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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29
STIRRING UP BAD BLOOD.

" After the war the white rebels. So
called, in most IL not all the Southern
states, were DISTINGUISHED and the
colored men allowed to vote. This was
done by members of your Radical par
ty. The cotOred race oppressed the Whites.
assailed the white men aud Uioidted
unite UOnen throughout the South.
IheD tUere encouraged to do this, and
bounded on 6Y the speeches nddc by
members Of your party IN Congress-"
The above extract is from Col John
II. Crozier's open letter to Hon. Tru.
man Smith, of Connecticut, published
in the Press and Herald of July 10Th.
We are unaware that Mr.. CrUzier was
in any way assailed or referred to III
Mr.. Smiths open letter to -enator
Brownlow, and his letter, therefore,
looks very much as though twas simply
pretext for publishing some very vic
lent and unjust attacks upon the Union
party of the country. Every citizen
has the privilege to speak or write
when and what he pleases. Col.
CroZier unquestionably has thil priv
lege, but there is generally some reason
for men in his retired position appear
ing in the public press. There should
be some reason at least for iuflaming
the public mind by such violent LAM
guage as he uses in the letter referred
to.
The above extract deliberately
charges that the Republican Congress
men prepared aud delivered speeches
in Congress bounding that is not
only advising and urging, hut driUing-
cOlored men to violate white women
throughout the South What bit
ter, unfounded charge! Is there sen
sible, honest man in all the country,
that will not turn from this charge
with indignation and disgust? Why
was it made? What is the preteXt for
Col. Crozier coming out from his po-
Utica! retirement at this particular
time to stir up to white heat
the slumbering, If not buried, passions
of the war? Who has assailed him or
plONphCu nun W Ildht ouCll Iuldlilllld-
tory charges? Has he been encouraged
To do so because of the absence hereto
fore Of bitterness and passion in the
pending county elections? Has he
taken this want of excitement rs in
difference on the part of Republicans,
and drawn therefrom hopes that his
party was to he restored to power aud
control in this county, and is that the
iuducement for his letter? We have
failed to Imagine any other reasons for
this remarkable burst of passion and
bitterness un his part. Let the people
retirct upon it for themselves, aud see
if they can otherwise explain it!
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

On FOREIGN MERCHANDISE i'm
ported into the country, amounting
last year to S6O2, 224, 1874, there is i'm
posed tariff duty averaging about 80
per cent. dd VdLorem. This duty or
tax collected and paid into the Trea-
sury Of the United States was upwards
of $50, 900 900, gold coin, and received
principally from European merchants
and manufacturers, for the privilege
of coming into our markets with their
goods. They naturally regard this
enormous sum as a heavy burden, and
resort to all sorts of shifts and devices
to avoid it. One of these is Snug.
sling, or bringing in goods with
out reporting them to the custom
house, where the duties are payable as
required by law. Another is the mis-
representation of quality aud value
by false invoices and perjury. Still
another, the bribery of officials. But
the most persistent and determined
efforts, are those directed to the politics
of the country. Immense sums of
money are raised; newspapers estab-
lished or subsidized, agents employed,
College Professors retained, books and
pamphlets written and published to
indoctrinate the people with free trade,
as it is called that is, the privilege to
the foreign trader to bring his goods to
our markets free from duty or tax to
the Government. AS might be ex-
pected, New York, where are collected
nearly or quite two-thirds of the du-
ties, takes the lead. Her representa-
tives, rotainers, stipendiaries and oco-
lytes, are all for free trade.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAMS, in a
speech at Thorn Grove last week, said
the CHRONICLE had said that the cleo
ton ofMr. McGutfey as Attorney Gen
eral, would save the tax payers of
Knox county largely in cost and called
upon us for proof. The records of the
County Court Clerk office, as furnish
ed us by the Clerk, show that where
as the county of Knox, in 1870, paid for
costs in misdemeanor cases So, 100 70, it
paid from July 1873, to July, 1874, the
sum of $3.50 40. An increase of over
81, 200, as between Mr.. Williams ad-
minlstratiOn and Col. Thornburgh's,
would seem to show that an improve
ment might be made by the election
of more experienced lawyer.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29
REvIvIRG WAR ISSUES.

