Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-04

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voked peace and we had ii. Our people
were patient-they can and did endure.
This cannot last always. Men will grow
FESTIVE under accumulated wrongs. Retri-
button is sure to follow crime. 1t is with
nations and peoples as with individual
men. There never was a more patient
people than ours, or more enduring, but it
cdnnot last forever.
From the Chattanooga American Union.
The Conservative party Of Tennessee
have made an experiment. They have,
and we confess ourselves as much respOn
sibe for it as any person, attempted 10 re-
concile the black race and the white.
They have yielded up their preiudices, al
though in many cases under protest. and
have striven earnestly to obtain of the
black men equal rights with themselves
for the white men. They have failed, and
the lesson will not be lost upon them
1t has not taught them to prescribe the
black race indiscriminately, for some OF
that race have shown themselves fit for
freedom by their willingness to assist the
white men in their efforts for freedom.
But if there is one lesson which the re-
suit of this election has taught the people
Of the State, it is the great danger of ex-
tending the right ofsuffrage to the ignorant
and degraded portion of a race the most
excitable of all races, and the most easily
influenced by designing demagogues. 1t has
shown them that VIXEN unprincipled men
can obtain the control of affairs by intlu
encing the preiudices of ignorant negroes,
the good of the country imperatively de-
mands that ignorance and vice shall be
excluded from the ballot-box. 1t has taught
them that although while the negroes
remain among the Anglo-Saxons, the prin-
ciple of Justice demands an equality of the
elective franchise based upon intelligence,
ii is almost impossible to harmonic the
two races; and that it would be far better
for both races, either that the blacks could
be induced to peaceaby emigrate and form
a colony Of their own, under the protection
of our government, or that the Anglo
Saxons in their midst should give up the
country to the negroes and depart hence to
a country where it is no disgrace to be
white.
From the Fayetteville News.
The election is now over, and we stoOp
for the last time to notice the principal
actors and wire-pulers of what is known
and called the Radical "murderous crew"
Of Lincoln county. John Cary, the Com
missioner and candidate for a seat in the
Legislature, which he is certain to dis
grace, stands out in bold relief, a champ
ION, head and shoulders above all the
rest, in corruption, fraud and dishonesty.
We charge upon him-and can prove it
that be has issued certificates TO hundreds
of negroes in this county who never applied
for the same He issued certificates to
negroes whom he knew or had good cause
to believe were under twenty-one years of
age. He has issUed certificates to negroes
who had not been in the State long enough
to entitle them, under the law, to them. He
appointed a clerk to assist in holding the
election after he had resigned his office,
which was an assumption of power that
none but corrupt men dare to do. He re-
fused to give men certificates who were en-
titled to them under the law, and he knew
it. He closed his Office in violation of the
law, for it required him to give ten days
notice before closing in some newspaper,
or at least, notice put up in four public
pldCGo III tic COUNTY 1lC ID q BClIhLCu
old whelp, for he sWore that he had never
aided or abetted the rebellion, or held any
Office, either civil or military, under the
Confederate government, when the records
of the County Court show that he held the
Office of chairman of that court for one
year during the war, and he gave money
to the Rebel soldiers.
Correspondence of the Union and Dispatch.
THOMPsoN's STATION, Aug. 2, 1867
As the election day is over and the Radi-
Gals have done their dirty work, perhaps
it would interest you to know how things
were conducted in this region. will state
them Several days ago it was discovered
that the leaguers were concentrating for the
purpose Of going in body to the polls of
the 18th (BetEesda) district, nearly, if not
all Of them being armed. After the citizens
discovered the object of the Radicals, a
delegation of gentlemen were sent to
Franklin for the purpose Of seeing if Capt.
Burke would allow some of his troops to be
present at the polls, request which he
kindly granted, and issued an order for a
Sergeant and six men to go with the gen
tlemen to the polls and prevent any diff
Guilty. Early on Thursday morning the
league marched to the polls, headed
by a man of the name of Dudley
a majority of these being armed. Upon
arrival of the United State troops they i'm
mediately commenced to hide their wea-
pons. Sergeant Hays the officer in COM
mand Of the troops, found an Enfield and
a Sharp's rifle a shotgun and double-bar-
relied pistol stuck under a house, The arms
were all well loaded. The Sergeant took
possession Of the arms and carried them
to Franklin.
The election passed of quietly-the en-
tire Radical ticket securing large major
ity of the Etheridge receiving 81 to
Brownlow's III.
The presence of the troops, no doubt,
kept down a difficulty, which the Radicals
would most certainly have commenced, if
they had not been present, and the commu-
nifty are under lasting obligations to Ser
geant Hays and the gentlemen under his
command for their presence and actions
on that day.
There are a number of hands being dis
charged from work on account of their
voting. Most all the laboring class in the
county had been told by the owners of land
if they voted against their interest that
they would have to look out for other
homes, and they are as good as their
word. MTTT.
Correspondence of the Union and Dispatch
FAYETTEVILLE, August ,, 1867.-The
election here is over, and passed off quiet
". This is to be attributed to the efforts
of the citizens to preserve the peace, and
their firm determination not to be imposed
upon by the militia Gresham's company
has behaved very well since it has been
here; his men interferred with no one on
Yesterday, but acted as a police in compa-
ny with an equal number of citizens, and
assisted in disarming all persons who came
to town with arms. About two hundred
negroes carried their arms in an open and
bold manner, and came with the intention
of forming procession. This design,
however, was frustrated, and the election
passed of quietly.
OF four hundred and ninety-four votes
cast at this box, Etheridge received one
hundred and twenty-nine, of which about
one hundred and ten were whites. The
negroes were afraid to vote against Brown
low-some feared death, some a prosecu-
ton for perjury, some fine and some pun
ishment, and a great many feared that the