The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23
ssTHE COMMON HERD,
Horace Maynard Photographed by
Senator BrOWnlOw.
[BrownlOw's Knoxville Wing, July 80, 1853

Horace Maynard Photographed by
Senator BrOWnlOw.
[Brownlow's Knoxville Wing, July 80, 1858.
zADOK (MAYNARD) AGAIN.
We have visited several neighborhoods
in the upper end of Knox county, since
our last issue, and we found the people
all, with whom we converSed indignant
at the low estimate placed upon them by
this man Maynard, in his Zadok Jones
Essays. This accounts for the desperate
efforts his conscience-keepers are making
to explain out of these articles. But it
all won't do; Maynards human cattle"
put their own construction upon what has
been said!
But Horace Maynard says in the Knor-
UiLLe Times:
How l do not regard the good or bad
opinion of the multitude, hare already
told you; however, the remark should be
looked upon as q jeSt, or a mOneRtaTy
ebuILitiOn of spleen, again state distinct
Iy that l esteem the herd of mankind,
the human cattle, no better than other
cattle, nor quite so good. In short, l
hold them in the utmost loathing and
contempt y
In his essay of Dec. 6, 1889, he thus
came out in favor of a Kingly Govern
ment:
Happy is that people whose Govern
ment, even in its infancy, is established
upon the basis of regal power. This is
the only national and rational principle
by which society can be permanently kept
together.
In the Times for December Is, he de-
MES the doctrine of equality of rights, as
set forth in the American Declaration of
Independence, and openly avows the
British doctrine that some men are born
to rule" Here is Maynard, as he is
Say what you will about natural equal
ity, it is all moonshine, a thing well
enough for school-boys and the theorists
to speculate upon, and for Demagogues
to tickle the ears of the rabble with, but a
thing without foundation in fact or phi
losophy, and which, if it could be carried
into practice, would be the subversion of
order and bring the most direful conse-
quences both upon individuals and socie
ty. Some are as certainly born to rule
as others to cultivate music, poetry or the
mathematics
And here is what he says of the com
mon people of Tennessee, who visited the
penitentiary to see Murrell, and to pay
their homage to crime
And / Will hazard anything that nine
tenths of those who visit Nashville, are
more anxious to call on Murrelli in the peni-
Tertiary, than upon jackson at the Her
mitage. Indeed, so troublesome have
their calls been to the officer of that ex-
cellent institution, that our good old Gov.
Cannon recommends that a toll be col
lected from all who flock thither, for the
creditable purpose of paying their homage
to crime.
And speaking of the gross ignorance
of the common rabble,' as he styles the
masses, he further says:
81 could pardon their want of discrimi-
nation between the various degrees of ex-
cellence, did excellence alone receive
their appreciation; but it does not; they
are quite as ready to applaud pre-emi-
hence in guilt as -eminence in virtue.
Now, what man in the humble walks of
life will think of casting his vote for a
man who entertains such sentiments, and
has stated that these opinions have not
been hastily formed, but are with him,
we'll digested articles of faith? What
farmer, day-laborer, or mechanic, free
from the control of party leaders, will
think of voting for such a man? We
pause for reply.