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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27
Have too May OF Them.

The Cleveland Banner thus truthfnlly
puts the case ''The great trouble with
the Conservative party Tow. in this par.
ticular locality is, it has entirely too many
men in it, and they all appear to be a
greedy set-the last devil of them want
Office. Well, the simple fact is, we have
not enough Offices 10 give them one each,
and we hardly know what to do with them.
If they fail to get Office they sill, al once,
become "sore heads" and then there will
be no "peace in Isrcai' at all We won
der if Ne couldn't swap Off few Of our
great men to the Radicals for some Of
their common stock; that party IS in need
Of great men and as We are oyerstoeked
we'll give them a powerful good bargain
rather than miss a trade we would be vii
ling to exchange head for head, and the
RAIDS might count in niger occasionally
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27
Banlshed for Oplnlon.s sake.

The Memphis Ledger says: We
have just received a letter from
Mrs. Jacob Frolich, informing us
that the Radicals in White county,
Arkansas, have driven her husband
away from that place, and that
there is no likelihood oftne rascals
allowing him to return. Mr.. Frol-
ich published the White County
Record, at Searcy, Arkansas. We
knew him to be quiet, good man,
and a staunch Democrat but such
people, it seems, the Radicals in
Arkansas don't want. The conse-
quence Of this outrage is that Mrs.
Frolich offers the printing Of
flee and paper for sale, ia order that
she MAJ seek her husband.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27
chic and California.

We have the startling intelligence
from Washington that as soon as
Congress gets through with Geor-
gia and Tennessee, Ohio and Cali
fornia are to be taken in hand for
refusing to let the negro vote under
the fifteenth commandment. The
Rebels failed to destroy the gov
eminent, but the Radicals, com
mencing where the former left off,
are going ahead steadily with the
work of demolition and will soon
have it finished up.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27
Supreme Judgeship In East tennessee.

The Memphis Ledger, says: Under the
new Constitution cash grand division of
the State will be allowed two Judges on
the Supreme Bench, making six altogether.
elected by the State at large. While it is
important to put forward two of the best
men available in East Tennessee, it is also
our duty to canvass the claims of the can.
didates proposed in Middle and West Ten
nessee. Among those frequently suggest
ed by the people ana press of East Ten
nessee, Major Robert Mcfarland, of JEFF.
ferson county, is prominent, and strikes
US most favorahly. We have seen his
mare used in this connection rather often
of late; have received letters from prom
inent conservative gentlemen of Fast Ten
nessee commenting him as worthy 30 fill
such an honored position, and we happen
to know something of his antecedents and
merits. He is above the tricks of mere
office. seekers and political hacks who have
been running for something all their lives,
and has not even signifed his intention TO
be candidate before State Convention,
should one be held. We heartily indorse
him. however, and all that has BEEN said
of ham. A lawyer by nature, with a high.
ly polished and disciplined mind, an un
clouded Judgment and quick perception,
united with the most sterling integrity and
the strictest habits of tenn perance. few men
are SO tAosoughly qualified in every sense
for the Office. He is yeta Young man, in
the prime and vigor of Life and energy. but
before the war Ae had attained com.
handing position at the bar. His title Of
Major was won in the Confederate army,
where his name was the synonym of bra
very, GOODNESS and fidelity. Vixen the war |
closed he was permitted TO return home, |
where his virtues were universally recog.
nized, and resumed the practice of his
profession. Such talents as his, combined
With such antscedeuts, are exceedingly
rare IN East Tennessee, aud we hope that
should he become candidate our people
will not forget his claims.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27
Dl.linenlsaed - 80.

