Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-05
HENRY COUNTY.

Yankee OEIirages upon the Negroes
The BarbarOuS InhUzlanity of their
Pretended Friends-A Lesson and n
warning 10 the COIOred People.
From the Pariz, Tenn. Intelligence. Mag A.
The most shocking outrage which it was
ever our duty as local Journalist TO chroni-
Gle, was committed in this vicinity on last
Saturday night at a negro quarter on the
premises of DIR. i. +. Porter, two miles
from this place. Decencv and common
T, gard for public modesty forbid us giving
q minute account of the transaction,
while public morality and sense of jus
ticc 10 all parties concerned will not per
nit MS 10 pass it over in entire silence,
sickening and disgusting as all its details
may be. We therefore submit the follow
ing outline Of facts as ELECTED by the care
fol judicial investigation which was made
into the affair.
At the time and place before stated the
negroes OF this community met, with pro-
per permission, for the purpose of recrea-
ton. The peace and enjoyment Of the oc-
casion was not interrupted until between
eleven and twelve O'Clock. Between these
hours. ten OF fifteen white ruGians intruded
their presence on the festive assembly.
Jnat before their intrusion, Dr. Porter,
while IN route home from PariR, GALES 10
look after the conduct Of the blacks, and
happened, therefore, 10 he on hand when the
untimely arrival of the strangers occurred.
On demanding their business, he was as
sured that curiosity alone prompted their
visit Their behavior subsequently being
orderly and respectful, the Doctor Withdrew
% his residence, a quarter OF 4 mile dis
taui, fully persuaded of the correct inten-
iions of the newcomers. He had scarcely
left however, before IL became apparent
that he had been imposed on by the fair
professions and the honest seeming of these
scoundrels. II soon appeared that crime
was uppermost in their hearts. Their pur-
pose was first manifested by the insults and
blows to which they subjected the unoi-
Tending colored men Of the crowd, by the
sly robheries which were committed, and
by the display Of pistols, which were made
with the threat Of using them il resistance
was offered 10 their rudeness. BY this
course of intimidation the way was pre-
pared for the easy accomplishment of the
outrages that were soon perpetraied on the
women that were present. Of this little
can he said more than that, for luStful VIC
lence and brutal enormity, il is without
parqilel in modern annals. The life of one
girl. child OF. eleven years, has been
placed in extreme jeopardy, and The per
sons ef seyeral others terribly bruised by
the foul and barbarous usage which they
received. The perpetrators Of this diabol-
icsl crime made good their escape at the
time Of its occurrence but next morning
The authorities, being notified Of what had
transpired, took the matter in hand and
arrested seven of the fends-J. p Aaron,
Robert Lodge, vs. X Petty, Mike nemp-
-ey, sam Logan, p III. Dooley, Lewis Zen
nett--who on the following day were tried
and bound over in bond al $1,000 each.
the. bonds have not yet been made,
Several othera who participated in this
affair are n large, all Of whose names We
can't report. but principal among which
are Barton and Mckinney. They are all
railroad employees, some Of whom are of
no mean rank in their employment-bag-
gage master. engineer, express agent and
brakesmen being represented in the affair.
1t should be matter Of graduation 70 the
whole South that not one OF her friends or
late soldiers was engaged in this horrid
harharity; all who took part in the ont
rage being ex-Eederal soldiers IL should
also hc 2 matter Of felicitstion TO this COM