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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28
THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRA-
TIONS.

The reported proceedings of the
late Centennial celebration at Con-
cord and Lexington, show that most
patriotic and commendable spirit pre-
vailed throughout. In the speeches,
the toasts, poems nor in any other
part of the exercises was there any
thing to offend the most fastidious
No illusions were INDUCED in that
could provoke the Indignation of even
a waspish individual of the D. II.
Hill stripe, or of a malignant
Union hater like Raphael Semmes.
We are gratified at this but not sur.
prised. The New Englanders are a
magnanimous people, and do not find
it necessary to harrow up the unpleas-
antness of the past to maintain their
prestige in the future.
We trust this may be the begin
ming of an era of good feeling, such
as has not blessed the country for
years. Now let us have rousing
non-partisan, non-sectional celebra.
ton at Mecklenburgh next month,
and then such Centennial at Phila-
delphia next year as will astonish the
world, no less with our national great
ness than with our national brotherly
kindness. Let us make Philadelphia
on that occasion city of Brotherly
Love indeed, where the people from
every State in the Union may meet
and rejoice over our common herit-
age, the fame of the patriotic fathers
of the Revolution of 1776. We can
there bury our jealousies and enter
tain no rivalry except that of render
ing each State in the Union the equal
in every respect of every other State.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28
NEWS ITEMS.

There are only five counties in Ohio
through which railroads do not pass.
General Buford, the well-known turf
man of Kentucky, has been nominated
for the Legislature of that State.
A private letter from Gen. Robert f.
Lee, written in January, 1861, has just
been made public, in which he takes
grounds in opposition to secession.
On Sunday evening, Centennial SER
vices were held in the Old North
church, Boston. Hundreds were turn
ed away unable to gain admittance.
The building was draped with flags
and otherwise decorated, and in the
steeple were hung lanterns comment
orative Of the signal given to Paul
Revere. .
The Baltimore Sun ably defends the
proposition that Mecklenburg county,
North Carolina, is 1.-THE real cradle of
American liberty" Furthermore, it
advances the interesting fact that the
Scotch Wing blood which flowed in
the veins of these North Carolina peo-
pie was the first in this country to
boil over in the tide ofindependence."
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28
MORE DEMOCRATIC SWIND-
LING.

We give below q very significant
statute passed by the present worth
less Legislature. That body, by this
act, has giren away to some favorite
or favorites, money which they owe
the people of the State, through the
State Bank. There is rascality at
the bottom of this thing somewhere.
The Democratic Legislature of Ten
nessee is very liberal with other peo-
pies money. This is another of the
long train of outrages connected with
this Bank:
An Act to release certain parties from
liability to the State on account OF
notes executed By them to the Bank
Of Tennessee.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That
on all notes or other evidences Of debt now
in the hands of Samuel Watson, Trustee OF
the Bank of Tennessee, the original consid-
Grafton whereof was money loaned by said
bank, or any of its branches to be used in
the construction or equipment of any rail
road or railroads in the State, which rail
roads have been sold in foreclosure of the
mortgage held by the State for State aid
furnished, and no fund realized to pay such
notes after liquidating the States lien, the
State hereby relinquishes all claim she
may have for pro rata payment to, and in
favor of parties bound on such notes or Other
evidences of debt.
SEC. 2. BE II further enacted, That Sam
uel Watson or his successor in the Office o.
Trustee Of said bank, and whoever has now
or may hereafter have control of the States
interest in assets of said bank be, and he II
! hereby directed to take no step toward thu
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28

SPEAKING Of the inhumanity of the
last Legislature in not providing for
the unfortunate insane of the State,
the GAINESVILLE TDJacco Leaf makes
the following strong yet just re.
marks:
"War, with its resutants, defeat, disas-
ter, poverty and despair, has swelled the
ranks Of the insane. They rot and freeze,
and kill themselves in our ja!ls' One Leg
islature attempts to provide for this unhap.
Ply class of our population another takes
il away and calls it retrenchment
In all the revorberalions from the halls
of legislation, that have sounded down to
us, who ever heard of Legislature that
'retrenched' by taking away what had been
given to the poor, innocent, helpless, de-
mented people? This is literally retrench-
ment with vengeance falling on class
incapable Of pleading for themselves p
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28
A DISGUsTED CONSERVATIVE.

