Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-30

select his own associal les, and this thing
ought to regulate itself.
Our homes are open only To those
invited impliedly or direct We all
control our own associates aud so ii
will he always. My colored friends
favor this too and l am informed
would often like their homes, little
more exempt from unsolicited visits
than they have been great laughter
and applause Now, while | would
not favor mixed schools or enforced in
tercOurse of any kind where men of
sense prefer their own inclinations
should control, | would like to know
by what right our Democratic friends
take US to task about this matter. Why,
but two years ago they were going
about among our colored friends claim
ing their votes because they were bet
ter friends to them than the Radicals"
They said to them, "Come along boys
and if you want mixed schools, why
here is our man Greeley, he is in fa~
vor of them. If you want an
an intermarriage Of races, why, come
with us, here is our man Greeley, he is
for it.n Are these the men to fling
Civil Rights Bill in our faces? have
known the people of East Tennessee
for many years. | know them as men
ever ready to listen TO reason and ar
gument, and as men who do not take
violence and lawlessness as an answer
to legislation which many good men
honestly propose. Point out the Oh
iectionable features of the bill, as they
appear to you, and reason with them,
and they will be right,
The Civil Rights Bill, as it passed
the Senate, was not Summers bill. 1t
was framed by Senator Frelinghuysen,
an able and good man, and he says the
bill does not mean mixed schools. He
was distinctly asked, during the debate
on the bill, if it was intended to
compel the education of the races
in the same school, and he stated
distinctly, mo- did not
examine the bill closely for | was
not called upon to vote directly upon
it. voted 70 take it from the Speakers
table and refer it to a committee who
would amend it aud improve it. This
| is the only manner in which | was
called to vote for the bill. My time
was taken up in considering other
subjects for legislation-assigDed to
me, finance, &c.
DEMOCRATIC TACTICS.
But Democracy is at his old tactics
| trying to divide our party. We heal
| it said that they are so anxious to gel
! into power that they are willing tC
spend thousands of dollars to elect {
| Congressman. We hear it, that they
would, in order to divide our party
and secure independent candidates
raise thousands of dollars-and all
this to get to Congress to sit by BLACK
man. The tactics OF the party is by
violent speeches, and by saying harsf
things, to drive men into their ranks
This was their policy in 1S60-l an(
it has been recently, as | have showr
you from the violent speech of you
Governor calling Republicans felon
and assigning them to the peniten
tiary.
THE CURRENCY AND TARIFF.
Mr.. Maynard then went into
lengthy defence OF the financial legis
lation of the Republican party, ant
its policy of protecting home industr!
by wise tariff, illustrating the bene
fits following Republican Legislation
by the growth of manufactures her
and at Chattanooga. He referred t
Senator Richards as man the tarit
had brought from Wales to make hi
iron here out of our hills, instead of il
Wales. Senator Richards said yes
and if the tariff were repealed | woul
so back to Wales and make iro
there and send here to SCI
,, to our people, Mr.. Maynard re
counted CIay's great doctrines {
national currency, taiH an
internal improvements, and Shove
I how they were now being carried OF
. by the Republican party. Do yo
I wonder, then, my fellow-Democrat
l said he, why these old Wings cling +
closely to the Republican party
, The closing references of his speec
to Henry Clay, his life, and the legac
he left the country, were so elOqueI
' and beautiful that we can not atteml
to reproduce them.
1 The speech was the best we hay
1 ever heard Mr.. Maynard make.
was eloquent, full of facts, and carrie
conviction to his hearers. The Opel
e House was well filled with an INTEL
gent audience, who listened to hi
, with intense interest, very frequent
! applauding him. His explanation
= the Civil Rights Bill, and his come
J., ion with it, was eminently satisfaction
e the Republicans and confusing an
u demOralizing to the Democrat
u who saw, under his IA
y explanation Of the subject, that the
IS thunder was losing its effect. Ma
II nard made hundreds of votes la
r. night and send hundred intellige
s Republicans back to their counties d
y termined to work for the success of Il
"a Republi can ticket. On his enteriI
l. the Hail, all through his speech and
II its close, he was rOusingly cheered al
every evidence given that he has not
re as he always had, the confidence, To-
u aud support Of the Republicans of II
he district.
J. Immediately following his spec
ne the band discussed music. The f,
IL lowing resolutions were then repOrte
n REPORT or THE COMMITTEE on X
H. SOLUTIONS.
at WHEREAS, Certain turbulent al
re disorderly persons have recently col
ye bined together in the State of Lou
n lana for insurrectionary purposes,
Of tending with force and arms, al
u without regard to recognized forms
&c law to overthrow the State Cover