Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-07-24
COL. SAVAGE HEARD FRDRR5Is.

COL. SAVAGE HEARD FR0MsI
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We have received from Col. Jno.
Fl. Savage the following character
istic note.:8x1I lie aI8bax y
MoMINNvlLLE, July 81, 1879. ~--
Editor of Chronicle. K,so1uille ( Term:
In your paper of the 18th appears
the following:
Col. John H. Savage. the father Of.
reputation in Tennessee, made
speech oas.Monday at Trenten.inzePpo
sition to the 30 4 compromiseI - Il
Without fntefliing.1 TO be offensive, f
assert that Ishave as mE Oh right 10 saysi
that YOU are the father Of lies, there
being 10 evidence produce j on either
side.9 y On have neseG g my knowl- [
edge.spnbiIshed any apeech made by +
me. s Publish, and let me be juaged by /
the words Of my mouth, and NOT T
yours. Vote for BOA and you Te22udtdte |
Ia thirty years $44 500, 600 duerby The |
Funding bill of 1873, every doIfar4of
which high tax papers and politicians |
like you say is legally due and az |
note, and If chargeatf6 forward your |
bill, for payment, byretura mail 81 II
RespecsfalIvA-4& a a Il
JOHN H. SAVAGE.
Now this is Savage, butzWe still
have our scalp intact, and thoughit
may be temerity on our partsws
must confess that neither his war
whoop or war paint alarm usoa We
see nothing to retracty in the: little,
paragraph TO which the gentleman
takes exception, Rheregare tweI
facts stated therein, neither Of
which he denies, $50 far as We can
understand: First, that he IS @thes
"father of reputation IN, Tspnes
see," and, second, that he, made p
speech Dat Trenton in opposition
to the 5or4 compromise AS TO
the last we have seen it so stated in
several newspapers. in Middle and
West Tennessee, and we presume i
is true, as Col. Savage does N not
deny it. We may have
erred in speaking Of Col. Savage as
the "father of repudiatien," and as
he objects. to being called father.
and as he really ism t
father of anything that we know
of, We retraot that spartic'
ular word, but still insist that since
he has been for years se0ntributinG
what he could to supper
the ill7faYored and illegitinate of
spring of some more virile sire, h
is at least the stepzfather Of Hepu
diation! There is no escape ] from
this except by saying hecis its we
nurse. It is only at best ques
ton of gender .E3gOEB
We do not remember that W
have published>an any Of his speeche:
but they have been made all owe
the State wherever hecouh get .
audience, and in these public la
anguss,2 there are hundreds y VII
know that he has resorted to all tt
sophistry of which he is master,
encourage dishonesty and to COZ
vince the people that the State del
ought not to be paid. We have b
fore us a printed copy ofaa speet
made at McMinnville, Tennessee
on the Sd day Of; April, 1876,
which he took grounds, on the Sta
debt questionaoiod3 8dj 878d.
1st. That the bonds have dbef
issued i IN 4 Vi violation Of the Constitl
ton Of the State. 1S3W9N 9fIt
End. tThsto they were bi4s7sSned
violation of the maxim that Ia:
alton without representation
tyranny xr
aad(slass hgislationaaa progress
in mighty, and and tAa that thseE there are s.
bona fde bondhelaersa1
4th. That they created no pc
sonal obligation for payment up
any man, wonish' OF fchild in t
State. F sra YAS
5th. Hhatsifl they Mere Original
lien IN the. nature OF q .mortga
upon HnaAf s athsn q taxable proper
that the Obligation has been d
charged nreeqpqpprts Of sf 9gtths 5 een q
patton Of ,t the negroes agaf lat,agzrnoAx
These were some q his pqsitie
assumed in That speech, m which
alluded Is the bonds as the I"
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