Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-11-23

personal integrity has never been ques-
toned by his political adversaries. His
public life has been consistent, honorable
and high. toned. and his party friends,
from Maine to California, have unlimited
confidence in him as a man and his
devotion to principles.
A Union whig before the war, he was
so outsposenly loyal that he would have
beenimprisoned during the strife had he
not.escaped on horseback over the Tonnes
seeborder, as a warrant for bis arrest
had already been issued by the rebel
authorities.
To the soldiers OF the late war who
served in the Union army Mr. Maynard
is constant and valued friend, and it is
related in Tennessee that the Union
soldiers always had the preference for any
Office within his gift and influence. His
son, who is now dead was lieutenant
colonel of Tennessee regiment, and did
gallant service to the country.
In political sentiment Mr.. Maynard is
stalwart republican and believes in
maintaining the principles of his party
through every legitimate means. lie is
| the representative republican of the south
| and will no doubt be designated and
nominated by General Garfield to posi-
ton in the cabinet. The republicans of
the South should be encouraged and
favored. We do not think it in good taste
to give confederates front seats in re-
publican administration, and we don't
think the experiment will again be tried.
In disposition and manner Mr.. May
nard is most agreeable. He 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 varied and thorough,
and his talents and industry are of such
an order that we feel assured he will
achieve distinction as an administrative
officer, as he has as teacher, lawyer,
congressman and deplomat.
We conclude this sketch by quoting
from the political opponents of Mr..
Maynard in Tennessee, their estimate of
the leading representative republican OF
the South.
largely circulated democratic morning
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 enj ~ national reputation, made a
speech to his fellow-republica of n EN-
phis last night, that for temper and tone,
at least. must challenge democratic ap-
proval. From beginning to ED it was re-
| markable for the absence of the virtupera-
tion of the south, that forms the warp and
woof of even the campaign speeches of Mr..
| Maynard's w-members Of the cabi-
net. The Appeal has always recognized in
Mr.. Maynard the abilities. which, even in
ante bellum days had won for him toe re-
| spect of his democratic opponents and the
esteem of his old Wing friends; and though
the turmoil of civil war and sectional strife
the present. and the gulf that separated
him flom the democracy has widened, we
| have failed to give him credit for 8
state manship that, had it been permitted
to guide his party might have saved the
country and the section especially with
which he is so intimately Identified much
of trouble, turmoil and anxiety. MIR
Maynard, like other able men, was some
times taken off his feet during the war
and when reconstruction was leading
topic, but he never wholly forgot the
claims Of his state and sometimes rose su
perior to the clamor of those who were
leading in the race to ruin. He has beer
absent during the past eight years a. tn,
court of Congtantinople, where he was th'
accredited minister of our country. Their,
he acquitted himself creditaoly, and re-
turned home to receive the higher homo
of the place in the cabinet so long occu
bis absence he has had abundant op
portunity to study the politics of ou
country with the dispassionateness of
we'll informed neutral. That he has don
; so was made apparent in the recollection
and reflections he INDUCED in of tn
whig party and its great. magnetic leade
Horny Clay. To man of Mr.. May
nards temperament, surrounded by ant
addressing himself to Tennesseeans, SOM
E of them the sons of men who rejoiced t
meet him in other and happier days, thes
! memories sre no.doubt pleasanter than at
| tempting ever so tende1ly and gingerly t
I uphold the degrading position as to th
! south occupied by all the other leaders c
! his party. Mr.. Maynard has always bee
4 an ardent partizan, esger for party sue
cess and ascendancy, 30 is yet, but
can easily be seen from our report
, his speech elsewhere. that time has tenn
, pered his zeal and reflection mellowed hi
6 convictions. In matter and manner, hi
, speech last night was a rebuke to the wit
less wights who hereabouts essay to lea
the republican party, and the respee tful al
). tention with which he was listened to th
e close was in marked contrast to the ab
/ sence of interest in and for the wretche
wranglers and brainless idiots who nter
e sify the feeling of the solid south by the
canseless and undeserved denunciations
i their neighbors and fellow citizens"
: The Ledger, of Memphis. another Unfit
. entail democratic journal, says:
!, He is the ablest man except, possibly
Mr. Evarts; of the cabinet, and one Of th
ablest of the times north or south. II
+. always draws large crowd when he com,
. to Memphis. National Fres Press.
J. F. NEWCOMER, of Toledo, Ohi'