The Foaghkeepzic News sars: Il
weuld appear tAa1 those wAo are
--au the beat d. NOT AL belong Ia
the lower strata Of society, HRtRhat
sometimes IT least men OF taat
character arc q be found among
those who occapy the iost5est posi-
tons IL the country. Tins was
illustrated Tally on The Hudson
River railroad yesterday morning
when the Chief Magistrate of tins
mighty ration and a portion Of his
cabinet refused - pay their fare
when requested 10 d - by the con
duetor OF the train on which they
were being conveyed - Troy Tor
the purpose Of attending the iuaer-
al ct the late General Thomss.
Such q charge against men Of
such standing sounds somewhat
strangs .buewc God there arc gr3en II
for It, Ihe facts are President
Grant and Secretaries Robson,
Belknap and Cox. and Postmaster
general CresweiI. took the mid
night train from New York.
Shortly alter leaving the city
they were called upon, ia con- mon
with other passengers, for their
tickets. They stated they bad
none They We're tAen asked To
pay th~ir tare This they peremp-
terl!y refused 70 do, giving the con
d4clor, Harry Stevens, to under
stand that their exalted positions
should insure them free conveyance.
The conductor told them that his
instructions were II pass no dead
heads" over the read, and that if
they did not comply wiki the rules
he should be Obliged to stop the
train and put them Off
Thus things remained until the
arrival of the train at Pouyb keep
sic, when the conductor threatened
to disconnect the car which con-
tanned the distinguished party.
Bus before proceeding any farther,
Superintendent Toucy was ac-
quainted with the case, and that
gentleman took the responsibility
TO ''trust" them for their fare rs far
Us Albany. And the dead beats
were permitted to go on, no DOUBT
ut The victory they had
gained over an humble conductor.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27
OceupallcnaI Allments.

Fresh, pure air IS WALKING elixir.
Whoever IS debarred by circumstances
from unrestricted access TO this invisible,
but powerful slInlnlaat, needs . medicinal
migrant I'll some kind. The great OBJ
iect should he 10 choose the best. Popa
iarity u a prstty good guarantee Of merit
i'll this serutitizsIng and intelligent age,
and tried by this criterion Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters stands first among the
inyigorating aud regulating medicines of
the present dag. 10 the wants oil persons
engaged in indoor employments, especial
~ in crowded factories where even with
the best possible ventilation the atmos
phere IS always In some degree polluted,
this salubrious vegetable tonlc IS peculiar
IL adapted. The nature Of the ihgreeii-
ents is no mystery. 1t consists of an alb
souteiy pure diifusive slim usant, tinctur-
ed-or rather sarcharged-with the fluid
extracts of senatous roots and barks and
herbs. Tie PharmacopGsis. has its the,
lures, but what are they2 The juice OF
only single or bark or plant IS pres
ent in each. Not one Of them combines
the three properties oil tonic, an alterna-
tive, and an aperient. alIthese elements
are Blended in the Bitters; nor are these
1T is also blood depurent aud an anti
spasinodie.
The baleful effect which air that has
been partially exhausted OF lis oxygen ny
frequent breathing produces on the vital
organization, is notorious, and when to
this devitaliaed atmosphere is snperadded
the mephitic vapor OF hot air furnaces, It
becomes deleterious and depressing in the
extreme. To enable the system to bear
up, even for few hours each day against
the facilitating influence Of q yitiated at
lnosplfere, a wholesome tonic aud alterna
tive is urgently required. This grand dis
ideratum is supplied in Hostetter's Bitterss
which as a Notwithstanding heaith-pro-
tecting agent. has no rival either among
oiiieinal or advertised medicines.
Subscribe for your home paaer.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27
Judge GiIlenKaterS.

The GreenevilIe Union saws
Judge Gillenwatcrs refused to an
swer the questions, whether, during
the last six months, there had been
order within his Judicial circuit !;
whether the laws had been execu-
ted whether Union men and ne
groes are prescribed; whether there
is need of Federal troops to exc
cute the laws. His statement was
to have been sent to Washington.
He was morally bound to have
given a true statement of affairs.
Radical sheriffs and judges in this
and other counties testified IN
hesitatingly that the authorities at
Washington might be correctly in
formed. But Judge Gillenwatcrs
did not feel bound to answer any
questions not eminating from the
Reconstruction Committee. His
statements would have been con-
Trajectory to the vile misrepresen-
tations of the reconstruction party
and unfavorable to reconstruction.
Unless reconstruction speedily fol-
lows, the Judge will have to vacate
his Office. Hence his reticenee.
We repeat that Judge Gillenwat-
ers was morally bound to testify
inasmuch as truth is what the
authorities should have, and truth
would materially affect the issue
that is joined between the State
of Tennessee and unprincipled
demagogues.
We had hoped that Judge Giilen-
waters had the moral courage to |
dare to speak the truth, though |
damaging the cherished wishes of |
his party; and that he could have |
raised above selfish motives and |
have been willing to have discharg-
ed a moral duty. But in this we
have been mistaken.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27