The efforts Of the Democratic poli-
tcians to marshal their full party
strength in the pending county can.
vass and to drag into it issues that
really have no bearing upon it, is
proving eminently successful. They
have pushed the civil rights question
until even the most obtuse minded can
see their object. And now comes one
of their retired list, and with bitter
ness unaccountable, thrusts before the
people other issues which had better
been left buried. Col. John H. Cro-
zier has written an open letter to Hon.
Truman Smith, of Connecticut, re
viewing his letter to Senator Brown
low. Col. Crozier, in that letter pub
lished in Sundays Press and Herald,
says:
Now, if you people North and
East have any fairness or magnanimi-
ty about you, you will legislate impair.
TALLY, for the benefit of the South as
well as the North. You sent your
armies down here, killed our people,
carried and took away our personal
property, devastated our fields and
burnt our houses and towns"
Perhaps Col. Crozier knows why
the people North sent their armies
down and did all the naughty things
above stated. What was Col. Crozier.
and his associates, doing about that
time, to call for such action on the
part Of the Union people? 1t seems to
us that we have heard that there was
some cause for that unpleasantness. -
About the time referred to there were
lot politicians in the South firing
the Southern hearts " by inducing
them to organize into armies, fire upon
the Union flag, take unlawful posses
sion of the arsenals, arms, public
buildings, land, ships and ordnance
stores, quartermaster's stores, &c. that
belonged to the Governments -.
Union people of the whole country.
1t seems 10 US that we have also
heard that about that time some Union
people in East Tennessee and else
where South, who disapproved of this
wholesale larceny of Government
property, and spoke out protesting
against it aud vowing their allegiance
to the Government of their fathers,
were arrested and imprisoned, and
ONE of them hung for their interior.
ence with the conspiracy of these
Southern politicians. Col. Cruzier
ought to recolect something about
these things for it has always been un-
derstood that he played ali important
part in organizing and carrying out
the unlawful acts referred to. Did he
expect the Government to allow such
treason to go on unmOlested? Does
he now, still, think. that it was an uu-
called forinterference Oh the part of the
Government in sending out its armies
and to do all the horrible things he
charges in the quotation we have made?
We had supposed that the right and
duty OF the Government to do what il
did in 1861 was forever settled. But
Col. Crozier still thinks it was all
wrong, aud he comes out now on the
eve of important county, State and
Congressional elections to say so. He
has opened up the issue, and unless
we are mistaken, he and his party will
repent OF their folly.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

A NOTABLE MAN in this our day was
Samuel Williston, of Massachusetts,,
who died on the IS II instant, In his S0th
year His life, strictly private, beyond
few terms in the State Legislature,
is more instructive and encouraging
to the young than many lives illustri~
Gus on the battlefield, or in the Coun-
ellis of State He was the son ola clergy
man, and his early training can be in
frrred. The early failure of eye-sight
deprived him of more than an elemen-
tary education. AS farmer, he found
his strength inadequate to the hard cul.
tivation of his native hills. At q he
married, and like many another young
man, tried his fortune selling goods.
Here IL the instructive part Of
his career. He found popu-
lar want, and aided by his wife
undertook to supply it. This was
more than half century ago, the age
of brass buttons for mems clothing. A
disc of bone had been devised as a sub.
stitute, called but on. mould, covered
| 10y the tailor generally with the same
stuff as the garment, to which it was
attached. The covering was tedious,
disagreeable process. The Willistons
concei lived the idea of covering the but
ton moulds with lasting and furnish
ing his customers, Mrs. Wiliston's
siuge needle began the enterprise.
The supply was unequal to the rapidly
increasing demand The neighbor
women Were employed and the
business developed until the
AID of machinery and water. power
was invoked. Buttons by the million
were produced in endless variety and
scattered in every part of the land.
Not one of our readers but has worn
"them. In twenty years n fortuEe was
made, which with princely liberality
he distributed in aid of religion and
learning. The history of manufacture
ing shows that articles of but little
moment, singly but in general use are
produced more profitably than the
costier fabrics in demand alone by
the rich A single button, a stirrup,
saddle.tree. horse collar, or a broom,
affords little profit to the maker-made
| 10y the million, he has fortune.
! Young man, take courage!
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

THE opposition to Sheriff Gossett on
the part of a certain class of men pro.
Tossing Republicans in this city has
been INSCRIPTIONS aud vindictive be-
You'd parallel. Affidavits and circulars
and private letters have been sent over
the county, and every expedient that
malice or envy could devise have been
used. We have no space to indulge in
abuse of these men. We can only say
that they are not the kind of men that
honest men go to for advice as to how
they shall vote.
Mr.. Gossett has been an efficient,
honest Sheriff, who has prompt
~ discharged every duty
imposed upon him. 1t would be a
burning shame if such an officer
should be defeated through the false
hoods set afioat by the character of
men to whom we refer. They are still
at their work and more circulars and
more falsehoOds and more affidavits
may be expected about election day.
But they will do no good. We have
such good reports from every section
of the county, that if Dir. Gossetts
friends are active and vigilant on elec-
ton day he will be reelected by very
large majority.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

