Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-04-07

and ever shall right be uppermost.
anu ever snail Justice be done"
Inc idea conveyed is reitreation
OF the old truth that the ages have
attested, "the mills of the Gods
grind slowly, !but they grind ex-
ceeding SMALL" Both give a bles-
sed promise to the oppressed and
o1er soothing JUNCTION to those
who have long suffered injury and
injustice.
1t may have been right that the
wager of battle was against the
South IN the late war. II the liber.
alton Of the slaves could not have
been otherwise accomplished, such
termination of the contest be-
tween the two sections, was in con-
sonance with the principles of truth
and humanity. But the many ills
that the South has been forced
to endure since she laid down
her arms, have done her a great In
justice and worked grievous wrong.
The infamous reconstruction acts,
the reimbursement of hordes of
hostile and illiterate voters and,
above all, the persistent and malig-
nant misrepresentation that have
been made of the South by the
Northern press and people, have
been acts of the greatest oppression.
Thus crippled by great loss of
property, wronged by political out
RACES that made the State govern
ments pray to inscriptions adj
venturers, and constantly libelled
in the most shameful manner, the
South has labored under great dis
advantage. The revolution in the
labor system and the consequent
changes in social customs, also aid
ed in disorganizing affairs at the
South, and did its share towards
the prevention of progress. But in
spite of all this, the South has pros
pered and is rapidly advancing to a
position of power and opulence that
she could never have hoped to at
tain under the old slave regime.
This prosperity will give the lie to
her traducers as well as bring about
the triumph for which her people
have lOnged hoped. The new state
of things is the reward that the
Southern people have worked and
waited for, and "The New South"
is simply the old South in the gala
dress which her industry has made
it practical for her to wear.
About two weeks ago the New
England manufacturers of cotton
Goods, together with the New York
dealers in such fabrics, called on
the railroads for a reduction in
freights to enable them to compete
with the southern factories. The
young adventurer in the manufac-
turing field was developing a
strength that was alarming. The
protected" East and its mills
century old were threatened with
destruction by the ''infant indus
tries" of the South, and the rail-
roads must save them from the i'm
pending fate. But reduction of
freights affords only temporary re-
lief; the triumph of the South has
set in, and the cry that came from
New York marks the beginning of
New Englands decay. Such a re-
suit is inevitable, in the nature of
things, and must come.
These facts are now beginning to |
be acknowledged by the people of
the North and some Northern jour- |
mails that peer into the future of the
country, are specializing as to what |
must be the effect of the Souths pro-
gress. We clip the following from
"The Wine and Ale Vault" pub
lished at Troy, New York.
Before the war cloud rolled over |
the land of the orange and the |
palm, there was not garden hoe, |
an axe, pick, or a spade, we be-
lieVe, made in the whole South. |
They bought everything and made
nothing. They sold their sugar |
and cotton, and the North got their
money. Now, there is nothing |
that the cunning hand of man can |
make that is not made in the South. |
In those days their great water pow
ers ran wasting to the Sea-nOw |
they turn the whirring wheels of a
hundred mills; old mines have |
been worked, and new ones have |
been opened waste lands have been
reclaimed, marshes have been |
drained, and cities have been sew
cred, and where the yellow pesti-
lence lowered it will be seen no
more. While immense foundries,
large cotton mills, machine shops
and distilleries have sprung up, as
If by magic, in dotted lines all
over the South, and thousand of
miles of railroads have been con-
structed, that cross the States like
the spiders web-wOrk. Such in
part is the changes which have
come over the South in the last few
wears. While the seedy and ca
tarrhaI politicians of the North
IldNS DCClA "oNAAAS NAAS OAOONy |
and stirring up the animosities OF
the people of one section of the
country against the other, the
south has been hard at work, labor
ODania Uincit, and their broad acres
that were once rested from year to
wear, are now made to blossom like
the rose, and last season the fertile
soil yielded harvest from Mason
and Dixon's line TO the Gulf of
Mexico, such was never seen in the
South before.
In the same article the following
special notice is made of our own
State.
Tennessee with her 5000 square
miles of coal fields, nearly doubled
her produce of 1880, and her rich
mines of zinc were made to turn
out their wealth, while its noted
quarries were worked to
their full extent, and lime stone,
and sand stone, and photographic
and other stone, added To the wealth
of the State. The iron manufac-
tories of the State have been doub- ;
led Within few years. They are
now building at Chattanooga, one of
the railroad centerS, the largest {