Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-06-14

a fair will lead to discovery Of the robbers
and the Gtolen money.
We also learn that on Tuesday and We'd
nesd8y nights, unsuccessful attempts we're
made TO fire the village III the most central
portion. On "Wednesday night the attempt
was almost successful. Two old buildings
we're burned, and the residence Of Mr.. II.
A. Si2er saved by the most strenuous exer-
tions on the part OF the citizens Should
the flames have reached this residence,
much OF the village would have been de-
stroyed. We trust the incendiaries may be
discovered and properly punished.
Tennessee.
There is contained in the condition of
affairs III Tennessee terrible warning
to the people of the excluded States. -
Under charge of Enthusiastically loyal !"
men, with that "noble patriot and states
man." Brcwnlow at the head, Tennessee
has been reconstructed" and her repre-
sentatives have seats in the National Legis-
lature Nevertheless, instead of peace and
good order, the State groans with blood
shed and anarchy. Seyenty-tive per cent.
of the white citizens are disfranchised and
| the government is controlled 10y the out
| casts of society. Brownlow has, with the
consent and aid of Congress, put arms in
the hands of his worst desperadces, and life
is taken at his pleasure and by his author
| ity, OF is subject to the within and caprice
of his undisciplined soldiery. North Car
DINA may well learn Il lesson from her
| daughter. If the corrupt men who now
seek to control her destinies are permitted
to succeed through the Indifference of the
| white people of the State, the fate of Ten
nessee will prove the sequel Of that of
North Carolina.
Read the following, taken from the Nash
Vile Banner of the I'd inst.
| MURDER AUTHORITY.
| The Press and Times (Brownlow Radically has
endorsed the murder OF a peaceable citizen OF
Franklin county by outlaw of the name of Rick
| man who holds a commission from Gov. Brown
| low, to levy war and terror upon the people. Nor
| docs it stop here. 1t advises continuance OF
the bloody work and the atrocious system by which
| it is to be made general and indiscriminatc. We
reprint its own words. Let those who road decide
upon the character of the following comment upon
tho shameless confession Of the murderer
&c The report of Captain Hickman puts the af-
fair in wholly different light from that i'll which
it has been paraded in the Banner The Banner
of yesterday publishes the proceedings OF pub
lie meeting during the killing OF Brown, and also
a very inHamatOry speech from A. s. CuylCr who
threatened rebellion and armed resistance against
the State authorities unless prompt redress was
given, Such language and threats are absurd and
mischieYOus i'll the extreme. Governor Brown
low knows his duty and will fearlessly perform it,
The time for any county in the State to harbor
men whose hands rcd with the blood OF loyal
,t3a i
seditious threats viii not cause the resolute Off
GERS Who at the head of the State govern
ment to swervc hairs breadth from the line of
duty.
IF, i'll place Of the foregoing tho Press and
Times had written IRE IN the name Of The com.
neG11dcl'in-cief instruct you to shoot dorm W7bon
sCeUer you desire 10 Shoot, its language could not
De more impressive or it's influence more direct.
The persons composing the command Of
hickman are ignorant, Like hickman himself,
obey are reckless and vicious. Made up Of the
refuse material Of the Of tieserters and des-
peradoes from both Of the late contending armies
they incapable Of forming discriminate
Judgment. They got into the habit of killing
men, and of seeing men killed. during the war;
and with them it is wartime STILL II it is not
they may very naturally inquire why they en-
listed, armed and equipped; why they are
ordered detached SERVICE Why they
have comm ander- n-chief, ct cetera. :
With them. as in actual war, every adver-
be made way with by powder and ball. They
are for Brownlow, and all who are against Brown
low arc enemies. Ii further excuse is needed, it
is easy to apply the terms " dlsloyal" aud Bush
whacker to every active Conservative in the State
for such IL the teaching of the Press and Times
and to shoot him down on sight. When they have
done the shooting they know they will be applau-
ded by the only paper they are permitted to read.
and may even hope for promotion from the on
~ master recognized by them; and if the people,
who are made the victims OF this system of au
thorized assassination, meet i'll peaceful man.
ner, as the people of Winchester met, and il such
temperate speeches that of MI. Colyar are made
the measure of self-defence and the appeal for
protection are to be denounced by the organ and
oracle CT the offenders as ''seditous' and 'infam
matory." To this complexion have great COM
monWealth and peaceful body of citizens come at
last in the middle of the nineteenth century and
the heart of the American Republic
"We have made full and responsible state.
ment. We have given the proceedings of county
mass-meesing with the names of fifty well-known
citizens appended to its call for protection.-I
We have shown that Brown was murdered; that
Simmons was shot at that Byron only saved his
life by begging like dog and that entire COM
munity has been driven to the last recourse OF
peaceful men, that of earnest and pressing en-
treaty for protection. This protection is denied
in Tennessee but the passion and caprice of Gov
ernor Brownlow and his followers. The people
have borne and foreborne until they stand on the
brink of destruction. In the example before us
they have met in lawful manner, have set forth
their grievances, and have asked the Federal Gov
eminent to send them Federal troops. They have |
shown that one of their number has been killed, |
that two have narrowly escaped the same fate,
that men are flying to the woods and that crops
have been abandoned. As
teThey have been counseled under the exaspera- |
ting circumstances with wondrous temperance by |
aleading citizen and have declared net until every
appeal has proved unavailing, will they resort to
the primal law OF nature, that of sepreservation.
And they have been denounced as 'srebels'' by the
organ OF thezuling power, which cries On the az.