Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-02-10
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4 From Rev. A. T. GoodIoe
, While there are strong ties tina
bind me to every charge eve
served. still it has never been my
desire to be returned to my Ole
field Of labor after having been APP
pointed to another; but for yeai
or more, have been devising plans
to make raid TOR a few days into
Eouthside circuit. Many of those
Southsiders am particularly anx.
ious TO see, and would be pleased
to see them all. And | want to see
the churches again. and the parson-
age. Two of the best churches OF
that charge were built during my
Dastorate there, and the parsonage
purchased /; and all paid for, except
a small remnant of debt, compare
lively, on the CoIlinsville church.
The brethren deserve and have the
credit of theseimportant enterprises,
and yet it gratifying to know that
/ did nothing to defeat the noble
designs of the friends of Christiani-
ty. This preacher and family first
lodged in the parsonage, as such,
and in Martha's Chapel and Col
linsville church he first proclaimed
the glad tidings of salvation. OF
these things it is pleasant to think
and speak, and many other pleas
ant experiences and incidents might
be mentioned, while with the CO.
operation of noble board of breth-
rem, we were shaping and strength
ening, as best we could, the Walls
of Zion.
All of the churches are equally
dear to me, but Salem was the par
sonage church, and the house at
which my family necessarily wor-
shipped most, and so / believe, per-
mission being granted, l will call
together the tribes of Israel at that
point.
Douglass circuit, this my third
year, continues TO be a most agreea-
BILE charge to me. The people are
refined and intelligen educational
facilities for my smaller children
are ample, and numerous convent
ences are at hand, such as the rail
road, post-office, mill, turnpike, tel
egraph, express, telephone and so
forth. This is all very much to my
liking, and oftentimes does the
thought come up, that here we will
make permanent settlement.
Well, our man Russell was some
what in the rear, according to the
figures the eagle did not ''soar
aloft," nor the sun stand still at the
inauguration. Just after the cleo
ton, saloon keeper who was
elected from Thompson's Station
last spring, by the enforcement of
the fOur-mile law, had another
whisky-shop opened there, in bra
zen defiance of the law and the au-
thorities. The whisky faction, as
he doubtless thought, having car
ried the day, he believed that no
one would dare modest him in so
popular an enterprise. But the
same backbone that was there to
march him out before, was there to
repeat the performance, and out he
went.
1t would become the present leg
islature to make vigorous advances
in the direction of prohibition. Has
it the principle and courage to do
it? What means the rumor, in the
mouths even of Good Templars, that
| the time has not come for Il prohi-
bition movement What is this
grand old democracy lit for, if it
is not going to protect the property
and peace and lives of the people :?
What simpleton does not know that
| whisky Is the most inveterate foe
of these high prerogatives? 1t is
disgrace to the civilization of the
age, and the Craftsmanship of this
great republic, that whisky making
and selling is allowed The time
not yet to prohibit it! The time
not yet to raise the war-cry against
the most satanic despot that ever
crushed the liberties, and despised
the inalienable rights of man Alas
| for our principles Alas for our
courage! When will the time
come? and when will we be ready
for the emergency? The dominant
party will be driven from the field
ere long, if it dares not grapple with
this great problem. We must push
this subject upon our leaders, and
in way to make them understand
that we are in earnest. Let the cry
keep ringing out through ali the
land, Down WITH WHISKY!
The committee on temperance, at
the late session OF the Tennessee
Conference, offered the following
resolution, which was passed unan-
imously, and to which l wish you
would in some way call the atten-
ton of the Legislature
Resolved, That we are in full
sympathy with the advanced legis-
lation of our State, in opposition to
the traffic in spirituous liquors, and
that our legislative authorities be
respectfully urged to extend the
benefits OF the present laws to all
corporations of five hundred inhab-
itants or less.
We still prize the CHRONICLE
very highly, and return thanks to
you for its weekly visits.
A. T. G.
West Harpeth, Tenn.
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I4th Tennessee Regiment.
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