Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-06-30

per which had been edited with S,
I so much ability by Allen A. Hall il
many a hard political conflict. Nc
Ginty continued its editor till h,
i. died.
Robert w. Thomas succeeded Mr.
McGinty as editor of the CHRONICLE
: and for long years conducted tha
paper and charmed his readers by
the purity of his style and faultlesE
D diction. He was one of the best DO.
| litical writers in the State /; Addison
himself never wrote purer English
nor did his words flow in sweeter
numbers. He is now scarcely cold
2 in his grave and has left behind him
} many literary stories and tales OF
, fiction that will be read and admired
by all who love and appreciate fine
writing as long as literature has a
charm among the living.
? Thomas w. Beaumont, native
: of Clarksville, was at a later period
invited to Nashville and became
the editor of the Banner, which he
conducted with great ability, and
| continued as its editor till the war
between the States called him to the
tented field. He died in the service
from wounds received in battle at
the head of his regiment. No purer
man or Drawer soldier poured out
his blood upon the altar of liberty.
@. @. PoindeXter, Virginian by
birth, but at the time a citizen of
this county, was summoned to Nash
vile to take charge of the editorial
department of the Union and Amer
lean, the leading Democratic paper
in the State and one that had the
widest circulation and reflected the
| Democratic sentiment more truly
and faithfully than any other. He
was a young man of very fine tai
ents, good writer and of very i'm
pulSiVe genius. You may think it
a little strange that 50 many of our
bright young men of the editorial
corps left this city for the city of
Nashville. They left Clarksville
not because we were tired of them
or they of us, but our town was too
small for men of their genius and
there was in. Nashville vacuum of
that commodity and they were in
vited to fill it. That city couldn't
very well get along without apprO-
priating some of our brightest Jew
els, and what is more strange, they
keep up the habit to this day. With
in the last year they have spirited
away from Clarksville our talented
and handsome young friend III. M.
DOak, who was then the editor of
the Tobacco Leaf in Clarksville and |
now the editor of the American, the |
leading Democratic paper in the |
State and published at the Capital. |
/ have been very uneasy for some |
time, and really am suffering very |
considerable alarm at this moment, |
for fear Nashville will steal away |
DR.. d. F. Wright, the present editor |
of the CHRONICLE. We appreciate |
him too highly to surrender him up |
to any demand less urgent than over
pOWering force. Nor must / fail to |
add to the number of injuries we
have sustained at the hands of Nash
vile in this way the name of j. B.
KilIebreW, the present Commission
er of Agriculture and Mining, who
has reflected so much credit upon
himself and the county, his native
county of Montgomery, and real
benefit upon the State which has
employed him and availed itself of
his very valuable services.
Charles O. Faxon began his edi-
torial career in Clarksville as the
editor of the Jeffersonian, partiZan
paper in its character of necessity,
for it lived in times of high party
excitement and was conducted by
him with decided ability. 1 have
never known man who wrote so
directly to the common understand
ing of the people, and who so capti-
waited them as Charles o. FaXOn.-
1t was next to impossible to tear
them away from him when he once
laid his spell upon them. He was
the editor Of the JeffersOnian when
| was the Whig candidate for seat
in Congress from this district and
have reason to know something of
his power, for ] felt it every day.
Congress must have been a very diff
ferent thing from what it is now, or
/ am at a loss to conjecture how /
could have so far forgotten myself
as to desire a seat there at all.
After the war Charles 0. FaXOn
was seduced away from us and for
two or three years was the editor of
the Louisville Courier. The great :
and gifted George ID. Prentice told
me the last time l ever saw him
that FaxOn wrote with eXtraOrdi- ,,
nary ability, and that nothing but !
failing health kept him from rising ,
to the front rank of the editorial 4
corps.
It is little singular, but certainly ,
very complimentary, that Clarks- {
vile has had to contribute so largely {
to the editorial department of the /
of Nashville and Louis ]
vile. ClarksVille seems to be a sort I
of nursery from which rare fruits t
and flowers are taken, to be trans I
planted into other gardens which {
do not naturally produce such choice
specimens, They were eXQtics in !
foreign soil and were always longing {
to come back to their native heath
once more.
| must not neglect to mention two {
others who learned to put the "type {
in the stick" in Clarksville and t
were pretty much educated in the s
old Jeffersonian printing office. '
Len. G. FaxOn, a Clarksville boy, is g
now the editor of the Paducah t
News, leading paper in the west '
ern part of Kentucky, and never t
fails to make his mark in all the pO- I
Iitical contests, State or National. \
He and John G.. Noble, of Paducah, !
have worried each other till they {
have gotten tired of it, but not be- 1
fore everybody eise was tired of it t
too, and from pure exhaustion they /
are now in the bonds of affection. I
Henry FaXOn, the younger BROTH 1
er of Charles and Len. FaXOn, was a I
type setter in the old Jeffersonian /
office in Clarksville. He was the 5
author of beautiful Snow" and !
''Types," poems which have been !
read and admired by every lover of i
poetry and of genius. These two I
little poems were both the prOduc- {
ton of his brain and stamp him as I
a man of first rate poetic genius. In {
speaking of types in his poem, he t
says, I
"Monarchs and kings their approaches |
They know that with liberty types have !
been we'd"
Inotice before close, that in Ken {
lucky, ''my own my native land," {
the kentucky Associated Press :
lately met at Frankfort, the capital I
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