Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-06


s sssa { THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
agWe publish in fun this morning the very
patriotic, candid and able message of the
President, accompanying the report of the
ct. Domingo Commissioners to the Con-
sress Of the United States. The President
needed no defense as to his motives or his
integrity in conducting the preliminary
negotiations for annexation, for the people
know fnii well he would not knowingly
violate the laws of the land or countsnance
corruption in attempting to bring about
the annexation of the Island. But mas
much as grave and unjust charges have
been unblushingly preferred by Senators
in Congress, we think the President did
right in giving thin clear and frank state
ment, which every fair-minded man must
.concede is . complete and satisfactory de-
feElse.s & lIIA- JlaT ~ I'li1si3 sire
= In declining to further urge the measure
at present, but, ION the contrary, to willing
~ leave the subjsct to Congress and the
people to be acted upon after they shall
have fully weighed the facts submitted,
the President has shown patriotic spirit
and a respect for the win Of the sovereign
people fully in harmony with his unselfsh
and uneaualled services TO the country in
the darkest hours of its struggles for self
preservation. The message will win for
its author the respect of his enemies and
the confidence and affection of the people.
s@rvs-w
q SENATOR FRANK BLAIE made a long
speech a few days since on Southern af
fairs, which was intended as an sssextin-
guisher.n His satellites ali over the coun-
try have alluded TO it in the most compli-l
inenfary terms, and in point of logic,
strength and general perfection, they think
his effort unanswerable and unsurpassed.
The burden, of his argument was to the
effect that Southern State governments
have been controlled by such incompetent
men, that the Kuklux Klans are justifiable
in resisting their authority Such virtu
Gus, intelligent, high-toned, Fchivalrous
gentlemen as compose these refined organ
nations that are regulating affairs in Ger
tain localities, ought not TO be expected to
bow submissively TO what "carpet-bag-
gers and .'scallawags,' may enact as the
law of the land. ~ 60 la1 ,i.s,e1 ~
= Let us bring this question of incompe-
tency home to our own State. Our Legis-
iature has just adjourned. Out of one
hundred and thirteen members in the, two
houses, there were only twelve Republic
cans. This General Assembly was one of
thesmost intensely Democratic bodies that
has ever assembled in any State. Eight
ninths of the members were elected by
Democrats, and never entertained any
proposition in the shape of legislation that
did not look to the interests Of the party.
How about their competency? Where
could We go to find q more striking speci-
men Of incompetency than was exhibited
at Nashvillela We challenge Mr.. Blair to
find one hundred men in a body, any
where, more incompetent for the duties
they were expected to discharge, than were
to be found in the thirty-sixth General
Assembly Of Tennessee. There have been
sfew legislative assemblies, in any of the
States, so utterly, Incompetent as the last
Democratic Legislature of our State. The
same might be said of Kentucky. In
point Of capacity, thel Republican State
governments at the South will compare
very favorablys with those controlled in
the interested Democracy. IrIg Ta4F
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.zsgTHE New York 7rmes boldly charges
that the Democratic Legislature of that
state is passing laws with D view to amass-
ing funds to control the next Presidential
gclection. The Legislature is controlled by
sTamrnany, the organization that controls
View York city, and has taxed the people
almost TOO heavily to be borne. Unscru-
: ,pulous gamblers and corrupt politicians
carry everything before them there, and
are booking forward 20 the time when
they shall rule the whole country. They
know the power Of money and win not
fail to use it. Let thenf once get control
of the xovernment and the people may
con,plain in vain at their usurpation and
'yillanies. They will laugh in their face,
end rcprcach them with the fact that their
3 own acts placed them IN power.
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