TENNESSEE BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE SETTLEMENT FOUNDED ON THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU BY THE BOARD OF AID TO LAND OWNERSHIP, LIMITED A COMPANY INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND, AND AUTHORISED TO HOLD AND DEAL IN LAND BY ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE BY THOMAS HUGHES PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD WITH A REPORT ON THE SOILS OF THE PLATEAU BY THE HON. F. W. KILLEBREW, A.M. Ph.D. London MACMILLAN AND CO. 1881 All rights reserved. "There need be no hesitation in affirming that colonisation in the present state of the world is the very best affair of business in which the capital of an old and wealthy country can possibly engage."JOHN STUART MILL. "Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar, hominy, cotton, buckets, crockery ware, and letter paper, by simply signing my name once in three months to a cheque in favour of John Smith and Co., traders, get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act, which nature intended for me in making all these farfetched matters important to my comfort? It is John Smith himself, and his carriers, and dealers, and manufacturers; it is the sailor, the hide-dresser, the butcher, the negro, the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted the sugar of the sugar and the cotton of the cotton. They have got the education, I only the commodity. This were all very well if I were necessarily absent, being detained by work of my own, like theirs, work of the same faculties, then should I be sure of my hands and my feet; but now I feel some shame before my woodchopper, my ploughman, and my cook, for they have some sort of selfsufficiency, they can contrive without my aid to bring the day and year round, but I depend on them, and have not earned by use a right to my arms and feet."-R. W. EMERSON. Howes 3-2-29 18753 PREFACE. THIS book is the best answer which the founders of Rugby, Tennessee, can at present make to the large and rapidly increasing number of questions which reach them from all parts of the United Kingdom about that settlement. These inquiries, speaking roughly, are addressed mainly to three points—(1) The class of persons for whom the place is intended; (2) What it is like; (3) Its prospects. Part I. of the book deals with the first question; and I hope will sufficiently indicate the views of the founders. They will gladly welcome any persons who like to join them; but those whom they have specially in their minds are, young men of good education and small capital, the class which, of all others, is most overcrowded to-day in England. The experience of the past six months has proved that such an outletindeed that many such-are needed. It has also proved that, except in rare instances, the young men who go out are not able at once to earn their living, and that they should not be sent out under the age of eighteen at earliest. The Board strongly recommend that boys and young men should be placed, for a year at least, with one of the present settlers to |