Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-20
LETTER FROM MEMPHIS.
MrnpH1s. FrNN.. Feb.. Z. le67

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EDIToR CHRoNIcLE.-The radicals are
working in the Legislature TO remodel the
the State Laws to protect the loyal people
Of Tennessee. And it would be a DIS
grace TO any State that has. secured the
right to reign and make laws for rebels,
if it did not improve the precious oPpor-
tunity. Surely this State will devote her
rightful authority and exercise full justice
toward the enemies of our Government.
Our legislature is in the majority
strongly loyal. Smith, our representative
from this district, is true blue, and has Of
fered q bill to provide for 3 militia iorcs
for duty at D moment to he composed
of blacks and whitas. The franchise bill
allowing eolored Suffrage, will also un-
doubtedly pass and become q law, which
will throw the balance of suppressed pow
sr Just where it ought to be, on the radical
side.
The rebels talk of resisting these laws
if they pass, at least their organ, the Ava
isnche. saws 50. But / think their past
experience of the last four years, will d.
rect them to moderation in these things
and warn their sober friends to submit TO.
law and order. They know that the black
vote will black ball them, and Wrest for
ever from their grasp, any hopes Of 8 re-
Yival of their 'lost cause" consequently
their squirming. That union men from
the North have been and are leaving the
State because of thoir principles, cannot
be doubted; it is 8 fact I am sorry TO say.
Men in the western portion of this State,
who purchased plantations and emigrated
into this State since the war, have been
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Their lives and their property were threat
enedand beingwithout protection from the
General Government, have left the ooun-
try for 8 state of security. Capt. King,
from Illinois, planted in Mississippi last
season. He had nearly secured his crop
which for this season was fair, when he
was murdered by the rufians in northern
Mississippi. His father, an aged man, re-
TUNED bone with his body a few weeks
z Capt. Trumbull, from the same State,
was residingin Texas, was shot and wound
ed and his wife carried into another por-
ton of the State and kept for several weeks
until shs was rescued, but has since died
from the barbarous treatment she received
while q prisoner. Senator Case, from one
of the ppe districts, in the western part
Of this state, was shot and killed while on
his horse en.route to the Legislature in
Nashville. His son was shot & little less
than 3 yeSt ago. A volume Of such in
cidents. in favor of Andrew Johnson's
record, might be .scited. This is the bold
manner in which the iliustrious son of
Tennessee is protecting his people since
the war, and he is o repaying his con-
stituents, In this portion of the country,
for making him Governor, ETC., dnring
the struggle. The only hope and security
that the loySl people Of the South now
have, lies In the action Of Congress The
Legislatures of but few of the States
South can be relied on to deal out justice
and law in 6 manner requisite for the
proper schooling for the southern people.
There are some sections Of this country
inhabited by reason and cenm0n sense in
which kindness and leniency can be issued
with success; but the oasis in the great
desert are few and small, and over them
the vet rampant storms of treason and
cruelty rage almost blighting every spark
of life and liberty.
We have not been visited by the rough
winter to which you Trumbull countyites
have been exposed, but would have pre-
ferred two feet of snow 70 two feet of
thick mud that December gave US. The
city is making preparations to ''Nichola-
son" the entire town, which will consume
a wears labor. The stone which covers
our leEies, was imported from the Cum
berland river, and it is 3 remarkable fact
that on this great bluff on which the city
Is bailt, there cannot be found stone uf-
6cient to curb & shallow well. Timber of
the best quality can be found in almost
any portion of West Tennessee. and mills
are being erected to convert it into lum-
Der. IF any young or old man north has
a thousand dollars which they wish to in
vest, it will buy one hundred acres Of
land in this section Of the country, worth
before the war from twenty-five to fifty
dollars per acre. This is cheap, providing
YOU are not disturbed in its cultivation;
when YOU have to pay the price that Capt.
King paid, it cannot be counted but sor-
.owf1iIV dear. The time is coming when
the tide Of emigration that commenced
rolling in from the North, will again open
with protection to your life and property,
YOU will find that no other state In the
Union affords better natural facilities for
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