The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-03
The Crops and the State Debt.
Country Side, June 20, 10.

Country Side, June 20, TO.
Mr.. EDITOR We are very quiet
in the country-little to be heard
except the sounds of busy industry.
We are illustrating over again the
patient, plodding, persevering, hope
lul spirit of the farmer, who, not-
withstanding the hard times and
the insufficient reward of his labor,
is always ready to begin the work
of the new year with undated In
dustry and renewed hope. We have
now, however, the prospects of fine
crops to encourage us, and the sea-
son favoring, our hearts will be re
joiced with an abundance unusual
of late, and which will surely pre-
dispose us to think favorably of the
proposed State dept compromise.
And, indeed, the fate of the propo
sition hinges upon the prospect be
fore us q month hence, for should it
TAIL, the indifference in the public
mind, already too great, will be in
creased.
Seriously, Mr.. Editor, in view of
the Importance of settlement of
this veXed question, which has har-
raised the minds of the people so
long, there is manifested too little
interest, on account of the confu-
sion in the minds of those most in
terested IN the settlement proposed,
as to the validity of the debt, and
our obligation to pay it. We be
Iieve the status of our State debt is
a grave obstacle in the way to pros
perity, but how to remove it is the
question. OF course, and it is very
natural too under the circum-
stances, we are divided in opinion
as to how this should be done, but
in the main we desire to do right,
and will pursue the right when the
way is made clear.
There is encouragement in the
fact that the people ere now better
informed and better prepared to act
intelhgently upon this, and all other
measures of public policy, than ever
before. Yet there are thousands
who earnestlv 1~-i-
~ u.esIre to do justice
and advance the best interests OF
the State who will grope their way
to the polls still undecided as to the
best course. The honest conviction
in the public mind of the impor-
lance of disposing of ques ton
that overshadows all others in our
legislative bodies and diverts cur
thoughts and attention from those
measures that are best calculated
to prosper US and give repose to the
minds of the people, is not a sutti-
cient guide, but predisposes TO an
earnest consideration of the ques-
tions involved in the issue, and af-
fords to those who have the care of
the public interests an excellent OPP
portnnity to give a wholesome di
rection to popular sentiment.
We have thought there was gen
eral anxiety throughout the State
that our legislature during its late
sitting should take some definite
step towards a settlement of the
State debt, and when it had agreed
upon a basis of adjustment that
there was very general satisfac-
ton. We were strengthened in this
opinion when, soon after the ad
journment. some Of our most prom
inent citizens and many Of those
who favored the adjustment pro
posed, met in convention in Nash
vile and appointed committee &c
20 to New York to confer 80
creditors r. ''''n gu
:, -Iom this we were led
III the conditions which authorized
the Governor to submit the propo
stiOu 10 the peupse vere met u