Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-12
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MARyvILLE, Tenn, jury 8, 1SS

NAM AiAIAA4, LENN.g July o, IcC1
MIR. EDITOR: Your correspondent
''Aitch, in the CHRONICLE of yesterday,
complains that my letter of the 18th ultimo
is rather rough on the g poor country folks
when he'll ]says the widest rumors were cir
cu.ated." &c. If he will have the kindness
to turn back to that letter, and think for a
moment, I'm sure that he will fail to find
where l was trough" on country folks,
town folks, poor folks, white folks, rich,
folks, black folks or any other folks. as a
class. How could l be rough ON country
folks? Ny infancy. childhood and youth
was spent on Ellijoy, the land of 'the red
hunt,ng shirt" L am one of the ''red hunt
ing shirt boys myself; have worn them day
after day, and / doubt very much whether
"Aitch" ever did! Could l despise my
birth, mock at the playmates of my
youth and forget the tenderest memories of
my life (? wrote of some of these same
things in the letter referred to by catch"
but he fails to see that portion of it. Nobody
has said anything about "outside barbar-
ians" but ''Aitch" himself
| said, "Some of the widest rumors
have gone out over the country in regard to
these ordinances"
Is that rough on anybody? Is it concern
ing the country people? 1t was certainly
not intended or thought of in any such
sense and how Aitch" put that construct
ion on it, is more than l am able to COM
prehend. Every word of it was true AS
to where these rumors originated, or who
was responsible for them I said not a
word but | can and do now say frankly
that think that many exaggerated and
even untrue stories in this regard had their
origid in town.
Now, as to this ordinance in regard to
hitching, as it has been a subject of the
most outrageous exaggeration, allow me to
around lots, particularly in the most bust
ness and public part of the town, were
almost daily eaten and torn down by horses
hitched to them.
Some of the citizens complained, and
have been credibly informed that few
have taken the liberty to go along their
fences and deliberately turn horses loose. 1t
Is hardship on a person who is dependent
on little lot for supply of vegetables, to
have the fence enclosing it. torn down and
the garden left to the mercy of the outside
world. Besides it is expensive to keep up a
fence where it is daily torn down, as some
of these were at times and there it is GER
tainly very great inconvenience for a per-
son to ride number of miles from the
country or anywhere else, and when they
start home find that their horse is loose and
gone. So the commissioners adopted the
following ordinance:
Section 35. Be it further ordained That
whoever shall hitch any horse or other ami
NAL to any fence, building, or shade tree
within this taxing district, where the owner
or person having control of the same has
placed up sign in plain letters, g Hitching
to this fence (building or shade tree, as the
case may be) forbidden" shall be guilty of
n misdemeanor.
That is the only ordinance that was pass
ed, and the only one that was proposed.
The story that stock had to be taken to
Krk's livery stable, and that it could not
be hitched inside the taxing district, was a
mere idle rumor, and was never even pro-
posed before the commissioners. 1t may
be the gentleman referred to in "Aitch's +"
letter told such thing, cannot answer for
him, but if he did imagine it was on the
belief that it would not be believed, and was
told for amusement have no excuse or
apology to make for him Ny statements
are made from the words.
Another principle is manifested IN
!" Aitch's" letter, which ] desire TO notice