Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-10-28
HORACE MAYNARD.
He Defends Charges of Republican
Prescription.
He Refers TO SOme COnfiSCati on AcfS
Of 1861.
Truths for Demag0SueS
HOWling about Oppression.
How LandOn G.. Haynes Got HIS
ExtinguiSher.

Horace Maynard ndue ,d loISChS "h"
able speech at Memphis, on the 18th,
which we find partyl reported i'll the Mem
phis Bulletin of the 24th. His reply to
Landon G. Haynes is what might be call
ed an extinguisher. 1t revives recollec-
tions that we should think such men
would be slow to bring out again. But as
they must have it, better it were given hot
and heavy as Maynard gave it. He spoke
as follows:
Let us look at Grants administration
and see what it has been. See if we can
find any reason why this worthy public
servant should be sent into retirement,
and his place supplied by the Democracy.
When he became President, we were in
trouble with England by reason of her
conduct towards us in the late war. Eng
land did not love you, but she hated our
nation and determined to do everything
in her power to break down the Republic
on this side of the water. TO do this, she
professed friendship for your Confederacy,
and gave you what aid and encouragement
she could She permitted your vessels to
build and outfit, and to supp y and depart
| from her ports TO prey upon our commerce.
! England was called to account for her con-
| duct, but in that proud bearing which had
| so long characterized her, she was indiffer-
ent to our demands. Finally the Great
Russian Bear began to show his teeth, and
| England being frightened, sent over and
| told General Grant that they were willing
to leave our troubles out to a commission
of four selected by each government. The
commission upon our part was selected by
General Grant, and they met those of
England at Geneva and for the first time
in her history, England, that proud and
imperiOuS nation, upon whose dOminiOnS
the sun never sets, and who has claimed
to be the mistress of the seas, was made to
answer as defendant in any courts upon
earth. That court sitting at Geneva,
awarded the Government Of the United
States the sum of fifteen million five
hundred thousand dollars, to be paid in
gold.
AS an illustration of the non partisan
feeling of General Grant in the admins
tratiOn of the Government, we have only
to say, that he selected for duty on that
commission, men who wereSnot his party
friends, but to show TO the world that he
desired only fair and honorable settle
ment of our troubles with England, he
chose for that service as many Democrats
as Republicans. Scarcely Republican in
the nation but would have been glad of
the honor which such an appointment
with pride to his conduct and manage
ment of all our foreign affairs, and to-
night, we are the most honored nation on
the face Of the earth, Some of you have
been abroad and know of your observa-
ton, the estimation in which we are held.
Our prowess in the field during the late
war, and our administration of the Gov
eminent since the war, has placed us high
er in the estimation of the civilized world.
My confederate friends, some of you
have contributed to this greatness of our
country. The world watched us during
our struggle, and after the record that our
armies made, the nation would feel strong
indeed that would not hesitate to assail us.
But, as the Government has been wise
ly and ably administered as regards our
foreign policy and relations, so it has been
honestly and faithfully administered at
home. The Government has been kind
and considerate to the people of our Sec
ton, far beyond what many of you ex-
pected. And the equal protection of the
law has been extended to every citizen
alike, without regard to the past. An eff
fort has been made to suppress violence
and bloodshed, but not to oppres, the
guiltless. But in the speech to which l
have referred, Landon G. Haynes says
that the Government is oppressive. Now
| let US see about the oppression. / was
| elected to Congress from my district in
| 1861, and hurried away to Washington,
hoping to arrive there before the adjourn
ment of the Congress then in session, but
failed to do so. The times were stormy,
and all over the land there were prepara-
tiOns for war. l could not be at home.
At that time Landon G.. Haynes was a
you an application he made to the court at
Knoxville. Mr.. Haynes was the seques-
tatiOn agent of the so-called Confederate
States of America, and as such agent let
us see what he did. / read from true
copy of an application filed by him which
is as follows:
To Hon. West H. Humph reys, Judge OF
the District Court of the Con federate States
of America for the District of Tennessee:
The Confederate States of America,
through Landon G.. Haynes, the receiver
for the eastern district of Tennessee, re-
spectfully represents unto your honor that
within the jurisdiction of this court there
are various items of prop Ierty specially
enumerated.) The said States, by said re-
ceiver, show that said property, real, per-
sonaI, and mixed, belongs to one Horace
| MAYNARD, who has his domicile and who re-
sides in Kentucky, or some one of the
States or districts of the United States, and
who is in actual hostility to the Govern
| ment of the Confederate States of America
and who adheFes to the enemy of said
States by speeches, words and acts, giving
them aid and comfort in Kentucky and
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 receiy-
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. I. Washburn, who resides in Knox
county, in this State, which property is