Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-07-18
The wartrace Effigy-RcPOrt of the In
Vestfg aIing Committee.

For the Nashville Patriot.
The committee appointed by the Americans of
Wartrsce and vicinity, to investigate the circum-
stances aud facts connected With the hanging of an
efigy a. this place on the night Of the 2lst June,
make the following report:
The Union and american Of the 9th inst, pub
fishes letter dated ShebyVille July 4th, charging
the Americans Of Wartrace with hanging in efigy,
the Hon. James Buchanan, the democratic nomi-
nee for the Presidency and bases the truth of the
charge upon the evidence of one Geo. w. Alex
snder, who being present the morning after the
deed set to work to ascertain who had perpetrated
the act, and who accordingly unrsveled the whole
mystery by finding in the coat OF the efigy g let
ter longing to "a full blooded Know Nothing"
In further proof Of the charge against the Amer
cans of connecting and perpetfatlng this dsbolcaI
act, so revolving to democratic sensbiities, and
opposed to that respectful and SsntIemGnIy manner
with which this exquisitely sensitive and dgnihed
party have ever treated their political opponents.
The Union and american Of the 10th inst, pub
fishes a card from the vertable and veracious G.
W. Alexander himself which lasteus the hanging
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sertion that upon label across the breast Of the
picture was written the ominous and cabalistc
words buchanan dead" Now, ~ there was but
one Buchanan known TO the aforesaid Alexander,
the nominee of the sham democracy-the father
being dead, and the candidate a. bachelor,
the conclusion became irresistible to the sapient
Alexander that the Great MoGul of Democracy
was the int nded victim Of this antetypica sacrifice.
Your committee approached the investigation Of
this affair with no little uepdation, as the mighty
Alexander-6red, doubtless, by supposed psyche
logical ressmblan TO his illustrious namesake Of
Observation-Disclosures 10 divers bellicose insnuations
and intimations in the event OF bis ansubstantiae
statements being contradicted We have, how
ever, screwed ourselves up to the point Of disclos
ing the facts Of the case, aud hope TO escape the
penalty Of our termerity, by avoiding this reoOubt
able namesske Of the Macedonian conqueror who,
We are informed, is permanently located at Mul-
berry, Tennessee remember, Mulberry, the future
locality of heroic Associatons-snd who can always
be found at home when not prOfS'oHaliy engaged.
Americans brethrenl you value the integrity Of
your corporosity, you dread the consequences Of
the stain OF ssnguinous efflsion, beware, beware
Of Auiberryl
We proceed nov succinctly as possible to
give true and full statement Of the facts which
the committee have ascertained, after diligeps in
vestigAtion OF all the circumstances OF this msun
derstood and msrepresen'ed affair.
On Sundag morning. the 22d OF June, an e6igy
was seen suspended from the pole which the
Americans Of Wartraee had erected. Upon taking
the sane down, label was found across the breast
with the nane Buchanan" written upon it. Upon
examining the clothes, the coat was found to be
the property OF a citizen of WartrAce, who has,
until recently been a democrat, aud nov processes
to Do friend Of Fremont The pAntAloons be-
louged TO democrat Of WArtrAce, named Bachs
Anan. The persons who actually performed the
hanging vas the owner Of the aforesaid coat, az
lrishman from Sheleyville. aud but two years dom
icia.ed 10 the United States, and man from Nash
vile, supposed to be an American in politics. No
other persons, We are informed by the parties con
cerned, had any kBOwledgs OF the affair Until the
act vas done, vnIess @. W. AIersAdsT hiASsif
participated IN the transsesiOn.
The hsaging We learn from one Of the parties
concerned. grew oas OF the fOIlowing eireunssan-
ees A retailer Of RAJ medicines and other marvel
Ious nostrums, bad been peddIing out bis wares
Aroand Wsnsase, add certain individuals about
our sharp village conceived that the rival Of grim.
akin had aa~sd them rather deepiy, and dsser-
aimed 70 assDgs their vrOsss by marked dem.