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

Il NdNA aIDAu AuS tlOct NONiiNiOu
IyellIng. The tug of war had now come
| The negroes were divided-the white mel
mixed freely with their sable brethren, ant
whispered divers coaxing words, which
were chuckled over and swallowed till the
next man had his talk The crowd heaved
and swelled, and roared for while. But
the crisis came. The voting by the raising
of hands was dispensed with. Those fol
Cary went to the left, and those for Brien
to the right. Here Wade Hickman, big
burly negro looking something like Gen
eral Burnside, when he issued an order to
thank God that his losses were no greater
at Fredericksburg, became furious. He
wanted TO enter the magic circle, and il
was all the police could do 10 keep him
back. He said that there was no equality
in the meeting, and that there was nothing
''far" about il. A motion was passed that
each candidate should stand pledged to
| support the nominee. Wade Hickman,
| Buck Lewis and S. {. Mercer we're
| appointed tellers on the part of Brien,
and William Gray, Randall Brown and
Alexander Bradley tellers on the part of
Cary. Ii was announced that they
were ready 10 vote after various cries
Of foul play" etc. The division was had
as the negroes raving like demons split in
too, turning their backs too each other as
they rushed TO their respective sides. The
heaviest weight in avoirdupois was evident
ly in Cary's side Of the scale, and he was
nominated. Here James Brien indgnant-
ly said that though the candidates were
pledged to stand by the nominee, after the
juggling that had been had and the in-
tiuence of the Metropolitan Police having
been exercised upon the negroes in favor
of Cary, Judge B. would not abide by the
pledge. Renewed yells from the negroes
followed. II. H. Harrison was nominated
for Chancellor, and John Hugh Smith was
nominated for Judge of the Criminal Court.
The next in order was the nomination of
candidates for Attorney General. This
was the delightful feature of the whole
performance. The wonderful ingenuity
and strategy of the Radical aspirants were
brought into full display. G. W. CLASSY,
Capt. r. S. Tuthill, William Shane, and
A. w. Peabody were nominated. 1t was
announced that the vote would be taken by
sections. Ye Gods, what scramble fol.
lowed. The poor negroes were patted,
pressed, squeezed, cajoled, pulled, iobbed,
elbowed and cornered till they were very
much bewildered. The biggest slice for
these sections from this great black bird
pie was now the all absorbing thought 1t
was soon seen that Shane and Classy were
distanced, and the voting by sections was
dispensed with. The race was between
Tuthill and Peabody. The interest was
now at fever heat. The two champions
resorted to every sort of tactics. A line of
policemen was drawn through the crowd.
All the negroes for Tuthill were to 60 on
the left, and those for Peabody to the right.
Now the brilliant strategy took place The
friends of one candidate in spite of the po-
lice, would pull and haul the negroes on
one side of the line, and the friends of
the other would drag him back again.
Some of the poor wretches had their coats
pulled of of them. Several quarrels
sprang up, and general maniacaI melee
prevailed. 1t was soon seen that they
could not be kept on the same side of the
line long enough to count them. Cries,
yells and screams now ensued, amid shouts
of foul play, foul play" Here Peabody
mounted the pedestal and said that many
of his friends would come on his side of
the line, but were pulled back, and if this
pulling was not stopped, he would not
pledge himself to the nominee. Yells. I
Thornburg moved that the crowd be sep
arated twenty feet apart, as the only way
to keep the friends of the candidates from
mixing up. More yells. They tried to
adopt ThornbuTg's plan, but there was no
use. The negroes would rush to one side,
and then frantically to the other They
were perfectly phrenzied, and almost ripped
their lungs TO pieces in their yells.
Things were now getting desperate The
chair went into the crowd to organize it.
He would organize one place, but before he
could another, the part first quieted was
all bursted mp. A happy thought occurred
to Peabody. He got the old stars and
stripes" and mounting his pedestal, waved
it in the air. This was a master-stroke.
But Tuthill was up to the emergency He
seized another flag, and pressing the staff
to his breast, boldly strutted through the
black mass, his bunting streaming to the
wind. The negroes raved like devils, and
followed Tuthill. Peabody was check
mated. He turned another trump, how
ever. He leaned back against the statuary,
took his hat of, and blandly smiling, waved
his magic flag. 1t was irresistible; the
negroes rushed to him. Tuthil saw his
laurels dropping. But his keen eye was
upon his opponent. A whisper and mo-
ton, and he was lifted up and held
by two negroes, who were willing to
rock him to sleep. There they held him
as he waved his flag. This could not be
withstood, and with one loud, long and
simultaneous yell the negroes rushed TO
him. Now there was a scene for you.
There was that molly crew of negroes, de-
PRAYED, vltiated, beastly. There, right at
the door of the Capitol they yelled and
surged and danced. The beautiful siatuary
from the model so classically grouped by
the genius of Thorwaldsen and placed
there 10 dorm the Capitol, seemed to look
with sadness on the scene Morning might
well have thought that black and sable
night had enyeloped her fair proportions
Noon might well have grown angry and
dashed down his blazing torch, and Eve
ming might well have felt that all the
glories Of the past had glinmered into the
feeble twilight of which the great sculptor
had made her the pensive representative.
There still swayed and fumed and reeked
that negro crowd aud there was TuthilI
held TO their admiring eyes, and there was
Peabody with his flag. Peabody finding that
he was about to be overmatched, laid down
his flag aud declared that he would not sub.
NIT; that he was an independent candidate.
This was bombshell that sent the conven-
ton in black fragments scattering in every
direction. Amid yells, curses, harsngues,
shouts and jig dances, the convention burst
up without nomination. Tuthill mounted
a horse and rode around the surging
masses, still carrying his flag, amid enthu-
sastic cheers.
Thus this negro convention broke up,
and so thoroughly Disguised were even
the Radicals themselves, that it will be
long before they attempt ia repeat the e1~
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dec22 If
BEFORE ESQ. MATHEWs.-Stste of
Tennessee us Willis Fortune, charged by
Anna Shute with being the father of
bastard child that she was delivered of
March %, 1867.
In this case the Court investigated the
matter. and found the defendant, Willis