Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-03-28
FROM NASHVILLE.
Passage Of the E%nEeuifous APP
porfienment Bill in The House
"A Display of Venom.

Correspondence Knoxville Chronicle
NASHVILLE, March %, 1872.-Tht
battle is over in the House. tie Appor.
tionment bill having passed its third rea.
ding without amendment. The principa.
opposition came from members in First
and Second Congressional Districts. Nc
reasonable man of any party attempts to
defend the disgraceful outrage in gerry
Wandering the Second District. 1t is
composed of sixteen counties, extending
from the North Carolina line on the south
east to Sumner county on the Northwest,
a distance OF two hundred miles, and is
divided about the center 10y the Cumber-
land range. Knox, jefferson, Anderson
and Campbell are the only counties in the
District through which a railroad passes.
and there are very few stage lines. ia
committee had been appointed. composed
of the best posted men in the Legislature,
to lay off the most inaccessible district
possible, they could not have succeeded
better han this. It is a contortion of
the worst possible character, formed with
an utter disregard of the rights ard con-
venience of the people residing in the Dis
trict. Hatred, blisd, malignant, p~artizan
hatred of Horace Maynard was the motive
that actuated those who laid off the Dis
trict. But a single Representative, we
believe, in the District voted for the bill.
Mr.. McGhee saw fit to explain that while
he was opposed to the formation of this
District, but believing 1t was the only bill
that could be passed he would vote for it.
Every other Representative in the Dis
trict, if our information is correct. voted
against it. But their wishes were disre-
garded in the wild p~artizan zeal to defeat
Maynard. A Democratic District might
have been formed Of counties more com
pact in form and adjacant to each other,
but the idea was to make an ~indisputable
Democratic majority, and at the same
time 4 territory as inconyenient as pos
slbie for a canvass.
THIS SPIRIT,
as we have said in former letters, was dis
throughout the discussion. An
old piece of p~omposity from Fayette
Eve feet high and three feet in diameter
fitted for an ox-driver than MAJ
king laws, stated that in voting for a meas
ure to defeat Horace Maynard he was
doing Gods service. A number of zeal
ous members responded "Amen! !" in
enthusiastic camp-meeting style. Anoth-
err little creature from some where among
he Mississippi river swamps, smaller in
and smaller in SOUL held forth in
he same animated strain. his eyes spark
ing with venom like a rattle-snake that
would spring upon its victim. His name,
We believe. is Richardson. A long, laak,
can creature from Neigs county, with
he word 'Imbecile" written on his FORE
cad. opposed any change. as he said
is peopel were opposed to..being in a dis
represented by Maynard. The bill
as opposed in the discussion By Colonel
,ick. IF Jefferson. Mr.. Culqustt, of Over :
IN, and. others. :
Asst TENNESSEE OPPOSED re THE =
iGd " BILL. M :.
Of the East Tennessee members pres
1t whom the vote was taken, seven voted
r the bill and fifteen against it. Those q
no voted ave, were Allen, of Meigs. B O