The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-01
Maynard and Cox.

Hon. Horace Maynard and Col. N. N.
Cox, as previously announced, met in
debate here last Friday. 1t was Mr..
Maynard's appointment and he consent
ed to divide time with Col. Cox. Mr..
Maynard spoke first. His speech was
an hour and half in length, and well
composed. His careful and precise
style would at once stamp him parlia-
mentarian of large experience. Men,
whose lives are spent in debate in the
halls OF Congress, naturally acquire a
deliberate and careful delivery. His
natural ability and great experience in
governmental affairs, make him pre-
eminently one OF the greatest politicians
OF his party. He is one of the best
informed men in the country, and deci-
dedly one.of the widest and shrewdest
Speakers OF the times. There is no man
i'm his party that can put as good phase
on its polity as he does. But we again
warn our people to beware of his oily
tongue. He can get close to you with
his lips, but his heart is tar from you
He has never Discontinued his affections
from around his early loved Massachu-
sets, and his sixteen years of congress
ional labor were spent mostly in her be-
half. Every effort he ever made tended
to the building upof that section of the
Union.
Col. Cox, after exposing some of the
corruptions of the present administra-
ton, took up Mr.. Maynard's political
record and ventilated it. He read from
the reports of Congress where he had
voted three times against general am
nesty bill, and showed that he had work.
ed seduously to perpetuate political
slavery in the South. To this Mr.. May
nard only replied that up to that time
six years alter the war-that the rebels
were not repenuent enough, and that
they ought to be thankful for what Glenn
ency they had received. When Col.
Cox asked him if he was in favor of So
cial equality between the races, he pre-
yaricated by relating ridiculous and
vulgar ane:dOte; and when he asked
him if he did not labor to reconstruct
the State and put it under bayonet rule
a little more than two years ago, his re-
ply was, that he had always voted con-
scientiously, for what he thought WAS
best for the country. He had asked Col.
Cox if he had ever been Ku klux
The Colonel responded promptly and
emphaticilly that he never had been,
and had never seen one. He then ask
ed Mr.. Maynard if he had ever been a
member OF the Loyal League? But
like the man who had not on the we'd
ding garment, "he was speeches."
After Mr.. Maynard had finished his re-
joinder, the negroes LETT.
We are willing to concede him all the
intellect his most ardent admirers claim
for him, but what true Tennesseean can
support him with his record? Did he
not initiate against the material inter-
ests of our State during good life time
in Congress? And has he not worked
oh mot n
fasten the yoke of servitude upon the
people of his adopted State and section !?
Yes, he has worked against us through
the gilded day, and under the sombre
shadows of night. While honest men
were asleep, his snaky form might have
been seen, spectre-like, in the weird
light OF Loyal Leagues, earnestly at
work, iRfuencingthe minds of ignorant
men against their leighbors and friends.
We warn you, conntrymen, be ye not
betrayed with kiss, 81 sa 80