Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-06-19

,,.;,,. o,odr,,nloa Many OF the members have
atea Great peoaniary loss by their attendance
upon the Legislature and some OF them actually
resioned because they could not afford It. Not one
~ t6en, hut il much poorer from having been
member All tkey did was 70 accept the discount
on the funds they received from the Treasury The
Constitution gave them four dollars which, at that
time and in law yet means gold or silver. 1t is
questionable whether they were bound 70 receive
currency at all. DemagOgues only will try TO make
capital out Of ths action &C the Legislature.
As to the great length cf time the members were
under pay, they are not to blame IL is attributable
70 two causes. First The vast amount Of work they
bad TO do, growing out Of the deranged and ruined
and hiding and resigning of Mr.. Baxters party IN
the Legislature. A large portion OF the time they
were unable TO work on account Of the absence of
Conservative members. The Congress of the
United States whose members are paid by the year,
have found il Necessary to remain In session nearly
eli the time on account Of the troubled state Of the
county. Our Legislature has had to do the same
thing from similer causes. This attack is unjust
mere demsgoguism, and made only for mean pur-
poses.
BEHOLD TnE sIASDERER.
Fellow-cidzens, YOU have now travelled with me over
tho whole Of this strange document We have reviewed
what is denoninated political speech but what Is in
fact succession Of personal bes In this not very
lengthy document, the private characters Of than
hundred prominent citizens are taduced and assaed
cluson that the speaker has depraved appetite for slam
der Ahere words in any language adequate TO
suitable denuneaton Of such character. Poets, moral
rs and dyines in all ages, have utterly failed to depict
the aanderer Ia his character. hundred times in
the Sacred Volume the words Of condemnation or woes Of
perdition pronounced against him. There pc
Rod in the Divine economy when the Supreme Being
would longer speak His people, face to face-when
human eyes should longer look upon Him. nor human
listen 10 the sound Of His voice. Before withdraw
ing His forever He desired among other things
orb Feelin hat adj
quate though emanating from the bosom of God,
and dropping from the lips Of Deity. He called te His
aid fire and cloud and thick darkness and great voice
He assembled bis people in front Of Mount HoTeb in q
great multitude, and the people were afraid by reason
OF the fire and went not up into the mount But out of
the midst Of the FIRE. Of the cloud and of the thick dark
ness, and with great voice. he pronounced the words
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor
and he wrote it upon table Of stone and delivered
unto his people The Great Jehovah deemed necessary
60 invoke the teTrors Of the elements mpressng even
his words upon his people when he came to forbid them
from injuring each other in their regulations.
OF all the sins resulting from the fall of man, that of
bearing false witness the most despcablethe least
excusabe. In the before us it is evidently vice
habit Of long standing malignant and ncuraoe You
may lock your stable against the horse thief you may
bar your door against the burglar you may defend your
life when assailed and time and the law may bring you
out o. prison; but characer-re putatOn-the young
mans hope the poor mans capital the cid mans wealth.
and the woman jewell is unprotected and exposed to the
hearegs injuries Of the ruthless sandere- One of the
victims in this case only son. the pride Of his father
and mother and the hope Of their declining years. the
support Of three young and lovely sisters When the flag
Of his country endangered though but bow he left
all that was dear young and ardent heart escaping
hroug mountain and wood in peril by day and by night
be reached the nearest recruiting station and there wrote
himself down an American soldier After years toll ard
danger he out Of the an honOred field officer
and resumed the Of his parents and sisters How
was II with his tTaducer Are not his deeds written in
the book Of the Chronclesy Yes but not of his country
glory, but Of her shame When the one shall be blessed
and honored the other viii be remembered to be despied