Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-18

East Tennessee--a terror to the nation-rent TO
atoms. yet lovely in her restitution. glorious in
her humility, shall blossom as the rose" and
those who now are the instruments in the hands
Of designing demagOgues for the success Of their
hellish schemes shall be an ornament to society,
while those who seduced them into the wiles OF
mobocracy and lawlessress shall accept exile as e
protection from the violence Of an outraged pop
ulace.
There is a future, Oh, thank God
panacea for wrongs inflicted
Every crime has its remedy in the future--in
the "pent up" wrath of vengeful God,
Those who. some weeks since, halted the
almost beggardly rebel peddler. near Buffalo
Church. in Washington county, shot six holes
through his breast. and concealed him until they
thought that suspicion was allayed, and when
the flesh began to drop from his bones, stealthily
placed his remains near the public highway; and
who threatened other citizens of known Southern
sentiment with the fate of the unfortunate peddler
if they did not leave the country. will repent of
their conduct. and perhaps (?) make good citizens
Those who led the Rev. W. Newell, Pastor of
the Baptist Church at Buffalo, few Sabbaths
since, out of his pulpit and notified him that he
could not speak in the name of his Lord and Sa-
political tenets were adverse to theirs, WILL ere
they are gathered to their tombs cry for this per-
secuted man. of the holy ministry of God, to sup
plicate at a Throne of Gracs in their behalf
Happier is he to-day sitting beneath his "own
vine and fig tree" with consciousness of having
done his duty than those fends. in human shape,
who dance and sport in iendish and hellish mimi
cry around his vacant and silent sanctuary.
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ty. drew their pistols and presented them to the
heart of tender female, threatened to shoot her
heart out of her bosom if she did not reveal the
whereabouts of her dear husband, will at no dis
tant day blush and writhe in agony of conscience
at the mere recital and memory Of their barbar-
Gus conduct, and perchanee reform will overtake
them, ere the tomb claims them. Those who par
ticipated a week since in the breaking up of the
Court at Harrison. Hamilton Countrywide
mobbed fifteen citizens, not ex-rebes. but because
they were Southern in sentiment-who inaugural
ed a reign of terror in the town and surrounding
country, viii see the error of their way, and will
tramp beneath their feet the incendiary attempt
to incite them to such deeds of villainy These
outrages are of but recent occurrence and speak
for themselves.
Since my last, there has been nothing TO disturb
the quiet of our town and the travel over this line
of railway. Col. Chapman, bur gentlemanly Post
Commandment has guard in waiting for every
train, daily coming from the West, to prevent
the outrages of few weeks since being repeated.
L notice, from your issue Of the - inst. that Mr.
Hoxsie, Superintendent of the East Tennessee and
Virginia Road has attempted to furnish you a
solution of the difficulty that occurred here some
time since. giving his action in the case &C. We
don't modify our letter iota, his card and its
endorsement by some of the members of the press
to the contrary. MIR. Vaughan, the gentleman at
tackled, told us to-day that he never knew the man
who made the assault upon him, and yet Mr.. Hox-
sic says that the difficulty sprung from an old
feudl But mark his language-'under the cir
cumstances dismissed him''-his employee. If
not guilty, why punish him with dismissal As to
rejecting on the officers of the Notwithstanding
that they encouraged moboeraey-there was no
ground for such construction, and ms proof of
this we call his attention 10 our letter published
in the same issue that contained his cs-i-also to
the editorial of the same date touching the same
subject.
Mr.. ii. could find the cause of this decrease of
travel and trade nearer home than in the letters
Of your correspondent. if he would half try. We
would suggest to him the propriety of making the
effort. 1t would be advantageous to the East Ten
nessee and Virginia Railroad Company and the
Georgia and Tennessee Read to pay the editors of
these Radical journals the income .of their jour
mails out of the funds of the Companies rather than
suffer their publication. SO long as mob violence
is taught, just long will the trade and travel of
the road be embarrassed.
A word tosour Blountville correspondent Mr.
Snapp, whose letter appeared some time since.
We naturally anticipated little houncing and
gnRshing Of teeth. from the fact that it is char
acteristic Of his school. We viii now furnish the
facts connected with the late election as recently
presented to the Legislature of the State and
leave to the reading public to decide as to the
truth Of the statements made in former letter.
On the first Monday in January last an election
was held in the county of Sullivan, for the rati-
fcation rejection Of an act of the Legislature
entitled act to provide for the removal of the
county seat of Sullivan county from Blountvile to
Bristol in said county. and for the establishment
of special court at Kingsport; approved Dee s.
1885," the result of which election showed
majority of some n votes in favor of Blountville
On an investigation of the poll books of the cleo
ton, it was ascertained by the affdavits of cti-
zens of the county. that in Blountville district
rejection Of said act or in favor of Blountvlle In
the White district. adjoining the Bountville dis
trict, (which we inadvertently called Morris, in
our letter, on which Mr. S. laid so much stress)
some q disloyal or illegal votes were east in
favor of the rejection of said act, or in favor of
Blountville. In the .Branstetter district some
seven disloyal or illegalAotes were cast In favor
of the rejection Of said act or in favor of Blount
NJ
willie were those Of men who had been officers in
the rebel army, Quartermasters Of the same and
rebel ministers of the gospel. and preached and
prayed for the success Of the rebel government mp
to the surrender of the armies
In the Branstetter district men we're suffered to
vote WIN had been in the rebel service. and who
had been 'prosclers" or ''robJers.'' one of whom
had pundered the house Of one Of the atlantis, as
so stated by him. When the computation was
made aad the illegal votes stricken out, and the
vote reduced TO what the late franchise law re-
quircd. the result exhibited majority in favor of
the ratification of the act or for Bristol and Kings
port. by about forty-one votes These are yacts,
as drawn from the poll-books Of the rancorous
aud vituperative Snapp. and have been sworn to
and forwarded, with a memorial to the Legisla-
ture. by more than two hundred loyal voters of
the county. Private dispatches from Nashville
announce the setting aside of the illegal votes.
which holds up the saappiao County Clerk in a
rather unenviable attitude before his constituents
To claim that he could not prevent the issuing of
certificates floyalty 10 those not entitled to them
and that he not responsible for the conduct Of
his deputies. is willfnl perversion Of truth. To
defy the examination Of his poll-books. as If to
obliterate at single stroke the reraeity Of your
correspondent. and then TO suffer such exposure
before the Legislature Of the Stlte, is anything
butcomplimentary to the troubled official. Think
Of it, Men who had preached and prayed up to
the CLOSE Of the for the Of the rebellion
-Quartermasters and ofieers in their army cos-
tafne-thcse TO be furnished with certificates of
loyalty under the restrictions Of the franchise law
and to vote. tells the story Of frand-base fraud.
wilfal and knowing ffandi Murder viii out
is maxim suitable in It's application to the late
election. We renew the assertion that he lsnepp)
and his subs in the late frauds win be roughly
handled at the next sitting Of the Circuit Court in
Blountville-
The Legislature Of Virginia is doing its work
nobly. Her members instead Of looking afser the
perpetuation Of their power and the success Of
party ends and purposes. are bending their whole
energy TO the recuperation OF the Old Dominion