The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-23


he State debt cannot be misunderstood
or mistaken except by wilful SANDER
er. He has said in many printed speech
es that this question should never be set
tied by his consent except by vote of
the people, awarding to the bondholders
such sum as they thought equitable and
just, and were willing and able to pay;
that he should vote for 33k cents, with
speedy payments; but, on the contrary,
while he should not so vote, if the peo-
pie voted 100 cents he should abide the
verdict and help them pay it in the shor-
test time possible; but, on the contrary
while he should not so vote, if the peo-
pie in their sovereign capacity should
abolish mot repudiate) the bonds for the
common welfare, in accordance with the
doctrines and practices of the govern
ment of the United States, he should
shed no more tears than he did when, by
ballots and bayOnets, sixteen hundred
millions of dollars worth of property
vested in slaves, the earnings of the
Southern people for two hundred years,
was abolished for the good of the nation.
Mr.. Savage says the last cent of the ma.
tional debt can be paid in gold, within
twelve years, without collecting one
cent more or changing the present rate
of National taxation, and the first pay
ment on this line shall add to the nation
al credit and shall be the beginning OF
betterment, hope and prosperity to the
people, increasing until the debt is paid
yet Mr.. Savage well knows that Judge
Key and men of his class intend this
debt shall be immortal. and shall hold
the people and their children as hireling.
and slaves to toll for all time to pay in
terest to the bondholders.
MI. Savage seeks not only to free
Tennessee from an unconstitutional pol
icy that has ruined her people and dis
honored her good name, but to heII
purify the political atmosphere at Wash
ington and to free the nation from do
nestle tyranny more corrupt and oppres
sive than the chains of military con
queror. Mr.. Savage regrets to use werd
seemingl y harsh towards any gentleman
yet he holds that no punishment shor
of branding with hot iron is too sever
for the man who, in violation of th
Presidents order of non-interference il
elections, descends from his high oftic
to ridicule the poverty and politics of
fellOw-citizen. Mr.. Savage would be-
coward, unworthy of confidence, below
the brute or the worm that crawls, if Ii
did not feel and resent such insults
Judge Key must respect the feelings O
others if he wishes respect himself.
Mr.. Savage voted little and lightly TO
Judge Key for Senator, but for this h
claims no credit, because at the time b
was under the painful impression thAt Ia
was voting for smiling indSCtdu0t who
if he had not already signed the treaty
was preparing to transfer his politica
; soul, body and baggage, to the Reput
lican party. JOHN II. SAVAGE.
Since presenting the foregoing fc
: publication, Mr.. Savage has read th
telegraph from Washington, in your il
sue OF the 18th, headed ''Keys' Cand
dacy," in which-the Judge talks of bein
r the candidate of can honest party.
> This is indeed "a funny idea, - suf1icicr
e to make the whole State (white an
I; blact laugh. J. Ii. s.