The Cincinnati Commercial is indie
pendent in politics, and IN the last
election supported Greeley for Presi-
dent. 1t charges all sorts of stealing
and fraud upon the present Demo
cratic Legislature of Ohio, aud gives
expression to its disgust Of modern
Democracy after the following fash.
ion:
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, says well
that if there is anything the people OF
this country desire it is an honest party"
But where are they to look for it Does
Democracy promise it? Tried by its record
in the States where it has been tested in
the towns and cities where it has control,
and the only difference, if any, to be OBJ
served, is in the eagerness TO get hold Of
the money and spend it. Changing from
Republican to Democratic administrations
is likely to prove as valuable an experience
as that Of the fox, which swan a river to
rid itself Of a swarm Of pestiferous flies,
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28
THE DIFFERENCE.

The Democracy seem to enjoy their
success in Connecticut as a harbin.
ger Of their restoration TO power in
1876. Connecticut, in the spring Of
1872, gave a Democratic majority,
but in the tall Of that year gave a
large majority for the Republican par
ty. When national issues are square
ly made between the Republican and
Democratic parties, Connecticut will
continue to range itself on the side of
the party which is 50 intimately as
ISOLATED with the salvation of the
Nation and the development Of the
country.
The people must not forget that the
Democratic party, when in the pride
Of its power, denied that Congress had
power to improve our rivers, unless
adjacent to the sea, and for many
years appropriations for the improve
ment Of the navigation Of our great
interior water courses were withheld,
and all such enterprises were aban.
doned.
Congress, under the Constitution as
interpreted by such profound jurists
as Andrew Johnson !, was powerless
to engage in any great national en-.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28
The Third Term.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin

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Vice President Wilson is reported to
have said that he does not know a
man in Massachusetts who is in favor
of electing President Grant for a third
term. He might have gone a little
further and said that he never met an
intelligent man who really believed
that the President wants a third term
or would accept it if it were offered to
him. We defy the journals that are
harping upon this subject to produce
one word or the record of one action,
Oh the part of President Grant or any
one properly authorized TO represent
him, which indicates in the slightest
degree that he has such aspirations.
If any of these loud takers have pos
session of any such evidence, let them
produce 1t now or shut up.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28
The Rome (Ga.) Courier says /:

IHE Rome (Ga.) Courier says:
"If the philosophy of Greeleyism is to
be again tried, we have no hope of Demo.
cratic success next year. We shall be
worse defeated than we were 1872, and we
we're worse defeated then than we were in
1868, when we stood upon Democratic
platform
An idea of the character of plat
form desired by the Courier may be
gathered from the following sentence
in the same editorial:
Are we to accept the partisan recon-
struction measures which forced upon
free States, at the point of the bsyonet, an
acceptance of constitutional amendments
which were thus fraudulenuy adopted in
violation of the Constitution as the legiti-
mate results of the war;
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28

is a fact about which no well inform
ed man has doubt.
If our Attorney General fails to
take this question to the Supreme
Court of the United States, we would
like to see it appealed in some other
way and argued before that high
tribunal by Gen. Butler. No man
would argue it more ably than he.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28

collection of any interest the State may be
found to have in, and to any note coming
within the scope and purview OF the first
section Of this act, and upon the winding
up of the affairs of the Bank Of Tennessee,
or in the process of winding the same up.
when it shall be sscertained what amount
of interest the State has in such note, notes
or other evidences Of debt he shall enter
credit thereon of an amount equal to such
interest
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28

"That carpet, said a dealer to an old
farmer the other day, that carpet is
81 IS per yard but seeing it's you, you
can have 1t for 81 90"
While he was cutting it of the farmer
proudly said to his wife:
IL never met him before, but you see
he takes me for some big man. Now,
then, Marian, see what It's TO have hus-
band who looks smartish r'-DetroH Free
Press.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28
IMPEACHMENT OF FRAZIER.

