The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-25
WHO SHALL REPRESENT US
A Few Sensible Reflections from One
of Our Oldest Citizens.
(To be continued }


The time is near at hand when
the citizens of Giles county in the
respective civil districts will meet
to select delegates to county con
vention, to meet in Pulaski to select
suitable candidate for our next
Legislature. Permit me as an old
citizen, who was born upon the soil
of Giles before our first court was
organized, and in my boyhoOd days
labored with the axe, the hoe, the
plow, the old reap hook and scythe,
and as an agricul.urist know well
that it is the principle source of all
wealth, to say that can look back
and see, under the guidance of our
fathers in the early history of this
our heaven favored section, the for
est was cleared, fields enclosed,
courts established, school houses
built, churches erected, the gospel
preached, Christianity spread, So
cial neighborship prevailed, then all
seemed happy and cantented. Then
we had practical sound men to leg
islate for the best interest of all.
Then the people were the sover-
eigns, legislators and officers of the
government the servants. Is it so
now? These were times we would
like to live over again, if kind
Providence had not ordered it 9th
erwise. Now we live in a fast age
POLITICALLY of doubtful character) J.
Everything seems to be running on
down grade without brakes, with
steam and wind up. So you see
very plainly that the old engineers
and conductors have left these posts
of honor, and they are now mostly
occupied by new corps in a fast
age. We shall certainly be wreckd
if the steam is not cooled, the wind
Gained, and the brakes put on, and
conductors chosen of age, consider
alton and experience upon this
great political highway, freighted
with the rights, liberties and moral
interest of all. The principles of
the Democrats and old line Wings
as now united are conservative and
national, and in my view Tin power)
the only political ark of safety. We
should have a representative who
would guard we'll the honor of the
State in a compromise settlement of
the State debt with its bondholders
upon some agreed terms, not too
oppressive on the people, and close
up this agitating question. There
cannot be any dishonor attached to
A if he owes B and cannot pay, and
b will compromise and renew notes
on time which A can pay. So it
would be with the State and its
creditors. Our justices of the peace
and jurors should be paid 81 per
day for. services when called from
home to serve the public, and our
old system of a full jury for every
court should be re-established; also
full County court of magistrates,
so as to lock to the necessity and
interest of the people in all appro
priations. Our county Trustee and
Register should be consolidated,
and Tax Collector left alone.
l am very much inclined to favor
State Bank if the government will
release its taxing power. Such a
bank will Certainly aid the State f.
nances, and thereby reduce the bur
den of taxation. And | win here
refer to an alarming evil fastening
upon the political vitals of the coun-
try. 1t has already a strong hold
upon the heart of the nation, and
spreading over the face Of society,
and as the destroying cancer ex-