Year: 1873

great propriety and safety to the people
to say nothing of the large amount o
expense saved by the tax-navers In nav.
ing jurors, etc. The idea of swearing
twelve men 20 decide a case according d
law and evidence when it Il well under.
st.sod by them that they are to decids
the case according TO the charge Of the
Judge, or, in other words, 70 decide as
the Judge tells thsrh, always seemed
more like farce to me than a trial, SC
far as the Jury were concerned. They
are simply mOuth-piece of the Judge
nothing more or less. Would Il not be
better, then, to dispense with the trial
by jury in all civil suits, and let the case
be tried directly before the Judge and
save the people the great trouble and
| heavy expense Of trying such cases seem
/ iRQty by juries? ] would then favor 3
law dispensing with the trial by jury
in civil cases unless the parties at law
demand jury; if so, grant the jury,
but tax the parties at law with the ex-
pense of the jury. Many hundreds OF
our fellow-citisens never have any liti-
CATION in our courts, and yet under the
present arrangement or practice they
are all the time being taxed to pay the
CAkfEAlcEc VI 0lllNA lf1A It's 1tm-EuDAN,
which seems TO me to be unfair, to say
! the least of it. You must also bear in
mind the fact that our magistrates are
trying similar cases every day without q
! Jury, and if they are competent to de-
eide the law in such cases, il would be
uncharitable to say our Judges were not,
who are supposed to be skilled in the
law from long experience and careful
study. You viii also bear in mind the
fact that do not propose to change the
law in the least so far as the trial by
jury in State or criminal cases IS con-
cerned. 1t is only in the trial of civil
cases that / propose a change. The
farming interest of the country, the
great source of wealth and revenue to
the State, should not be overlooked or
neglected by any means. Full protec-
ton should be given to this interest by
your Legislature, against the abuses of
all privileged corporations or mOnOpo-
lies.


ENCOURAGE MANUFACTURES.


Liberal encouragement should be Civ
en- by your Legislature to the manufac-
turing interest of the State. Nothing
would tend more TO build up our pros
perity as people than to have our man.
UfactUring interest in the State largely
increased. Let us, then, encourage the
building of manufactures in every coun-
ty and suitable lOcalityin the State, and
the time will soon come when we need
not look abroad, or to our enemies, so to
speak, for anything. To be prosperous
as a people, now that our whole labor
system has been changed and disorgan-
lied, We must look more to the manu-
featuring interest of the country, and
cease TO do so much ofthe dirty drudgery
for the manufacturing interest of the
New England States. Work up the raw
material ourselves, should be our motto.


THE cOAIPTRoLLERsHIP.


Without intending disparagement to-
ward any one of the gentlemen who
are aspiring to the COmptrOllership a.
Nashville, we trust that the Legislature
will be very careful in the selection of
this very important officer. He should
be chosen with sole reference to his hon
esty, experience and capacity, laying
aside every other consideration. He
should be a man in whom the people
have confidence, and who will indus
triOusly labor with an eye single
to the welfare of the State. The i'm
provement Of our public credit, and the
early payment of the interest on our
public debt, should he the polar star of
his ambition, and before this purpose all
other considerations should sink. a
feeling prevails, at home as well as
abroad, that Tennessee may at some
time repudIate her obligations. Moth
ing would do more to dispel this dis
graceful suspicion which very naturally
attaches TO US, than the selection of an
honest, upright, capable man to take
charge of our financial interests. Let
the Legislature promptly adopt provis-
ions looking to the payment OfOur debts,
and then select a competent officer to
execute these provisions, and our credit
viii improve amazingly in short time.
-RnoDUile Chronicle.


LIBERALISM, NATIONAL IDEAS, ANY


THING But DEMOCRACY.





The johnson men, so-caIled, or Union
Independents and the Republicans, may
doubtless not lose their identity, nor
those, perhaps, who acted with the so
called Democratic organization in the
late campaign. Independent of all these
things, there is no good reason why
those who are imbued with a proper
6lJlA IL vi tAAN dLCcA dIG
impressed with national ideas-whose
hopes and aspirations for themselves,
their constituents, the Commonwealth,
the Union, belong TO a living present
and point to a more auspiciOus future,
and not to the dead past, should not be
united in the common purpose of lifting
the State out of the old grooves of petty
preiudices upon a higher plane of practi-
aa1 cfa hi n WITH tho -o1.
of President Grant by an overwhelming
majority, questions of national politics
are considered at rest, at least for some
time to GENE. Virtually there is but
one party in the country. With an
overwhelming Republican majority in
Congress, and the State delegation large
ly Republican, there is no good purpose
to be served TO anybody by presenting
Tennessee in an attitude of factious an
tagonism to the dominant power in the
general gOmernment, or of needlessly
flying in the face of it. The spirit of
the Republicon members, to their credit
be it spoken, does not seem to invite it:
but rather the cooperation Of all whose
earnest devotion to the material edu-
catiOnal and financial advancement of
the State, is not unequaled by their



ment-the Union and the Constitution
as it is. The Legislature will have too
much to engage its attention to waste
any time in party wrangle, in this brief
session of seventy.five days. There is a
good system Of public education to he
perfected, or, at least to be inagurated,
practically. The State credit is to be
established, and confidence in its finan-
cial integrity to be strengthened The
immigration interests need lookingafter.
The State will have to be Te-districted.
The public interest demands that quite
a number of reforms be instituted, in
the manner OF assessing taxable property
and the collection of revenues; the eX-
pense Of conducting criminal prOsecu-
tons; the improvement of public roads,
and any legislation that may be deemed
necessary and expedient to invite and
encourage foreign capital. A generous
emulation in the effort to do the most
for the State, in these matters, would be
far more profitable than a wrangIe of
jealous partisans, or a war of factions,
in idle anticipation OF the parties of the
future, or the still more futile and vain
endeavor 10 shape the political destiny
of the twentieth century. -NdshpilIe
{ Republican, Banner.


Railroad Accident.


LOUISVILLE, January S.-An accident
occurred last evening at Belmont sta
ton, on the Nashville railroad, caused
by q broken rail. Three cars were
thrown off the track and ran some dis
tauce on the ties One turned over and