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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-14
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TWE thermometer indicated OF in the
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TnE Democratic County Convention
viii reasonable next Saturday.
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TUE ''c"oler' contained only one pris-
nnrr hast night.
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4. Jesus Dulcis MemOria.."-.A. Co'ke'rofh.
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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

TIE state deUt of Tennessee, the
interest upon which is to be met 10y
taxation, is, according 20 ;,ov. Browns
statement, something over 500, 000, 600.
The annual interest to be provided for
by taxation is $l,2OO,0O0. With a less
rate Of taxation than we now have,
this interest and the current expenses
Of the State can not be met. 70 meet
it even at the rate Of forty cents on
each hundred dollars of taxable prop
erty, will require The very closest
economy. There is no margin left for
official stealing or private peculation.
The people know how bard it is to
pay their taxes now. In some por-
tons of the State, and indeed in al
most every locality, there is strong
undercurrent of complaint at the bur
den, which, If intensified and devel
oped, might give rise to the most
unpleasant results.
With this heavy debt and this heavy,
perpetual interest account hanging
over US, is any argument necessary to
show the Importance of electing good
men to the Legislature? Are the peo-
pie willing to select men rs their
agents in the management Of this i'm
mense debt, whom they would not
trust to manage their own private af-
fairs ? Are they willing that little
up.start, IRRESPONSIBLE, small calibre
politicians, without brains and of
doubtful character for honesty and in
tegritv, shall have exclusive control
of this great question. A large num-
Der Of those who are offering their ser
vices in the next Legislature, are as
| ignorant of the question that now
most affects the State Of Tennessee, as
the baboon that sports in the wids of
Africa. And yet the people through
/ apathy will permit them to be elected.
This is not an encouraging but "A
true statement of facts. Good men,
men OF capacity, business men, honest
men, hold Off refuse to serve in the
Legislature, shrink from the veXatiOns
of canvass and the responsibilities Of
a seat in the Legislature, and the peo-
pie seem paralyzed or asleep. Is it,
then, any wonder that we have inef.
ficient Legislatures ?
We appeal to the people to think
over this matter. 1t is of too much
Importance to be passed by lightly or
turned over to the small politicians
who look to nothing except their i'm
mediate self interest.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

pea stand, have been sent out by older
heads, who ought to know better, to
set people wild on the "nigger.n We
give elsewhere an instance of how the
people have been deceived. Let
such notions obtain in counties
where the colored race are nu-
merous, and every intelligent reader
can readily see how slight a provoca.
tion would be needed TO get up violence
aud bloodshed. We ask sensible men
to pause and reflect upon the conse-
quences of such acts What picture
does the South present! Riots, vio-
lence, lynching murders, in every
State. Every sensible man who can
read knows there is nothing in the
Civil Rights Bill:ito justify any such
violence. 1t is not a law. It's objec-
tionable features, for partisan purposes,
have been pictured to voters in such
manner as to excite them to madness.
Here inHE East Tennessee where the
most effective opposition has come
] liOui lNC phbilNahcf bilC BhbilS hAiiiu las
been dashed into fury and the bitterest
! prejudices aroused. If the South can
stand the result of all this we are much
mistaken. On this subject the Nash
vile Banner, pertinently says of the
! Somerville and Austin riots
Our friends down about Somerville COM
| planned of drouth and hard times, and the
commercial prostration left us as a legacy
! from our last sensible war. But no devas-
tation we have yet known; no ruin that
has followed the track of hostile invasion
will compare to the baleful, almost annhi-
lating commercial wreck that would come
| 10 the train Of such a conflict as that 1t is
| very clea that our Somerville contempo-
rary has no adequate conception Of its seri-
business, and listlessly dreams rs he gar
! rulously gables nonsense over a volcano,
| and INDUCES the luxury of partisan pvro-
technics round powder magazine, Per.
| haps the tact that he is candidate for
Fioater blinds him to humane consderas
ton of any other possibilities.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

The meaning of the affair and the responsi-
bility for it are to be sought in the dead
letter nature of the law against the carry
ing of concealed weapons, and in the uni
versal license given to shooting and killing
by a dcmoralized and cowardly public
sentiment.
We call ourselves brave men; we boast
of our manhood and our proves, and yet
we submit to the violence of desperate
like Horace Withcr,pOon, for years, be-
cause we are afraid to arrest and punish
him according to law, and are nightly
relieved when hero, like Portwood, driY-
en- to the defense Of his own life, shoots the
mailman down in his tracks.
Even here in Louisville little heed is PAID
to indiscriminate shooting on the streets
The shooter has only to kill or wound his
man to make himself certain of escape.
We never convict anybody Of murder eX-
cept a niger or a pauper. We rarely
pretend to try anybody for shooting with
intent to kill If we disarm n man for
carrying of concealed weapons it is because
he happens to be drunk. Yet Col. Lee Is
regarded as not only an energetic and a
brilliant Commonwealth Attorney, but
a strict, and sharp and courageous prose-
CutOr
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

