalry
TO success obtained by pulling others
down Respectfully,
W. A. QUARLEs.
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