There are 10,423 Masons in Ala
bama
There are $4,000 noisy children
in Montgomery, Ala. y
A new hat Ter ladies is called tbs
"Frou-Frou.
New York has 5000 vagrant chill
dren who never attend school.
Brazil anticipates heavy coffee
crop this year.
Grant says the rebels have de-
ceived him, and he won't amnesty
them.
Dallas county, Alabama, has vo-
ted $140 600 to the Selma and New
Orleans Road.
A Pennsylvania town has La
dies nti-Slandering Society. Tie
members are deaf Ihutes
A Maysvillc, Ky, benedict has
run away with a grass widow He
will be cured before she will.
A Huntsville, Ala, firm have
just completed the first steam en-
gine manufactured in that place.
The engrossing clerk Of the Iowa
House has engrossed one oil The
members and is going to mary
him.
A man in New Orleans offers TO
fight an alligator under water with
only a knife, if some one will give
him $500.
The Cumberland Presbyterians
are introducing the custom of licens-
ing eolored preachers to preadh |
among people Of their own COLOR
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27

and eurried oat2 Why did he not
call an extra and special session of
the Legislature Co adopt the neees-
sary means to step these oatrages2
The same necessity thst would
prompt him Q ask the President for
troops, wonld have justified his
calling on the State forces. The
Governor says that neither money
or law has been able TO reach the
Kn-klnx. This admission proves
ono of two things very clearly !:
Either that -kluxism in Tonnes
see is a myth; or that the officers
charged with the execution Of the
laws, from Governor Senter down,
have been deriIcct IN their duty.
Brigandage has never yet become
so powerful, nor the laws so weak,
in this country, that the latter cam
not give full protection to every
citizen if those who administer and
execute the law do tbeir simple
duty
Again Question by Mr. Beck, Of
kentucky, "Would the future peace
and good order OF the State be pro-
NOTED or impaired by Withdrawing
from the men who have now the
right Of suffrage, that right, and
DISTINGUISHING them as they were in
&c, in your opirion 2" Answer BY
the Governor The question might
be right hard to answer. but as |
said before, reason would teach that
tho acknowledgements OF ell men
Yot Id tend to produce peace in the
7touflsI3 Ii other yforsssa.. ts.--4l77--t- ~
errors answer - Ta3 70 .se7'
plain English II tn't Know, Mr.
Beck, whether it&ronld or not; I'll
the late Distinguished wonld vote
the RapublicSh ticket, then en-
franchiscmeTt would have. the effect
you speak II, but as they are not |
apt TO vots that ticket, | coubI |
whether n reimbursement would re
dound to the interests Of the State !
or moi.
Go-efnor Sentcr, is it thus that |
you would see the spirit Of your
message Of 90 fulfilled? The aetkor |
Of an official document that urg mt +
~ calls for the exercise Ct beneyo- /
fence ami iorgetfulness Of past diff /
ferences, acting directly the oppos /
ite OF his own teachings. To sum /
al Gp in 4 few words, Why did Gov
ernor Senter appear before that /
committee to testify atHil /? Where /
in the Constitution do we find !
for tire exercise Of sucn |
jurisdiction as that committee have /
arrogated to themselves The dig /
nify Of Governor Senter's position |
Should have demanded that on re
ceipt OF the committees snmmous /
for him 70 appearat Washington 10
zirc evidence. 10 have politely re-
4ae-ted the commit. c 10 step ID that /
point which Washington lies near
est To. [ mean 70 H-II-Halifax.
Liam CONTRIBUTOR.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27

The announcement by President
Grant that the XVIII Amendment
has been legally adopted and is
now a part Of the Constitution OF
the United Stetes, has been received
says the Philadelphia Age, by the
Democratic press in exactly the
manner such an announcement
should be. Very properly the
amendment has been denounced as
a fraud ana a cheat. L. was not
legally approved by the plumber o.
States required by the Constitution
and the Radical leaders fully UNI
derstand the disgraceful dodge by
which this infamous measure has
been forced upon an unwilling
people. We believe" says the
Age, "that q large majority OF the
American people are opposed TO
negro suffrage and negro equality,
and the base and fraudulent man
neri in which this new provision
was interpolalei into the COnsiitu-
ton has naturally excited the con
domination and disgust Of the masses.
In every legal and constitutional
way, it should, be resoluteIy OPP
posed by tbe white men Of the Re-
public. and those who concocied it
should be taught that in this coun-
try the people are yet the sover-
eigns, and will rebuile the Radical
tricksters who care for the negro
only to secure his vote, and enable
them to retain their present hold
upon the public treasury.'
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27
ma The Cincinnati Gazett