We stated that Judge Frazier was
"releved of his disabilities by a
Democratic Constitutional Conven.
ton. The Nashville Union and Amer-
icda reminds us that we have made a
mistake in favor of Frazier, for it
was a Democratic Legislature which
relieved him, instead of Constitu.
tional Convention. We thank the
Union and american for the correc.
ton. a Constitutional Convention
has far more power, and its actions
command more respect than those of
a Legislature. The point we made
was, that his disabilities were re.
moved by Democrats. The impress
sion sought to be made by the Union
and american is that they we're re-
moved by Republicans. Here are its
words:
"IIis disabilities were removed by net Of
the Legislature OF Nov. IL, 1869, two
months before the Constitutional Conven-
ton met The members of that Legisla-
ture were elected under the franchise law
of the Brownlow regime, which disfran-
chised so many thousands of the people
of Tennessee and further, every member
of that Legislature had, when he became
a candidate, to take what is known as
the iron-clad oath. These are the men
who removed the disabilities imposed up
on Judge Frazier by malignant partisan
Legislature for simply performing a duty
imposed upon him by the law and his oath
of office
Now, every man in Tennessee who
knows anything, knows that the Leg
islature of 1869 was not elected I'M
der the " franchise law of the Brown
low regime" or any other franchise
law. There was not single county
in the State where any regard was
paid to that law; and there was not
a man in the State who did not have
a certificate to vote who wanted to
vote.
The Legislature Of 1869 had just
twelve Republican members out
of one hundred and nine. The
same Legislature elected a Del y
cratic Senator, and came near pass
ing a resolution to throw out of the
State Capitol a portrait of Gen.
George H. Thomas, and would
have passed it but for fear
of the effect it would have had North
and West. This was most appro.
pirate body to remove the disabilities
of Frazier, but let not the Union and
AmericU, attempt upon the public so
gross an imposition as to say it was
"elected under the franchise law -
which DISTINGUISHED, what it has said
a hundred times, constituted INA.
jority of the people of Tennessee"
If that Legislature of 1869 had
been elected under the franchise
law" the overwhelming majority Of
the Democratic party would have
been debarred the privilege of voting
and if this had been the case, how
could Democratic Legislature have
been chosen ..
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28

Father" replied Cairo girl, tears in
her eyes, you may jaw and jaw, and
howl, and rave, and rip, and tear, but III
marry John Stewart If die for it !" And
the old man leaned back and realized that
he might as well try to pull a locomotive
uD Hill.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28

THE Democratic papers in discuss.
ing the question of the loss of the
school fund-more than two millions
five hundred thousand dollars-al.
ways ignore the main point and harp
upon the loss of about three
hundred thousand dollars in Rutter' S
bank at Memphis. Why don't they
come out like men and tell what be.
come of the original fund Tell the
honest people of Tennessee whom you
have so long attempted to deceive,
what became of the $2,679,01S.33,
the amount of the school fund in the
hands of Democratic officials in Ten.
nessee in 1861. Speak out and tell
the whole truth or forever hold your
peace.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28

tn0t ne nal eACHHBeu one swarm lnhb nhu
been satiatel with his bloc for another
whose hunger vas yctto beappeased
-.SD. -
The only defense OF reply to the
facts and figures contained in our let
ter to the New York Tribune on
johnson, made by those journals IN
Tennessee which supported A. J's
election to the Senate, is that our OBJ
ject was to advertise our newspaper
enterprise. Well, suppose that was
our object, is that any reply to the
overwhelming array of evidence by
which, as the Cincinnati Gazette says,
"the bottom has been knocked out of
Johnson's speech?' One little John.
son paper says: ooh, your circula-
ton is limited; you wrote the Tri-
buae to have your letter extensively
read" OF course our circulation is
limited, rs is the circulation of every
paper in Tennessee. The circulation
of every newspaper in every South.
ern State is limited. Nothing else
could be expected in communities
and States where there has been no
system of free public instruction, and
where the towns and cities are small
and advertising custom limited in
comparison with the great jour-
nails of the great cities,
The circulation of every newspaper
in Tennessee combined, political and
religious, does not equal that of the
New York or Chicago Tribune or the
Cincinnati Gazette or Commercial, and
because we wished to advertise -
the truth of history and expose the
premeditated misrepresentation OF
Senator Johnson, that we selected as
our Medium of addressing the public
a metropolitan journal.
And we will say to these Johnson.
ties, who are writhing under our ex.
posture of their master, that we have
no difficulty in advertising" our
opinions through the columns OF
journals which would not give them
ten lines to express their views on
any subject.
After our letter was sent to the
Tribune (of which we kept
no copy and after it was
published, that we were pre-
pairing an answer to johnson, we re.
ceived a telegram from one of the
greatest newspapers in the North, re
questing us to furnish it copy Of
our letter for publication.
If such puerile stuff as that refer
red to is all the reply Mr.. Johnson's
friends can make to our letter they
had as well acknowledge defeat by
silence.
Artemus Ward referred to a friend
Of his, lately deceased, as "a quiet
decent corpse" If A. Us speech
may be regarded as a specimen of his
Senatorial career, he may be truth,
fully characterized as a political
corpse. And, for the sake of the pub
lie at large, it is to be hoped he. and
such of his friends as blindly endorse
all he does, will make "quiet, decent
corpses."
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28
WING AND CHRONICLE,
knoxville, Tenn

