Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-14


children I would be thankful to you.
Hoping to hear from you on the subje short
ly, am, very respectfully, your obedient SER
vant MALINDA HARMON,
/ Wife of Jacob Harmon.
/ We theundersigned, citizens of Greene coun-
| be true. lfft -, ,-----.er1
Harrison Self ]. w. Mcdonald,
Andrew Self, Joseph Harmon,
| A. Mcdonald, James 7. Harmon,
Hugh A. Self, James K. Haun.
Hu. Lady, Jonathan Morgan,
| John Lady, James Mcdonald,
S. A. Lady.
The above-named gentlemen were all in
| jail at the time Harmon was hung.
Not alone in the Harmon case, but in
every transaction in which this man has
| been engaged, has he demonstrated the
truth of the Scriptural maxim, that 1.-THE
love of money is the root of all evil"
The present Legislature of Tennessee,
| by an almost unanimous vote of Baxter's
own party, have directed the Attorney
| General of the State, Joseph B. Heiskell,
to institute suit against Baxter and others
| for the recovery of 100000 in State bonds,
which were fraudulently obtained and
partly disposed of in violation of law.
The words of the Attorney General of
| filed, referring to the bogus railroad COM
pany, which, in conjunction with the bank
of which Baxter is president and owner, is
prosecuted by the State, are as follows: "a
"The said defendants, the Exchange
| and Deposit Bank, claim, as complainant
| is informed, credits to the amount of S12,
| 636 4S, and admits balance of cash in
| their hands, to the sum CT $50, ,363 SO In the
month of April last. About this time the
Legislature of the State instituted an in
vestigation, and the report thereof has
been published by the order Of the General
Assembly, at which time said defenda.s is
had express notice of the fraud by which
said bonds were obtained, and on the 9th
day of May, 1870, the General Assembly,
by resolution of that date, approved by the
Governor on the 10Th Of June, 1870, direct
ed the Treasurer of the State to demand of
the defendants, the Mineral Home Rail-
road, and of the Exchange and Deposit
Bank of Knoxville, the one hundred thou
sand dollars in bonds, before herein men,
toned, and the Attorney General of the
State, on their failure fully to account for
said bonds, Immediately to institute legal
proceedings for the recovery of the same,
in the name of the State of Tennessee.
1.-THE Treasurer has accordingly made
the demand as directed, and the said seve-
raj parties have refused to deliver said
bonds, or even to account for the proceeds
thereof F- z
/ only give the foregoing as specimen
to show his financial operations. He is
now in court, and the State is prosecuting
the case against him. [ leave him in the
hands Of the law. sA -T- s-
I will close my remarks in regard to
Baxter by noticing very briefly his charge
against me of ingratitude. He has stated
in his pamphlet, and in former publica-
tions, that during my confinement by the
rebels in prison he performed pilgrimage
to Richmond, at his own expense, and
. procured for me tie peslRort under which
find shelter and protection under the au-
thority of the Federal Government"
Very briefly I will speak of this question
of gratitude and ingratitude as between
me and Baxter.
When the Federal army, under the COM
mand of General Burnside, took possession
of Knoxville, the Union authorities cap
tured, among other papers, long letter
from Baxter to member of the rebel SEN
ate at Richmond, offering to take 6ribe
from jeff Davis of half million of money
to go North in the garb of Union man
and buy up the press, and get up a fire in
the rear against the Federal army I dis
couraged the proposition, advocated by
many Union men, to hang this man Bax-
ter, and believe that but for my interfer-
ence the proposition, seriously discussed
among military authorities, to send him
have been adopted.
I deny that l am indebted to him on the
score Of gratitude, but to me he is indebted
for escaping the gallows, or languishing in
chains in a military prison. /.
PERSONAL AND CONGRESSIONAL.
In sending out this circular in reply to
Baxter, / cannot close without few re-
marks to the loyal people of Tennessee in
regard to the legislation of Congress.
no frarr Of fl,o 1.ia he
ing resolution was unanimously adopted
by the Senate: sssd
Resolped, That on Monday, december 12 ]
at o'clock, the Senate will proceed to the con-
sideratioD of the calendar, and bills that are not
objected to shall Be taksn up IN their order and
each Senator shall be entitled to speak once and
for i've minutes only on each question; and this
order shall be enforced daily at o'clock till the
end of the calendar is reached, unless, upon
motion, the Senate should 1T any time otherwise
Having voted for the adoption of the
foregoing resolution, I felt bound to abide |
by it, and hence have declined, except in |
the case of the Widow Harmon and the |
East Tennessee University, to ask the
Senate's action upon cases out of the reeu- |
lar order of business. Besides if called up |
out of the regular order, solitary obiec- |
ton defeats the objects for which bill is
called up. 1t was this which has defeated |
me in my effort to have passed the bin for |
the relief of the University of East Ten
nessee.
have been frequently appealed to to |
call up various bills for the relief of my |
constituents, and ask their passage as a |
special favor to myself. / have stubbornly |
refused to oso, acting upon my own sense |
of propriety.
have received a great many letters con-
tanning accounts against the Government |
for stores taken and property destroyed by /
the Federal armies in East Tennessee, with |
the request that introduce bills for their |
payment by act of Congress. With yery
rare exceptions, and in cases of unusual |
merit and hardship,no bill could be passed |
in Congress which would not be allowed |
by the Commissary and Quartermasters' |
Departments. The same evidence re- |
quired by the Departments would be re-