Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-18
THE ALABAMA RESURRECTION.
The Per9fe Affair - R5RgIeader Ar
Notwithstanding DeveiOpments--A
bloody Manifesto.

rested--StartIing Deveiopments--A
bloody Manifesto.
From the Montgomery Advertiser. 18th.
Our readers will remember the startling
state of affairs existing at Perote short
while ago. The accounts as published in
the Advertiser represented the whole dis.
turbance as the work of one George Shorter.
a negro Of this city. The following from
the Columbus Enquirer of yesterday gives
another chapter in the affair
The Enquirer says, the negro Shorter
claims to be from one Of the Northwestern
States, illinois, we believe and says he
was sent by the Radicals of that region to
organize his government in the South.
On Thursday last, Gen. Shorter was ar
rested near Perote. Thenegroes employed
on the plantation of DIR. Dawson informed
the whites that he was on the place, and
offered their services in arresting him. He
was accordingly arrested by the whites and
blacks, and we learn that when the ne
groes of the neighboring plantations heard
of it they gathered in considerable num-
bers aud clamored for his delivery 10 them
for summary punishment. They would
have put him to death, had not the whites
inierfered and persuaded them to let the
law take its course. Shorter was carried
to Union Springs, where an examination
of his case was TO have taken place yester-
day.
The following Is one of the letters written
by Shorter to negroes whom he called Off
GERS of his government. 1t is sufficient to
show the nature Of the organization which
he had effected. We understand that there
are other letters of his in possession Of the
civil authorities, and the whole of them,
with the evidence of the blacks examined,
will expose to the country, in all It's atroci-
ty, a Radical plot to organize the blacks of
the South in a revolutionary conspiracy
against the whites. We may preface this
letter by stating that the negro Jerry, whose
death Shorter decreed, is understood to
have been the treasurer of the organization.
Here is the letter
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 3, lS67.-
Charles Docket, Henry Rankin, James
johnson, Jacob Cole, Michael Alfred, Gen.
Flemingo Sego, Capt. Coopley-I take my
pen and ink in my hand to drop you few
lines on this case about that great
man Jerry Call all the men together
and take Jerry, and that money from
him, and if he don't give it up, In
him kill him Don't let him get away
from you all. send these men down 10
Perote, Bullock county, Alabama, TO hunt
for him. He has stolen some amount of
money. He has been going about and
telling more lies. Unbeknowing to me he
also had a full lie wrote sgin me, and /
want jeff Mccall TO take him or kill him
and / want ten more men to come down to
Pinelevel with George, and bring your
guns. Tell all the men TO go and take
him, or kill him. JEFF don't fail.
GEORGE SHORTER, 555.
Understand me now, and me myself. /
am not well am mighty i'll at this time.
Men, don't let Jerry kioklen get away. If
| find any man not tending to this order,
he shall be put TO death. Men | am the
one that is over you, and don't fail to do
what ! tell you all to do, and look for me
Monday or Tuesday, and tell Alfred, Ade-
line and Mason, and all my friends, and
tell Alfred's daughter Lizer to take care of
herself and that nay wife has left and gone
bee. to, God knows where. / will be
down there to live. And now you men
must do what tell you to do. Now may
God bless you all, and save you, Amen.
Mr.. SOLOMON SToUGHTINHUGA, 555.
George Shorter No. 2.