Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-10-29
FROM NASHVILLE.
Proposed Exemption From TaxatiOn-A
Small Triek-TemperanCe Measures
Free Schools FriendleSS, &C., &C.,
Correspondence of the Chronicle.l
NASHVILLE, Oct. rs.

NASHVILLE, Oct. 26.
What, think you, has engaged the time
and attention of the Senate of Tennessee
to-day? The lessening of the burdens on
the people, [ hear you say. Oh, no! MIR.
CHRONICLE. What then? Why, no less
question than whether
GENERAL BEAUREGARD
Should pay taxes like common men, or
| should be released from taxation. La
short, bill was before the Senate to re-
lease Beauregard from the payment of
| taxes on about ten thousand dollars worth
of land in Memphis, from 1865 to 1871.
| Why release him? you ask. Because, says
! the bill, some freedmen were buried on it
| by the county of Shelby And because
the Democratic Senator from Davidson OPP
posed the bill, he came near being read
out.of the party, and was openly charged
with favoring the Third Party Speaker
Vaughn came to Beauregard's relief and
advocated the bill. Mcconnell and
| Gibson opposed the bill ON the ground
that Beauregard had no more right
to be released from his taxes than
John Smith or ''any Otherman" had. The
bill was finally passed over to give other
Senators a chance to show their devotion
to the Lost Cause" And thus the time
of the Legislature and the money of the
A little incident occurred to-day strong
ly illustrative of
PETTY DEMOCRATIC NEANNESS.
Some two weeks ago the committee to re-
district the State was appointed. Vaughn,
either through accident or ignorance
named the Senator from Roane first on
that committee. This, according to we'll
established custom, made Staley chairman
of the committee and the committee ac
cordingly recognized him as chairman un-
til to-day. But to-day the Democrats on
the committee set to work and elected a
Democratic chairman. Nothing has hap
pened during the whole session that better
illustrates the littleness of the soul Of De-
m ocracy, if soul it has at all.
THE QUESTION OF TAXATION
Is thorn in the Democratic flesh just
now. Gov Brown, the State Treasury Of
ficers and very large number of the Leg
islature favor high taxes and plenty of
them. On the other hand a powerful and
active portion of the Democracy are ear
nest and determined low-tax men. These
latter have already opened war upon Gov.
Brown and his supporters. McGhee, OF
Knox, comes in for hisShaTe of Democratic
abuse
rE .ef.t A NEW CONSTITUTION
Is again demanded by the Democrats.
They have become disguised with the
present constitution and have already !
commenced their assaults upon it. The
truth is the eyes of the Democracy are be-
ing opened to the defects of our present |
and it is no longer that in
spired document it once was.
Temperance i'll the Senate has many |
friends, and two bills have been passed in |
furtherance of the cold-water cause. One |
bill makes the dram-seller liable to dam |
ages for selling liquor toinebriates, and the |
other imposes severe penalties for selling |
liquor to minors What fate these bills |
will meet with in the House, can not be |
foretold. Whisky has heretofore been the |
great auxiliary of Democracy, and mans
democracy is generally estimated accord
ing to his whisky capacity. | think the
Senate is going back on the Democratic |
marty. in this matter as#|F +FE
Nothing has been done yet for Common
Schools, except to burn up about $4,000, 900 |
of the fund in the shape of old issue. The
people need not expect anything from this
Legislature in behalf of free schools. 1g-
norance being the corner stone of DemOc-
racy, how can the friends Of education look
to it for help? The Democracy are as
afraid of free schools as old maids are of
ghosts or the Devil is of holy water. In
deed, if any two things could kill DemOc-
racy by sheer fright, those two things are
free schools and Union soldiers. Democ-
racy can not stand either of these. 10y
atty and learning are poisons to Democra-
cy, but meat to Republicanism.
Yours truly