Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-09-04
Under the Auspices Of the Coco TempIars.
Heads aad Tail.
WE. 5.


fwere Won in the Confederate
srmy9" said Ito a middle aged man
the other day.
"No cir" said he, ~ was a cripple,
was grated seventeen times, and seven
teen examining boards exempted ner
I thought Of one draft in New York
State and It's reception.
Bald Confederate prisoner in the
North to his Federal guard who had
once been prisoner in the South.
Had we learned OF the vast resources,
you northerners have, we would not
have fought you" "And So" replied
the Federal, ahad We known the hard
ships, starvation and losses you would
heroicslly endure, and the courage you
would display, we would not have I'M
dertsken to fight you.
Neither section knows or appreciates
the other, each has generally moral,
intellectual. thrifty class, capable OF gov
erning, and also each has its illiterate,
class untitled TO partake in gov
eminent. But the strangest thing is
that in each section each class is called
by the name Of the other. The two
sections are like two dogs standing side
by side, headed in opposite directions.
Each sees nothing OF the other but his
tail. and, hence, despises him. Each
party is made up OF very good head
at home, Ond disgustingly bad tail
over in Its neighbours face. Each Sec
ton Of the country has its class whose
supremacy would be injurious 10 the
interests of good government; yet each
intelligent part insists upon fostering
its illiterate counterpart upon the. in
telligence ofthe other section.
Ministers, or college professors, are
unusually fair samples c. the best citizen
ship in their communities. When To-
gether they usually agree so far as to
getquite happy and fraternal. On all
subjects but one you could not tell
them apart.
In the North probably know 1000
Methodist ministers. In that number
never knew but one Democrat, and
he was expelled from the church for
larceny. Whether his Democracy had
to do with his crime. I cannot
say. After living in the South for five
years, among the hundreds of equally
prominent and devoted ministers OF
The Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
have found but one who was a Re-
and he is dead. Whether
here was any connection between his
and his death, cannot
'ay. Again, fourIyears ago overheard |
college professor, former member OF
he State legislature, conversing with
'omelof his Democratic friends. Said
le: "If / we're in the North should
be a Republican. A few years ago |
attended the meeting ofthe National
Teachers Association in the White
Mountains. So far as I got acquainted
with the thousand teachers and their
friends, and listened to their discussions.
found myself in the utmost harmony
md agreed with them, save on one
point To my utter establishment and
heir shocking dismay, found that / |
vas the only Democrat among them"
From these two experiences, learned
his fact, that the moral and intellectual
orces OF the two sections are ignorant
y and blindly srrayed against each |
'ther. With illiteracy suffocating the
south, and with Socialism cankering
he North, and with Rum dominant
md defiant everywhere, it is a sight to
make angels weep and demonds shout
o see the sober, moral, intelligent, law
hiding. best classes of the country
ocking their horns over nothing, while |
niquity triumphs.
Said most excellent Christian gen.
leman. "You Northener cannot
appreciate the strait in which we tenn
'erance Democrats are. We want Pro-
libition just as much as do you. Hav.
ng intelligence and morality, and cast
ng two-thirds Of the votes of the State,
We are rightfully in power. Part of us
Democrats are for Prohibition, and
art against it. II we divide on Prohi-
lition as political issue in the coming
lection. the ignorant adventurer-led
olored vote will rule u.s."
Said I: "At the North, we who were
nee Republicans had foreign vote
opposed to us every whit as distasteful,
nd to our imagination as disastrous, as
ven you dreamed negro rule to be
he vote is the Northern wing OF your
democratic party, and is the pronounc-
d bulwark of the rum traffic. For the
axe of reaching enforced Prohibition
nd the ultimate destruction of the