The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-06


now in the political field. We may con-
fidently hope that a sound ''stick"
Will be selected for the new mast OF
our good old .,ship of state"
The forecast of our uncertain fu-
ture denotes great danger or snip
wreck on the rocks of bad citizenship.
Our vital concern should be the
elimination of human traitors, and
staying the tide of intemperance-
Lawlessness is terroriZing whole
communities, and bribery is defeating
the rule of the loyal voters in many
instances.
The combinations of millionaires to
corner the weak, together with the
cramps of tariff and monopoly OF la
bor/render abnorml conditions OF bust
ness and paradoxical inconsistencies
in the ruling prices of the necessities
of life
The bandits of night riders have
gone through the preliminary work o.
burning property and furnishing their
enemies, and commenced the coolest
blooded murder in Obion county, Ten
nessec.
Truly, it is becoming dangerous to
entertain good sentiments, or to think
very loud, in this land of liberty -
and Guerrillas,
In an old copy of the Pittsburg Ga
Zette, dated June 7, 1S49, find COM
ical account OF the county of FentTesS
in Tennessee as narrated by Boston
agent VINO went there to inspect =
large tract of land which had been
Powered up for the market Most OF
the county is on the Cumberland
mountains, elevated = to $ thousand
feet Much Of which would be very
dear at FIVE cents per acre,
70, ~
summit, at an elevation of 5000 feet,
contains 53 inhabitants. while the
whole county may have 1,200 10 1000,
who are mainly clad in the coarseSt
| homespun, and suDsisting mainly on
/ the flesh of sheep, hogs and deer
the mountlineer carrying his gun on
ell occasions.
There is not the beginning Of a
| church in the county-no public
schools, and only one private school
! They have preaching in the court
| house once mOnth-in which there
! is not pane of glass, and which now
| seems to be in uDdisputed possession
Of two sOws and their litters of pigs.
| "A rude opening for light in one
side of their log hute is closed by a
ruder shutter which is fastened by a
leaning rail outside. The door is
generally left open for light and
the smoke blowing about III The tene-
nent makes it disagreeable for a wet
| traveller TO set dry.
/ Surrounded by good fuel close 10
| their doors, these people probably sui
I fer more from cold than the varieSt
poor of cur northern cities.
There are girls ready for marriage
who never saw a pane of glass.
''They rarely see a newspaper, and
are impressed by stump harangues,
but have distr1Ist of furriners,' who
might usury their rights, dissolve the
Union or try to steal the slaves which
they would like to own!
They resist all projects of innova
ton ard Improvement.
at would be impossible for people
accustomed to a higher civilization tc
be satisfied with living as these PEG
pie door to even make as good a
livelihood here as that with which
they seem contented.
ITO live here one should be trained
from 'babyhood to stop a deer at d
hundred yards, sighting the rife al
the very instant of raising /, from
the ground
With all, these people have many
virtues-courage, independence, pa
triotism, hospitality and general in
tNSliby- OIOu4u Tie country ever Ue
seriously menaced by invasion, every
cabin would send forth its deadly
rifle. We do not undervalue them be
cause of differing widely on many
points,
| This agent who had gone to Ten
nessee to view the cheap lands, adj
vBed a Bostonian who already DOS
sessed $4,000 acres of that mountain
olS waste, TO never pay the taxes
thereon, but let it revert back to the
Wild beasts, which are its proper in
habitants
THOS. MCMILLAN.