Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-03

cultivate their moustachC, patronize bar
rooms and live off the hard earned means
of aged parents, stand on the street corners
TO circulate lies to swell the excitement.
The editor referred to in the above ex-
tract never went to school, public or pri-
vate, or to college, with a colored man,
and the editors Of the Press and Herald
knew il. Under other circumstances we
should not have deemed such an allusion
worthy of notice, but a 1t is maliciously
and industrlously circulated nor for
purposes we very well understand,
we deem ii proper to give 1t the
lie at its first appearance in
print 1t was known to be lie when
published, and put forth for purpose that
a common pickpocket would be too honor
able to encourage. 1t is known to every
intelligent man in Knoxville, known from
the statements made in our editorial col
umns and from the general tone Of the
paper, that both the editors of the CHRoN-
IcLE look upon the policy of forcing
"mixed schools upon the country as I'M
wise and inexpedient. But feeling entirely
satisfied from information in our possession
that the law would not pass, we did not
propose to lend our influence in arousing
passions, hatreds and prejudices that would
only result in working injury to both races
in the South. And, having given wide
publicity to the letters of Senator Brown
low, whose position and character we well
knew would have greater influence with
those in power at Washington than any
thing We could say, we were content to let
him speak for East Tennessee Republi-
cans,
We do not now propose to be forced into
the agitation Of the question to aid the
Press and Herald to remove the very gen.
eral and grave suspicious concerning the
sincerity of its political principles. 1t has
of late been made to feel, through the pro-
tests of subscribers, that its policy of max
ing merchandise of its political principles,
of slandering political opponents and then
for pay, retracting them so as to further
their political interests, made it necessary
TO be extra active and INSCRIPTIONS in its
course on the civil rights bill. To further
it ends it has manufactured lies on de-
fenseless colored men, dragged them be-
fore the public, and made them the target
for approbium, and then cowardly-like re-
fused them hearing. In this way has it
sought to redeem its political standing. For
ten years it has published a so-called Con-
sentative paper, whose columns have ever
been open for pay to anybody and every
body, democratic or radical. But its mcr-
cenary course has been so notorious, and
its influence so slight, that even with its
participation in public printing swindles
and its advertising obscene medical nos
trums, it has not been able in ten years to
buy for its editors and publishers foot of
real estate or give them Judgement secure
enough to relieve them from the suspicion
heir political sympathizers always have
lad, that they were mere pack of adven-
,urers, ready to leave whenever they could
sell out their party to advantage.
If the charges of a prominent Democrat
repeatedly made are considered, there is
good ground for charging that good part
of its printing material was appropriated
ithout the knowledge or consent of its
owners.
We have no further answer to make tC
its articles, which contain too many false
hoods to answer in the space at our dis
posal.
We owe an apology TO our readers TO
obtruding this article upon their attention
for the subject is not worthy of it. If GU
readers knew all the facts connected will
the efforts to misrepresent US, we are sur
they would admit the propriety of thi
article.