Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-06-23
A SIcKLY SEKTIMsHTALi1K.

Meriwether's Weekly, of Mem
phis, concurs with the Richmond
(Va.) State in regarding "The South
the Ireland of America" The New
York Sun reprimanded the latter
journal for the expression of such
an opinion and said, ave should
be sorry to believe that the State
expresses the sentiment of any coll
siderable number of Southern citi-
zens of the New Generation" In
reply to this the young gentlemen
who conduct the Weekly took II on
themselves to say: eve are of the
New Generation, and perhaps rep
resent the average youth of the
South, and we are frank to admit ,ce
mink the South is the Ireland of
America"
From this they proceed to draw
very absurd parallel between the
South and Ireland, the absurdity
being all the more comicaI as it is
made in dead earnest to prove the
forlorn condition of this section of
the Union by its supposed similarity
to that of discOnsolate Erin. The
sun very properly remarks that ait
Is useless and foolish to talk 500 and
the editor of the CHRONICLE would
IKE to say that he perhaps repre-
sents the average youth of the
South" and that he sincerely be-
lieves and earnestly hopes that said
average youth concur with the Sun
In pronouncing such sickly senti-
mentality the height of folly.
Inc young men of the South feel
warm sympathy for all of the
political wrongs that the South has
suffered. They will always be leal
TO the memory of the gallant Con-
federates and will allow no traduc-
ing OF the motives that inspired
those heroes of the lost cause; but
such feelings are akin to that SYM
pathy we feel for the tax-oppressed
colonIst before the revolution and
the evergreen memory of the patri-
OTIS who died on Bunker Hill. The
young men of the South are citizens
of the Union and have all the rights
IN the Union that the young men of
New England have. They are de-
termined to exercise those rights
they are courageous and progressive
and spend no time in idle repinings
over false notions about being "op-
pressed" They know that the
South has already been left behind
IN the onward rush because too
much time has been spent in look
ing to the past instead of the future.
they know that ignorance is to be
overcome and wealth acquired be-
fore the South will prosper like the |
North and West and they have set
about to build up the country. No !
more disparaging picture of the
youth of this section could be drawn
man to represent them as simpering
about the oppression of the South {
~ the North" and making sillv
of their own free state
o that of distressed Ireland. We
axe pleasure in saying to the New y
CORK Sun that the United States :"
ontains no more loyal or progress y
We citizens than the young men of q
he South. Their loyalty comes of II
10 cringing spirit but is the exercise "
+ right. They fill an equal sta "
ion in the Union with the Young o
lcn of other sections and intend to D.
ave all the privileges OF such a u
-ation, which cannot be denied ~
hem. M
We would like to remark in clos pr
" this article that what we have
nd of the young men of the South te
pplies in large degree to the older u(
We are all thinking n
bout the development of our coun- 81
y. We own our lands and boy gu
'tting and dynamite are not factors III
our progress. The South is des- ~
ned TO be great country and 10
)nt care 10 be designated the al
lobe OF nations. She is not i'm I'll
ars but making money. ii'