R2- The Cincinnati Gazette
(RadicaD makes a decidedly good
point in the following paragraph /:
tennessee and Georgia ought to
be reconstructed out of the Union,
and set back into state of proba-
ton. We were not persuaded of
this till we saw in the Chattanooga
Times that Mr.. George 1. Lewis
gives the cost of making pig iron
with stone coal, at the lockwood
furnace, Roane county, Tennessee,
at SIC 80 per ton and that Maj.
L. L. Thomasson, for long time
Superintendent of the Cornwall
furnace, Cherokee county, Georgia,
gives the figures of several weeks
run, showing that 1t laid down
charcoal iron in the rolling mill at
a cost of S22 81, or at the furnace,
S19 So. This is disIoyalty. 1t is
worse than the Ku Klux or resist
ing the Fifteenth Amendment. 1t
is an attack on Pennsylvania and
prohibtory protection, which is
vastly worse than an attack on the
Union. 1t is contrary to the great
American principle that any thing
of common use should be made
cheap Let these States be sus-
pended until these public enemies
shall certify that iron cannot be
made in America for less than $50 |
a ton. This is the test of loyalty"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27

sa- An exchange relates the
following awhile the ink was
yet wet on the pen with which
President Grant signed the Fiji
teenth Amendment proclamation
a note was handed him from a
member of the press requesting the
gift of the pen. The President at
once sent it out by messenger,
and Gen. Dent wrote a note certi-
flying to its identity. Before its
owner left the antc-room a gentle.
man present offered him fifty dol
lars for it, which was refused"
The gentleman committed the
mistake of offering the wrong man
the money. He should by all
means have offered it to General
Grant himself He would not have
refused.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27
PoIltIcaIAJudses.

here seems to be no limit to
this folly and fanaticism of some
men who would DO regarded as be-
ing endowed with an ordinary
amount of sense" says the jackson
West Tennessee Wing, and then,
that staid AID reliable old conserva~
tor proceeds, in q very decisive and
wholesome way, to clap timely
extinguisher over the empty heads
of the little pot-house noodles who
propose to befoul the judicial err
mine by dragging it through the
#mire of partyism. ave notice, ;"
says the Wing, sin several direc,
ations efforts being made to secure
party nominations for Judges of
the Circuit, Chancery and Supreme
Court; as if justice and judgement
were the exclusive attributes of any
party. What the country now
needs is no party strife and party
wrangling, but peace and quiet.
Above all things we need a nom
partisan judiciary. We want law
yers upon the bench of our courts,
not politicians; and so far as we are
concerned, we shall not take the
trouble to inquire to what party an
aspirant for judicial honors has
owed allegiance, but simply wheth-
er he is "honest, capable and faith
full" These are the touch-stones
before which all partisan appeals
for support should shrink into their
deserved insignifcance"
"And another point which we
see dwelt upon unctuously by some
of our brethern of the press is, that
the aspirant was a gallant soldier,
and fought bravely for this or that
side of the question. We are now,
at least nominally, at peace "with
all the world and the rest Of man
kind" Our soldiers profess to have
cheat their swords into pillow shares
and their spears into pruning
hooks, and to be diligently cult
waiting the arts of peace; and, as
we are not now demanding the SER
vices of fighting men, we can not
SEQ the relevancy of Juggling the
fact that a man in time of war was
a good soldier into the canvass for
judicial honors. What we want
now in our judicial offices, is not
fighting, but thinking men-men
+thoroughly imbued with the knowl-
edge of law, and honest enough to
administer it without "favor or af-
lection" between man and man, re-
CARELESS of party prejudices or
predictions.
We have often, of late, says the
Nashville Banner, almost despaired
of the hope that the whole people
of orr State would come TO realize
the Importance to their every ma
teriai interest, of quietly ignoring
politics and parties for the present
If it be. true tbsh - om the gods
T we "a Ies+ -sis the s1 :
hibit, just yet, of any noticeable
symptoms of insanity. But when
the State press thus independently
and manfully evinces its superior
ity to the influences of mere parti-
sans and politicians and Office
seekers, we are cheered with the
faith that ''there's life in the old
land yet"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27
Change of Time.

