The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-03
irennessee Begins tho Heavy Work.


of rebellion, and proved 20 be loyal and
beyond reproach. Most of them, moreover.
have had personal acquaintance with Andrew
johnson for many years, and stood shoulder TO
shoulder with him during the darkest days OF
the war. The fact that they now repudiate him
to man renders it eminently proper that they
should take the initiative steps in that grand
movement which, as they predict, will end in
their pulling down upon his wayward head the
whole of his reconstructed house.
Having collected in large numbers in the
afternoon, an informal meeting of the delegation
was organized in the parlor of the National
Union Club House, with the Hon. Joshua B. FREE
son, President OF the Senate of Tennessee, in the
chair. Then they began to make speeches,
business at which each individual present
seemed able and anxious to take turn. The
course to be pursued by the delegation in the
coming Convention, was the topic under discus
sion; and after various suggestions, a committee
was appointed to take the matter into considera-
ton, and prepare a programme to be subse-
quently acted upon.
On the adjournment of the Tennessee delega-
ton, general informal meeting of delegates
was organized and the views of the gentlemen
present interchanged
Tennessee Stops for supper, and Begins
Again Where She Left OF.
After supper the Tennessee delegation held
another meeting in the paror of the Club House,
the rooms and passage-ways being crowded to
suffocation. The committee previously ap-
pointed not being prepared to report at length,
it was unhappily suggested by some one that
meeting for the purpose OF listening to their
final report be held on Sunday. But
Tennessee Respects the Sabbath.
The proposition meets with violent objection,
and the time is fixed at o'clock on Monday
morning
Tennessee thereupon adjourned; and although
the majority of persons present were from that
State, a general meeting was organized by call
ing to the chair Colonel Charles z. Moss, the
radical editor of the radical Press, of st. Louis
Missouri. The meeting being for purposes of
general debate, loud calls were made for Mr..
Smith, of New Orleans
"a Man without a Head"
as he was called by somebody, who explained
the anomaly by saying that Mr.. Smith had been
an ofice-holder under the Federal Government
but had recently been removed to make way for
man who had been more of Rebel than he
was.
Mr.. Smith was requested to step forward and
give some account OF the late riot in the Cres-
cent City. Mr. Smith was not present. Tennes-
see, however was not fastidious, and the New
Orleans riot being out of the question, they con-
cluded to take into consideration the Memphis
riot, which would serve the purpose of showing
how "my policy" worked, as well as more re-
mote affair of the same character.
General John Eaton, the editor of the Mem
| phis Post was called upon for this last purpose,
and responded in telling speech.
| General Eaton Discusses the Memphis
Riot, and Shows How Treason has
been Made Odious i'm Tennessee and
| Elsewhere.
He commenced by saying that the Memphis
riot;wa an od-time affair, which it was scarcely
| worth their while to NEEDLE with Riots and
| massacres have become so frequent that a new
| one is served up, like fresh fish, every day, and
| will be as long as "My Policy" continues in
| force. ca voice, That's So" and other tokens
of confrmatlon) The speaker then proceeded
| to show that the municipal government of Mem
| phis was constituted after the war pretty much
the same as during and before it, in consequence
| of which there were premonitions of trouble
with the negro portion of the population, as
soon as the Federal Government commenced
1
mems Bureau was altogether removed, all
! power relapsed into the hands OF the police
many of whom we're known to be murderers
thieves, and outspoken enemies of the negroes
The latter were repeatedly arrested on the mos
frivolous pretexts, and taken before John G
Creighton, the Recorder of the city, man who
had made himself popular by killing negro
since the war.
The catastrophe was precipitated by the dis
banding of a negro reriment which had been il
garrison in a neighboring fort. The soldiers
whose families were supported by them IN thu
vicinity at once proceeded to enjoy themselve
while their money lasted. Some of them ma!
have been a little boisterous At any rate, th
police saw fit to interfere; but they could AM
did make no arrest of a negro without insulting
and abusing him. The spark thus lighted wa
| kindled into a flame, the city authorities ben
led on by the Recorder. This man is now Presi
dent of the Johnson Club of Memphis, and wa
e-President of the meeting recently he'll
there to raUity the proceedings OF the Philade
phia johnson Convention. The Rebel Geners
Forrest presided at this meeting, and the Fedt
raj General Stoneman made speech.
The speaker thought that, although the Cor
gressional Investigating Committee had don
their very best, the horrors of the Memph
massacre had never been and could never
fully disclosed. Attempts had been made
shut the responsibility for them upon th
shoulders of the Irishmen, but they had Stout
and successfully disclaimed it. 1t was the
charged to the radicals, whose sole object ha
been to attempt the social elevation OF th
t negro It was the Rebel enemies of the negro'
4 | ,yho had haau e,,nltv NJ the hutcherV. A