The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1882-06-03
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1T will not be many years before the
country in and around Rugby, and the
gently undulating lands lying between
the Clear Fork and jamestown, will be
taken hp and occupied by contented,
industrious husbandmen, contented be-
cause their wants are easily supplied,
and no inordinate ambition creates un-
real requirements, and because the soil
and location will furnish ample means
Of subsistence industrious because
trained to habits Of labor, and industry
from childhood, and from the feeling
and knowledge that work is not only
necessary, but enjoyable. The major
ity, probably, Of these husbandmen,
will be of old world origin, driven here,
in many instances, by foreign military
despOtisms, or over competition, anu
rhc poculmrities Of English, and Euro
pean continental rural social life, and
hindrances to obtaining land, and sue
cessfully cultivating the same. The
new world opens wide her arms to all
the children of the earth, and yet there
is room.
This southern State of Tennessee,
alone, can find livelihoods for millions
and lands new passed by, neglected,
and scarcely noticed, will, one day, be
coveted, and obtained for homes. The
time is not so far distant, either, when
the tide of immigration will be observed
strongly bent this way; it, already, has
commenced to send a small rlvulet,
which must speedily grow into full
stream, and upon it will come, German
and Swede, English, Irish and Scotch,
and the dollar hunting American from
his inclement northern States, and
when all are here, like the Scotchnan
at home who goes south Of the Tweed,
will stay, and will not go back to Sc.
we're climates, cold soils, military slav.
cries, and over-crowded and over-com-
peting societies.
For a generation the cry has been
ego West" but there is another cry
now being distinctly heard, and it is
ego South" The whole South, with
its incalculably rich and teeming soil
dense forests, and vast stores of minera
wealth, is attracting the attention O
the capitalist, and the immigrant, in
way previously unknown. The aboli
ton of slave institutions, the rightins
of society, with peace, prosperity, ant
reform, upon sound social and politica
foundations, and infusion Of Northern
and European blood, cannot but give
with limitless resources, a lift and boon
throughout the South such as it ha
never before experienced.
The whole South is too big, though
for us to take into consideration W
must cultivate here a little, and ther
a little, and devote our energies to tn
spot of earth upon which we find our
selves cast. In and around Rugby
and across the Clear Fork stream, ar
tens of thousands of acres favored b.
nature far above older and cultivate
sections in Northern and Easter
States. Agriculture may make a BET
ter show, and the fields look fairer, fal
ther north, but it is only because q
more application of energy and knowl
edge. The soil is not so naturall
better, but it has, by science and ar
been mended and assisted. Let th
farmers from those parts come to tn
LANDS about us here-the Cumberlan
plateau-and apply similar remedie
and means of cultivation to those the