Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-10

of the unconstitutionality of this Act,
all this talk of my unchristian
spirit and all his impudent and ego
tistical assumptions of Christianity,
and of his being actuated by the
spirit of " follower of our Lord
Jesus Christi is the merest can; and
hypocrisy, and the "poor white trash
of East Tennessee" have sense enough
10 see II, and will regard it in no other
light Mere empty headed cOnceit
eXcites their pity, but ostentatious
professions Of piety excite their dis.
gust. My idea Of such a canting and
hypocritical follower of our "neell
and lOwly Jesus - il so much better
expressed 10y the great delineator Of
human character than / can express IL
myself that ! quote the words of
Dickens:
There are some men who, living
with the one object ofenriching them
selves, no matter 10y what means, and
being perfectly conscious of the base
ness and rascality Of the means which
they will use every day towards this
end, affect uevertheless-even to them.
selves-a high tone OF moral rectitude,
and shake their heads and sigh over
the depravity of the world. Some of
the craftiest scouudrels that ever walk
ed this earth, or rather-for walking
Implies, at least, an erect position and
the bearing of a man-that even crawl
ed and crept through life by its drtiest
and narrowest ways, will gravely lot
down i'm diaries the events of every
day, and keep a regular debtor and cred.
itor account with Heaven, which shall
always show floating balance in their
own favor. Whether this is gratuitous
(the acknowledgements falsehood
and trickery of such mems lives, OF
whether they really hope to cheat
Heaven itself, and lay up treasure in
the next world by tho same process
which has enabled them To lay uI
treasure in this-not TO question how
it is, so it is. And, doubtless, such
book keeping like certain autobiogra.
phies which have enlightened the
world can not fail to prove serviceable
} in the one respect of sparing the re-
cording angel some time and labor.n
So much in reply to Mr.. Bartlett:
: censure of my conduct as "unchris-
TAM and his own loud professions o
piety. When the people of Bloun
county reflect upon his professions ant
pretensions in this regard they may
! conclude that they have among then
"a wolf in sleeps clothing"
Having answered the more materia
portion of Mr.. Bartlett's letter ther,
is now left only little rubbish to brusl
= out of the way. He deems il very
"unchristian" to speak of the advocates
of this Civil Rights Bill rs NEGRO
worshipers and men DESTROYS of eX
I alting the negro above the white man
1t is no reply to the charge to say tia
IL n, f.,t To-.
J, the position of a SENATOR The peo
T. pie OF East Tennessee. among whom
# | have lived for forty-five years, know
- that when / make charge | am in tn
= habit of proving il. Tn my former let
l. tiers | have given various reasons il
= proof of the charge that the effects O
n the Bill were to make the cOlOred MAJ
~. the superior in law of the white man
" and since writing those letters the or
u gan of the National Republican party
e the New DIRK Times, has come TO m,
: aid and fully endorsed me by sayinl
that the Bill conferred privilege upol
the cOlOred race which no other clas
of people possessed, and that no bOdl
= would dare propose Bill granting sucy
n peculiar privileges to the Irish anC
e German races But ! have nov
i stronger evidence which have not We
n seen reproduced in any newspape
d that the desire of the leading advo
s Gates of this measure is to give supe
a rior rights and privileges TO the colore,
over the white people of the country
5 Three weeks ago the Congress of tn,
u United States debated the question a
n to whether the Territory of New
J. Mexico should be admitted into tn,
j. Union as State. On all hands it wa
agreed that the Territory had NOR
II than a sufficient number of inhabitant
= to entitle it to admission into the Union
e as State. In fact, it has, for severa
II years, had the population, aud this fac
& being established, the House of Rep
II resentatives passed the Bill ad
G hitting il as a State, Several of tn
y members of Congress, who are con
8 spicuous advocates of the Civil Right
y Bill, opposed the admission of tn
e Territory as State. Prominen
ii among these was Mr.. Hoar of Massa
:. chusetts, we gave two reasons fO
d opposing the admission of the Ter
a ritory. One that a portion of the pop
i ulation was foreign and alien in birth
r that is, thousands of Mexicans wer
S left in the Territory, when it becam
d the property of the United States an,
# the other and, as he said, chict reason
e for opposing its admission was that five
j. seventies of the population could no
G read and write.
e The theory of MIR. Hoar and othe
n advocates of the Civil Rights Bill,
:. that the colOred people of the South
70 ern States who can not read and writ
:, shall have every civil and politica
4 right, with mixed schools thrown i'm
5 but the white men of New MeXic
j. shall not have civil and political right
n because they are not able 20 read an
y write. A man advocating this dOC
d trine places the negro above the whit
i man and l call, him a negro won
G shiper.h Webster defines worship
r TO mean "to reverence with suprem
i. respect" and if giving the negr
4 who is rot able 70 read and write ia
a political rights and denying the sam
,. rights to the white man because u
+ can not read and write Is not "revei
! encing the negro with "suprem