Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-08-16

than before. [ heard, not over half o
hour ago, that already five hundred colore
men were thrown out of employment j
Nashville, OH account Of casting their ba
lots for the further disfranchisement (
rebels. Similar prescription will doubles
obtain all over the State. The const
quences can be readily imagined.
ZEEo.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Aug. 3, 1867.
Well, the election is over, and the eS
! cltement is at an end. Brownlow has re
elected himself Governor by maiorit
large enough to satisfy him the negroe
have voted the radical ticket en- D1asse
thereby atfording conclusive proof to Con
8ress that 1t will be safe to trust them il
the unreconstructed States, and guarantee
ing the reconstruction of the Union Wha
KIND OF government will exist in State
under negro domination, and especially IN
der the control of q class of negroes as 10
norant as those which have Just elected
Browniow, IS another question. It may b.
OF some interest to your readers to hea
something about the local politics of this
city and county, and to get an insight int
the way in which the thing was worked. il
order that they may judge for themselves
by the extension of the elective franchise
to the negroes.
There has for some time been a contest
here between the Northern Republicans
and Tennessee Radicals, in regard to the
choice Of Representatives. At the county
Radical convention, by a little sharp prac-
tice upon the part of the Tennessee lead
ers, the nomination of Northern Rep1bli'
can was defeated, and native Tennesseean,
with just sufficient ability to vote as his
masters told him, was nominated. About
three weeks afterWard the Northern Re-
pubhcans called Il meeting Of the citizens
OF Chattanooga and nominated candidate
upon the National Republican platform,
pledged to extend the same rights to the
white mcn Of Tennessee that Congress has
left tho white men in the five military dis
tI1cts. Upon this platform the great ma
JOuty OF Conservatives of this city and
county, with the exception of a few sore
heads, the bourbon Democracy, who boast
ed that they never scratched a ticket in
twenty-five years, agreed to support the Re
publican nominee, and have done So
These Northern Republicans. were mem
bers Of the Union League, into which most
OF the negroes had been sworn, and some
OF them having commanded colored troops
being able to control the color
ed vote, especially as the Radical Tennes-
see candidate had, while in the last Leeis-
lature, voted, in several instances, against
the black men. The Metropolitan police,
however, and q few low white demagOgues,
kept working upon the negroes, denoun-
clng the Northern Republicans as copper
heads and exciting them TO such an extent
that on several occasions they hissed their
old commanders while speaking. Up to
he very lay of the election the Northern
nen had hopes of controlling the negroes
through theinhuence ofsome Of thenon-com-
officers of their old regiments
)ut the Tennessee radicals obtained the
control of the League, and as soon as the
DOLLS were opened marched them up in or
Ter TO the voting precinct, when they form
I'd IN line, completely excluding every white
nan until after they had voted. The |
league had tickets printed at Nashville on
peculiar paper, and, without the knowledge |
# the Northern radicals, had them stamp |
ID with a broad-axe. AS the negroes ad- |
anced to the ballot box the metropolitan |
'olice would examine the ballots, and if |
hey had not the "broad-axc" on, would |
make them destroy them and vote the |
traight radical ticket. When the few who |
lad followed the advice of their old com |
nandcrs saw the direction of the current |
hey fell i'll with it, they at once began dis
rlbuting broadaxe tickets. It is be-
Ieved that the candidate of the Northern
epublicans did not receive q single negro |
ote out Of nearly seven hundred. One of
is supporters said, after the election, that
&c could command negroes in the field as
oldiers, and could influence white men at
he polls, but that Il man must descend to
over tricks than he could to control them
t the polls. The negroes all over the State
were simply huge machine for
ne reelection of Brownlow but it must
e confessed that the movements OF the
hine were directed with some ability As,
/ consequence of the movements OF the
egroes most of the white men became
1oroughly disgusted and refused to vote
all. The figures of the returns do not
xpress the strength of the conservative
arty, which is really stronger to-day than
efore the election.
The conservatives expected defeat, and
re not now disappointed. It is very
oubtful If they have carried single coun-
? in the State. They have, however, Or
anized a party, with which they cannot
ii to be victorious at the next election.-
he Northern republicans are even now
lady to join them in movement for the
of the white people and
le restriction of the suffrage by qualif-
ltion of intelligence, both of which meas
res the events of yesterday have proved
every thinking man are essential to the !
or rather restoration, of re-
lblican civil liberty to the State. These {
7ents have proved that the ignorant mass
the negroes are most easily controlled
7 the lowest class of demagogues that :
lth the State almost exclusively in the 5
'nds of the negroes they will be used as .
OILS to elect to Office men who will make
e State a byword for corruption, and will {
lpoverish the property holders by exorbi- !
Mt taxation, SO that there will be no ne l
ssity for confscation. The election has
sgusted most of the republican party I
th Brownlow. I have heard several
ointment Northern republicans say to-day !
at when they voted again for such a man !, u
Brownlow, at whose instigation and with 4 !
lose approvals such scenes were enacted. Il
ey would be many years older. =
effects OF MILITARY INTERVENTION WITH Re- n
aD TO THE CRIMINAL CoURT.-The effects of Il
intervention Of military authority in the ques- n
q of juries at the recent term of the Criminal N
lrt are most severely felt by a number of q
soners confined in jail These poor devils, or u
her such of them have not been convicted, "
east expected to be confronted by their accus- u
and brought to trial at this term of the Court, %