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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
THE DEMOCRATIC ANACONDA SWALLOWING
THE GREELEY STAG

Barnum, the prince of humbugs, never offered
anythngGuit so odd and monstrous a. the en-
tertainment which has been arranged at Balti-
more for the present week. The public mind is
not tossed between conflicting possibilities, FOR
nobody expects any other result than the nomi-
nation Of Greeley; but the interest which Is
wrought up to so high q pitch subsists upon
the wondering incredulity of the public. OF
all the strange things which have. ever hap
pened what can seem more extraordinary than
the nomination of Horace Greeley as the regu-
lar Democratic candidate for Presideut2 1t be-
ing already certain that the thing will be done,
the country watches the process with the same
hungry anaconda about to swallow a stag
hoofs, branching horns and all-when it would
nearly cost the anaconda his life to perform the
feat to say nothing of the pains of digestion af.
forwards
Such feat of deglutition will be performed
at Baltimore tomorrow or next day, when the
Democratic party will gulp down Mr. Greeley (;
and as this amazing meal has been decided on,
we can only wish the Democratic party a happy
digestion. The World will contribute no slime
to give the animal slippery passage down the
throat ofthe devoureri but when the thing is
done 1t will do whatever may be in itspower to
aid the digestion, and prevent the Democratic
party going into torpid and prolonged stupor
by reason of the heavy load upon its stomach
We trust there may be vigor enough i'll the
party to digest the monstrous meal and come
forth afterwards "as well rs could be cxpec-
ted"
The above from the New York If7Orld is
too good to be lost. Who will say that it
is not a true picture of the political event
t Baltimore yesterday, resulting in the
nomination of Horace Greeley as the
regular Democratic candidate for E'resi-
dent of the United States. Henceforth,
nothing WEI be considered impossible in
politics. The day for people to wonder at
anything is passed. If Pope Plus tx
should name iHenry Ward Beecher as his
successor, ard Beecher should vacate Ply
mouth Churehand don the pontiflcal robes
it would be no more astounding to the
world than to see the once proud and
naughty DeEl0cracy going through the
process of swallowing Greeley, unwashed
of past offences-"hOOfs, branching horns
and ALL" And the World speaks truly as
to the intense iaterest created by such a
spectacle.
The feat of swallowing him has been
performed, as every one supposed it would
be, and now the "Fains of digestion" will
be watched with interest. 1t is the opin-
ion of the best doctors, that the Anaconda
will find Horace q tough customer, and
that it will go into a torpid and prolong-
ed stupor by reason of the heavy load on
its stomach" This "odd and monstrous"
entertainment, which the World saws
"Barnum, the prince of humbugs,u has
never equalled, is presented to the Ameri-
can people as the only means of saving the
Government Are the American people
foolish and inconsiderate enough to be in
influenced in this extraordinary way? 1t
would be downright SANDER to intimate
that they are.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
STRANGE TALK.

In Baltimore, for two days past, fervid
expressions of Democratic patriotism have
been the style. If stranger could have
dropped into Fords Theater, who knew
nothing of the history of our country for
the past dozen years, and could have heard
Jealous Democratic orators eXpounding the
Constitution and vehemently denouncing
Grant and his friends as despots, usurpers,
&C., he would have been forced to the con-
clusion that this country had passed
through great rebellion, that the govern
ment had been overthrown and that the re-
bells were in authority oveHthOse who fought
to sustain it. 1t is remarkable what an
amount of presumption some men can ex-
ercise. For instance, take the declaration
of Thos. Jefferson Randolph, who was Sc
lected as temporary chairman at Balti-
more vest srday, not because of talents, but
| because he is a grandson of Thos. Jeffer-
son. On taking the chair he gushed over
with patriotic emotions, and among other
things, declared that the duty of the con-
vention was to "wrest the govern
ment from the hands of the present
"despotic and corrupt holders and
place 1t in honest hands, to restore
the citizen everywhere to proud con-
seriousness Of personal rights" &C. Here
is efiervescence for you. Here is patriotism
of the disinterested kind. Such declara-
tons from the late rebels sound STRANGELY
in the ears of loyal East Tennesseeans.
The men who are now at Baltimore con-
spring to defeat Grant, and talking about
the despotism of the present administra-
ton, are the men who, less than ten wears
ago, were sending out attachments of reb-
ell soldiers into every nook and corner of
East Tennessee conscriptng and driving
union men from their homes. BY direc-
ton OF these same men, the loyal people of
East Tennessee, were forced, either to
take up arms in defense of cause which
they detested, or to leave their homes and
fee within the Federal lines for
protective. Not only were Union men
driven from their homes, hunted down
with blood hounds and confined in loathe-
some prisons to starve or die from disease,
but their wives and children were also
made to feel the iron heel of Confederate
despotism, by general orders issued from
milstary headquarters, requiring them to
leave the homes they had earned bv the
hard labor and close economy of Wears.
and seek protection outside OF the terri
tory then occupied by the Confederate
army.
The talk about restoring the government.
coming from such men as Randolph
Is equally strange. AS well might the
highway rohber who bad inflicted a severe
wound upon passing victim to his rapac- |
ity, which victim had been rescued before
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
TO OUR FRIENDS.

