The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-02-05
What il Required 10 Build Up
Our Common wealth?

mcrcirl) Int it is full of sound talk,
especially rs 10 State honesty, aud We
publish ii in the Home Jourual in the
hope that it may do good:
We answer, tre same principles and
elements Of power, that have iren re
qurel iy every other successful Stat
and nation n, State can discard any
of those principle, aud el' mcnls OF
power ani Ice Successful, RON the lac
that ) atcs are hut 20 mmuniIirs of III
d,idnals, Hho must hold Intercourse
commercially, socially aud politically
with other communities Of individuals.
organized as States. If community
has il man tina, is given to repnhialng
debts that have been contracted in
good tailh, his nrighhors, he they
farmers, merchants or manufacturers,
will ,hun him, The law Of equity amt
trade applies to the individual anl tn"
State, /! is u principle which every
honest farmer, mechanic, merchant
and manufacturer in Tennessee will
subscribe 10, be they Republican or
Democratic in political faith,
LIT ia 90 one step farther--capital
seeks safe invest .ncnts, whether 1t be
in developing mines vi coal and iron
or other commercial uses. twill not
ly into the bosom Of State whu,e
exemption laws Iavors the indolchl and
ohslruct thr collection OF debts,
Within the past month Il gentleman
WAS standing 10 the private Office OF a
Bank corporation in n Northern city
1t WAS differed hy men who belong t.
both political parties To the com
planl made ny one of the officials o
the large amour, Of capital laying Idle
the visiting gentleman suggested tina
Tennessee would he aoUd State I,
employ all the lille funds Tue official
shook their heads and remarked
Nv hen Tennessee gets over that repn
diatiD1-phohia, AMI crea'c Is rcaSuua |,
exemption laws, they can and will aar,
all the nCrthcrn capital they nrcl. W.
northern men have no i!i-"IIl person,
ally toward the State Of T,nnrs>cc
The State has as great natural re-
sources as any State in the Union
The Almighty has done enough for Il
! let the people do II little somethin.
tor themselves. Their REPUTATION is
sue, like heir dogs, is sclt'l,lroct,ol
- ali class Of enterprise, 1t is one o
the best sheep and woo>arpwin-
, States in the Nation, naturally, hut ils
yellow ours ACT Us II wet blanket to tna
industry. Thus with Repatriation
and improper exemption laws lie,
The honest men of all parties IN Ten
nessce cast aside party and unite n
crushing out that dishonest element
and lhercb, ihcy wu! place themselves
or he highway to permanent prosper
I,y at once
We IcHnrssrcNns may well ask II
this nom partisan suggestion he not
our only remedy as StalrS
To>day the eyes Of Northern men
are beng again turned Trnnrssreward.
Ihe tide OF emigration 50 long rushing
westward, will sUrn take a new departs
IRE, and ts tl.rorhing waves extent
; over our commonwealth again. va
zooism Of other States farther South
do not trouble us. Whrlcln their
Ovcr-huduNIng has caused II wrong
| tI ii "a la, hn uai Inn
ncsscc, both R"puDiican and Demos
cratic, can easily dlspcI it's clouds, for
Northern men can aud do live in Ten
ncsNcc as safely as in any Northern
State If the local parrish ship of
both the prominent parties lave over.
colprcd their stock Of political wares
and our commonwealth suffered there
hy in the past, the press of both par
ties can easily erase all such bad er-
fleets. Bat the principles of honor
which uhderlle the honest payment OF
puhllc debts must exist, must take def
mite shape III the form Of equitable
State legislative enactnentS, must be
come n living element in the heart Of
The commonwealth, or there Is no
hope. The press Of neither party can
whijcwash over the violation of living
principles, that are the corncr>stoncs--
The very foundation Of every success
lul uommUu"calth.
The people of ii State may be full Of
wliM they may call religious senll
mcnt, indeed over religious, like the
SPAN and Italy Of the past, but it will!
not save them from the dry rot and
State bankruptcy.
Righteousness in daily Iifc--in trade
and ,commercc-in the financial and
political affairs Of the State and the in
dividual-in the moral and the inlel-
lec,ual world--thesc only can make o
State prosper 1t must he the lounda-
ton and cap>stonc Ut the State, nation.
or empire, or financial ruin and gen
,ral overthrow OF civil rights an,l fran,
uhscs is The result
No State can offer greater induce
Incn,s ,o emigration than Tennessee.
We have thousands of acres OF land
well adapted to the growth of wheat
and other crops, that are lying idle.
that can he had at prices varying from
50 to Sl5 per acre, and this, not in II
"howliny Wilderness" but ready for
immediate cultivation!
Thousands of acres of land adapted
to stock growing aud frui; culture. tina,
can he purchased AT from Soc to 50
per acre! We have advantages hy
competing railroad lines, and conve-
nrnre to the seaport cities of the Al.