The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-09-24

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bondage, that has driven hope from
the heart, lustre from the eye and the
rose tint Of health from the cheek. 1t
will find in the factories a numberless
army of boys and girls, their lives
crushed out by cruel taskmasters in
the din and Sdinge Of the workshop,
brain and Drawn consumed in these
seething furnaces of human greed and
rapacity.
After the Mail and Express surveys
this aggregation of woes and provides
for their relief, then a tour to our
"benighted State" bringing with it the
requisite amount OF sympathy and
benevolence, will be in order.
The Mail and Express suddenly
breaks off, to resume again, from its
lurid contemplation of the woes that
beset Tennessee on account Of the
lease system, and displays, in u most
wanton manner, the "true inwardness"
of its exasperations and highly colored
aspersions of Tennessee. 1t is fearful
that the extra session will give the
election laws such q direction as "to
disiranchise Republicans without dis
turbing Democrats, all for the sole pur-
/ pose of preventing "about fifteen
thousand Republicans in the Second
Congressional district from voting for
r John G. Houk" and thus securing the
, election OF Gen. Williams. Disfranchis-
, ing a whole party and leaving the
elective franchise right of the other
{ intact and undisturbed is an impossi-
: BILE feat OF legislation, that the craziest
= lunatic and the most stupid dolt
| would at once deride. 1t is plain to
| be seen that the whole article was
= written to present John G. Houk's
case before the country, and to arouse
p the prejudices and sympathies OF the
l.
Republicans in his favor, that there
6 will be no trouble to get the Doodle
p necessary to buy his election. No
:. election law that can be framed will
have any appreciate effect upon an
election in the Second Congressional
district.
|
But the close OF the article shows
that the writer is poet and raphsodist
4 of no mean order, even if he be COM
{ PEELED to sacrifice truth to maintain
: the harmony OF his silver measures
{ Here him sing:
y "The State OF Tennessee is not pre-
} senting just now very edifying spec
U tacle to her sister commonwealth
/ One of the richest and fairest States in
i the Union, with resources that have
g scarcely yet begun to be developed
II with soil and climate unsurpassed il
y the world, with scenery as picturesqu,
u as can be found upon the continent
e and with population in much 0
u the State hardy, honest, strong, in
g telligent and deeply religious-witl
= all these advantages, to what deptl
" OF degradation has Democratic rul
Is brought the grand old State OF AndreV
u Jackson and Parson Brownlow. Add
IL eating its sovereign functions to Goa
III company for 100000 u year! Defet
re by few resolute laborers, its militi
ie soundly whipped and captured, AM
w. its Governor forced into truce! Sci
IS ing the bodies and souls Of men il
or trusted to its care in order to save
g. mill on the dollar in the tax levy"
W. And so endeth the next to the las
at verse in the mixed plaintive and heroi
lp melodies of this sweet singer. Ye
TO Tennessee is "a grand old State" in
IN deed. A child of the revolution, he
ne history is interviewer with the proude'
ne memorials of the seven years struggI
Sc for independence, With her Lindsay
&c and Doaks to do her praying, and hi
'rC Robertsons, Shelbys, SEWERS an
Is "hardy mountaineers" to do her figh
10 ing, her foundations were laid broa,
10 wide and deep, and she has grown int
~ beautiful and symmetrical Stat
IS, hood, radiant with the rising sun
'te the New Era and the bursting promise
ny Of the future. In all the wars tn;
le- have redeemed the land she has VIC
OIL and maintained the proud title of II
Is "Volunteer State" In the PantheC
elr of the loved and immortal sleep thrC
nd Presidents and long line of me
OF whose names shine with eternal re
sss plendence in the coronal OF fame, ar
Tie whose escutcheon is lustered with
10 glory that Spartan fields meyer kne'
We But Tennessee has had her hand
OF caps, draw backs and difficulties I'll
Ye' vultures Of prey have consumed HI
ng substance. She has been in the clutc
OF OF those who had no reverence for I'll
IN glories Of her past and no interest in HI