Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-30

/ of the States would be DESTROYED, and Con-
gresS, in It's wisdom, would declare it ne
eeSsary to the general good that a special
law TO that effect be enacted, TO 90 into eff
| feet in those States where there was no
| public school system. What would be the
RESULT All our children. without -Glistinc-.
/ tion Of race or color, would be driven to-
| sether into the common school there TO be
taught, by persons appointed for that pur-
! pose by those in authority at Washington.
This is 20 lners Idle fancy; il Is the SIRE
consequence of the passage of the Civil
Rights bill"
| That Maynard would vote for such a bill
/ may be readily imagined. On the 7th of
February, 1872, the day before the common
school bill passed Congress, Mr.. Hereford.
OF West Virginia, moved to amend as fol-
lows:
provided, That no moneys belonging
to any State or Territory, under this act.
shall be withheld from any State or Terri
tory for the reason that the laws thereof
provide for separate schools for white chill
dren, or refuse TO organize 4 system OF
mixed schools"
The amendment was agreed tO--yeas
i15, nays 81 Among those who voted in
the negative, and, therefore, against giving
Tennessee her share of the common school
fund, because she would not organize sys-
TEN of mixed schools, was Horace May
nard. With such a record against him, Il
would appear 10 make very little matter
indeed whether Maynard faVOrs leaving out
of the Civil Rights bill everything about
common schools" as he would be absolute
| " certain to vote for some other bill con-
tanning the amalgamatiOn feature.
Dir. Maynard said at KnoxSil s'the
| Civil Rights bill as it passed the Senate
was not Summers bill, p but how does the
gentleman stand on Summers bill? This
| bill was introduced into the House of Rep
resentatives by Mr.. Hooper of Massachu-
sets, and on the I0th of February, 1872,
Mr.. Eld.idge moved TO reject il. Mr.. May
nanl voted No. In the following April, the
bill being before the House, Mr.. Nsblack
moved TO lay It Oa the table, and Mr.. May
Dard voted No, and again, on the Sth OF
the same month, when the bill was ordered
to be engrOSsed, Mr.. Maynard voted ave,
and Enthusiastically committed himself TO
''Sumner's bill' with all Of its ''abOmina-
tiOns.1
| If further evidence is necessary TO illus
| trate Mr.. Maynard sympathy for this '-sum
of political villlinies.n need only refer to
his recent action in the House OF Represen-
| tatives on the motion to suspend the rules
| and pass the pending bill. But the posi-
ton of my competitor on any of the great
| questions Of the day has been one of
| antagOnism to the interests Of the people.
| He would destroy our system of free schools
with his social equality. He opposed the
restoration Of fraternal feeling in TenneS-
see by his opposition TO amnesty. In April
| 1S71, Mr.. Hale moved to suspend the rules
and pass the amnesty bill, Mr.. Maynard
voted no. In March Of the same year, and
again in 1872 on Hale's motion, and again
on the motion of Mr.. Acker, and again on
the motion of Mr.. Davis, he voted "No," af-
ter Mr.. Grant and the great body of respee-
table Republicans, in Congress. and out of
! it, had demanded amnesty as a measure Of
Justice as well policy.
| RIn February, 1871, Mr.. Maynard voted
Tor the enforcement act. He voted in 1871
! and in 1872 against the motion of Hall and
| Farnsworth to admit salt and coal into the
United States free Of duty. lie was the
advocate of the whisky tax and Of the cruel
and unusual punishment inflicted upon the
citizen for violation Of the provisions of
the law, and if Mr.. Maynard has ever voted
in interest of the great body Of the people
Of Tennessee, the history Of the day does
not disclose il.
In his Knoxville speech, delivered on the
/ night of the 24th of this month, Mr.. May
naTd said: SIf | could have my way would
strike out from that bill that part relating
to schools" but 1 want the gentleman to
meet the question fairly and frankly. VIII
you, sir,yote to strike out from this bill this
| obnoxious feature? And if the bill is not
amended in this respect, and is put upon
passage, will you vote for it2
In the same speech, Mr.. Maynard stated
that Mr.. Frelinghuysen, the author of the
bill, says il ''dOes not mean mixed schools"
and that, when asked the question, during
the debate on the bill, if it was intended to
compel the education of the races in the
same school, hs stated distinctly, mo,
of course it does not compel the education
Of the races in the same school. 1t is not
a compulsory school bill. No man, black
or white, would be compelled to send his
child to school, But neutrality-suspicious. Of
the bill the schools would be mixed, o. one
race or the other would have 10 surrender
their school privileges; and it was to avoid
this mixed school feature of the
bill that caused Senator Sargent to offer the
amendment; provided, That nOthingheTe-
in contained shall be construed TO prohibit
any State or school district from providing
separate schools for persons Of different sex
or color, where such schools are equal in all
respects 10 others of the same grade, estab-
lished by such authority and supported by
an equal pro rata expenditure Of school
funds" This amendment was disagreed
to, Mr.. FrelinghuySenv voting with the nays,
and the question was settled by himself, by
bis own vote, that the bill did mean ''mixed
schools"
In the same speech, Mr.. Maynard sayshe
''did not examine the bill closely" 1t was
unnecessary for him TO make that state
ment, as the fact is patent to every man
who has read his speech, and | have no
comment to make upon it.
CHEAP TRANSPORTATION.
All parties in Tennessee are agreed upon
the importance Of this question. 1t con-
Germs every citizen, aud a united effort
must be made and liberal appropriations
must be demanded for the Improvement Of
the Mississippi, the Tennessee, the Cum
berland, and the other rivers of the South
west. The people of this vast section have
a common interest in the navigation Of
these great rivers. They are the only GER
tain competitors of the great railway COM
binatiOns. Their improvement will be a
National work in its services aud uses in
carrying the products Of the soil and the
mine to the market of the world at reason
able rates, and at the same time Of con-
trolling the transportation Of the country at
all seasons of the year.
l believe that we are ON the eve Of the
greatest political revolution of modern
times; the late elections all fOreshadOw it
all indicate great popular uprising that
will bring peace and good government to
all the States Of the Union.
''The dawn of the Arctic summer day, af-
ter the Arctic winter night, the great I'M
sealing Of the waters, the awakening Of
animal and vegetable life, the sudden soft
ening of the air, the sudden blooming of
the flowers, the sudden bursting Of whole |
forests into verdure, is but feeble type of |
that grandest of revolutions" that will dis |
place the personal Government of Gen. |
Grant, with one administered upon the |
prescribed principles Of the Constitution.
LET Us HAVE PEACE.
Inhis Knoxville speech Mr. MAYNARD said: |
The same leaders who, in 1860 and 1861, |
brought on the rebellion, would to-day, if |
they thought they could do it successfully, |
unfurl their old reasonable flag. i confess
my surprise at such a statement as this, |
and deny that it is true, and call upon |
Mr. Mavnar1 for tho r,rr,of Tho y,r,u1a Of Il