Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-10-17
TENNESSEE-ITS PRESENT AND
FUTURE.

Any one VINO READS the resources
Of Tennessee, recently published, will
learn the important fact that the State
has within its borders, every element
of independence. 1t has iron, copper,
marble, gypsum and coal; soil pro-
ductive of cotton, tobacco, all the
cereals and every variety of fruits, ex-
eept the tropical, and added to these,
climate that is happy medium be-
tween the rigor of the North and the
relaxing heat of the farther South.
With abundant water power to drive
machinery and nsvigable rivers to sub
serve the purposes of export and
import, what State in the Union,
or what country on earth, can boast of
superior advantages, taken collective
~?
As rapid as has been the recovery of
the State from the devastations of an
unnatural and cruel war, and the des-
trution of long sanctioned system of
labor, the energies of its people must
be directed to two essential points upon
which hinge their future peace and
prosperity. To invite immigration
and capital there must be peace within
our borders and there must be both will
and effort to sustain the credit of the
State. Without commercial honor,
and IN the absence of strict main
tainance of law and order, men of cap
ital and those who value security to life
and property, will continue to give
our State wide berth. To win the
confidence of capital and gain Access
sions to our population, the better
class of citizens must repudiate repu-
diators, and resolve to adopt all law
full means for preventing outbreaks
aud Furnishing all connected with such
as may occur. We know the difficulty
of maintaining even the semblanee of
peace so leng as the emisaries of
corrupt federal administration are in
our midst, stirring up strife and pro-
pagating the most atrocious lies as
pretext for federal interference in be-
half Of partizan interests; we know
too, the difficulty Of destroying the
effect of those lies, when they are
heralded abroad, with all the force of
official sanction. But we can do our
duty, and with a clear conscience,
leave the result to time and the eff
cacy of truth which will sooner or la
ter assert its saving power.
The question of reputation how
ever, is under our own control, there
being no likelihood of interference
with it, by the consolidated power at
Washington. But when such a man
as Andy johnson openly advocates re-
pudiatiou, the effect will be felt
abroad, for it is no easy matter to dis
criminate between the intent to do a
dishonorable act and the act itself
The greater the necessity then, that all
who desire TO uphold the honor of the
State, should tax firm stand against
the few-let US hope-who are willing
to dishonor it. A year or two offaith-
full compliance with State obligations,
and Of earnest endeavor to Withhold
from Radical emisaries the slightest
preteIt for the lies they will continue
10 fabricate, and we shall begin to re-
alize all the benefits of policy both
wise and honorable A feeling of
security to life and property will bring
the best class of emigrants from all
quarters, and our reputation as COM
munity appreciative Of JUS tice and
honor, will give confidence to cap
ital and invite its investment in the
various branches of profitable enter
prise which the resources of the State
hold out to skilled industry and to the
sturdy cultivator of the soil. If we
would have a prosperous and gloriou~
future, we must base it upon an hon
est observance of our pecuniary obi
CATIONS and the practice of that for
bearance which overlooks malicious
provocation that seeks resentment as u
means TO foul end.