Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-02-12
DEMOCRATIC SYMPATHY AND
HOW TO OBTAIN IT.

in a three column article to en-
its readers and mankind in
general on the subject Of colored
schools and carpet baggers. A large
share of the article is taken up in
quotations from the HERALD AND
tribune, Commissioner Killebrew
md the New York Tribune, inter-
with the sapient comments of
he Joarndf. They quote Killebrew
IS saying: ,
The question is often asked, through
letters and otherwise, how vii the
people Of Tennessee receive Northern
men and women! As Kindly as they
deserve. If they coyae to stir up
between the races, they will not
and should not be respected. If they
come to live by their wits, and, by
making false representations to the
Government to secure q fat office,
they will not, as they should not, be
respected. If they come to preach
the Vulnerable turpitnde and sinful
ness Of the former stakeholder, and to
set themselves up as examples Of vir-
tue and unstained purity, they will
not, and should not be respected.
But if they come with earnest hearts,
and willing hands, and cheerful voices
to help build up the prosperity Of the
State, be their politics what it may, be
their religion what it will, they will
be received with all the c%ivility that it
is possible fer n gallant people to ex-
%ercise. They will be welcomed with
open hands, and encouragement and
sympathy will be given them by every
intelligent man land women in the
State B. Killebrew, State Com.
of Agriculture.
And in winding up the subject,
having, as they doubtless imagine, ex-
hausted it, the Journal says:
"Our people everywhere welcome
the immigrant and spare no means in
showing him genuine sympathy. So
cieties are formed in many counties
of the State for especial purpose of
.furthering the objects of immigration
and our leading Rail Road authorities
are lending their best energies to it's
development. Our waste and uncul-
tivated fields, our boundless forests,
our water powers, our stone, and min
erals undressed and undug, are slim
ulating our people all over the State
in calling for men Of capital and en-
terprise to come and help us. We
join in the cry and say "come."
What say you, now, neighbour"
Now, no one thinks Of denying
that Commissioner Killebrew, the
editors of the Journal and every star
wing bankrupt Democrat in the South
earnestly desires emigrants with cap
ital, enterprise and brains to come
and help them refill their empty
pockets, and do for them what they
never have been and never will be
able to do for themselves. And
what do they offer in return for all
this? Sympathy! Both Mr.. Kill
Hebrew and the Journal use the term
sy mpathy. Sympathy forsooth
Does the Journal for a moment sup
pose that any man who has breathed
the free atmosphere of the North is
going to break up the associations of
his youth, leave relatives and friends,
and come South with his capital in
search Of sympathy? DO they sup
pose that a man will risk. the capital,
which it has taken q lifetime to &C.
cumulate, in shaky enterprises, and
especially in State that has disgracpd
itself by repudiating its honest debts,
for the sake of gaining the sympathy
of Il parcel Of impecunious bulldozers,
whose lofty ideas of their own I'M
portance have taught them'to look
down with contempt upon his honest
labors. We stated in a former article
that 'the truth will out" and now
the Journal innocently asks; what
truth? We answer, that there is a
want OF sincerity in all this preten-
sion, that they have nothing but
feelings Of friendship for the immi-
grant.
Had Mr.. Killebrew gwen a
moments thought to the subject he
could not failed to have forseen the
effect of his gratitious advice to per-
sons contemplating removal to Tenn
essee. lie says in effect to the immi-
grant: IF you shape your conduct
in conformity to the code of morals
which the Democracy Of Tennessee
shall see proper to prescribe for you,
you will be respected and sympathized
with; otherwise we will make the
place too hot to hold you. You must
lay aside the traditions Of your native
state, forsake the principles Of free
dom in which you have been educa'
ted, abandon all thought of exercis'