Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-02-26

neither army bears the name Of Roderick
Random, Maybe he did join the Fcde.
raj army toward the close, but if our
memory don't fail US he resigned in .
day or two thereafter and left his poor
comrades to fight it out and went into the
claim business. tho glory Of which latter
business is rather mixed. But We turn
that over to the consideration Of some Of
the old pensioners of 1912 and Mexican
wars, whose names be had restored to the
pension rolls for one<third Of their pay,
We come now to look at him with the
Judicial "toga" on, and how 1t is that he
displays bis wonderful 'loyalty". AL.
ways getting the closing speech on the
poor Rebel he generally made short work
Of him. I don't think he vas ever ac-
cused Of being o learned Judge" or a
profound %jurist.' If he haa been the
writer hasn't heard the accusation. lie
went to Congress from the bench-that is
he was elected to Congress and stayed on
the bench for some time afterward and
then went to Washington. whether he
drew his pay as Judge and member of
Congress for the same period Of time the
writer cannot say.} Strange to- say, this
loyal Judge wa a long time getting into
Congress. They had heard of his connec.
ton with the Harris dynasty" But
they fixed up a s~cgar-coated oath for him
and he swallowed it and in ho went-No
glory has Jarl Well now we look for
this brilliant man to distinguish himself
by introducing some important measures
and championing them through the House.
We have looked and looked in vain.-
Gentle reader have you seen or hea I'd Of
any important measure ever even intro
duced by our Congressman? But nay>
be be has made some big speeches on
bills introduced by others? He made
one very eloquent speech on some cons
tested election case in a committee. room.
That's all ne haze seen. Reader, have
you any other to record? And do you
say that in all the six years he fas been
in Congress he has introduced no impor,
tant measure and made no big speeches
and acquired no fame? Oh, no, we didn't
say that he had acquired no fame. He
sold q Cadctship for about one thousand.
dollars and put the money in his pocket,
and about that time his name and "Golli-
days." of Kentucky, were in all the pa
pers and a majority of the members in
the House said by their votes that we
ought not to have sent him there, and if
he hadn't proved that he gave this money
to carry on the Stokes campaign I believe
that t~wo-thirds Of them would have said
so, but "charity covers a multitude Of
SINS"
This time the glory comes but it
comes over the left. The next Cadets
ship, / tell you he took care not to sell it
for he gave it to his son George.
We next find him voting for the "Sala.
ry Grab" But did he take the FIVE thou.
sand? Yes he did. Well he refunded
it, didn't he? No. But he came up like
a patriotic hero and voted to repeal the
law but he kept the fue thousand and
up,cards. Reader, have you ever seen
the glory of our Congressman? Have
you discovered the point where his claims
upont the people of the first District comes
in? 1t is said that he is Every active" in
looking after the peoples claims. Well
it may be that that is q part of a Con.
grcssman's business but We always thought
that tho law forbid a Congressman to
practice as a Claim Agent.
CLAIBORNE.