THE great Campaign of 10 has opened.
1t is the duty of every voter to inform
himself rs to issues involved. No medium
presents itself through which information
may be gained, equal to that of live, well
conducted newspaper, This is just what we
propose to make of the CHRONICLE. We
appeal to our friends to aid Us in extending
its circulation. BY doing this they will
enlarge its field of usefulness, and aid in
giving it increased facilities for dissent
mating information. We will send the
WEEKLY CHRONICLE to subscribers for
the campaign, closing with the full re-
turns of the election, for the low
price of FIFTY CENTS! We ought
to have FIVE THOUSAND campaign
subscribers in East Tennessee. If every
Republican who sees this will only work
for Ii, we will obtain them.
We will send ten copies of the WEEKLY
CHRONICLE, one year, for FIFTEEN DOL
LARS. Let us hear from you, friends.
Remit by Postoffice Money Order, or by
Registered Letter, at our risk.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
THE suREsr ROAD TO REFORM AND PEACE


If the people of the country could believe
that either on the part ofNIr. Greeley or on
the part of the Democracy there was any
sincere desire for reform in the Government
or for an era of better feeling in the land,
they would regard with more patience anG
with less apprehension of danger the pres.
ent anomalous condition of political of
ficers.
But when sensible men see that the So
called campaign of reform Is led by disap--
pointed politicians and convicted corrup-
tionists they can have little confidence in.
that direction. When it is openly and
repeatedly charged in New York city
under the Tjbnae's nose that the present
coalition between Greeley and Democracy
is the result of distinct and detailed bar
gaining and sale between Greeley's imme-
date friends and Horatio Seymour and
this charge is not denied, men have little
respect for the cry of reform.
AS for the era of better feelings" the
clasped hand across the bloody chasm''-
the people of this country would rather
expect that to follow from a firm and con-
sistent administration at Washington,
such as Grant will give, and has given
than from weak and timid administra-
ton, such as Mr.. Greeley and his motley
associates would be sure to give.
Those who do not know Horace Greeley
as weak vacillating man do not remem-
Der his remarkable record during the last
war. Those who do not know him to be.
man easily duped and misled, can not be
familiar with his relations to the Tamma-
ny ring of New York. Those relations,
prove him either corrupt and treacher-
Gus man or one easily deceived and misled
by knaves. We prefer to consider him as
the latter, and when we see these vultures
and scoundrels, from Tweed, Hall and
Hoffman to the common black-legs and
pugilists of the Bowery-now for Greeley
to man, betting their stolen treasures OH
his election-We fear his advent in the
White House would be an evil day to this
people. OF timid heart and vacileating
disposition, surrounded by the designing
politicians that now control him, we would
have such disorders and violence in disaf-
fected sections of the South as would re-
new again the worst passions of the war.
The hukluX have been dispersed arbi-
trary laws have passed from the statute
books, and the era of good feeling is far
more likely to come under Grant than
after change, the results of which no one
can anticipate.
If then the South wants reform and good.
feeling 1T will find it speedier from Grants
reelection than from the success of a coali-
ton that in its greed for place and power and
IN the discordant elements composing it
would certainly embroil the country in bit
ter strife and the uncertainty of battle of
factions. Grant has had violence to battle
against and arbitrary laws to enforce that
were enacted by Greeley and sumner as
much as by Morton and Wilson, but if he
is now left to administer the government
IN the order and prosperity he has won
for it, We are confident he will do il more.
wisely and beneficently than Greeley and
his dangerous coalition.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
WHO WILL BE SHERIFF