Col. THoRNBURGH has made an
attentive and efficient Congressman.
Few men have ever done So we'll at
their first session. He has written
more private letters, aud looked more
closely after the personal interests Of
his constituents, than any Congress
man from Tennessee. We do not be-
lieve this fact can be denied. Others
have been of more service to the public
at large, because Of their greater eXpe-
rience and ability, but in the respects
named Col. Thornburgh is deserving
of what we have said. thas been the
custom to give faithful Congressman
at least two terms. Why set aside the
rule in this case? Had Houk waited
two years, his claims would have been
stronger. Now he is put in the atti-
tude of attempting to thrust himself
into Congress against time-honored
custom, and because of his supposed
pre-eminent claims. His case is bad
one. The Republicans Of this district
favor sending Thornburgh back for a
second term, and the war now made
upon him is unjust and unnecessary
The people by their votes will show it,
when the time comes.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02
THE REIGN OF VIOLENCE.

Our dispatches give an account of
an outrageous, cold-6loOded, wholesale
murder in Gibson county in this State
Tuesday night. The report comes
from sources certain to put the most
favorable construction possible for the
outlaws. What is the pretext? The
report says threatened riot" was
feared, and "strong desire to kill !"
was manifested by some colored men.
There is no pretext that riot was be
gun, or in progress or that the de-
sire to kill was carried out. But af-
ter the men supposed to entertain
these evil designs were arrested and
safely lodged in jail, where, if guilty,
certain punishment awaited them, a
band of cowardly outlaws took them
from the custody of the officers and
killed them 10y wholesale. The outrage
is, on its face, fendish and
without any justification. We do not
know whether these men were mask
or not, but we suspect they are the
same mon who a few years ago were
banded in the inhuman kukluE or
CARNATIONS. The reports of violence
which fill every paper in the South,
show unmistakably that the spirit out
of which sprang the KukluX bands,
is again rampant, and unless prompt
efforts are made the South is again to
be cursed by this midnight organiza-
tions.
If ye were to look at this matter
from IA purely partisan standpoint, we
would nos regret that such outrages
were multiplying. y correspondent
Of the Louisville CO1rierJOurndL wri-
ting from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
says that" every outrage is worth five
thousand votes to the Republican par
tyn This epidemic of violence will
certainly do the Democratic party
great harm. 1t will he Of advantage
to the Republicans North. Blu we
take d more patriotic view Of it, and
look at it as citizens, who have bust
ness interests to be effected. These
outrages are doing the South and Ten
''es>ee gIeay narm. IF they onntinua
IL viii take us years TO overcome this
harm. The outrages are wrong, unjust
to the defenseless blacks, who are
slaughtered, promote anarchy and the
worst Of preiudices and inflict upon
the South incalculable harm. Fol-
these reasons we deplore them and ap,
peal to the public sentiment to correct
| them. This is no time to conjure VI
excuses or justify mob law. Violence
must be denounced, punished and
pressed or as people we must agar
suffer.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02
a BURNING DISGRACE TO THE SOUTH

The Louisville Journal
speaks out boldly in condemnation Of
the melee which has disgraced the
State Of Kentucky, and the whole
Southern country. Itdoes not attempt
to palliate the outrage, or 10 appeal to
the political prejudices Of either party.
1t says:
This whole Garrard county business is the
offspring Of the iutOlerable disregard of law
which marks the administration of justice
IN certain parts Of Kentucky, and which
has been treated with such complaisance by
public sentiment throughout the State
during the last fifteen or twenty years But
for the weakness Of the courts, and the len
lency Of opinion as 20 the use Of deadly
weapons, it would be impO. IJlc for q family
ieud like that Of the Sellers and the Kenue-
dys 20 set the common order and peace at
defiance, TO bring great numbers Of people
10 collision, and TO involve the very Com
mOuwealth itself in the whirlpool Of costly
and disgraceful melee. The militia are
called out % guell a disturbance begOtten
by pair Of hot headed WTanglers, who
were permitted TO arm themselves and shoot
at each other with almost the certainty Of
escaping legal prosecution. One license
begcts another, The parties 10 the quarrel
arm their friends and adherents, and q
county war is the consequence.
IL matters not who was originally tC
blame. IL mstters not who is now at fault
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

