The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-26

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best political stump speakers in In,
South. His private life and charac.
actcr are above rcproach, and his per.
sonal integrity has never been qncs,
toned by his political adyersaries
His public life has been consistent.
honorable and heightened, and his
party friends, from Maine to Califor-
mia, have unlimited confidence in him
as a man ard his devotion to princi,
pies.
A Union wing before the war, he
was SO outspOkenly loyal that he
would have been imprisoned during
the strife had he not escaped on horse
back over the Tennessee border, as a
warrantfo for his arrest had already
been issued by the rebel authorities.
Tothe soldiers of the late wal who
served in the Union army, Mr.. May
nard is a CONSTANT aud valued friend
and it is related in Tennessee that the
Union soldiers always had the prefer
ence for any Office within his gift and
influence. His son, who is now dead,
was a lieutenant colonel of a Tonnes
see regiment, and did gallant service
to the'country.
In political sentiment Mr. Maynard
is a stalwart republican and believes
in maintaining the principles of his
party through every legitimate means
He is the representative republican OF
the south and viii 10 doubt be des
ignated and nominated by General
Garfield TO a position in the cabinet.
The republicans of the south should
be encouraged and favored. We do
not think it in good taste to give con
federates front seats in a republican
administration, and we don't think
the experiment will agGin be tried.
In disposition and manner Mr..
Maynard is most agreeable. lie is
not disposed to show, but is plain and
pleasant to all who call upon him in
an official or social capacity.
He has not been long at the head
of the post Office department, but his
knowledge of public affairs is SO va
ricd and thorough, and his talents
and industry are of such an order that
we feel assured he will achieve dis
tinctiOn as an administrative officer,
as he has as teacher, lawyer, congress
man and %deplomat.
We conclude this sketch by quo
ting from political opponents Of SIr.
Maynard IN Tennessee, their estimate
of the leading representative rcpub-
lican of the South.
The Appeal, of Memphis, the most
largely circulated democratic morn
ing paper of hal city, and one of the
leading papers Of the south, referring
to a speech recently made by Mr..
Maynard in Memphis, says:
The great leader of the republican
party in Tennessee, Mr.. Maynard, one
of the ablest among the statesmen Of
that party who enjoy a national repu-
%tation, made 4 speech to his f%ellow-re-
publicans Of Memphis last night, that
tor tempet and tone, at least, must clal-
Ienge democratic approval. From be-
ginning to end it was remarkable for
the absence of the yirtuperation of the
south, that forms the warp and wool of
the campaign speeches of Mr..
Maynard's fellow-members of the cabi-
net. The Appeal has always re- cogniz
ed in Mr.. Maynard the abilities, which
in %ante-bellum days had won for
him the respect Of his democratic oppo-
nentS and the esteem of his old Whig
friends; and -hOugh the turmoil of civil
war and sectianal strife have interview
cd between those days and the present,
and the gulf that separated him from
the democracy has widened, we have
failed to give him credit for n states
manship that, had it been permitted,
to guide his party might have saved
the country and the section especially
with which he is 81 intimately identi-
fled much of trouble, turmoil and anx-
ietY. Mr.. Maynard, like other able
men, was sometimes taken off his feet
the war, and when reconstruc-
ton was a leading topic, but he never
forgot the claims Of his state,
and sometimes rose superior to the
c!amor of those who were leading in
the race to ruin. lie has been absent
the past eight years at the court
Of COnstantinople, where he was the
accredited minister of our country.
There he acquitted himself creditably,
md returned home to receive the higher
honor of the place in the cabinet so
.ong occupied by Judge Key. During
lis absence lie has had abundant OPP
oortunity to study the politics of our
with the dispassionatenesS of
we'll informed neutral. That he has
lone so was made apparent in the le-
collections and reflections he INDUCED
n of the whig party and its great, mag
letic cader-IIenry Clay. To a man of
'lr. Maynard's temperament, sur
onnded by and addressing himself to
'enncsseeans, some Of them the sons of :
ncn who reioiccd to meet him in other
nd happier days, these memories are
10 doubt pleasanter than attempting f..
yer so tenderly and gingerly to uphold !
he degrading position as to the south ,
coupled by all the other leaders of his
arty. Nj. Maynard has always been s
II ardent partizan, eager for party sue