KNOX COUNTY is still agOnizing over
the " civil rights abomination." Some
people never know when to stop.
Athens Post DEM.
The only persons agonizing overthis
subject are the editors OF the Press and
Herald, and few candidates for coun-
ty offices. The Post is right when it
sage "some people never know when
to stop" These fellows expect the
peoplet to shut their eyes to the merits
of candidates, and vote aga inst good
men because somebody inWashington
favors the civil rights bill.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

THE Press and Herald is a whale on
figures. The arithmetic man of the
New York World, who is always able to
figure up Democratic gains in the
most disastrous defeats, is nowhere.
Yesterday morning Ramage undertook
to show Republicans that they could
divide their vote in this Congressional
District and. yet succeed, To show this
it gives Cheatham vote in 1872 in the
counties now comprising this district
at 2,193, Johnson's at 1914, and May
nard's at ll,527. Add Johnson's and
Cheatham's vote and it gives 6,l67 as
against 5,7G3, the divided Depublican
vote. Is that Ramage's figuring to
prove to Republicans that there is no
danger i'm a division 4?
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

OUR contemporary says: We pub
lished the resolutions of the Nashville
Colored Convention, assailing Sena-
tor Brownlow without one word of
protest" To tell such a whopper with
our files right before him, where he
could have read our protest !" That,
too, isa " campaign story" we suppose.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

A large number of extras have been
printed at the Press and Herald office.
containg Senator Brownlow's letters
on the Civil Rights Bill. They are
for circulation in the county, just on
the eve of the election, with view to
influence voters to go for the Demo-
cratic candidates. Let our readers not
be deceived by this, Senator Brown
low has declared himself in favor of
the regular Republican candidates, and
if able to go to the polls will vote for
them. ..t....
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

OUR contemporary should hereafter
explain which of its articles are
campaign Stories" and which are
really intended to be believed. Read
ers can hardly be expected to keep
such close guard Of their reading as to
detect correctly which articles are
meant for true or which are put in for
light reading as campaign stories.u
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

DORSEY b. THOMAS is announced
as candidate for Governor subject to
the action of fair Convention. +"
His letter squints strongly towards an
independent race under the Graugers'
banner.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

SENATOR BRowNLow's declaration
that he proposes, as usual, to vote the
Republican county ticket next week,
throws very cold water upon the Press
and Herdid's civil rights thunder. 1t
has been trying hard to persuade the
people that the August election was
the place to force the issue.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

BEARDEN and MORROW and ADKINS
and MALoNEY are all candidates on
the regular Republican county ticket,
and are all sober and honest men.
The people can rely upon them to do
their duty when elected.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29
CAN VOTERS BE DECEIVED {?

The whole effort OF the Democratic
candidates for county offices has been
to- force the people at the August elec.
ton to lose sight Of the personal quail
acatiuus OF the candidates aud have
them vote upon the Civil Rights issue.
Their plea is that when voters come to
vote for County Court Clerk, they
should not vote for John NJ. Harris,
who, by reason of his wounds inflicted
in the army, is unable to do hard,
manual labor, and why? Because
Congress last winter, half dozen
times, re used to pass a civil Rights
Bill! They do not want voters to ask
whether John Harris personally IA
vprs such bill. They do not want
them To stop to remember that a Coun-
~ Court Clerk has no more to do with
the civil Rights Bill than with the
question of a Republic or Monarchy
n France. When people come to vote
for Sheriff they ask them to forget
the fact that Mr.. Gossett has
made an uneXcpptiouable officer,
that in accordance with time honor
Ell custom he asks for third term,
which more than six sherfis before
him. secured by a faithful discharge of
their duty These Democratic mana.
gers with Civil Rights on the train,
have the impudence to ak intelligent
citizens 20 vote for Swan, who has
never had the courage or manliuess To
detiue his position on the bill As a .ain-t
Gossett, who has boldly declared him.
self against it. Yet they
have the audacity to tell
the people that the election
ola man openly opposed to the bill over
a man who has never defined his view
on it will be considered AN endorsement
OF the biz. Was there ever a greater
fraud or humbug? When voters come
to choose u man to represent them at
the courts where crime is prosecuted,
these Democratic county wire-pullers
DO not want them To decide between
McGuttry and Williams as lawyers !;
they do not want them 10 look to The
man who will most successfully cCn-
Wet the guilty. or who VIII save them
most at the end OF the year in their
costs, which now amount to near
-, 600 annually in this county. They
do not expect voters TO elect McGuffey
because he is the better lawyer, and
will therefore soon cut down this
frighIful bill of costs, aud thereby save
taxes, but they ask them to ignore all
this because of the Civil Rights Bill,
with which they have nothing to do.
SO in reference TO Bearden and
Adkins and Murphy and Morrow
aud Maloney and the others. The fact
is, that il ir because these men are all
better fitted for their offices than their
opponents that they want to blind
voters to their merits by crying Civil
Rights Bill. Col. Fleming, State Super
intendent of Public Schools, in speech
at the Opera House, gave it as his opin-
ion that the Civil Rights Bill is dead
and will never be passed, and yet the
paper he built up refuses to publish his
declaration, but on the contrary, tries
to make the people believe it is the issue
IN the canuaSs. They have little respect
for the intelligence Of the people or
they would never dare to attempt such
a. imposition.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

