The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-12-21
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MAYNARD.
A Life.LikeS Sketch of the Cold Blood.
ed Narragansett.
From the New York HeraIl.l

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Horace Maynard, who by relative po-
sition on the committee wOuld be its
chairman in case Mr., Dawes should from
any cause be lncapacItuted, Is an old
member Of the House, and probably one
of the most stupidmen in it. He is fifty
seven years old, very tall, very 1.-THE and
straight, with long, lustreiess black hair,
no beard, Il sickiy black eye, a salIoaioh,
white complexion, and the gait, coldness
and v~indictlyeuess Of IN Indian. There
is II superstition abroad in the House
that Maynard possesses some Of the
blood OF the old Indian tribes Of Mas
sachusetts, where he was born, at West
boro, in 1914; early in lie he became u
temporary resident Of South Carolina,
but received q certain sort Of collegiate
education at Amherst College, Massa-
chusetts: thence he went out to gain Il
living by teaching, and hefound occupa-
ton in East Tennessee among the iGno-
rant and peculiar mountaineers of that
region. For six years he was a tutor in
what was called the University of East
Tennessee, and while there lie studied
law. BeHNg a persistent, quiet, relentless
nan i'll lis aspirations, us well us i'll his
resentments, he succeeded so well as to
take a fair rank in that unlettered COM
munity, and he filled severallocal Offices.
became, in war times, Attorney General
OF the State; was twice a Presidential
%elector, and has been seven times sent
to Congress. Maynard is pecliar among
congressman. In the moral points Of
character, strictly defined, he is unim-
%peachable. He does not steal nor lie,
nor break any of the commandment S
outright; but in narrowness OF charity, a
longevity of resentment, an incapacity
to look at any question in its broad bear
ings, a certainty to nix upon some small
neighborly point and torture it up by
self-consideratiOn and vanity, SO that it
comes to embrace the whole issue-this
is the sort OF a person who is adiudged
worthy to be named next to Mr.. Dawes
on a committee which is called upon to
be the most philosophical committee in
Congress, to be the least sectional, most
diSinterested, and to be capable of EN-
bracing the whole United States in the
benignant and unselfsh eminence which
it occupies. A volume might be COM
billed OF all Maynard's littleness and pur-
suit piques. He has been q good while
ON the Committee Of Ways and Means,
and the only person with whom he could
ever agree altogether was Judge Kelley,
who bore towards his fellow committee
men pretty much like a relation. Mr..
Allison, of Iowa, was once asked about
the inside operations of that celebrated
committee and he replied:
Well, Horace Maynard would be will
ing to put n thousand per cent. on any
article Of import. He don't care what
the article is. In many. respects he is
ignorant Of the development Of the arts
and sciences, living off there in the
ilOllItu4Ilo VI 4eullcSscc, DuO IlCICIy De-
cause in early life he embraced the no
tons OF Henry Clay; he is prepared,
down to the day OF his death, to vote n
japanese policy for this country and
make it utterly isolated and selfish.
Some years ago Maynard had c%ontro-
versy with Cullom on some little ques-
which became quite animated. The
Globe newspaper at Washington, under
the accidental necessities of prompt dal-
ly publication, had to give Cullom more
chanch to correct speeches in the contro-
versy than it could to Maynard. May
nard has never ceased from that day to
keep up this little grudee, and perhaps
OF all the men in Congress he is the tru-
est type of u man without a positive
vice and yet without o negative virtue.
Prompt in his attention upon committee,
thrifty and temperate in all personal
matters-except his "resentments and his
littleness-this mau by temperament is
least acquainted with his age aud OF any
person now in Congress. Blaine gave
him the place he now occupies because
he thought that Maynard would amount