Gen. NJ. d. Leggett, late Com
missioner of Patents, and ex-Gov. r.
b. Hayes are mentioned as probable
Republican candidates for Governor at
me coming Ohio election.
The Memphis Ardidnche prints
uearly a column Of Government Post
Office adveiti-t m-ut-. Adopting The
usual logic OF Democratic politicians,
the AUatdnche i in favor Of the third
term
A Tural adherrut of the yreat
Democratic party is Disguised. He re-
CARDS Hon. Horace Maynard's going
as a Minister to preach to the Turks
as a political trick, intended to gain
favor with the church people.
Andrew johnson stands about
the same chance to be selected as the
next Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent, that Theodore Titon does to sue
coed Pope Plus. His star has gene
down behind the Western horizon.
THE New York Tribune says that
impartial observers Of the course OF
the Democratic party during the past
winter, especially in the Western
States, are not overwhelmingly inn
pressed with the conviction that the
good Of the country demands restora-
ton of the Democracy to power"
The editorial page of the Chat
tanooga Times reminds us of the maps
of the interior of Africa as they APP
peareI in our school.boy days, iudica-
ted as "Unexplored Regions. 1t is
possible that our cotemporary is pub
lished in the flats ~ and is still suf-
fering the effects of the March freshet
The Araldnche thinks the New
Departure of 1872 was not a mistake.
Andrew johnson the AUdtdnche'
model statesman said the party took
Greeley as one would crooked stick
to beat mad dog. We presume "uI
Memphis cotemporary wants to con.
tinue a while longer in the " crooked
stick" business.
Vice President Wilson has said
that he does not know IA man in Mas
sachusetts who is in favor of the third
term, wbereupon some sage Democrat
observed, that the Vice President did
not enjoy personal acquaintance with
the Federal ofIice-holders. Aud now
every little eight by-ten Democratic
organ in the land chimes in and
grinds out that sentiment Us original
The Banner talks about the
public teat" business az one who
speaks by The cart. II has been there
and knows how ii is itself Ii had {
long pull and strong pull at the
public tpatn few years ago, anC
when weaving" time came it wa,
the most hDistprous calf that eyeI
bawled " for more - But the Legis
lature was forced by public opinion t
abolish the Office Of Public Printer
and the Banner is not 80 fat aud sleel
AS it was five years ago. But it car
bawl yet, and hasn't forgotten tn,
"te8t."
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28
DAILY CHRONICLE
AND THE
Weekly Wing and Chronicle.
DAILY.

Senator Brownlow will have control
Of the editorial columns, which, in
view of his long experience and re-
cognized journalistic ability, is a suf-
ficient guarantee that the WING AND
CHRONICLE will be lively journal.
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riabIy be required in advance.
Remittances may be made by draft,
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Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28
WHAT GEN. BUTLER SAYS
ABOUT THE TORBETT ISs
SUE DECISION.

Soon after the decision of the Su-
preme Court of Tennessee on the
Torbett Issue question, the editor of
this paper addressed letter on the
subject to Gen. b, F. Butler, whose
ability as a lawyer is universally adj
mitted. After mature deliberation,
that gentleman replies as follows:
WAsHINGToS, April goth, 1875,
SIR: ] have yours enclosing the decis-
ion. am inclined to think with you that
II is unconstitutional. Why does not some
body in the State of Tennessee have the
case appealed to the Supreme Court rs II
should be done, and thoroughly argued
because it is an entering wedge to having
all those war debts paid. Hoping you enjoy
better health, | am
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28
Yours trul,
BENZ. +. BUTLER.
bHNJ' DVTLIh
Hon. W. G. Brownlow, Knoxville, Tenn.

