Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-06-19

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!, ruptly before the people, In their nc
: organised capacity the alternative .
O raising money, or going unreprsseese,
o % the 6rst Centennial Of our nation
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Can Tennessee afford to lose this. th,
: greatest of all opportunities. 10 max,
known to the world her uni bounded IA
E sourcesY is question which Interests
E deeply the people of every. county il
, the State. The purpose and plan O
the whole. American people, as now
fully developed In the coming Centen.
NAL, are not, as some have supposed
merely national jubilee or oelebra,
ton OF great historic event, but an
international, as well as national. ex-
hibition of the comparative wealth of
nations, aud especially the discoveries,
productions and growth of our own
country for one hundred years. It is
now manifest that every civilized
country on the globe will be represent
ed. and that the people of all the
States and Territories viii regard the
exhibition as the test, after one hun
dred years of preparation, of each
others actual wealth. and great natu-
raj advantages in producing what man
wants in the way Of food, clothing and
shelter, as well as the Injuries of life
I've repeat, it will be accepted as the
test
Viewing the Philadelphia Centennial
lE thss light, can the people Of Ten
nessee afford, as their Legislature did,
to forego all participation in the ma
tion's Exposition, striking their eolors
year IN advance OF The great battle
tor supremacy In field which will
give to the victor undying honor as
well as untold wealth. We ask the
people of the whole State to unite with
US IN giving for answer an emphatic
No.
Accompanying this address, or very
soon after its publication, will appear
a list of names-two from each county
in the State-nominated by this COM
mlttee and commissioned BY the Cover
nor, as means of effeeting an organ
izatiOn for the whole State.
These gentlemen have been selected
In the belief that they will at once or
ganize in their respective counties and
give to this committee the benefit of
their counsel. No one has yet sug-
gested plan which has been general
ly accepted for raising the required
funds, and upon this point We want the
benefit Of suggestions from all parts of
the State.
What we want is harmonious action.
with common purpose. We are ap-
prised that some portions Of the State
are more destitute from the failure of
crops than others some have more
wealth than others, and hence all could
not, under any circumstances, contrib
ute alike, but what we want is that
each community shall do what it can,
and the commissioners OF each county
have been selected with view oftheir
exercising a sound discretion as TO
what their respective communities
ought to do. 1t will probably be
necessary after conferrlng with friends
from all parts of the State, to make no
general movement to raise money un-
al the result of our present crop is
known, but If great work for Ten
nessee is accomplished, we must know
in some short period of the prospect
OF raising money.
The work of preparing to put Ten
nessee on exhibition must be COM
meneed without delay-but what space
shall lie applied for? What agencies
to do the work shall be employed?
What transportation shall be provid-
ed? and what encouragement shall be
given the people to get their products
ready? are questions which can not be
determined until the way to raise the
means is known.
Hanca the g a - 80 L.
to see and report what can probably
be raised in each county. Therefore
we suggest to tie commissioners in the
counties that they, with
other citizens who are alive to putting
Tennessee on exhibition, call meetings
for the 4th Of July, one in each county
in the State, to consider the amount
which should be raised and the ways
and means of doing it. 1t may not be
amiss for the eomittee to say, that upon
a canvass of the question il is believed
s25, 600 would put the resources of
the State on exhibition fairly and with
credit, and would indeed prove what
we have long tried without much sue
ces to establish, to-wit, the great su-
perlOrity of Tennessee over any other
State in her combination of resource.
We have 30 counties in the State rich
with iron-perhaps in quality and va
riety equal to any part of the United
States aud then in its close proximi-
ty to coal and limestone. SURPRISING all
other known iron countries.
Now with an opportunity to make
these facts known to the whole world,
If the means are raised, will not an eff
fort be made ? and will not the men
who have the money cheerfully con-
tribute, when there is so much at
stake? The variety and character of
1ur productions, if fully shown, would,
m the enhancement Of real estate, re-
turn TO the pockets of the people the
amount asked, with much increase.
Our very poverty is the strongest
reason why the money should be raised.
We are too much in need Of adyertis-
ng our resources not to do it. We
have immense forests untouched, vast
.raets of land uncultivated, vast beds
If iron ore, coal, copper, lead, and nu-
nerous other mineral, yielding moth.
ng, bringing no return for want OF
.apital and enterprise. If they are
advertised capital and enterprise will
come and work them.
Our productions, if put on exhibi-
ion, will advertise our lands, and no
lass will be more benefited than land
owners. The great variety Of our pro-
luctiOns, the analysis of our soils, the
pictures Of our vast water powers,
views of our mountain
scenery, truthful descriptions Of our
OveIy climate, and with all a cheerful
md patriotic spirit under the stars and
stripes, will do more to bring good
people with their capital and muscle
% the State, than private agencies can
10 in twenty years. For the people
# Tennessee to furnish this money
will be a most profitable investment
lot gift.
1t is not much to claim that Ten
lessee's first great soldier, Sewer with
his volunteers, turned the tide Of the
evolution at Kings Mountain, and
here did as much to plant the flag of
liberty, as was done on any battle held
If the seven years war. And Ten
lessee's second great soldier in the
econd great war, immOrtalized the
State and gave US an everlasting in
leritance in the flag which he upheld.
Sad events for time estranged US,
,ut being again under the flag, let Us
,heerfully, cordially and openly honor