Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-12-04
FROm COLUmnIA.

ct HdS nufIteI up our WluteE dctlN
ties, and we have for several day
been in the midst Of scenes usual I
us only in mid-winter. The way
of railroad are past finding on
but our people have suffered great
of late for want of transportation 70
their produce and fuel. We hav
been in the midst of coal famine
and our country cousins being il
deep sympathy with us have com
to our relief at an advance of abou
seventy-five cents per load for wood
The amount of hogs, horses ant
mules, shipped from this county i
wonderful. The square has beer
well nigh blockaded with cotton TO
two months. The dry goods anC
grocery trade mas had no parallel il
the history of the city, and a gen
eral tide of thrift is manifest il
every department of commerce.
The papers are coming from every
direction with accounts of Thanks.
giving Day, the services, turkeys
dances, religious candy pulling's
and suspended business.
The New York Tribune poisoned
what might have been a very read
able editorial by heading his list OF
beneflctions with the election OF
Garfield to the presidency. /
wouldn't care If that editors turkey
had been subjected to Tanners fare
for the forty days next preceding
his unwilling sacrifice to that
partizan stomach. The election of
Garfield delights a party, but the
bounteous goodness of providence
concerns and should make glad fifty
million of freemen. The partizan
spirit that prompted that editor has
doubtless provoked many a good
christian not of his politics to disre-
gard this call for a nations grateful
expression.
We have the grandest country on
earth. 1t does not lie in the thick
ribbed ice-bergs of the Polar region,
or beneath the burning sun of the
tropics, but between. 1t has the
blessings and fruits of all climates
and seasons. Though we have pass
ed through a disgraceful family
fight, we had it all to ourselves, and
to-day our condition as a nation
the admiration of the
world, compared with any, or all
the nations of the earth, we are the
nation. Many time has the head
Of Great Britain ached because she
us representation. What
tributary we would have been to
her treasury! Loaded to the guard
with debt, and constantly expect
ing war she holds herself on war
iooting, while we guard the inter-
ests of this great nation with twenty
i've thousand troops, and they kept |
mainly on our frontier. Our pro-
AUCTIONS are prodigious. American |
oil will yield this year about three
thousand million dollars worth of |
and we will probably ex-
bort two hundred and fifty millions |
If bushels of grain. This will not |
,nly bring us money, but that |
which is infinitely more important,
men. These are the true source of |
/ nations wealth. God wants a
hundred million of people to come |
,ver and enjoy these cheap, rich |
ands, and the blessings afforded by |
he genius of our American institu-
ions, and this expectation is the in
to them to come. We very |
sneer at foreigners, but |
lmong the many tramps who have
Knocked at my door of late there
vas not foreigner to be found. |
Their industry and economy are
that have enriched |
hem and our national treasury.
some timid souls tremble when
hey think of Romanism and Jesuit
SIN, but the transforming power
in the genius of our re-
publican government is our safe
.uard. Then, we are christian
Iation. With our seventy-five or
lightly thousand churches, with as
many ministers, and sittings for
hirty million of our people, this
nay be truly called a christian
And we are cultured.
Why not? About one hundred and
lightly thousand school teachers,
With about one hundred and thirty
housand public schools; six thou
and newspapers read by at least
of our population why
hOuld we not be cultured. To at
ribute all these blessings to party
uccess or statecraft is an absurdity.
there is nothing in states
lanship, especially the statesman
hip of to-day, to bring about or
such native blessings as
re now enjoy. 1t is God interweav-
We recognize him and He
,lesses US.
l close with this expression of re-
ret: l am truly sorry that a de-
Gated party cannot feel the interest
n a national thanksgiving equal to
he responsibility resting upon them
o be thankful. If. this remain IN
tdtu quo, fear the republican party
will wax fat and kick, while the
democrat party, for want of the ex-
rcise of this means of grace will
ackslide. This is by no means the
etter my heart had indited when l
licked up my pencil.
Il. j. DUNCAN.
Columbia, Tenn, Nov. y, 80.
Hon. Alex. RagweII.
In all the publications of the
names of the representative in the
lext legislature, we notice that the
christian name of our fOater from