The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-01-25
THE MORRISTOWN GAZETTE
WEDNESDAY. JAN. IS. 1882.
THE oLoRToUs FUTURE.


on the contrary side. The sooner
the country car get rid of such nuis-
ances the better. 1t can be safely
said that the country, the whole
country, never had brighter future
than is now before it. Never had
it such bright and cheering pros
poets. All classes of our fellow-citi-
zens ought to be sensible and CRATE
ful enough to see and admit 1T.
There is not a single evidence OF a
decline in businessmen one symp-
tom of a retrogade movement. The
stalwart business mind of the coun-
try is stronger in its hopes and as
pirations than the oldest citE.en has
ever witnessed, and is more thor
oughly equipped for an aggressive
movement in business. The con-
viction of success is apparent on all
hands. The humblest citizen feels
it and shows it in his eountenance
and in his movements.
There is evident dawning of a
new era-the precursor of better
and more prosperous times. The
country has passed the Rubieon of
its danger-the effects of the late
internecine strife of the two sections,
and how destructive that was to ev-
cry material interest, let the past
sixteen years attest. The prejudi
ces-the iealOusies, heart burnings
and malovolent passions, which were
engendered by that strife, well nigh
ruined and blighted all pursuits.
These, in a great measure, have dis
appeared, only kept alive By few
disconnected spirits who never will
become reconciled to the new order
of things. The middle wall of par
titionT between the two sections has
been efectually broken down and
the two peoples, long estranged by
their passions, have, at last, wit
messed their own folly and consent
ed to think more charitably of each
other. Nothing now can intervene
to disturb these quiet and peaceable
relations, and, as the years come
and go, the bond of union will be-
come stronger and more indissolu-
bic.
In this happy condition of things
it is not hard, by any means, to
prognosticate the future. Patriot
ism will take the place of disloyalty,
enterprise that of inertness, quiet
that of wrangling and determined
purpose to succeed in business that
of poverty and desolation. Hereto
fore the great sections alluded to
have consumed their precious mo-
ments in abusing each other. Now
they are spending them in elaborat-
ing and maturing plans and appi-
anees for the development of the in
dustrial interests of all sections of
the union. The spirit of noble
and generous emulation is every
where notorious. The Northern
and Southern mind are standing
side by side in the grand work of
promoting, sustaining and fostering
industry. Their newspapers are
full oft. The public mind is full of
it. The lecturer, the politician on
the hastings and the preacher in the
pulpit are full of it. Everybody Is
3 full of it. III
Are there not, too, unmistakable
evidences abroad of this state of
thingsP For example pause mo-
ment and take survey of the rail-
road world What an upheavel has
there been in this respectl 1t baf-.
fies belief. 1t staggers our senses.
We can't realize the herculean
strides which railroads have made
in the last few brief years. They
are stretching from one side Of the
continent to the other, trayersing
distant territories, sweeping down
from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexi-
co and putting every city in the
Union within the reach of every
American citizen. And still they
are multiplying on all hands.
And wat are these railroads do
ing for the country We some
times abuse them and no doubt they
deserve it i'm many Instances; yet
without them what would be our
condition2 Can we afford to go
back to the ancient form of locomo-
tion2--the road wagon and the
stage coach? They are the great
factors of our wealth. Te them we
are indebted for our extensive and
fabulous commerce.. Through the
immense channels which they have
Z created, they have borne to distant
markets our varied productions.
They have opened up the fine lands
of athe great West whose produc-
tons are today bringing into our