The time of holding the Conservative
Convention in Jonesboro' for nominating
candidates. for the several judgeships and
for Attorney General, is hereby changed,
from The second Monday in May to Tues.
day after the fourth Monday GATH of the
same month.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27
Truth Stranger than Fiction.

Bullock, the pretended Governor
of Georgia, resides in Washington,
a thousand miles from his province,
and continually draws on it's Treas
u'y TO keep up drunken negro seal
awag orgies instituted in that city
to influence members Of the United
States Congress to enslave the State
he pretends to govern. When we
consider that brave, intelligent men
tolerate this, may We not affirm
that "truth is stranger than fiction"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27
Grant and the Republican Party.


The Washington correspondent of
the New York Sun saxa - oQsser-
yer could have mTngle6- With ~ ash
ington society this winter without
becoming painfully aware that the
administration is fast drifting to-
ward breakers, w hich If encountered
will prove fatal to the unity OF the
Republican party l say this with
regret. Gen. Grants mistakes have
been many; bat his greatest mistake
was in attempting TO administer
the government as he had directed
and governed the army. He has
been surrounded from the first by
weak, inexperienced and incompe-
tent men He did not seek nor
would he listen to the advice of
leading Republican statesmen. His
Cabinet as first organized would
never have been selected by any
statesman qualified for the Presi-
Dental office. He has not, with
perhaps a single exception, one
man in his Cabinet to-day, who
would at the time Of his nomina,
ton, have received the endorse
ment of the Republican party OF
his State for the position he holds.
while some Of the number, Fish,
Borie, Robson, for example, would
hardly have commanded the sup
port of one hundred Republicans
III their respective States. If this
statement be admitted, the weak
ness of the Administration is re-
cognized fact. No party can main
tain its ascendency which ignores
its representative men, and calls to
its highest and most honorable pc
sitions men whom it never recog
nized as worthy of its confidence,
or who, if worthy of confidence,
were incapacitated for leaders
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27

Ra When the Radicals met in
convention to make new Corstitu-
ton for Michigan, the only argu-
ment used in favor Of striking out
the word white was that the negro
vote would offset the Irish and
Dutch" Negroes are pushed into
prominence by the Radicals, while
the Germans and Irish who do SO
much to build up the material pros
perity of the country are sneered
at and insulted.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27

A woman in Missouri hung her.
self because her husband went TO
California. Next week dozen
more started, but their wives would
not hang worth cent, and the
poor disconsolatc devils have all
broken hearted.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27


- A number of our Gus
toners have made accounts
with us on short time, and are
now past due. Interest WILDE
charged upon all such accounts
until paid. In the absence of
any other contract, all accounts
made with US hereafter, viii be
considered due at the date of
making the account, and inter-
est viii be charged on all
amounts due upon the 1st days
of January and July, in each
year, until paid.
MORRIS, KIDWELL & co.
apl3tf.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27

An exchange says that rations to
che extent of eight to ten thousand
da'ty, are being issued to the poor
Of Washington.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27
Total II, 90, l04 Is 81 .eos

it will be seen that the stock of w
is38.G00, 600 bushels more than year
and !, 100000 bushels more than at
period Of 1868. The stock of corn,
ever. is less than 900, O0o bushels aeak
100000 in 1869, and $500. 900 in las
The quantity of oats is 100000 bus
below 1869, and about the same as
1868. The stock Of wheat at the
ports is about 100000 bushels al
that held at the opening Of the nayiga
last year, indicating th4 a'bea.y sup
may come forward within the next
weeks. The receipts Of corn, howell
can scarcely fail to be but nominal.
far as respects the value of these two
eriptions Of grain waiting for TIE ope,
Of ffe esnais. 1t is not iiIefy th@-1%gf
gate viii at all exceed that of last year
so that even assuming that the surplu
were forwarded to the seaboard prompt,
the movement would not be hkely to eiFee
perceptibIy the money market.