The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1866-09-07
How Northern sentiment Is Man u:
featured.


We invite special attention to the follow
ing dispatches, purporting to have been sent
from Nashville by telegraph to the Chicago
that in point of reliability they are average
from week to week, and do not far exceed in
improbabilTty at least those with political
bearings, the generality Of Southern dis
patches which are published in the radical
journals of the North. #.. .r IL
Here is the first in order: ~
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Evening Journal
"NAsHyiLLB, Tenn, Thursday, Aug 20.
"a company of Fenians left onl last nights train
for Louisville. -
1.-TWO hundred Fsnisus passed through this city
to-day from Memphis on their way northward.
Cholera is prevailing to . considerable extent
here. Five deaths occurred from II yesterday.
"New cotton Is beginning to make Its appear.
apce in the market, and is Of very superior quality
1.-TWO negroes were found murdered last night
nine miles from the city, on the river side. One
had his head split open with q Ratchet, which was
lying near; the other was shot. Three bullets
passed through his heart. The bodies were cared
fdf by the agents Of the Freedmens Bureau. No
arrest as yet"
Let us see how this will stand the test Of
truth:
lst.-A single Fenian did not leave at the
time indicated; nor has there since, except
on private business. ......
2d.-A solitary Memphis Fenian did not
pass through Nashville at the time stated,
and If there has passed any since it is un-
known to the Fenian officials here.
3d.-There has been only one case of chol-
era here, some three weeks ago, and in that
case the patient bad just arrived from Gin
cinnati sick with She disease.
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yet arrived in the Nashville market.
5th.-There is not word Of truth in the
story of the negro murders, nor have the
Freedmen's Bureau authorities ever received
the slightest intimation Of such an outrage
And further, we do not believe there is man
in this city to-day, no matter what his ante
cedents, who will not be willing to concede
that for the last six. months Nashville and
its surroundings have been as free from crime
and outrages as that Of any city of its size
III the North.
So much for the first dispatch we have
copied. Now for number two: "
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Evening Journal
"NAsHvILLK, Tenn, Aug. 10
"Governor Brownlow's thunderbolts among the
rebels are causing the most intense excitement on
the streets. All day yesterday threats Of his as-
sassination, murder, butcheripg, hanging TO-
were freely banded about. This morning It Is not
much better, although the excitement has some.
what abated. lift were not for the presence Of
the military, Governor Brownlow's life would be
forfeited In less than three hours. The Governor
seriously contempates calling out the militia for
ten days" '....
Commenting on this, the Journal, with
pious horror, editorially excaims:
Governor Brownlow continues to make the
rebels very uncomfortable. He recently issued an
address to the people Of the State in which he de-
nounced President johnson bitterly, and exposed
the political schemes Of his disloyal supporters.
correspondent says II 1t not for the military
Governor Brownlow could not live three hours"
In disposing of this we will simply state
that Governor Brownlow has not been in
Nashville for six weeks, consequently his
danger Of assassination here must have been
very slim indeed.
And now, to cap the climax, we will make
an additional explanation. Noticing from
day to day the outrageous absurdity OF these
dispatches, we at last came to the conclusion
that no man could possibly possess the shame
less audacity to send them from here, and
hence made up our mind that they must
have been manufactured out of whole
cloth in the Journal Office in Chicago. With
this impression, we yesterday called upon
Mr.. Boyle, telegraph superintendent, and
solicited. information as to whether dispatches
were sent from here to the Journal. After
looking over his books he at once stated that
no dispatches had been sent to the Chicago
Journal for weeks, nor indeed for months as
far as he knew That, Of course, settled the
matter. The Journal, for the purpose of
abusing and maligning the Southern people,
and at the same time making its columns
sensational, resorted to the mendacious trick
which we have just exposed. As this is the
style Of the tactics made use Of by other
papers than the Chicago organ, we would
earnestly call the attention OF the more re-
spectacle portion Of the Northern press to
the villainous rascality we have pointed out,
so that the guilty culprits may be properly
exposed. Anyhow, pass around the Chicago
Journal as one Of the meanest and vilest Of