Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-08-22
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future, and all will yet be well"
] pause to ask if in all the wisdom
the wise--the utterances of the sag
of the
MAxIMS OF THE PHILOSOPHER
or the Vaccinations of the proph
wiser words than these are possible
such an occasion as inspired then
They were not lost upon the peoI
for whom they were spoken, and a
here to tell you of the new South
and how this rich legacy has been p
out at interest, to bring back its hu
dred lold of reproduction-instead
being hidden away like the talent
the unthrifty servant in the parab
"When | speak of my countr.
said John Randolph, Il mean the Coz
monwealth of Virginia" When
speak OF the New South / mean Il
OLD SOUTH IN A NEW DRESS,
and she now stands before the civilizt
world, stronger, happier, brave
healthier, harder and more self re
ant than ever before. | mean "no pei
up Utica" of Gulf States, or Atlant
States, or Central States, but all ii
States that were lately slave and no
are free. All that passed under tt
were scouFgcd by the tread of hosti
armies. All whose commerce, capit
and labor were extinguished or d,
moraiized by that horrid carnival
butchery and blood. And this include
the great State on whose historic so
stand tonight. Her heart went OF
of the Union with her Southern sii
ters, but her head stayed III it wit
the traditions of the fathers. Th
famous geometrician of Syacus
thought he had invented Il lever whic
with somethingte To rest upon, could lii
up the, world and raplace it some
where else in the universe. But eve
the lever of the Archimedes was nc
powerful enough to have lifted th
consecrated bones of old Henry Cha
out o. the American Union. And
say now, that the annals of civilization
can furnish no example of transtigu
ration so complete, SO magical and S
marvellous as
THE PICTURE THE SOUTH PRESENT
TODAY
in contrast with its utter desolatior
twenty years ago.
Let us contemplate the contrast jus
for moment. There was not to b
found single line of railway the wa
had left unbroken; not a respectable
factory at work; not furnace in blast
not plantation that had escaped TIN
spoilers of one or the other army; no
a mine in all our vast coal and iron
copper and other mineral deposits, il
healthy operation; not quarry tha
was not as still as graveyard. Th'
genius OF education was paralyZed ant
dead. The splendid farms were vast
places-with much of the farming
population crowded into the cities ans
towns.
COTTON AND COMMERCE
were no longer kings-but gunpowdeI
had just closed its disastrous reign
And to crown all this, labor system
we then thought the best in the world
was destroyed, while thousands O
contented and well fed laborers were
demoralized by the sudden boon o
freedom, which came as an incident
of war-;lll metamorphosed in day
into an army OF the most enthusiastic
politicians the world ever saw. 1t was
a goodly sight for the angels to sec
how this kindly race enjoyed the new
born freedom, and what they thought
it meant. But it is even a goodlier
sight to see to-day how the whole South
rejoices that they are free. In the
twinkling of an eye, they are all in
dying like Lazarus, by
slow degrees, but translated like Enoch
"No more hard work for poor old Ned
He's gone where de good niggers CO."
And this, with some, was the idea oil
freedom under the glowing promises
OF the
CARPETBAG ARISToCRACY,
not one of whom, thank God, now re-
mains OIL our desecrated soil.
But mark the mighty change which
mind and muscle and self-reliance,
born of the necessities of the hour,
have wrought. Old railways have been
made new, and new lines built count
ing their miles of transportation by
the thousands. New and magnificent
factories, embracing every conceivable
phase of industrial art, are to be seen
in many OF the Suites. The desolation
of the corn and cotton belt has been
supplanted by the hum of thrifty toll.
The farmers have gone back to their
farms. The quarries and mines of our
vast mountain ranges are echolng to
the music of the blast, the pick and the
hammer. Our wonderful water power
is everywhere being utilized.
THE SCHOoLMASTER,
God bless him, is abroad in the land.
Free schools and seminaries of learn
ing for both races are to be seen in ey-
cry hamlet, built and maintained by
public taxes. And what is of infinite
importance to all our industries, and
10 the peace and happiness of our So
cial fabric-the colored population,
whose fidelity, affection and forbear-
lnce during the war can never be for
yotten-are finding out that their old
masters and their descendants are their
BEST AND TRUEsT FRIENDS
1t last, and year by year are becoming
more thrifty, intelligent contented and
happy. Verify, indeed, Mr.. President,
"Sweet are the uses of adveI sity,
Which, like a toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet precious Jewel in his head. !"
II the war had done nothing more
han stimulate this spirit of self-reli-
lnce, dash and enterprise among the
Southern people, and extinguish the
ethargy inseparable from our old aris-
ocratic institutions, we might almost
the crime and injustice that
,ame along with it, and accept the sem
iment OF General Grant, that it was
worth all it cost US, fearful as was that
,ost.
1t is right to love ones own country
Ibove all others; then it is excusable, if
lot laudable, to praise it. The Baron
honterguiess used to say CT bis native
and, that, of all the world, France was
he country to live in. Germany, he
aid, was the country to travel in; Italy
o soiourn in; England to think in;
,ut France was the country to live in.
We Americans are prone to believe
hat
OURS IS THE COUNTRY
either to travel in, TO sojourn in, to
hink in or to live in, as it embraces in
Is vast and variegated area OF field and
crest, climate, production, mountain,
,Iain, prairie, lake, river, cavern and
the beauty, the variety, the
,lory of all the world beside.
IA ,,oxv NJ proeidans ,,,,,af o,,h