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Horace Maynard was the son of Ephraim and Diana Harriet (Cogswell) Maynard. He was born on August 30, 1814 in Westboro, Massachussets.
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Excerpt from Admission of Kansas a Plea for the Cherokees: Speech of Hon. Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 11, 1860 Mr. Pendleton. Do I understand the gentleman to say that I admitted yesterday that the census should be taken by the Federal authority? Mr. Maynard. I understood the gentleman not only to admit it, but to assert that it should have been taken by the Federal authority; and that, not having made an appropriation for this purpose, Congress had waived the necessity of a census. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Title: An oration delivered before the Order of United Americans : at Niblo's Garden, New York, Feb. 22, 1861, on the celebration of the anniversary of the birthday of Washington. Author: Horace Maynard Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP02264300 CollectionID: CTRG97-B1995 PublicationDate: 18610101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Collation: 32 p. ; 22 cm
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Horace Maynard was the son of Ephraim and Diana Harriet (Cogswell) Maynard. He was born on August 30, 1814 in Westboro, Massachussets.
Maynard was prepared for college at Millbury Academy and was graduated with high honors at Amherst College in 1838.
Maynard went immediately to Knoxville, Tenn. , where he had been appointed tutor in the preparatory department of East Tennessee College (now the University of Tennessee), and where he made his home for the remainder of his life. He was soon advanced to a professorship of mathematics. In 1844 he deserted teaching for the practice of law and entered political life as a Whig. His article in which he characterized the masses as "the common herd, " with whom he desired "no fellowship" was used to defeat him in his first campaign for a seat in Congress in 1853. Four years later, however, he was elected as a candidate of the Whig and American parties and two years later was reelected. In 1860 he campaigned for the Bell and Everett ticket in Massachusetts and in Tennessee. In the following year, when secession threatened, he joined forces with Andrew Johnson, Thomas A. R. Nelson, Oliver P. Temple, and William G. Brownlow to fight bitterly against the withdrawal of Tennessee from the Union. His section of the state, the eastern, remained loyal to the Union, however, and he was returned in the August election to a third term in the federal Congress. In Washington he was an ardent but unsuccessful advocate of immediately sending a federal army to the relief of the Unionists of East Tennessee. In 1863 he became attorney-general of Tennessee under the military governorship of Andrew Johnson and held this office, much to the dislike of conservative Unionists, until the reestablishment of civil rule under Governor Brownlow. He was then reelected to Congress and took his seat in the House, on July 24, 1866, when Tennessee was readmitted to representation in that body. Here he broke with his fellow Unionist of Civil War days, President Johnson, and aligned himself with the radical Republicans. Consequently, he was thoroughly hated by the conservatives of his state, who took advantage of the first opportunity to gerrymander his district. He refused to retire to private life, however, and as a candidate for Congress from the state at large in 1872 defeated his two Democratic opponents, Andrew Johnson and Benjamin F. Cheatham. Two years later he was the Republican party's unsuccessful candidate for the governorship. In 1875 his long and able services to his party were rewarded by President Grant, who appointed him minister to Turkey. After five years in Constantinople he returned to the United States to succeed David M. Key as postmaster-general in the cabinet of President Hayes. In the following year he retired to private life.
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More than six feet tall, thin, straight, with a swarthy complexion, dark and piercing eyes, and long, black hair that fell to his shoulders, Maynard was popularly supposed to have Indian blood in his veins and was commonly referred to as "the Narragansett. " In his political campaigns he displayed oratorical powers and made effective use of invective and sarcasm. He was able and successful, but he never was an idol of the people. One explanation for this can perhaps be found in the fact that as a university professor he wrote an article in which he characterized the masses as "the common herd, " with whom he desired "no fellowship".
On August 30, 1840, Maynard was married to Laura Ann Washburn, the daughter of Azel Washburn of Royalton, Vermont. They had seven children.