The contest tor Sheriff in Knox county
has narrowed down between Gossett and
Hudiburg. Gossett has served the people
faithfully for the pa& two years. He has
given satisfaction to men of all parties. He
has been prompt, courteous, vigilant and
honest. His competitor is well known to
thepeople of the county. Let voters lay
aside all political or personal prejudice and
vote for the man they think will make
the best officer. Pay no attention to anan-
ymous communications or circulars,
filled with ISLANDERS upon Gossett. A des-
perate 'town clique is laboring with
might and main to defeat him. Will they
succeed? Ifso, the people of the county
may just as well acknowledge their ina
bility to control their own affairs, and al
low the Knoxville Ring to assume charge
ofthem.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
GIFT TAKING.

We desire to say word to the friends of
Grant and Wilson. Democratic orators
and Democratic stump-speakers, including
small talk" cross roads, street corner
and bar room Democratic politicians, are
in the habit of reiterating every time they
open their mouths that Grant has been
guilty of receiving presents, and in consid-
GRAFTON thereof he has dispensed important
offices. This in very large degree, consti-
tutes their stock in trade. Now, what we
would say is this. When Won
hear one of these men make such
a charge in the future, ask him for the
proof. ASK him what present Grant has
received since he became President, from
whom he received it and who he appoint
ed to office in consideration of its receipt
II he Is man of any respectability or in
nuence. ask him these questions. He will
evade the question. 1t will then be well
enough to remind him of the tragic fate of
Annanias and Sapphira, and commend
him to careful perusal of the 5th chapter
of Acts, and other portions of the HOLY
Scriptures, so that if he should find HIM
self in that sulphurous lake prepared for
all liars, he cannot say he sinned igno-
rantly.
We think it possible for o man to repeat
a falsehood until he thinks it true himself,
and this may be the case with some of
Grants accusers. We deny that the Pres
ldent has received presents since he came
into office, and demand the proof. 1t can
not be given, and he who says that he has,
tells blstering falsehood, either igno-
rantly, or wilfully and maliciously.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
HORNS.

Here are some of the horns to the Gree
ley stag of which the New York World
speaks. The Democratic Anaconda, no
doubt, found them jagged, but managed
to worry them down by the aid of ''slime'.
furnished by Greeley's strikers. On the
10th of December, 1867, the riG1ne said ::
All do know that there are several hundred
thousand mulattoes in this country and we
presume that no one has any serious doubt that
the fathers of at least nine-tenths of them are
white Democrats and we arc told that those
Democrats, if they will have yellow children
might better than otherwise treat the mothers
respectfully as wives after the lnudabe pattern
of that eminent Democrat Vice President Rich
arm NJ. johnson.
On the 9TH of January, 1865, Mr.. Gree
ley said:
Every one who chooses TO live by pugilsm,
or gambling, or harlotry, with nearly every
keeper of tipping house, is politically a
Democrat.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
THE ISSUES CLEARLY DEFINED.

