Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-24
TAIL END OF THE ANACONDA.
Some Incidents OfIhe Last Few Days
-Cursings md COunfer-CursIDgs-
The SerpenGs Tail WrfGSIing. etc.

Significant in itself OF the jarring, beg
carly and discofdant elements, surel
working on. the destruction of the Reput
lican negro party, and the ultimate tri
umph Of Democratic principles in thi
State, as was the black gathering of Satur
day last, there are incidents connecte,
with it, and which have just develope,
that speak yet deeper significance.
The Fgreat Radical anaconda was lie
loose upon the people in 1861 1t crawle,
through every valley, coiIed around every
mountain, dashed the waves of ever,
stream and ocean isle, and poisoned the at.
mosphere of every town and city it did no
destroy, throughout the entire South. The
huge monster glutted with the wasted
fields il had ravaged, and maddened with
the pure blood it had been made drunk on
took possession Of this State and CITY, and
has held it with almost fatal tenacitv. But
the old serpent is now dying of his own
filth and poison. The traces of his slime
will dong be seen wherever he has crawled
and it will be long before the fields will
flourish and the flowers bloom, in the land
enveloped in his ponderous folds. But the
serpent is dying; his head is hattened his
fangs have lost their venom; his forked
tongue no longer CLEANS destructive fire.
brand his body swelled and gorged, lies
writhing in its last agonies, loathsome,
disgusting and detested thing. The tail
aud Of Tho rapfila still c,,,;r,,o 81
giles in our midst with feeble vitality, that
will soon expire under the sunburst OF
truth, right, justice and principle.
The incidents which betoken its death,
and the beginning of the end of military
despots and shoulder strapped upstairs, are
numerous, portentous and of almost daily
occurrence. We will mention a few OF
them as Illustrative of the signs of the
times. The fact is patent that the Radi-
Gals have irrevocably split, and split with
the most intensified hostility toward each
other. The negroes have also split, d.
viding between the native and imported
Radicals. The staid people of our State
have looked calmly on while the factions
have been working the machine, harvest.
ing the spoils and bringing about their
own destruction. The factions take every
advantage and fight each other persistently
On Friday night last in order to strengthen
his wing of the party, City Attorney Allen,
of the imported Radicals, attended negro
meeting, called quietly at the first toll gate
on the Lebanon turnpike. This meeting
was, az we understand, in the interest OF
Cary another imported Radical. Judge
NJ. NJ. Brien, the home Radical candidate
for Circuit Court Judge, was on the alert
he heard of the meeting and went. He
took position where he could hear all
that was said, but where he could not bt
seen. Several of his friends were there
chief among whom was Wade Hickman
a negro leader. Allen arose and delivered
himself not dreaming what listener he had
Brien was denounced, Cary extoled to tht
skies, and the negroes instructed as to wha
they were to do on the following day
Hickman was enthusiastic for Brien-anC
stopped the speaker to correct him
| several times. Brien quietly sent Hick
man word that he was on hand himsel
and the latter subsided. Allen spoke lone
and long, saying at the close of each de
nunciation, 81 say this, and you can tel
L
closed, and quick as a flash the tall form
of Brien appeared before him. The ghos
of the murdered Banquo did not create
greater surprise. Aliens eyes in frenzy
rolled about the size of small saucers
Looking at him for a moment with perfec
disdain, Judge ,Brien said that tn
| speaker had no doubt often hear,
the saying, " that when you speak of tn
devil his imp is sure to appear" He thel
told the speaker that the man was there f
whom he had been sending his kilograms
Brien then let off in bitter denunciatiol
of the foreign irresponsible Radicals. HI
denounced Cary az not having legal sens
enough to cover the heel tap of a decen
lawyers boot. The tables were turned a
Brien came down with his trumps Thi
shows the feeling of hostility between th
two factions that are stabbing each other t
death.
Another. After the disgraceful scenes a
| the Capitol, Buck Lewis, a home negr
Radical of influence among those of hi
color, cursed and cavorted. He drew hi
pistol and abused the foreign Rads withou
mercy and without stint He called Cap
Kerr all sorts of hard names, and defe
him. Bucks friends gathered around hin
and patted him on the back. This was on
of several such scenes that occurred o
Saturday. We will give one more. TIL
heroic and patriotic exhibition that Nj
Tuthill made of himself at the Capitol dis
gusted the home Radicals After the buri
up of the negro meeting, Wade Hiokma
approached Tnthill and cursed him blac
and blue, making the fur fly. He Gale
him a id rascal and humbug-a petit
scOundrel, who had come down here with
ont dollar, and pretended to be the frien
of the colored man, He called him all th
hard names he could think OF, and eI
hausted all the oaths and explosives h
could command, Tuthill tamely taking a
the negro said. Several other simila
scenes occurred. These incidents show th
animus operating upon the two wings {
the Radical party. Their differences wi
never be reconciled. Let us hope ths
| when rogues fall ont honest men may hav
a showing, and that these exhibitions, Is
ken in connection with the great reaction {
enlightened public opinion, foreshadow tn
last wriggling of the tail of the great an'
conda in whose folds we have been crushe
during the last six years.