The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-11-13
Letter from East Tennessee.

EDITOR CITIZEN AS it has been
some time since L gave you any
items from the Metropolis of East
Tennessee, 1 thought your many
readers would be interested in what
was going on in this end of the
State. Business of the city is i'm
proving since the rise in wheat and
the people seem to be keeping up
with the times. Many new build
ings are in course of construction,
and some are an honor to the place.
Among others is large hotel being
placed in the heart of the town, by
Mr.. McNulty, one of the enterpris
ing men of the age. The mechanics
have employment with fair wages,
and the farmers of the country are
encouraged, and they are working
with will and trying to improve
their lands by using improved
plows, and tie majority, I find, are
sowing their new crop of wheat with
drills and using fertilizers, and it
has been proven to a satisfaction
that wheat does not freeze out as
bad after the drill as it does in SOW
ing broadcast, and the fertilizer is
placed in with the grain, and of
course it will get the full benefit of
the same. The weather has been
cool but dry, and the farmers have
had splendid time for work. The |
health of the country is considered |
good, and since the quarantine was
raised, most of the refugees have |
returned to Memphis, leaving their |
best wishes with the people of East
Tennessee, for their kindness and |
hospitality, and as l am a sojourner
with these people and a sharer of
their kindness and dependent in a
great measure upon their hospital
itv, | will add a word of praise and
would at any time contradict any re-
port calculated to prejudice the
minds of strangers again st this
country.
Politics is at low ebb with The
exception of a few republican pa
pers which are exulting over the
late elections, and throwing the
bloody shirt TO the breeze prepare
tory to the Presidential campaign,
and as my business throws me
among all classes, / am prepared to
see what effect it is having upon the
Many of the honest farm
ers who are subscribers to their pa
pers, say they are tired of all such
and are in favor of letting the past
be buried in oblivion and not a sec
tional feeling encouraged, but mutu
al interest, and some believe as do,
that the people are blinded by poll
ticians, and the true issues are not
Infolded and the aims and ends
are kept back; but by keeping up
.he feeling engendered by the war,
md harping upon States rights,
he monied Lords will centralize the
powers of the Government and all
in the future will be put
Town by the bayonet, and before
our more years of their rule pris
Dners will be demanded from States
md tried by a Federal jury. To
contend for state rights under the
Constitution is considered treason |
and the Democracy of New
York and the Eastern States will
continue to overthrow any faction
n favor of taxing bonds and doing
way with National Banks, and to .
ule or ruin is the program of indie
,endents, and they only aid the
party or men they want to defeat.
The repudiation spirit is light in
Cast Tenn, and Savage or any one
Use, will get but small vote who
Idvocates and runs on that ticket.
\ large majority are in favor Of an
honorable compromise, but the re
,ubllcans are elated over the split
md contention between the demo
rats. and have great hopes of elect
ng the next Governor, and will !
ay that the nominee of the demo
ratio party will have to be sound
~ that question, or he will lose the
-ote of this end of the State, but If
states have no rights, why keep up
he expense Of a Legislature or Gov
.rnors2 for according to the doctrine
IF the stalwarts, Governors would
,e no more respected than q Cor 4
)oral In the regular army, and the
iictation is to come entirely from
)ne source. j. III. +.
Knoxville, Tenn, Nov. 8, '79.