The malice of some of your people
against Southern whites, is truly aston
ishing. Their bosoms are like a filthy
cage of unclean birds, and if they do
not confess their sins to themselves and
before Almighty God, if there is any
thing in Holy Writ, conscience or ma
ture, they can never enter state of
future happiness From John II.
Cl'Oeiey's letter IN Sundays Press and
Herald .......
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

THE August elections are all impor-
tant. A victory then means victory
in November. The only safe way for
each Republican to do to secure a vic
tory is TO vote himself and see that every
other uoter in his district uotes.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

sQUIRE JAMES NJ. MURPHY, the reg
ular Republican candidate for tax col
lector, is an old citizen of this county,
honest and sober, and will make an
attentive and faithful officer.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

WE EXPECT GOOD NEWS on election
night from every district in knor cotn-
W. The district making the best shosC-
ing as compared NTH the U1te Of 1872,
1Ue WiH publish as the banner district Of
the county Which district shall IL 6e'
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

hIR. SPEAKER BLAINE has been re-
nominated 'or re-election 10 Congress.
Ia his letter sci eptiIig The nomination
he discusses "a question FULLY ~ inter-
est!ng TO the people of Tennessee as to
tie people of Maine. Referring 10 the
action Of the Democratic Convention
il that State, he quotes from their
platform a resolution denouncing a
protective tariff and declaring for
Ffree trade and in favor of an unfetter-
e& and UNRESTRICTED commerce." aud
fIom the letter Of acceptance of MI.
Tltcomb, their candidate for Governor,
declaration in favor Of direct" tax
alton. He adds, - have quoted
M. Titcomb's own words, and
81 is quite evident that the start
ling dogma to which he com
mits himself i in sympathy with
more impressive movements 20 be
made elsewhere in the same direction,
aud is first thrown out in Maine AS an
experiment on public opinion" As
we showed in previous article, it is
one of the political efforts made by the
importers Of foreign goods to escape
the taxes which they now pay into the
treasury under the operation OF the
hated protective tariff. II would be
Interesting to know how much money
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

WE HAYES long ceased to keep
count or take notice of the many
misrepresentation put forth by the
Press and Herald in reference to our
views on the Civil Rights Bill. Yes
terday it contained several deliberate
misrepresentation. But we are tired
of keeping watch over the columns of
paper that deliberately puts forth
falsehoods, and when called upon for
explanation, calls them campaign
stories" Voters may look out for
more campaign stories"
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

WE are sorry that in giving publici.
ty to Senator Brownlow's views, that
the August election had nothing to
do with the Civil Rights Bill, we were
"vexing" the Press and Herald and
spelling their little campaign civil
rights sheet. They have been spread
ing the impression far and wide that
Brownlow opposed the Republican
county ticket. That little game is
now spoiled.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29

JOHN NJ. HARRIS, the regular Re
publican candidate for County Court
Clerk, needs no commentator from US.
Ee bears honorable wounds received
H. the army, has been tried and proved
faithful, and will make good County
Court Clerk. .
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-08

St. Louis Globe, Sept. 3.


The prostitutes are turning on their Der
secutOrs. SO far their persecutors, the DO
lice, have been having the best Of il. In
der warrant, sworn out before the Court
Of Criminal Correction, "landladies1 have
been arrested, and together with their
girls, have been captured, taken 10 the sta
tiOnhOuse, and kept in confinement several
hours before they could be bailed out and
placed in position to commence business
again. Now the prostitutes propose to arrest
the police. 1t IS claimed under the urOyis-
ions OF the new law only the Gland adies"
can be arrested, and that the inmates Of
house Of prostitution cannot be arrested
except upon warrant sworn out against
each and every one Of them. Hitherto
when the "landlady' has been served with
notice Of arrest, the inmates have been
arrested at the same time. The point at
issue is the legality of arresting an inmate
without warrant for her individual arrest.
IL is understood that test has been made
up by Claiborne and Lodge, and that a
police officer will be arrested on = charge of
entering house Of prostitution without a
warrant, and that the case will be prose-
euted until final decision isreached in the
Supreme Court. Sergeant Watkins, il is
understood, will be the victim, and against
him warrant, it is said, was sworn out
yesterday in the clerks office at the Court
OF Criminal Correction.