The action of the Baltimore Convention
in uneuuivocally nominating as the Dem
ocratic candidates for President and Vice
President of the United States, Horace
Greeley and b. Gratz Brown, sharply de-
fines the issue in the pending canvass.
BY this nomination, Horace Greeley, the
lifelong and bitter opponent of the Demo-
cracy, becomes its candidate for President.
He is no longer the Liberal Republican
candidate for the Chief Executive of the
Nation-he is the regular Democratic can
didatc, and the contest is clearly and I'M
mistakeably that of Republicanlsm rer-
sus Democracy. The Liberal Re-
publican editors foresaw the disadvantage
of such contest and therefore plead with
Baltimore to simply recommend to the De-
mocracy the Cincinnati nominees. But
Greeley's friends knew that If elected at all
it would be through the Democratic or
ganiZation and by democratic appliances.
They therefore asked for regular non,ina-
ton to the end that the rank and file of the
party would feel compelled to support the
obnoxious candidates. In asking for this,
Greeley substantially places Cincinnati and
Liberal Republicanism at the tail end of
the unholy combination. He prefers
Tammany with Hoffman, Morrissy and
Tweed to Cincinnati, with Schurz and
Trumbull. AS the race on his part is purely
one for the spoils of office, he prefers the
three millions of Democratic votes to the
corporal's guard of Liberals. This is un-
questionably the view the people will take
of the action at Baltimore. BY seeking
and accepting regular Democratic nomi-
nation Greeley will lose thousands of Re-
publicans who were friendly to him. He
is now before the country as the candidate
of party he has charged with being COM
posed of "pugiLiSts, dldckIegs, There's, bur-
glars and keepers Of dc11s of prostitution. -
With these men he has made a Shameless
bargain for office. With these men, he
has entered into a bargain and sale to turn
over to their keeping the revenues, pa
tronage and honors of this great nation.
There is no principle involved, for it is
openly and VIGOROUSLY q struggle for place
and power. Talk of reforms to be effected
through such agencies 1t is an insult to
the intelligence of the American people.
Talk of such an unholy alliance succeeding.
1t is libel upon American char
acter. No! Horace Greeley as Demo-
cratic candidate will poll less votes than
would Thurman, Hendricks, Buckaew
or Thompson. Republicans are few who
will follow him to such camp and Demo-
Gratis are many who never will surrender
principles and honor for the vain hope of
public plumber.
The contest will be sharp and bitter, but
we have too much confidence in the patri-
otism honor and self-respect of the Ameri-
can people to even admit the probability of
the success of this shameless conspiracy
against the prosperity and peace of the
Republic!
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17
WEEKLY SUMMARY OF NEWS
HOME.

Further Indian outrages have been re-
ported...... Counterfeit bonds have been extern
sively circulated in Little Rock.,...P Politics are
getting warm in North Carolina...... Gen. John
c. Breckenridge has declared for Horace Gree
ley. Caterpillars have appeared among the
cotton in South Carolina and Alabama. Three
ex-Confederate officers in the service Of the
Khedive had a personal rencontre with the
United States Consul General at Alexandria,
Egypt, the other day each party says the other
was the aggressor.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17

BLUsTER, brag, music, procession and
buncombe speeches may do to draw weak
kneed men in some localities but it is an
old story in East Tennessee. That game
was playad in 1861, but it won't do again.
The present race is a straight out fight be-
tween Democracy under Greeley and Re-
publicanism under Grant aud the people
so understand it, The ranks are closing
up and Republicans once inclined to SYM
pathize with Greeley are for Grant now,
that Cincinnati has been switched to the
tail end of Baltimore. Liberal Republi-
cans are lost sight of and Democrats take
the lead. The game of Drag can't carry
this election.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17

Jeremiah Goliath became disgusted with his
name becaufe his father was "a drunkard and got
the Legislature of Massachusetts to change IL 10
Henry Wilson. But this same fellow does NOT
object TO Grant for the same eason.-Nash-
uitLe Union and american.
The above is a contemplate, dirty false
hood. Henry Wilson never in ali his life.
plundered the public treasury as the dirty
sheet above named did. When it paws
back to the people the sum it unlawfully
took from the Treasury it can set itself up
as a censor and not before.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17

the fatal blow was struck, insist ttrt he
and he onlyrcould restore him TO life and
health, or that he and he only had right
to bind upfhis wounds and administer to
his wants Thomas Jefferson Randolph
is an old man, and ought to know better
than to make such Incorporate Geclara-
tions, directly in the face of truth but
there is no telling what man will say
when under such influences as surrounded
him at Baltimore yesterday.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-17

A GEORGIA lawyer is reported in the
Tribune as saying "that we Southern
Democrats don't take Mr.. Greeley as an
" experiment. If that Were what we de-
" sired heis the last man we should choose.
believe that the majority of our people
" are going into this movement as | am,
" actnated by the same feeling that led US
a" into the Confederate armies, and that is
" love of country"
We have no doubt of this mans SINGER
lty, when he says ne is actuated by the
same feelings that led them into the Com
federate armies, but if it is love of country
we must believe that in his present course,
his Judgment is about as erroneous as in
the former.