This is plain talk, but is the only
way to do the subject justice. Riots in
the South, within a few weeks past,
have been entirely too frequent.
They show spirit of law
lessness that will do us greater injury
than all the speeches of Eastern tanat
les made in the last half century, or
that ever will be made. Mob law is a
poor recommendation to any commu-
nifty and should never be tolerated. If
the laws are not strong enough to pun
ish criminals, let them be made strong
er. If the courts of the country can
not enforce justice, it is comment on
our civilization thar is not encoura-
cling to the friends of self-government,
These riots are the legitimate result
of the teachings of class of unprin'
cipled demagogues, who expect to get
into Office upon the misfortunes OF
their fellow men. They will appeal
to the preiudices of the Southern PEG
pie, and take advantage of their ignor'
auce wherever it exists. To accom-.
plish their miserable ends, they would
be willing to see one county arrayed
against another, and the whole coun,
try plunged into anarchy. They viii
discourage the enforcement Of the law
when it affects their satellites, auC
urge the punishment Of negroes anC
paupers fit suits them to do so. They
corrupt legislatures and courts so that
in some localities the impartial en-,
forcement of law is unknown, and uu'
der which circumstances their corrupt
wishes and desires are plisGeC
with impunity. Until the solid meu
of the land rise in their might and de-
cree that men who violate the provIs-
ions of the law should be punished, We
may look for such disgraceful occur.
reuces as those TO which We have al
luded. Let the newspaper press, TIE
pulpit, judicial officers and members
of the bar, speak out in thunder tones
and let the people combine agains
lawlessness in any shape or in any 10
cality, and we will have peace anC
quiet in the South. Otherwise, We
can not and will suffer irretrievabl,
rnin
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

HoUK claims that Thornburgh is not
a Republican, but that he represents
the original panel" and is simon
pure" How is it. then, that in this
canvass, as between Houk and Thorn
burgh, all the active Democratic poll
ticians Of this city and nearly all the
Democratic papers of the State are for
Houk? Is it not funny? But can not
sensible men see through it. The
Democrats want Houk nominated be-
cause they know his legislative record
will defeat him before the people. He
can not carry the funding bill and as
sessment law in popular election.
He can not carry his otherwise check
cred record, and, therefore, the Demo.
Gratis want him AS a nominee, or better
still, want to encourage him to bolt il
a nomination is made. 1t is not the
first or even the second time Houk h {
played into their hands.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

The Knoxville CHRONICLE (Repub-
cam says both parties and every paper
in the State opposes the Civil Rights
Bill.
To what party do those Memphis
darkies belong who got up peace "
meeting the other night and Justify
demanded their civil Rights" as the
only terms of peace they would ac-
cept ?-NdshUiHe Union and Amer-
lean.
Well, how about those Civil Rights
ex-rebels down in Louisiana, headed
by Gen. Beauregard, whose civil rights
resolutions we published the other
day? They are very good Democrats
in Louisiana. Then, how about the
daddy of the Civil Rights Bill
Charles SUMMERTIME did he support
for President in 1872, who but Horace
Greeley, who was even in 1872 far in
advance of the present Civil Rights
Bill? Then how about your Baltimore
and Cincinnati platforms? If DemOc-
racy means the same thing in 1874 that
it meant in 1872, it is as much pledged
to Civil Rights as the Republicans.
Did the editor Of the Union and
american vote for Greeley in 1872, just
a few months after he declared himself
in favor of mixed schools, mixed COLI
leges, mixed hotels and mixed cars
If so, did he not know what his senti-
ments were when he voted for him Z?
If he voted for him for President, in
telligibly, he is more committed to
mixed schools than the CHRONICLE H.,
for we have never voted for man who
advocated them, and, from the begin
ming, declared ourselves opposed to the
mixed school clause Of the present bill.
We want to compare records with these
blatant-mouthed Greeley editors. We
have been trying for months to pin the
bowling editor Of the Democratic sheet
i'm this county on this point, but he
lodges and squirms, aud never has
come to the point Will the Union
and american face the question, and
answer it?
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

THE ADVICE to the Republicans of
this district to act tremendously comes
rather late, and is about as pertinent
as to have advised Gen. Sherman to
deal kindly with Capt. Jack. Houk is
now on his periodical bolt. He has
recovered just strength enough from
his former bolts to stir up another trou-
bic. He is a regular guerrilla disor-
ganizer. He has had his strikers
making war upon everybody opposed
TO him, until to temporize with him or
them longer was to- hand the party
over to them, We regret as much as
any one the necessity Of dealing with
any one in this style, but Houk can
not be handled in any other style
There can be no peace so long as he is
on the war path. 1t is rule or ruin,
with him, and he is now trying to
break up the Republican party in Knox
as he did in Anderson county before he
LETT if,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

