Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-10-02

and Gems Bate and Quarles, and Col. Forney
at others and made things so warm that he
would fy the field. If he was q surgeon, with
cleaning scalpel in hand, in charge Of dis
secting room he would want no better subject
than Harris. He feared them not but said,
Let them come"
during the war and his policy since; his inn
peachment and trial with n reference to Gen.
Grant, Mr. Greeley and Charles Sumner, The
public debt, the school fund and the colored
race were fully reviewed when his time being
up he retired.
Mr. Maynard's Speech.
Mr.. Maynard set out with an able defence of
the administration from the assaults of the enc
mics of the Republican party and then took up
the question Of the public credit.
Shortly after Mr.. Maynard had commenced
| speaking shower fell, causing the crowd TO
adjourn to the court house. where he resumed.
| The building was densely packed, every avail
| able foot Of standing room being occupied while
many of those present at the grove could not
| gain admttance.
Amid vocferous cheering, Mr.. Maynard,
| arose. He regretted the interruption caused by
| the rain and as his competitors had availed
| themselves OF the opportunity to fortify them
| selves with dinner, and assuming that they did
| not object and would proceed, not wishing to
| keep his audience in suspense. He said that on
| the question of Democratic convention frauds
| discussed between his competitors he was dis
posed to argree fully with them and surmised
| that both were probably correct.
| AT this juncture Mr.. johnson appeared, when
Mr.. Maynard explained what he had said and
| resumed, reading extracts from the ex-Presi-
| dent speech in favor of making treason odious
and favoring the soizing OF large plantations
and their division into small farms, which
| speech was the keynote ofthe campaign in 1864.
! Passing on TO Mr.. Lincoln's Assassination and
! the induction of the Vice President into the of
flee so made vacant, and later, in the year 1865
| when he infused courage into the breasts of the
loyal men in Tennessee by his strong support of
| Governor Brownlow in his work of reconstruc-
ton. Southern union men and the colored race
| needed protection, which the Government, in
the face of an expectant world was forced to ac-
cord, and the reconstruction acts were passed.
Mr.. johnson had the misfortune to listen to
! such fellows ms Frank Huntington, and he had
nothing TO say in favor of Franks course and
hardly thought anybody would during the can
vass.
In separating from Congress, the ground Of
| separation was the contest between the eXeeu.
tive and legislative departments, conflict
which had cost Charles i, of England, his head
and Louis of France his life and the deposition Of
his dynasty. It'll occurred to him that Mr.
Johnson's charge that this Congress wanted his
head, was rather hasty utterance, and he per-
haps wouldn't repeat it,
Mr.. Maynard made an elaborate defense o
the Republican party and the various acts o
Congress. The fears of ex-rebels as TO giyini
the ballot and right to testify to the negro hac
proven groundless--the country had gone or
prospering, notwithstanding the negros voting
SO it was up to the assembling of the Balti-
more Convention, when the Democratic Lib
erals had placed themselves alongside the Re
publican party in the van of progress on the
question of civil rights, paying the public debt
and endorsing the conduct of The Union sol
diers. His remarks here took q facetiOus turn,
relating Nasby and Deacon Pennybalsers rea'
sons for supporting Greeley. The Deacon was
told it was necessary to vote for Greeley to beat
Grant" The besotted old saint was obtuse and
asked if it wouldn't do as well to vote for
| order n (rpplpV
Taking the catalogue he passed, down the list
of charges against the President from the helm
Gus one of smoking to drinking and gift-taking,
made by Charles Sumner, who even charged
that Gen: Grant was quarrelsome man. but
Mr.. Sumner had lived for sixty years in a state
of celibacy and then married beautiful and
charming widow, but in twelve months after
they separated. Truly he was nice man TO
bring such charges. He showed the charges of
corruption and incompetence of the President
to be groundless.
He would cite some strong witnesses for Gen.
Grants ability and patriotism. The following
is from the New York World Of April llth,
| 1865:
General Grants history should teach us to
discriminate better than we Americans are apt
TO do between glitter and solid work. Our
proneness to run after demsgogues and,spouters
may find n wholesome corrective in the study
of such a character rs his. The qualities by
which great things are accomplished are here
| seen to have no necessary connection with snowy
and superficial accomplishments.
| Ulysses Grant the tanner, Ulysses Grant the
unsuccessful applicant for the pest of City Sur
veyor of st. Louis, Ulysses Grant, the driver
into that city Of his two.horse team with load
of wood to SELL had within him every manly
quality which will cause the name of Lieut..
General Grant to live forever in history His
career is lesson in practical democracy; il is a
quiet satire on the dandyism, the puppyism, and
the shallow afiectation of our fashionable exqui~
sites as well as upon the swagger of our plausi-
bic, glib-tongued demagogues.
Apply TO General Grant what test you will
measure him by the magnitude Of the obstacles
he has surrounded, by the value of the positions
he has gained, by the fame of the antagonist
over whom he has triumphed, by the achieve
ments of his most illustrious co-workers, by the
sureness with which he directs his ndomitablC
energy to the vital point which is the key of O
vast field of operations, or by that supreme test
OF consumate ability, the absolute completeness
ofhis results, and he vindicates his claim tC
stand next after Napoleon and Washington
among the great soldiers of this country, If no
on a level with the latter.
When Frank p. Blair was making n speecl
at Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1865 some wis
Democrat called out in reply TO Blair's criticism
- Grant is fool.'' Mr.. Blair turned upon hin
with all his animation, sharpness and usual ex
pletve language, and said
'Sr, you are mistaken. Grant is no fool
L know him well. | knew him before he wen
into the army, and when he used to haul Woo
into the city of st. Louis. j meet him often il
the service. l know the man. He is, by
the greatest man of the age. Sheridan an(
Thomas are good men, but Grant is worth NOR
than all of themh LGreat cheering and laugh
teri
were both great men, but sir, / tell you tha
| IC a fna than. z,yall on