Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-21
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.

OTutI. ICCcDIly III cCooAOH - = =
issued manifesto to the public, which
we publishsonI ourdfrst page. 1t is
candid, concise and full, and ought to
be studied by all members of the
oranges, that they may catch its spirit
and meaning; by all well-wishers of
the Order, that they may understand
Its objects, and by all its opponents
that they may be disabused Of errone-
GUS impressions of its purpose and
naodus operandi. 1t seems to us, that
no one can criticise it, in a spirit of
candor and the feelings of patriot,
without coming to the conclusion, that
it is the movement ofthe age-itsscope
being as broad as the interests of
mankind, aud as benefcent as public
virtue an1 social happiness can make
1t.
The charge SO persistently repeat
ed that it is a political organiza-
ton, is answered as we answered
it last week, that whilst political.
discussion is not permitted in the
oranges. and each member is left in
full enjoyment of his political opin
ions, yet the leading doctrines and pur-
poses Of the Order underlie all wise
political action. That existing errors
and abuses, having called the organic
alton into existence, the remedies for
them are the engrossing inquiries and,
without assuming party name or or
ganization, it is hoped that healthy
public opinion will be created thatwill
apply these remedies through the in
strumentality of the ballot box, and
that the hoped for results, will not
be Radical, Conservative, or Demo-
cratic victory, but triumph ofpatriot-
ism and public virtue-of an honest
and enlightened majority of the whole
people.
1t is gratifying to our vanity, to lind
that so enlightened body gives to the
cotton States, the advice We have so
often given them, since the war-that
is to raise the necessaries of life, first,
and as much cotton as they can, as a
secondary crop. No State can become
great, without Notwithstanding. To
become self-sustaining, its productions
must bediversifed, its lands improved
and the best system of culture
brought into general practice. All
cotton and no bread is precisely the
condition most favorable to manufac-
turing monopolies, and corners in
grain, -four and meat-the prices of
which will be graduated according to
the southern demand for the necesaries
of life-which graduation of prices is
so arranged as to absorb the cotton
crop in payment for those necessaries,
leaving the planter to bear all the ex
pense of labor and the loss of wear
and tear of land, tools and teams. 1t
is in the cotton States, that oranges
can-and we hope will effect the great
est amount of material good. If true
to their avOwed objects, the grangers
must practice the system of farming re-
commended by themselves, and in so
doing, will develop results important
enough to enlist the cooperation OF
their neighbOrs and thus make theii
system the rule, rather than exception
This being done, the South will in
crease rapidly in wealth and power
systematic its labor, build manufac'
tories and, above all, educate its peo-
pie. When its barren minds are ex
banded by education, itsworn out fields
are clothed with verdure and the hun
of skilled industry is everywher,
heard, the South will be, as nature in
tended it, the garden spot of this con
tinent. To regenerate its soil anC
people, is the task the oranges have
undertaken to perform. 1t is trul!
herculean, but with such a combina
ton, wisely guided, progress will b,
rapid, and gather speed as it goes, b!
multiplying laborers and disseminat
ing the all important doctrines set fortl
in the manifesto of the Patrons o
Husbandry.