Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-22
FROM NASHVILLE.
The Legislature at WOrk-Flghting May
nard and East Tennessee.
NASHVILLE, March Goth, !

! nara ana East tennessee.
NASHVILLE, March Goth, 1872.
A hungry pack of wolves never snarled
over bone that might be thrown to them
with more wolfish ferocity than do our
Democratic Legislature over the Congress
sional bone. Not only do they snap and
growl at Republicans who oppose them,
but they are constantly in the habit of
snarling at each other, when some one,
hungrier than the others, if possible, thinks
he is not getting his share of it,
A STORMY MEETING.
Monday night they had an open meet
ing of the Committee and different mem
bers of the Legislature who desire to go to
Congress were permitted to make an
exhibition of themselves. 1t must have
been very disgraceful exhibition OF par
tisanism, uncontrolled by brains, for the
editor of the Union and american, who
was himself present, feels called upon to
administer sharp rebuke which he
does in his issue of yesterday morn
ing. The principle trouble was between
Senator DuBOse, of Shelby, who feels that
his services would be invaluable IN high
err sphere than where he now moves, and
Representative Harris, from the same
county. DuBose does not feel safe in risk
| ing his chances for Congress in a district
with less than 5000 Democratic majority,
and to secure this he is willing to do al
most anything. Harris is opposed to the
district marked out by the wise Senator
and hence the trouble. The discussion is
said to have been stormy, and distin-
guished member, who is also Democrat
| saws these high dignitarieS have an I'M
pleasant habit, while speaking on such oc-
casions, of making all their gestures with
| their left hand, while their ght remains
| in their breeches pocket, (grasping der
ringer, or "sich " like. Harris opposed
| the district, because according to the APP
portionment, Middle Tennessee would
control five districts, while the other four
were generously (?) conceded to the other
divisions of the State.
A COMPROMISE.
The committee held another meeting
last night, and we learn have effected
compromise. The districts will probably
remain substantially as they are published
| in the Banner of this date. By reference
| to these it will be seen that the Second
| District is changed a little from the basis
as telegraphed you on Monday evening
DeKalb county being left off and attached
to the Fifth District. The great object of
the apportionment-the feature which has
attracted the most general attention-was
the arrangement of the Second District so
as to beat
HORACE MAYNARD.
We knew all the time this would be SO,
but we had supposed that even this Legis-
| lature would attempt some show Of decen-
cy and propriety. 1t seems that both these
virtues have been not only studiously ig-
nored, but shamefully and unblushingly
| violated.
| We learn that the chairman of the COM
| mittee, DuBoSe, of Memphis, openly and
defiantly boosted before the meetings of
the committee, that his sole object was to
so gerrymander the districts as to provide
against any possibility of single Republic
can being elected from the State. May
nard was talked of and discusseda as ifhe were
| a very fiend who has been engaged in the
torture of righteous Democratic souls.
" Maynard must be beat at all hazards"
seems to be the general sentiment of Dem
ocratic members. We behold the spectacle
of more than nine-tenths of an entire Leg
islature arrayed against one man. But
give them equal terms and the contest is
by no means an unequal one, for he pos
sesses more ability, more craftsmanship,
than the whole of them combined.
LEGISLATING AGAINST EAST TENNESSEE.
There is another view of this apportion-
ment. No truth is more clearly established
than that the rebels of Middle and West
Tennessee still cherish a feeling of bitter
hatred towards our section for the position
of loyalty we assumed toward the Govern
ment at the beginning of the late war.
They may and do deny it, but they must
expect that our people are all blind, if they
expect us to believe such q hypOcritical de-
NAL. They are determined to make us
feel it on every occasion. They will carry
their oppression just as far as they can
safely do so without violating the cOnstitu-
ton and laws of the State and of the Uni
ted States. If they had the power, they
would deprive us of any voice in the con-
troll of public affairs, and reduce us to a
state of the merest vassalage. They never
will forgive us for opposing secession and
disunion-I mean the majority of them
and it is perfect folly for us to suppose they
will. Our district, as now formed, is to all
;; intents and purposes Middle Tennessee
district, and it was so created to silence our
voices in the halls of Congress.
In the first place, the object was to
beat Maynard; and secondly, the sturdy
mountaineers who were always loyal to
! the Government-the voters of Campbell
Scott, Morgan, &c.-are to be reduced to
vassalage, because they made 1t SO warm
for Brigadier General John Crawford
Vaughn while engaged in his celebrated
camOaign against the cattle, horses, corn
cribs anu fodder stacks OF that part OF the
country. which is known in tradition as
the birthstone Campaign They oppos.
, | ed Vaughn and others of the same Xix, anO
Y now they must suffer for it.
: Such, gentle reader, are some of the mo-
| tiyes by which the members OF this Leg
q islature are actuated. We may have some
{: thing more to say in connection with TINS
n infamous apportiOnment. W. NJ
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