Hon. W. G. Brownlow, Knoxville, Tenn.
The people of Tennessee will never
consent to pay this most unrighteous
debt until it has been passed upon
by the Supreme Court Of the United
States. That the Torbett notes we're
issued for the benefit of the rebellion
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-28

and found on landing on the opposite shore
that he hal exchanged one swarm that had
been satatel with his bloc for another
whose hunger vas yctto beappeased
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-02-14
NO1ICIAS DE LA PENINSULA.

No esperanto el vapor correo de
Cadiz hasta ell domingo, ten1amos ca
81 lleno este ndmero cuando recibi-
mos por dicho buque extensas mott
cias de la madre patria. Nos concre-
taremos, pues, por hoy, a dar las mas
dejando Ia tarea de am
pliarlas para ell siguiente ndmero.
Copiamos de la Gaceta de Madrid:
"Castilla la Nueva.-El brigadier
Cassola desde el Campillo de Alto
Buey, manifesto que su salida de
Almodoyar y con noticia de la 'exis
tencia de una faccion procedente de
Valencia, Sc adelant6 con dos escua
drones de hdsares de la Princesa, y
viendo que aquella Sc alejaba desde
Campilloss hacia Enguidonos la persi-
gui6 velozmente, llegando ell valor de
los hdsares hasta cargarla q legua y
media con tai brilIantez, que qIedal
iron en- el campo enemigo SO maertQs
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-02-14

pudo restablecerse Ia serenidad, el
cardenal salud6 4 S. M. en- nombre de
las corporaciones de Valencia toda,
diciendole que la nacion tenia hambre
y sed de justicia y de paz, esperaba
que bajo ell reinado de Alfonso XII
concluirian las luchas civiles Termi-
no diciendo, que con la protection de
la Immaculate Maria, reverdecerian
los laureles del reinado de Recaredo.
El rey le contest6, que al pisar ell
suelo espanol Sc sentia profundamen-
te conmoyido, J que con el amor que
lie lprofesaba el pueblo, esperaba con
su concurso y con la ensenanza que ell
destierro lie habia procurado, hacer
renacer una era de ventura y prospe
ridad. Termino diciendo que al pisar
las playas de Valencia invocaba ell
primero ell nombre de Nuestra Sefo-
ra de los Desamparados, que ha sido
su protectora y eScudo ell tempo en-
que Sc ha visto huerfano de su hermo-
sa patria.
Estas palabras de su S. M. produ-
jeron tai impression que a muchos aso-
maron las lagrimas y Sc repitleron las
aclamaciones. Inmediatamente monte
el rey en- un hermoso caballo, cuyo
filete y estribo tenian dos coroneles
de caballerfa, y empreudi6 la marcha
hacia Valencia.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1875-02-14
Toa- baja, enero 81 de 1875.

Ell II del presente mes tuve Ia desgra-
cia de perder para siempre mi querids
madre en- ell pueblo de Fajardo.
En- medic de la pena que aHige el cora
zon de mi padre, ell de mi hermano y ell
milo, no deja de ser un un consueIo para
nosotros las pruebas que de simpatfas
fna amistad recibimos de los amigos que
all{ tenemos y que nos honran.
Entire estos, tanto los ricos como los
pobres y los de La primera clase como los
de la Ultima, Sc disputaban ell puesto de
asistir y prodigar sus cuidados a la enfer.
ma, tanto de dia como de noche.
Agradecidos, no tenemos palabras para
manifestar nuestro reconocimiento, pero
sepan que no podemos menos de tributar-
les las mas expresivas gracias q todos en-
general y q cada uno en- particular, pro-
testAndoles que jamAs olvidaremos tan
generoso noble proceder, protestan-
doles tam5ien nuestra gratitud.
No podre dejar sin mencion la conducta
del.Sr. Faria, director de una compaifa de
acrobatas que actuaba ALI, , que tuvo la
coasideracion de suspender dos ifunciones
que tenia anunciadas al dblico, en- vista de
la gravedad y muerte de la que lIoramos,
Rsciba tambiea las grscias J s&pslQ el
p6hlise,