Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-22

The Negroes in COunciI-Bre aking Out
of the BLACK VOmit-TwO Thousand
Negroes and Few Dozen white
Men-FiFst Knock Down for KInky-
From the Court House 60 the Cant.
tOI-"Oh Jesus, How they Squeeze
Us"-"ROck Me To Sleep Brother.'-
Disgracefui scenes, and Big Burst
Up.
The Radical Convention, the meeting Of
which has been for some time paraded
through the public prints Of the party,
assembled on yesterday at the Courthouse.
The object Of the convention, congrega-
ton, aggregation, miK-ap, pow-wow, or
whatever else il may be termed, was TO
nominate Radical candidates for Circnit
Court Judge, Criminal Court Judge, Chan
cellor, Attorney General, etc and to appoint
delegates to the Republican State Con.
yention, TO be held on the 22d of January.
The meeting Yesterday was enough to satisfy
the intensest Radical, and sufficiently ont
rageons TO meet the demands Of the most
reckless destructionist. At ten o'clock a
stream Of negroes, swelled by some whites,
commenced pouring into the Courthouse,
like Vultures and carri0n crows eager to stick
their beaks into the carcass of dead liberty.
By II O'Clock the room of the Criminal
Court was crowded TO suffocation, with
negroes Of every age, size and complexion.
The scenes that took place there were dis.
graceful beyond description. Negroes
were shouting, yelling, clapping their
hands, and disorder prevailed that threw
pandemonium into the back ground. "Ps
for Misaer Brine says one, and rs gwine TO
stick TO 'em." OATS de talk" said an
other. rs for Cary-we's all for Cary"
yelled third. "WhOop, whoop, huzza."
1ells and screams, shouts and denuncias
tions followed, and the devil had sway for
the space Of half an hour All, il was de.
Radical the whites present
snnffed "loil" air, till for once they got their
fill of its aromatic fragrance. All efforts
at order were futile. White RAIDS Jumped
upon the table and were as quickly iostIed
of, amid yells Of "takeI him out" A
wheezy sneezy Dutchman tried to speak
he quickly got the floor face foremost.
Several individuals tried to speak at once.
The noise, iargon and confusion continued
to increase, az men would wildly swing
their arms through the air and shake their
heads. From the motions of their mouths
We inferred they were speaking-we could
not hear what they said, and feel that we
can spare whas wisdom was thus lost to as.
Here Silas S. Allen swelled his broad
chest, and with tremendous effort opened
his lungs till his stentor voice was heard.
He asked for order, and said that il was an
experiment; he wanted to see whether those
present were capable Of self government
The momentary order was of very brief
duratiOn-yells and shouts again ensued.
Here Cary jumped mp and commenced
a speech. We could hear nothing he said
30 wild was the confusion. The voice of
Dick Brien was however very audible, az
he said at the close of each sentence, that's
a id lie and | can prove it," The ele.
ments Of discord had almost reached its
hight, when Judge M. NJ. Brien made
some remark, and Cary replied by saving
that's not so )" in an instant Brien let ont
with his right hand and knocked his
down. Cary had the floor. The M. |
7. here rush forward and arrested the two
candidates for Circuit Judge. This was
the Climax-the crest on crest of the con-
fusion. Allen was proclaimed Chairman,
and I. G. Boughton was made Secretary.
AT this stage of the game, it was suggested
that they go TO the Capitol. "Yes, that's |
right-to the Capitol, to the Capitol"
shouted a hundred voices at once. A
break and rush for the door
was now made. Old nigs and young nigs.
little niggers and big niggers rushed for
ward; out into the hall, down stairs
hustling and jostling over each other, they
tumbled and hurled themselves into the
street. Never before was there such a
scene enacted in Temple of Justice. Dat
poured the stream into the street, The
Courthouse trembling and heaying under
the pressure of the black vomit. On to
the Capitol with frantic yells, and in
decent shouts proceeded the mob Around
and through the markethouse they swept,
and rolled up the hill like black cloud
FoTtifying himself with a bunch of red
onions, and some garliek, and perf1mo
ing his handkerchief with coal oil
and spirits Of turpentine, reporter
reaching the scene of action
Just as the waves of this black sea
had surged against the east end of the
Capitol. What a sight was there my
When that noble building
was erected by Tennessee's chiseled marble,
none ever dreamed that under the ahad-
owings of its towering dome such scenes
would be enacted. We had men in those
DAYS whose "shoe latches present pre-
tenders are unworthy TO unloose Yes,
there at the very walls Of the Capitol the
negro mob was led on by their white
friends to spit upon the fragments of a con
they had torn to pieces The
hardy old Romans had more respect for
their country than this Titus Manlius
from the Capitol beat back the rude bar
barrie Gauls and saved the city of seven
hills. He was afterward charged with Sc.
dition and condemned to be thrown from the
Tarpeian Rock into the Tyber. On reach
ing the place Of execution the old hero
said nothing, but pointed TO the building
where he had fought the foe. Even the
plebeian rabble, who hadlfollowed TO see the
warrior die, exclaimed with one voice
that ne should not be executed in sight of
the Capitol" Self respect should have
these people here to have con-
the foul usurpatiCn, if at all yes
ierday, at some point not in sight Of the
Capitol They may yet have cause to re-
member the story Of Manlius and the Tar
Deian Rock.
On reaching the Capitol the negroes were
marshaled along in front Of the east end, |
amid yells and frantic dances and hideous |
The scene defes descrip-
lien. The pencil of Hogarth could not |
transfer il. The Chairman took his stand |
above the highest steps leading into the |
Capitol, and the Secretary stood beside |
him. They were protected by a Gordon
of policemen, and into this magic circle,
reporter by dint of perseverance squeezed
himself. The ILLUSTRATION of practical
equality was mapped completely before us.
There were the negroes, wTangling and
langling, screaming and stamping, and
dancing and haloeing, blubbering ard
giggiug and gutiawing in the full tide of
lnbilee. Look at the picture a moment.
Il surpassed anything we had ever seen
before; Il was ahead of anything of which
we had ever dreamed, heard or read. The
witches around the boiling, bu6bllng
in Macbeth were not a circum-
stance TO the crew that came TO this Radi-
cal fesst. After near an honr's discord and
iargon, compared to which the confusion
Of tongues at Babel was musical concert,
the Cuisines" was proceeded with. The
FIRST thing in the shape Of order 10 he