Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-10-28

| w dnHOufu are ToQueSUeU 10 SET IOrGn, an
oath, and specifically to describe said prop
erty, and debts, and chooses in action, as
they have full knowledge of the same, and
answer the interrOgatories herewith filed,
on oath and marked exhibit A, as q part
of this petition.
The Confederate States of America,
through said receiver, therefore pray that
the said persons having supervision and
control over said property, as aforesaid,
who resides in the county of Knox, be
made parties to this petition, and that
copy thereof, together with notice, be is
sued by the clerk of this court to the mar
shal or his deputy, to be served OH said per-
sons. Said Confederate States further pray
! that your honor direct said property to be
seized and sequestrated, and placed in the
hands of said receiver, and by him sold or
disposed of upon such terms and conditions
as your honor may direct. And on final
hearing the Confederate States pray for
all such other, further, and different relief
in the premises as may be consistent with
the act of the Confederate Congress.
LANDoN c. HAYNES,
| Receiver for the Eastern District of Tenn.
| And the property was seized and seques-
trated and placed in the hands of Landon
G.. Haynes. My wife and children were
turned out of doors and everything we had
were sold The beds upon which they
slept. The table from which they ate.
The kitchen furniture, and everything was
sold, even the cradle in which our infant
| children had been rocked, and little arti-
cles that had the names of my children,
long since dead, engraved upon them, and
which were of no intrinsic value TO any
one, but very dear to us as precious memen-
toes of the past, were sold [ do not know
how much they brought nor who bought
them, but / presume Mr.. Haynes got the
money and can tell what he did with it. |
have never complained Of that oppression.
| do not speak of it to complain. [ knew
when / took sides with my country, that
war, pestilence and famine, that triple
scourge of mankind would sweep over the
land aud would leave ruin, desolation and
death in its pathway. / was not unpre-
pared for what came. | have never sued
any one for damages. L have never sought
to have any one indicted. Ihave never asked
any one for my property, and 1 have not,
and do not now, complain of oppression. [
ask you, my cOuntrymen, where is there to
be found a man who espoused the South
ern cause whose property has been seized
by order of a court and sold? In what in
stance has the present administration OPP
pressed any citizen in thatOr indeedi in any
other way? Now it seems TO ME that my
side Of this fight was successful and that
Mr.. Haynes side was whipped. Sup
pose that his side had whipped and mine
been unsuccessful, / ask, would | have
been before you tonight, as a candidate for
seat in their Congress There has been
no oppression, but on the other hand.
there has been kindness and magnanlmi-
ty. =.
Mr. Maynard here read the Cincinnati
platform, adopted at Baltimore, and COM
pared it with the Philadelphia platform,
and said:
What keeps us apart? Why should we
call each other hard names? Our plat
forms are almost Identical and there now
remains nothing for us to quarrel about.
Our principles are the same, and the only
thing that divides us is a choice between
men. If each man of this large audience
had been taken eighteen months ago and
had been given three guesses as to who he
thought would have been the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency at this time,
not one of you would ever have thought of
Horace Greeley. Why, / could have
thought of nothing OH this broad earth so
mortifying and humiliating to the DemOc-
racy, and if they had been compelled to
do penance and had been obliged to sup
port Horace Greeley for the Presidency or
to have worn hair shirts and peas i'll their
shoes, 1 would have thought that they
would have preferred to do the latter all
the days of their lives. Our Democratic
IrlenuS nave Ueeu CuISluS w ILL., W. DlOM II
low bitterly for ten years, because of his
abuse of them, but the abuse which Brown
low has given compares with that which
Horace Greeley has heaped on them for
thirty years, as the singing of the gentle
Canary bird compares with the hooting OF
an owl.
They say that Grant is fool and that he
don't know anything. If l was on their
side of the question don't think L would
Al al g., IL RIt /
will call two witnesses from among our
opponents to testify on this subject.
On the 18th of April, 1865, the New
York World, q leading Democratic paper,
| said
Gen. Grants history should teach us to
| discriminate better than we Americans are
apt to do between glitter and solid worth.
| ULYSSES Grant, the tanner, Ulysses Grant
| the unsuccessful applicant for the post of
SURVEYOR of st. Louis, Ulysses Grant, the
driver into the city of his own horse them
| with q load of wood to SELL had within
him every manly quality which will cause
| the name of Lieutenant General Grant to
| live forever in history. His career is a les
son TO practical Democracy. 1t IS quiet
satire on the dandyism, the puppyl>m, and
the shallow application of our tashlonaole
eXquisites, as well as upon the sWagger OF
our plausible glib-tongued demagogues.
Not by any means that great qualities are
| inconsistent with cultivated manners ana
fluent elocution, but that such superb.
cal accomplishments are no measure OF
worthy ability.
| He spoke of Grants amnesty record, and
showed conclusively that he had always
favored and urged amnesty. He defended
the financial rolicy of the Administration
/ in a mastery argument He showed that
| the interests on the National debt had been
reduced from nine per cent. per annum to
five and half per cent. That the present
Administration had paid 35S millions of
the debt, or one hundred millions per
year.
That the annual interest in 1865, was
one hundred and fifty millions year, and
that it is now only one hundred and three
millions. And that taxes have been reduc-
ed one hundred and forty millions year,
that there was now no tax imposed except
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