Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-07-03
CLARKSVILLE, TENN. FRIDAY. JULY 3, 1857.

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German, and one native, though all cx-
tremely poor and laboring men. The two
foreigners, from the time they entered the
infrmary, had renounced Democracy, and
had not ceased to heap curses and abuses on
the head Of the Mayor The consequence
has been that the German, although shot
in the calf of tho leg below the knee, has
been allowed to lie and mortify for want
of aid and care, and is perhaps dead now
while l pen these lines.
The Irishman received only slight wound
in the shoulder, and, being able to take
care of himself, is recovering.
The native is acarpenter by trade, with
out family, and has no friend within two
hundred miles of him. He was shot while
running. The ball entered the hip and
displaced the bone, glanced, and came out
at the lower portion of the abdomen
The bone has not yet been reset nor his
wound probed. After seeing him, l i'm
mediately sent for physician at his re-
quest but the gentleman, feeling some
delicacy in going into the hospital, at first
refused, but consented on last evening to
take charge of the poor man if it was still
his desire to have him. 1t is exceedingly
doubtful whether he will now recover, as
his wounds are very highly inAamed. His
screams on Friday night were exceedingly
distressing; and although for thirteen days
he has been writhing in agony, without
friends and without proper care, that gull
ty, miserable, vile murderer, our Mayor,
though pricticing physician, has not been
near him to help him or see him, when his
Office is within the sound of the poor suf
ferer's cries. Is this humanity? Is this
duty? Is this Democracy? God save as
from such, and our country from the rule of
monsters who planned this deed, who as
sisted by their orders in carrying it out,
who uphold, sustain, and glory in it as a
triumph, who propagate the villainous re-
ports of it to the world which have ap-
peared in our papers, and who shield in any
manner those connected with it from the
punishment their crimes deserve.
The accompanyin afidayits, taken mis-
cellaneously from numbers we have, will
show you clearly the spirit of the deed
and unyarnished facts in the case
G. MA.
P. S. Since writing the above, the Ger
man who was shot in the knee has died.
A G. NJ. A,
The following are the af6dayits:
DISTRICT or COLUMBIA, O..
Washington County, w.
This day came before me Justice of
the Peace in and for said county, Rev.
Thomas Plumsill, an ordained minister Of
the church of God, or free communion
Baptists, for thirty years resident of said
district, who being duly sworn according
to law, doth on his oath declare that, on
Monday preceding the election on the 1st
inst, in the city of Washington, he was
called to the Mayors office in said city to
attend to some business for friend, where
he found the Mayor F. McNerhany, naval
storeSeeper, s. Gates, and perhaps another,
who were conyersing with the Mayor, Mr..
McNerhany was recommending Mr.. Gates
to the Mayor as suitable person to fill
the appointment Of commissioner of the
fifth ward. When he had concluded that
business, he (McNerhany) told the Mayor
he had heard that the Know Nothings had
boldly asserted that no damned Irisman
should vote on the day of the election, and
he advised and requested the Mayor to
have the marines called out. The reply
that the Mayor made was ''that they should
have no children's play on that day, that
he would give them powder and ball, !"
1s se THOMAS Pill UMSILh.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
I1th day of June, 1857.
THOMAS c. DOWN, j. P.
WASHINGTON, June II. 1857.
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