Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-07-23

rlty and for faithful and patriotic
devotion to his country and his par
ty is as far superior to the unsayory
remnant of yours as the great and
the good are superior to the little
and the mean. But who are you in
contrast with your rival satyr to
Hyperion. In the exercise of his
rights as a citizen he contests with
you the nomination of his party for
Congress and has you so badly
frightened that the officials of the
revenue service and other Federal
officials of your selection are riding
from county to county insolently
debating to the people the renomi,
nation of their little boss, Leenidas
Caesar Houk.
And the Tennesseeans in office in
Washington have within a month
had levied upon them an assessment
to help bear the expenses of your
campaign. Not your campaign at
the polls to beat a Democrat, but
your campaign to defeat Repubh-
can for the nomination In the ex-
ercise of my personal rights and
liberty as citizen | have, at dis
lance of 500 miles from the district,
in conversation, expressed a.prefer-
ence for another than yourself as the
nominee of my party for Congress.
And yet, latter an army of oficeholders,
by your orders, have been riding for
weeks over twelve big counties,
larger in extent of territory than the
combined area of several States of
the Union, working III your interest,
you have the brazen effrontery to
threaten me with removal from Office
because I dare express my opinion.
Now, in the ''name of all the gods
at once, may 1 not exclaim -
On what meat doth this, our Caesar feed,
That he has grown SO great?
But do not fear your cowardly
threats and am only indignant that
you should presume that you could
intimidate me by them.
The only parallel in modern times
to your unblushing impudence is that
when Sheridan was lifted from the
gutter in a demoralIzed condition by
the police of London las Tennes-
see Congressman sometimes is by
the police of Washington and guess
toned as to his name he cody re-
sponded ''Wilberforce. | have tried
to discharge my official duty as an
humble clerk in the Post office De
partment and have, / believe, the re-
spect and confidence of all my supe-
rior officers, and my trust III their
sense of justice is strong enough to
vouchsafe a feeling of security sc
long as I continue to do my duty.
And even were / sent home to ''work
for living" I should succeed prob
ably as well as a journalist as will
yourself as FIVE dollar lawyer when
very soon you will be relegated tc
the shades of private life.
You are simply desperate in the
face of inevitable defeat. You have
misrepresented your constituency
and they begin to know it. A large
number Of them read the papers ano
+ are studying your disgraceful record
They are finding out that during the
last session of the Forty sixth Con
gress, in 127 roll calls you failed tt
answer to your name 112 times, anG
, that you are as frequently absent
during the Forty-seventh, and fol
the same reason.
Tn conclusion I have an apology t(
offer the public, and that is for sup
PUrUIUg you Iour years ago. L wa.
so strong partisan that voted fol-
even you, although when l put in IN,
ballot with one hand, I had to hole
: E my nose with the other. And rather
than commit such another indecenc,
I would be politically disfranchiset
forever. 1 am, &c,
JNo B. BRowNLow.