THE POLITICAL record of Judge
Houk, as Republican, since the war,
records one bolt from the regular party
nomination, and he is now on the
grandest dsorganizing scheme of his
life. He has held office about all the
time since the war, and in return never
loses an opportunity to disorganize the
party when he can not have things his
own waV.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

THE OLD saying that one must go
away from home to hear the news, is
illustrated in the following from the
Chattanooga Commercial:
Geo. w. Mabry, colored man, is
a candidate for Congress in the Second
District. Now the fight becomes a
triangular one"
How will the Changers" like to
have their candidate snuffed out in that
way? The Commercial is unfortunate
in its efforts to keep posted in the poll
tics of the Second District.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

TITS a pity that Congress, when it
laid the foundation for our present ma
tional and uniform currency, which is
the most popular and convenient ever
adopted did not have the benefit 81
Judge Houk's ripe experience in finau-
cial matters. What the Judge don't
know about finances is not worth
knowing. We heard his lucid argu-
ment on the subject at MaryvilIe,
where he made it clear to every poor
voter present that if he were only sent
to Congress, money would grow on
the mountain sides as plenty
as blackberries. If those people
had not had their faith in
the Judges unyielding devotion to his
views on such measure, terribly
shaken by the exposure Of his sudden
change of front on the Funding Bill,
they might feel like sending him to
Congress to bring about that millennium
in financial matters which he 50 elo-
quently pictured. But such brilliant
powers seem to them powerless when
backed by such tickle mind. First
against the Funding Bill and then for
it, suggests 10 them the danger Of as
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

WE PUBLISH letter from a cores
pondeut in the First Congressional
District, who is an admireg and sup
porter of Judge Clearwater. In Civ
ing it place i'm our columns we do. not
wish to be understood as taking sides
as between Judges Glllenwaters and
Butler. We have heard and read Of
Judge Butler being beaten several
times, but he generally managed to
come out first on the count. Both
gentlemen are good Republicans and
we wish they could both get what
they want.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

As to " funding rings" it is now ia order
for the Knoxville CHRONICLE TO give its
readers a rest. Judge Houk distinctly
charges from the stump that, while he was
member of the Legislature, the only man
who approached him with a corrupt pro-
position in connection with the funding
bill was William Rule, one of the proprie-
tors Of the CHRONICLE.
The above is from that old prostitute,
the Nashville Union and american.
1t assumes the championship Of Houk's
sinking cause, by retailing his stale,
exploded ISLANDERS. Such Champion
ship is calculated to damage him with
the few Republican supporters he has
left. The principal proprietor Of the
Union and american holds the best
paying office in the State, by virtue Of
the resignation of one Hobbs, who re-
ceived twelve thousand dollars in con
sideration of such resignation. 1t Is
VIGOROUSLY the organ Of all the rings
that have thrived and fattened under
John Browns miserable administra
! ton, and its very name is a stencil in
| the nostTils OF honest men.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

The NASHVILLE, and ia fact ali
the Democratic papers are very loud
and bold in their compliments of
Houk. The Nashville Union and
AulgrtcljH says Houk say Of the
National Bank system that a more
Infamous monopoly was never invent
ed 70 grind the public Which is
very plain talk indeed from a straight
out Republican"
OF course it is. It's Very plain de-
nlocratic talk and therefore suits the
Union and american. In fact every
single material point urged by Houk
as reason why he should 90 TO Con
gress, applies as well to sending Hen
derson or Mabry, for the doctrines he is
advocating are Democratic, This is
too plain to need argument.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

WE invite attention 10 the special
telegram from Washington to the
Louisville Commercial, printed else
where in this issue. We have repeat
eddy urged upon our readers the folly
of tanning race and political prejudices
by an undue and unnecessary excite
ment over the Civil Rights Bill. To
elect county officers, young shifts, who
haven't brains enough to successfully
manage the business affairs Of goober-
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02
THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE.
WEDNESDAY, SEP. ., 1874.

COL. THoRNBURGH was accompan-
led to the mountains by Thos. AR. Mel
son, Jr Judge Houk was accompan-
led by James n. Ray.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

sudden a change on The National cur
rency system, which he pre.ends to
think so bad.
Washington is bad place TO send
men easily influenced.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-02

ed at Knoxville, Tennessee, for all persons hav-
ing claims against the estate of Reubin Rogers
deceased, to come forward and exhibit their de-
mands and have themselves municipalities TO
compliments bill on or before the third Monday
of December next. Done by order Of the Court
at It's June term 1874.
Test; j. S. LINDSAY, O. AN
Jaeksboro', Tenn, June Is, ls7i.-viii26wit.