Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-20

CorToS is weak in New York at 15sc
for mi3dling.
THE reason why the Radical Senate
e refused TO confirm Attorney General
Williams as Chief Justice, was not on
account of that 81, 800 landaulet, but
because he was wanted to do the dirty
work in. carrying Southern elections.
See our dispatches from Alabama and
Louisiana.
Gov. BROWN has accepted invita-.
tions to speak at Chattanooga next
Friday night; Knoxville, Saturday
night; Franklin, Monday, Oct 26;
Murfreesboro. Tuesday, Oct. 27; Hum
boldt. Wednesday, Oct. %, and Men,
phis, Thursday, Oct 90; A barbecue
has been rendered him by the citizens
of Giles county, to come off at Elkton,
next Thursday. and he will address
them al that time and place.
MAYNARD was stumped at the Oapi. |
tol last Saturday when Judge Porter
challenged him to defend his vote in
1868 for impeaching President John
son. He did not explain that feature
of his Congressional career to the salts
faction of his audience, nor can he do
so No one knows better than he that
the charges on which the Radicals ar
raigned Mr.. johnson were of the finn
siest texture. The precedent they
sought to make would have been the
death -knen of American liberty and
the Inauguration Of Mexican chaos. If
johnson had been ousted on such par
ty pretexts, his presumptive success or,
Ben Wade, might have followed next,
and the Presidency for ever after
would be the football Of bold and bad
men, ambitious and unscrupulous, as
1t is to-day throughout the hybrid
South American republics. By the
same precedent, Grant might be ousted |
next March by the Congress then coming
In, which promises to comprise a ma
jority against him. Maynard's vote
for impeachment was a vote for an
archy. He cannot defend it, particu-
larly before a Tennessee assemblage.
Judge Porter made several centre |
shots here last Saturday, and has sew |
eral more in his locker for the pecu-
liar benefit of the Narragansett. He
bears our banner with a lofty noble !
mien, not merely assuring success, but !
also proving that our cause deserves it.
MAYNARD, THE CHAMPION SALARY
GRABBER.
1t would appear from our Columbia |
special that Mr.. Maynard yesterday en-
deayored to squirm out of the charge |
that he received $500 from the State of
Tennessee in September, 1867, at the
same time that he was receiving S4OO a
month from the United States Treasu-
Ty as Congressman from the very
Knoxville district in which he illegally
held the State Supreme Court. Our
special does not specify what dodge he
attempted, but assures us THAT Judge
Porter finally made him admit its
truth.
We can conceive of but two ways in
which the willy Narragansett might at
tempt to break the force of this most
damaging charge. First, he might
claim that he had not received the
money. This would involve a slur of
the integrity of one of the very few
honest men connected with the Brown
low regime-one now deceased. This
would, besides, leave Maynard still
under the charge of holding the court
illegally.
His second dodge might be a denial
that he wasla Congressman in Septem-
Der, 1867, and this was perhaps the
bubble punctured yesterday by Judge |
Porter. Maynard was elected in Au-
gust, 1867, to the Fortieth Congress,
which began March 4, 1867. That Mr..
Maynard became a member from the
day of his election would have been
readily developed it a special session
had been called in September, while
Maynardiwas illegally holding the State
Court at Knoxville. Certain it is, that
he drew his full pay as a Congressman
for the entire term, forward and back,
to March (, 1869.
Maynard was a member of the pre-
ceding Congress, also, and developed |
therein his powerful penchant for
drawing salaries, whether he earned |
them or not. He was not admitted to
the Thirty-ninth Congress until July
"A, 1866, near the end of the long ses-
sion, which minated July %. Thus
serving only four days, he returned to
Washington inDecember, serving three
months more, or until the Congress
expired, March 4, 1867. For this SER
vice of three months and -four
days, Mr.. Maynard drew two years full
salary, Sl0,000-over 500 a day
What do the workingmen and farmers
of Tennessee think of these figures?
This grab" was made at a time
vixen our lands lay waste, with fences
and cabins to rebuild that had been
destroyed by the war. As a salary
snapper, Maynard has been a success
at all stages of his career down to the
shameless grab of the last Congress
andthe ingenious patchwork with which
the present body sought to pacify an
outraged public, but failed utterly,
Judging from the recent elections.
JUDGE GILLENwATERS has quit the
race for Congress. Whether be was
cussed of, paid of, promised off, scared
off. we know not and care not. All we !