Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-20
1.-THE COMMON HERD.s1
.kadok jones' to the Front"
Horace Maynard Photographed
by Senator BrOwnlOW.
BrOwnlOw's knoxville wing, july 80, 1855.
x.T~c.kr ri. nnArN-

Brownlow's Knoxville Wing, July 30, 1883.
zADok (sdAfNARD) 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 eonyersed, indignant at the
l0lo estimate placed upon them by this man
Maynard, in his Zadok Jones Essays. This
accounts for the desperate efforts his con-
ience-keepers are making TO explain out
of these articles. But II all won't do;
Maynard's EshuIlan cattle,@ put their own
construction upon what has been said
But Horace Maynard says in the Knoz=
uille Times:
SHOW do not regard the, good or bad
opinion OF the MULTITUDE, hare already
t0ld you; lest, however, the remark should
be looked upon Us jest, or a mOmeRtary
ebuIlition of spleen, again STATE DIS
TINCTLY THAT. I ESTEEM THE
HERD OF MANKIND, the human cutie,
10 better than other cattle, nor quite so
qood. In short, / hold them in the Ut
MOST LOATHING AND CON
TEMPTilp
In his essay of Dee. @, 1880, he thus
came cut in favor OF hingty G0reTn-
ments
HHAPPf is THAT PEOPLE WHOSE
GOVERNMENT, EVEN IN ITS IN
FANCY, Is ESTABLISHED UPON THE
BASIS OF REGAL POWER. THIS Is
THE ONLY NATIONAL AND RAJ
TIONAL PRINCIPLE BY WHICH
SO IETY CAN BE PERMANENTLY
KEPT TOGETHER"
In the Times for Dec. -, he denies the
doctrine of equality of rights, as set forth
in the American Declaration OF Independ-
ence, and openly avows the British doc
thine that some men are "born to rule"
Here is Maynard, as he is:
''Say what you will about natural equal
ity, it is ell riloon-shine, a thing well
enough for school-boys and the theorists to
speculate upon, and for DEMAGOGUES
TO TICKLE THE EARS OF THE RAB-
ALE WITH, BUT A THING WITHOUT
FOUNDATION IN FACT OR PHILOSOPHY,
AND WHICH, If IT COULD BE CARRIED IN
TO PRACTICE, wcUID BE THE sUBvER-
sicN Of ORDER AND BRING THE MOST
DIREFUL CONSEQUENCES BOTH UPON IN
DIvIDUALs AND SOCIETY. Some are as
certainly born to rule as Others to cultivate
music, poetry or the mathematics"
And here is what he says of the common
people of Tennessee, who visited O. peni-
Oculidll W SCC -uuITttts anu ~ Pay liGiA
homage TO crime"
"And ! will hazard anything that nine
tenths of those who visit Nashville, are
more anxious to call upon MURRRLL in the
penitentiary, than upOn jackson at the
Hermitage. Indeed, So troublesome have
their calls been TO the officer of that excel
ient institution, that our good old Gov.
Cannon recommends a toll to he collected
from all who flock thither, for the CRED
TABLE PURPOSE OF PAYING
THEIR HOMAGE TO CRIME"
And speaking of the gross ignorance Of
the "commOn rable, y as he styles the masses,
he further says:
al could pardon their lcdIlt Of discrimi=
nation between the various degrees of ex-
cellence. did excellence dione receive their
appreciation; but g does not; THEY ARE
QUITE AS READY 7 o APPLAUD PRE-
EMINENCE IN GUILT AS PRE-EMI-
NENCE IN VIR TUE"
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 ERE, with him, well
diaested articles OF faith? What farmer,
dzy-labJ rer, or mechanic, free from the
control of party leaders, will think Of
voting for such mar? We pause for re-
ply.