Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-06

integrity, above suspicion and above dis
trust-a tribute of moral homage paid to
but few of the public men that have passed
away in this generation. Mr.. Maynard has
demonstrated the possibility and illustrated
the fact of high, pure, resplendant
character, of lofty and unsulhed virtue on
the broad field of national politics. spending
an ordinary lifetime amid the contention of
parties, the temptations of ONCE and the
distribution of spoils, and coming back
home at the sunset of life to close his career,
face his constituents and render up his ac-
count with record transparent as the light,
no stain upon his name and not shadow
upon his memory, now that he is gone. If,
in the highest sense Of that word, we have
had statesmen in American, men OF charac-
ter, men of conscience, men OF national
breadth, and the forecast to sweep q CEN
tury of outlook and acknowledgements
by q continental love of human rights
stainless in Office and inspired by patrot-
ism as high and far as sweeps our eagle In
his fight, among those saviors of the Re-
public-statesmen great and good with
out humility and without hesitation, we
place Horace Maynard, with greatful remem-
brance of how he has served his native land,
and by his manhood and might enlarged
and consecrated the realm Of his country g
liberty and his country's renown.
But gathered as we are to-day as neighbors
and fellowcitizens of the deceased, we are
justified in speaking Of the private virtues
and characteristic traits of the great man
who has fallen in our midst.
For nearly half century Mr.. Maynard
has lived in Knoxville, been thoroughly
mixed with all its social and business life
and identified with all tho public and pri-
vate interests Of the city, as teacher,
lawyer, neighbor, friend, and he has gone
in and out before the people as one OF us.
and in his death we feel free to say that
Tennessee has lost its most widely known
and honored citizen, and our city its most
distinguished resident
Mr.. Maynard has given fame to Knoxville
of which few here living are aware, and re-
nown to his State which has become ma
tionsI; and of his name and achievements
We are all, without distinction of party, justly
proud. As q citizen he has taken an active
and vstchful interest in all that pertained
to the growth and welfare, the moral, So
cial, intellectual, religious and dmaterial good
of the city. Our private and public schools
have always had his warmest inter
est and support. He has visited
them ofteu and delivered before
teACucIB buu bCuOlhtS hOl6 addresses
on the principle and method Of education.
As a trustee of our University, he has shown
his deep concern in the intellectual training of
the young men Of Tennessee. In every chari-
ty and good cause of the city, he has been
ready adve = and an ardent friend In
his death willie has lost a prominet edu-
Gator, moral teacher, and philan-
thropi private life Mr.. Maynard was
r,.sritv 49, correct in every habit faithful
to ey trust, honest in every relation, and
peri lily clean in word and deed. In affec-
ton, true, in friendship, unchanging, low
ing the privacy of his home, enjoying the
society Of books and diversions Of his own
freside, loyal husband, wise and kindly
father.
BY temperament he was not social man
as the world counts and Graves sociality. He
was rather self-oontained, a man Of thought
fullness, reserve and silence, not freely in
viting friendship and conversation. He
was not endowed with the magnetism and
hesrtiness Of manner and address which
draw the people to one IN warm and gsnial