Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-01

Gen. Cooper has just received an urg-
ent request for a company OF State Guards
to be stationed at Gallatin, for service in
Sumner county. Their assistance is rep
resented as necessary 10 the protection of
Republicans, and the enforcement OF the
franchise law. 1t seems that at an election
held last Saturday for school directors, in
the town Of Gallatin, on which occasion
one Captain Bennett blatant, disfran-
chised Rebel came ia a bullying manner,
aud in violating the school law, insisted
that he had right 10 take part in the
election, at the same time using threats and
bitterly denouncing the State government.
Other elections are to take place soon,
and it ia feared unless a force is sent
there that no attention will be paid to the
law.
We give below two or three affidavits Of
men, sworn to before the Bureau Agent at
Gallatin, and sent TO Gen. Cooper. We
omit the names Of the signers for pruden
tiaI reasons. These papers certainly give
Us a rather discouraging idea of the condi>
ton Of affairs in portions Of Sumner county.
We believe Gen. Cooper has not vet de-
eided in regard to sending military there.
The first Of these reliable certifers
says he.belongs to McKinley's loyal mill
tia, and upon being disbanded ,wentto his
home in Hartsville, but dare not stay,
as the citizens swore that no man who
had been in the militia should live in
that vicinity, and there was SO much
said and 30 many threats made" that he
thought it decidedly preferable to take
his carcass over to Gallatin. The second
reliable" certifer was likewise Of the
"loyal militia, and when he got off the
hack at Nashville, he heard the citizens
say, There goes a Brownlow negro vote
by God he can't stay in town. At
night he barred the door and tried to
sleep, but there was so much travelling
about the house that he could not no
one touched him, but there was so much
said that he concluded it best for him not
to stay there longer" and this brave son
Of Mars incoRtinently tucked tail and
fed. The third of these reliables GER
tifes that he was discharged by his en-
ployer for voting the Radical ticket and
piteously asks, Now, General, what am
to do2' and then bethought himself to
say, Armed men are riding about the
country cursing the colored people, and
shooting those who refuse to do as they
say. And this is the reliable informa-
ton upou2Fhieh Gen. Cooper bases his
denuneiation of the citizens of Gallatin
and HartsyiIle and the vicinity Of those
places. This denunciation by General
Cooper Is met by the Gallatin Examiner
as follows
This officer asserts that he has reliable
information that "dislOyal citizens, or
outlaws" at certain points named, and
among them he specially designates Galla~
tin and HartsviIle have been guilty Of GER
tain acts, for which he intends to quarter
his black militia upon them. Now mark
the point. He Is already in possession, he
says, Of reliable information" on those
matters Then why not arrest the often
ders? Why issue a furious proclamation,
Eliminating threats aud curses upon the
people instead Of doing his duty as the
law requires under which he acts, and
arresting the persons who are chagredWith
guilt. The truth is the whole matter is an
atrocious subterfuge-a flimsy transparent
talsehood, from beginning 10 end and de-
signed az an apology TO keep up excitement
aud retain the State guard in service, and
hold il as a terror over the people. We
challenge and defy Gen. Cooper, and his
aiders and abettors in this iniquity 10 the
proof that any outrage has been committed
in this county Of the character he alleges.
The only threats Ofviolence we know ofhave
been made by Radicals. We are informed
that the ex-negro school teacher here, and
ex-Lieutenant Phillips Of Mckinley's col
ured guards, loudly threatened, in a speech
last Monday night, at the school house.
and addressed to a large gang Of his chosen
companions that 'the Conservative negroes
about here" land naming several of them
who have been active in support of their
only true friends) ought to be put out of
the way" and that "old Judge Barry (the
present Judge and Chancellor Of this dis
trict,) and old Schell Ia worthy Magistrate
Of the town. and old Henley, for
many years a constable and policeman Of
this place, ought 10 be hung" With such
violent and murder-suggesting language,
crowds Of negroes are entertained by one of
this very guard, Cooper's own officer, and
We lear OF no rebuke.
Again: On the very day of the date Of
Gen. Cooper's order our same citizens
whom he ISLANDERS with his false charges Of
violence, were actively engaged in arrest
ing the two murderers of the poor old
Franklin negro, and those very murderers
were two outlaws, convicted by jury of
Sumner county Rebels, of crime in 1866,
and sentenced to the penitentiary, and par.
doned ont, and turned loose by Brownlow
to prey upon society, and on that very day
our Sheriff. Lovel, a returned Rebel, as
sisted by returned Rebels, was busy hunt
ing them ont, and arrested them, and now
has them in Jail awaiting trial. And this
on the very day that Gen Cooper was
maligning them, and that his understrap-
per-oficer, Phillips was counselling his
audience 10 put out Of the way Conserva-
tives negroes, and hang Judge Barry, and
Schell and Henley.
We might refer with equal force 10 other
facts aud circumstances in this connection,
but We feel too indignant to permit our
| selves 10 be carried into a controversy.
The good conduct Of our people will be
sustained. throughout by the United States
forces here, with whom our citizens are on
the most friendly terms, and TO whose
quiet, orderly, and soldierly behavior they
will cheerfully bear testimony. Such rela-
tons could not possibly exist between a
people guilty Of habitual insubordination,
! and command in their midst, and is a
direct insinuation that the officers in COM
mand are confederated and in collusion
with our people in the commission Of the
crimes charged by Gen. Cooper.
Under such state Of afnirs it Is not
at all wonderful that Gen Cooper has not
decided to send his loyal militia to
annoy and harrass the people Of Sumner.
The men he denominates loyal and law
abiding are the eulprits, bat this should
not stop him from arresting them He
should learn his master pets TO keep
within the bounds OF propriety, and the IA
he would have no occasion 10 call on
" dlsioyal taxpayers to help bear the