Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-09-29

vast field of operations, or by that supreme test
OF consumate ability, the absolute completeness
of his results, and he vindicates his claim TO
stand next after Napoleon and Washington,
among the great soldiers of this country, if not
on level with the latter
When Frank =. Blair was making q speech
at Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1868, some wise
Democrat called out in reply to Blair's criticism
Grant is fool" Mr.. Blair turned upon him
with all his animation, sharpness and usual ex-
pletive language, and said:
''Sir, you are mistaken. Grant is no fooli
know him well. knew him before he went
into the army, and when he used to haul wood
into the city of ST. Louis. meet him often in
the greatest man of the age. Sheridan and
Thomas are good men, but Grant is worth more
than all of them" [Great cheering and laugh
teri il @ - %
"Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte
were both great men, but sir, tell you, that
Bonaparte put together. He is not talker, but
ne is one of the d-est thinkers in the world"
Eyes, but you don't think he will be contron-
ed by such men as Sumner, Wilson. and Wash
burner r.t ssl. @
Controlled CONTROLLED Why, by G., he
would sweep them away like q straw"
But, General, don't you think that circum-
stances have done great deal for Grant ?'
why, hill, the fellow has made the cir
cumstances. l tell you that it is his luck"
Liz ulhil tH6L can bpEluS TlSul up ANOLu pOt-
erty and obscurity and do what he has done IS
no mere creature of circumstances. Circum-
stances don't run so much in one way"
II am Democrat, but if Gen. Grant is such
great man as you say he is, am Grant man
from this out"l [Oheers."
well, if you want a despotisn, vote for
him, but if you want Republican form of gov
ernment, you will have to vote against him. l
know that he is great man, by Cd, in saying
so simply tell the truth" prolonged cheer
In dispelling the illusion of the proscriptive-
ness the Republican party he alluded to the
number of ex-confederate officers now in Con-
gress, and the leniency of the Republican par
ty in furnishing obnoxious rebels.
In Mr.. Johnson's term the debt had been con-
siderably reduced, but the last thirteen months
of his administration the debt had increased
S46,OOO,OOO. Since Gen. Grant had come into
office he had reduced the debt at the rate of
500 900 year. .-t-r
Mr.. Maynard closed with the hope of the
triumph of the.people, when all could vote
their sentiments untrammeled by fear of being
moested.
His remarks were greeted with great APP
plause.
Mr.. JOhnson's ReiOlnder.
Gen. Cheatham being absent, Mr.. johnson
took his place. He had been edited as we'll as
the audience by Dir. Maynard's remarks, and
thought they had taken the character of faciti-
business ana JOcular1Jy instead OF sOlld argu-
ment. Abiding to finances he asked what the
State was doing with her bonded debt. Not a
dollar of interest was being paid. The bonds
were worth sixty or sixty-fve cents on the
dollar and treasury certificates eighty cents.
If q Sheriff took prisoner to the penitentiary
he couldn't get enough money to pay his ex-
pense home Mississippi had repudiated her
State debt, and disastrously And yet we talk
about our prosperity. He passed on defending
his course while in the Presidential chair. AL
luding TO the school system, when Mr.. May
nard didn't want public money unless he could
have mixed schools, he showed his competi-
tors former opinion on the common herd Ecu
thanasia," the negro question, &c. Thanking
the audience for the patient hearing given, he
retired. --..--
Mr.. MHynard's RejOinder.
Replying to the charge of "euthanasia'' he said
the colored man couldn't be fooled. The school
question alluded to, he was glad had been
brought up, and showed that he opposed en-
barrassng amendments from enemies and voted
for the bill. With joculia allusion to the
military rank of his competitors, one of whom
was Brigadier in the Federal and the other q
Major General in the Confederate army, and
thanking the crow for their great patience and