Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-09-01
Origin OF the State of Tennessee.

Origin OF the State of Tennessee.
The Memphis Appeal gives cor
respondent the following answer to
the question, "What was the origin,
and what the political sources of the
State of Tennessee?"
The State of Tennessee was the
result of several revolutions or
rebellions, ofmany heroic enterprises,
much suffering and bloodshed and of
steady persistence in purpose after
independence fixed in the hearts of
the pioneers from the very first, and
of antecedent circumstances having
their origin in the reformation,
CrOmwelPs commonwealth, and later
in the constitution of John Locke,
which, though failure, encouraged
liberty. The spirit of the first settlers
on Albemarle's sands was a living
influence with James Robertson,
John Sewer and Evan and Isaac
Shelby and those who followed them
as soldiers and settlers. Rude and
unlettered, though most of them were,
these people were guided by the high
and infiexible purpose which lead
their fathers to brave the passage of
the Atlantic-a dreadful ordeal in
those days-and encounter the hard.
ships Of life in new country, made
harder by the constant warfare waged
by the Indians, rather than in Ire.
land live under conditions of semi
savagery, of uncertain tenure of land
and improbable industries, the prey
of government whose principal
purpose in that unhappy country was
to encourage anarchy by fostering re.
ligious intolerance and bigotry, to
prevent the spread of intelligence by
surrounding primary education with
intOlerable tests, and to hinder all
enterprise by laws that hampered
trade and manufactures, and that a
spirited people could not comply
with. Sturdily' independent they
preferred toface the unknown troubles
and trials Ofthe American wilderness,
rather than be slaves themselves, or
be the instruments of brutalizing
system of government in forcing
slavery on others. They brought
with them the love of order, unity
and concord that had preserved them
in all their encounters with the
opponents Of their faith, and planted
the Presbyterian Church, and a
college on enduring foundations
while yet the Wautauga settlement
was in the throes and agonies ofbirth
Stern, unbending and unyieldingly
brave, they were a deeply spiritua
people, and their cravings for ligh
and guidance on the inevitable
journey which all must take, was a
strong and as pressing for satisfaction
as any of the needs of the body. A
plain, practical and undemonstrativ,
people, they were convinced through
their form of church government
that Bishops, Priests and Kings wer
non-essentails, either in church O
state. They were ingrained thorough
Republicans. Their experiences il
founding and continuing tn
Wautauga and Cumberland settle
ments, and maintaining the state G
Franklin, strengthened the conviC
tons of the inherent right of sell
government and fastened tn
establishment of the State. Whe
Blount and Cooke and Andrew Jack
son entered Congress, then sitting i
Philadelphia, already a city note
for its elegant society, and its literar
and scientific associations, they wei
able to say that four colleges and
great many supplementary logschoo
houses were in operation in the ne,
State, that its people were lawabiC
ing and industrious, enterprising an
self-supporting, and that already II
nucleus of the manufacturing, an
commercial and agricultural indu
tries which now assure her hig
place among her sisters in the UniC
had been formed under promisir
circumstances. There were,
course, few water mills for grindir
corn, some iron works on a small an
very crude scale; and two or thr