Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
FROM NASHVILLE.
The Legislature at wOrk-FIghting May
nard and East Tennessee.
Passage of the Ubiquitous AppOrtiOnment
NH In the ILOuse-A Display OF NcnOn,.
NASHVILLE, March 10Th, IS

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with more wolfish ferocity than do our
Democratic Legislature over the Congress
sional bone. Not only do they snap and
growl at Republicans who oppose them,
but they are constantly in the habit of
snarling at each other, when some one,
hungrier than the others, if possible, thinks
he is not getting his share of it.
A STORMY MEETING.
Monday night they had an open meet
ing of the Committee and different men,
hers of the Legislature who desire to go to
Congress were permitted to make an
exhibition of themselves. 1t must have
been very disgraceful exhibition of par
tisanism, uncontrolled by brains, for the
editor of the Union and A01ertcoh, who
was himself present, feels called upon to
administer sharp rebuke which he
does in his issue of yesterday MORN
ing. The principle trouble was between
Senator DuBosc, of Shelby, who feels that
his services would be invaluable in high
or sphere than where he now moves, and
Representative Harris, from the same
county. DuBose does not feel safe in risk
ing HIS chances for Congress in district
with less than 5000 Democratic majority,
and to secure this he is willing to do al
most anything. Harris is opposed to the
district marked out by the wise Senator,
and hence the trouble. The discussion is
said to have been stormy, and n distin-
guishcd member, who is also Il Democrat,
saws these high dignitares have an un-
pleasant habit, while speaking on such oc-
casions, of making all their gestures with
their left hand, while their right remains
| in their breeches pocket, (grasping der
ringer, or sich I" like. Harris opposed
the district, because according to the APP
portionment Middle Tennessee would
control five districts, while the other four
were generously (?) conceded to the other
divisions Of the State.
A COMPROMISE.
The committee held another meeting
last night, and we learn have effected a
compromises The districts will probably
remain substantially as they are published
in the Banner of this date. By reference
to these it will be seen that the Second
/ District is changed n little from the basis
as telegraphed you on Monday evening,
DeKalb county being left off and attached
to the Fifth District. The great object of
the apportionment-the feature which has
attracted the most general attention-waS
the arrangement of the Second District 50
as to beat p 5'
We knew all the time this would be SO,
but we had supposed that even this Legis-
lature would attempt some show of deem
cy and propriety. 1t seems that both THESE
virtues have been not only studiously ig-
: nored, but shamefully and unbhshingly
violated.
We learn that the chairman of the COM
!; mittee, DuBose, of Memphis, openly and
deiiantiy boasted before the meetings OF
the committee, that his sole object was t.
so gerrymander the districts as to provide
against any possibility of a single Republi
can being elected from the State. May
/, nard was talked of and discussed as ifhe Were
very fiend who has been engaged in the
5 torture of righteous Democratic souls
MAYNARD must he beat at all hazards,
: seems to be the general sentiment of Dem
: ocratic members. We behold the spectacle
of more than nine-tenths of an entire Leg
= islature arrayed against one man. Blu
give them equal terms and the contest i
: by no means an unequal one, for he pos
n sesscs more ability, more statemanship
t than the whole of them combined.
: | IEGIsLATING AGAINST EAST TENNESSEE
. There is another view of this apportion
ment No truth is more clearly establishes
than that the rebels of Middle and Yves
Tennessee still cherish feeling of bite
hatred towards our section for the position
a of LOYALTY we assumed toward the Govern
: ment at the beginning of the late wal
v They may and do deny it, but they mus
e expect that our people are all blind, If the.
v expect us to believe such hypocritical de
!. NAL. They are determined to make u
& feel 1t on every occasion. They will carry
q their oppression just as far as they cal
| safely do so without violating the constitu
1 ton and laws of the State and of the Uni
: ted States. If they had the power, they
\ would deprive us of any voice in the con
I. troll of public affairs, and reduce us to
state of the merest vassalage. They neve
. will forgive us for opposing secession ant
. disunion-I mean the majority of them
: and il is perfect folly for us to suppose the,
will. Our district, as now formed, is to al
intents and purposes a Middle Tennesse'
district, and it was so created to silence on
e voices in the halls of Congress.
# In the first place, the object was z
beat Maynard; and secondly, the sturd.
mountaineers who were always loyal 7
4 the Government-the voters of Campbell
q Scott, Morgan, &c.-are to be reduced t
? vassalage. because they made it so warn
Q for Brigader General John Crawfor'
n Vaughn while engaged in his celebrates
: campaign against the cattle, horses, corn
n cribs and fodder stacks of that part Of tn
& country, which is known in tradition a
I the birthstone Campaign" They oppos
. ed Vaughn and Others of the same ilk, an
4 now they must suffer for 1t. ....
g Such, gentle reader, are some of the me
q tives by which the members of this Leg
islature are actuated. We may have some
thing more to say in connection with TIL
infamous apportionment. w. r.
e NASHVILLE, March p, 1872
n The political caldron boiled strongly j
II the House in the forenoon of to-day. Rel
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