Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-28


HORACE MAYsARD. - Under the
skillfuI photography of the Radical
press of Tennessee, aided by one or
two shivering gentlemen of the 'In-
dependent" school, who are thought
to be on the anxious scat drought
thither by the prospect as it is said
Of post-ofice patronage, soon to be dis
pensed), Mr.. Maynard stands out be-
fore us of late in gigantic proportions.
If he were really the Lucifer of the
Radical host, he could not possibly
be the recipient of more Wholesale
eulogy. He is held mp TO us as the
king Of orators, and we are forewarned
of his transcendcnt power over the
masses. To this there can be'no obiec-
ton. It in no way benefits a man to
blow too defiant blast in his behalf
when he enters the lists. There is
wisdom in the warming which bids
him who boasteth when he putteth
his armor on, TO take heed lest he wall
whea he comes TO put it of, but we
do not expect that our Radical friends
will profit by it. Their balloon has
already been inflated to such huge
proportions that it cannot possibly be
reduced to a manageable size. Mr..
Maynard must evince brilliancy and
research, a magnetism and charm,
utterly unknown in the annals of or
atory in Tennessee, or else there will
be deep disappointment when he APP
pears before the people. But even if
he be all that his friends claim him 20
be, we have no fear of Mr.. Maynard.
II he can defend the Radical party
if he can justify it's past acts and
make men confident as to its future,
he is an ADLER man than Horace Gree
ley was-abler than Chas. Sumner.
Elliot, the negro Congressman from
South Carolina, tells his followers in
that State that the robbery and crime
that have characterized their admin
istration have disgusted their friends
i'll the North, and that the rotten
branches of the party must be Topped
off. Pinchback of Louisiana tells
his party the same thing. Perhaps
Mr.. Maynard knows more about the
States named, than the negroes who
represent them i'll Congress. He may
be able TO do what Republican Matt.
Carpenter did not attempt to do. lie
may Justify the Louisiana outrage
aud make it seem a blessing in dis
guise. He may be show us
that the back salary grab was not
grab, but the reward of painstaking,
industrious laborers in the public
behalf, who were worthy of their
hire. He may be able to convince
Tennessee that Radical Mississippi
lying ON our Southern border is freer,
more lightly taxed, further advanced
upon the high-road to greatness than
Democratic Kentucky, lying to the
North of us. While he has been in Con-
gress for years, and done nothing to |
suppress the stealing of his party /
there, he may be able to control a
Legislature in Tennessee.
Nous verrons-we shall see what |
we shall see-and in the meantime let !
the Maynard horn be blown from one
end of the State to the other. There |
are about half dozen Radical papers |
in Tennessee, while the opposition !
have forty or fifty. If these forty or |
fifty newspapers, with the record of
Horace Maynard and the history of the |
Radical party before them, with the |
awful results of the Reconstruction |
infamy confronting us III Arkansas |
on the West and in Alabama and |
on the South-cannot |
organize the people of Tennessee |
against Mr.. Maynard, then he is ADLER |
than Greeley or than Carpenter, his
fine words are stronger than other |
mems facts-and he will deserve re-
ward. If he can blind the people OF |
can silence every tongue in
the State, and be elected Governor |
at time when the Radical party is
crumbling into pieces in New England |
where it was born, and when the |
New Yord Tribune which breathed |
into it the breath of life, compares il |
to the crew Of a ship sent out to sup
press the slave-trade and who when |
this'was done, themselves turned pi- |
rates and plunderers upon the high |
seas-if under such circumstances |
Maynard can hood-wink this people, |
and outweigh the Democratic press
then he is really very great or as a
people and a press we are very weak.
HOAR's LEGAoY.-Mr. Sumner in
dying left Mr.. Hoar an elephant, re-
questing him to take good care of it.
''Do not let them crush nv Civil
Rights Bill, =" said the passing Senator,
but we think that Mr.. Hoar cannot
carry out the injunction. The bill
was tabled in the House on motion
Of Butler, and now we hear protests
against any attempt to revive it from /
the Philadelphia press. The theatre
managers of that city think that their
business will be ruined if the bill
should pass. This is very strange
indeed. We had halfway supposed
that Philadelphia was honest in her
protests against discrimination on ac-
count of trace, color or previous con-
lition OF servltude," but it seems
hat the gilt edged denisons of that
city are unwilling to pray in the same
shurch or laugh in the same theatre
with the imam and brother" Hoar
will have to 'let them crush the'clviI
rights bill"
For two months before the New
Hampshire election, says the World.
the Portsmouth Maynard was crow
led with useless men, who were en-
ployed in moving useless piles of lum-
Der from place to place. Four days
after the election the 1000 useless
men, who had been paid about $780,
900 from the national treasury, were
from the Portsmouth Ma
after having performed the
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