Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-10-30

other places in the United States, and is
an alien enemy TO said Confederate States.
All of which are situate, and being in the
counties of Knox and Campbell, in the
State and within the district of said receiv-
er. And the said Confederate States fur
ther represent that the said property, debts
claims, chooses in action, are, as said States
been informed by said receiver, under the
control and supervision of Mrs. Maynard,
wife of said Horace Maynard, and the said
w. =. Washburn, who resides in Knox
county, in this State, which property Is
liable to be seized, under the act of the
Confederate Congress for the sequestratlon
of the estates, property, and effects of allen
enemies. The said Mrs. Maynard and
Washburn are requested to set forth, an
oath, and specifically to describe said prop
erty, and debts, and chooses in action, as
they have full knowledge of the same, and
answer the interrogatories herewith filed,
on oath and marked exhibit \, as n part
of this petition.
The Confederate States of America,
through said receiver. therefore pray that
the said persons having supervision and
control over said property, as aforesaid,
who resides in the county of Knox, be
made parties to this petition, and that a
copy thereof, together with notice, be is
sued by the clerk of this court to the mar
shal or his deputy to be served on said per-
sons. Said Confederate States further pray
that your honor direct said property to be
seized and sequestrated, and placed in the
hands of said receiver, and by him sold or
disposed ofupon such terms and conditions
as your honor may direct. And on final
hearing, the Confederate States pray for
all such other, further, and different relief
in the premises as may be consistent with
the act of the Confederate Congress.
LANDoN G. HAYNES,
f1r ;nt ,,ff
And the property was seized and seques-
trated and placed in the hands of Landon
c. Haynes. My wife and children were
turned out of doors and everything we had
were sold. The beds upon which they
slept. The table from which they ate.
The kitchen furniture, and everything was
sold, even the cradle in which our infant
children had been rocked and little arti-
cles that had the names of my children,
long since dead, engraved upon them, and
which were of no intrinsic value to any
one, but very dear to us rs precious memen-
toes of the past, were sold l do not know
how much they brought nor who bought
them, but l presume Mr.. Haynes got the
money and can tell what he did with it. /
have never complained of that oppression.
L do not speak of it to complain. L knew
when l took sides with my country, that
war, pestilence and famine, that triple
scourge of mankind would sweep over the
land and would leave ruin, desolation and
death in its pathway. | was not unpre-
pared for what came. L have never sued
any one for damages. | have never sought
| to have any one indicted. / have never asked
any one for my property, and l have not,
and do not now, complain of oppression. i
ask you, my countrymen, where is there to
| be found man who espoused the South
ern cause whose property has been seized
by order of a court and sold ? In what in
stance has the present administration OPP
pressed any citizen In thator indeed i'm any
other way? Now it seems to me that my
| side of this fight was successful and that
| Mr.. Haynes side was whipped. Sup
pose that his side had whipped and mine
| been unsuccessful, / ask, would | have
| been before you tonight, as a candidate for
seat in their Congress ? There has been
no oppression, but on the other hand,
there has been kindness and magnanimi-
! ty.
Mr.. Maynard here read the Cincinnati
platform, adopted at Baltimore, and COM
pared it with the Philadelphia platform,
and said:
What keeps us apart? Why should We
call each other hard names? Our plat
forms are almost identical, and there now
remains nothing for us to quarrel about
Our principles are the same, and the only
thing that divides us is choice between
| men. Ii each man OF TINS large audience
had been taken eighteen months ago and
had been given three guesses as to who he
| thought would have been the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency at this time
not one of you would ever have thought OF
Horace Greeley. Why, / could have
| thought of nothing on this broad earth sc
mortifying and humiliating to the Democ.
racy, and if they had been compelled tC
do penance and had been obliged to sup
port Horace Greeley for the Presidency ol
TO have worn hair shirts and peas in theil
shoes, / would have thought that they
would have preferred to do the latter al
the days of their lives. Our Democratic
friends have been cursing VIM. q. Brown
low bitterly fer ten years, because of his
| abuse ofthem, but the abuse which Brown
| low has given compares with that which
Horace Greeley has heaped on them fol
thirty years, as the singing of the gentle
Canary bird compares with the hooting o.
| an owl.
They say that Grant is fool and that he
don't know anything. If l was on theil
side of the question | don't think | would
say that either, for obvious reason. But
will call two witnesses from among oul
opponents to testify on this subject.
On the 1lth of April, 1865, the New
York World, leading Democratic paper
said:
discriminate better than we Americans are
apt to do between glitter and solid worth,
! Ulysses Grant, the tanner. Ulysses Grant
Surveyor of st. Louis, Ulysses Grant, the
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