Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-02-12
HON. "sUNsET" COX ON THE HE
BILL.

nuIfiOI WHICH tftN StAOOcNo . JUL AAC 70
none the less deep in breadth of his
statesman like views, and the vast
extent OF his Information when he
buckles down to the more serious
affairs of congress. His speech in
congress last week upon the ssRe-
apportionment of Representatives
in congress among the several states
under the 10th census" was grand,
broad and national, while his care
full preparation of the facts to sup
port it, @s shown by his speech be-
fore us, was completely exhaustive
and uncontrovertible by those who
may oppose his bill. His speech
was manly, national and conserva-
tive. In reply to those who have
made fierce and bitter attacks upon
the south in connection with the
new apportionment, he said:
Are we of the East and North to
have no pride in these victories be-
cause won over western and south
ern soil and climate by the hand of
toll? May we not raise our hymn
of praise to that Providence which
has lifted the fallen south from the
slough Of dependency The vani-
ty which swaggers over z fallen foe
will soon be forever vanquished by
patriotic love so that we may say
with Whittier:
No victor's pride in ours,
Who bend above our triumph won,
Like David DER his rebel son.
The victories in which our pride
is reused are those over woodland
and lake, pararie and gulf, and
mountain and river, achieved by
the energy of our whole people,
with their varying intensity of
settlement" over our vast area
Sensible on other topics, some of
our philosophers refuse to believe
in the census of their own locality
or section, unless its growth tall 5
with the dreams of their prophetic
souls. Unless the returns disparage
a rival section or party, they are in
credulous of the most authentic re-
suits.
Notwithstanding the rapid and
wild internal changes Of the coun
try, defying previous calculation,
the sanguine patriot denounces the
cencus as partisan or partial if it
does not fill his extravagant vati-
cinations. Was it not SO in 1870 !?
Philadelphia then Dragged of $780,
900 or $4,000 /; the return was Co.,
277. A new census showed GA ,022,
or q per cent. greater a normal
increase. A second census Was ta-
ken in 1870, for New York. 1t de-
VelOped per cent. only increase
since the first census. This was ae-
counted for by the births between
June, 1870, and January, 1871. St.
Louis complained of the present
census. 1t was retaken and by the
chief complainant. The result vim
Dictated the office and was satisfacto-
ry to all.
| SOUTH CAROLINA RETURNS.
Yet, in despite of all this care and
labor, complaints were made against
the accuracy of the population re-
| turns from certain states, mainly
| South Carolina. 1t was Il partisan
cIamor against its own party. 1t
was accounted for at once; not by
the stupendous growth of the state,
or portions of it, since 1870, but by
the spurious and negligent returns
! of 1870. The census of 1870 was la
ken in the south by idle, if not cor
rupt, dependans on party patronage.
| What cared they for the good and
progress of these states ? Wherever
they could record names-at camp
meetings, musters, or political meet
ings-they did so in their illiterate
way, and drew their pay.
4 Ii there were no general reasons
for this marvellous southern growth,
we cannot resist the testimony OF
republican officials, thrice verified,
as to the present condition of South
Carolina.
And in conclusion he said
Still, in spite of this denoraliZa-
ton in its worst aspect, it may be
answered who shall compete with
us in our abundant harvests, our
rich balances of trade, our increase
in commerce and expansion of labor
our influx ,af precious metals, and
our own ineXhaustible mines OF
coal, copper. gold and silver our
unexampled expectation and our
stupenduous Accommodation
and their incomes and outgOes by
rail, canal, lake, river and sea our
| inventive faculty, with its miricleS
of manufacture and above all and
beyond all, what can rival the star
which as it moves westward from
| ever-reneWing centers OF a restless
population has in a century, added
IL 200, 900 to its active energies?
Again, it may be said, that with
tendency to corruption and decay,
where is the warrant that this inn
mense gathering of figures and facts
in a census for the splendid general
izltions of political philosophy will
not prove a dead aggregation of
mere material facts and not a vital
izing and ennobling principle of
civilization ? That warrant is in
virture, schools, and intelligence of
the people, who, receiving their in
heritance of natural wealth, endoW-
ed in the aeons past, by wealth, have
transmitted it beyond the dreams of
alchemy into manifold and magnif-
icent values, spreading their do
main since 1890 from a little strip
along the Atlantic into continental
proportions, reaching from sea to
sea. These extraordinary advances
in greatness and glory are due tothe
representative system which strikes
no name. however humble or Deepen
dent, from its roster of nationality.
France and Spain may indulge in
their revolutions Russia and Ger
many may tremble before commun-
istic and nihilistic terror5; England
may boast of her rule in Asia, Ami
ca and Ireland, and proudly echo
the praise which her laureate law
ishes on her, as
A land of settled government,
A land of just and old renown,
Where freedom broadens slowly down,
From precedent to pnmhedent;
but she has no popular representa-
ton in her Parliament founded on
the people. 1t was left for usher
colinies-a century ago, in this new
hampshire, and in a written consti-
tuition, to erect monument, high
and splendid, around the temple of
our liberty, and guard it, with
unity and force which the division
and variety made by mountain and
river, and the strong passion of hos
tile armies, could not sever. By it
our composite society is assured of
protection, stability and progress.
In rearing this imminent every
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