Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-02-28
The State Dabt. etc.



HICKORY GROVE, Lincoln Co.,
February 23rd. 1878
~. O. Wallace, Editor, etc
-SIR-We are glad that whene,
er aud wherever we meet tue gooC
yeomanry Of this county, the lead
ling topics OF conversation are econ
omy, industry and improvement
There is determined spirit among
the laboring classes, the begotter
of sad experience, to meet the
hard times that haze been brought
upon US by corruption, fraud and
political experim enters, with re
newed energy and rigid economy
Nor need the oily-tongued theo-
rist, the roaring and ranting dem
agogue, or the smiling, pleasant
office,ssekers attempt to delude
the people by promises to legislate
them out of trouble; they have re
pudiated such men and such thee
ries. aud their only hope is in the
richness of their soil, and the pow
er Of their muscles, and, from the
honesty and aim of purpose, the
blessings of Heaven. We admit
that it is class legislation that has
brought many Of the evils that
prey as canker-worm or a yam.
pire upon the body polite and
that, with q subsidized press and
bribed officials, the heart.blood Of
the nation has been drawn, and
the last spark of vital republican
ism wellnigh extinguished; but
to the historian, these are not un
natural or unexpected events.
Every nation whose hills and val
legs have re echoed with the thun-
ders of civil war, and whose plains
have been crimsoned with the
gore Of Der bravest sons IN mortal
strife with each other, has been
reduced to the condition that our
government is now in, industry
and trade paralyzed, financial ruin
and universal decentralization. At
such times corruption, hidden by
the passions and prejudices of a
blinded people, finds its way into
every avenue of government, Land
unbounded avarice towers high o
bove the rights and liberties OF
the people. There is but one safe
and honorable way out of these
troubles. The honest laboring
and producing classes must unite
in common cause against the me.
nopolies, rings ami syndicates tlat
are the common offspring of such
venal times. Revolutionize not
by repudiating honest debts, but
b. repudiating our prejudices and,
| If need be, our party names and
affiliations. and thus arrest the
tide Of corruption and break the
backbone of oppression.
Mr.. Editor, there is Buck
Travis, John FL Savage and few
other public agitators, but to say
that there is party of any re-
spectability in favor of Reputation
would be a foul and base SANDER
upon Tennessee, and the slande-
rer would be q more contemptible
man than the repudiator.
We have faith IN the slow, but
earnest aud effective eff lrts of the
Democratic party to remove tie
evils that have flown from the mall
administration of the Federal
government, and to dispel the
cloud that shuts out the rays of
prosperity from our land
We forgot to include with Trav
is. and other distinguished men, the
name Ii. we had known him) of
the Blanche correspondent, but if
be wishes to become the champion
of the policy that Numbered SO
loud in the last canvass about q
compromise, and so slgnally flick
cred, failed in the legislature, let
him draw on the gauntlet, give
me his name, and | will meet him
in the centre of the arens; how
ever er pode HsrcuIem.
Yours respectfully, |. N. K.