Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-31
NAIIING TnEM.

The Press and Times fthe 10th inst,
contained the following
VIOLENCE N LrNCoLN-A JuDeE OF
EIrcrIoN RUN FROM HoME.-A gentle
man Of high character reports to Gen.
Cooper. that a Union man Of blameless
Christian character and universally es-
ieemed, was appointed Judge Of election
10 Lincoln county, near Fayetteville. On
the Saturday following, several bush
whackers came TO his house, put pistol
to his head, threatened bis life with vol
ley Of oaths, and forced him 10 leave
home. The citizen has wife and three
children, and is now hiding for his life
There is a troop Of fifteen or twenty
bushwhackers who defy the law and com
nit outrages on loyal men.
This is probably part Of the reli
able information that Gen Cooper says
he has received that the disloyal citi-
zens, or outlaws backed up By the afore-
said disloyal citizens, in portions Of
Middle Tennessee " have been threatens
ing, and in many instances have used
violence to drive loyal and law-abidine
citizens from their homes" The Fayette-
Vile Observer Of the 29th inst. nails this
story as follows:
There is not a syllable of truth in the
above statement The gentlemen Of high
character simply lied The father Of three
children did, we are informed, have a dis
pute with another citizen. Capt Grisham,
of Brownlow's militia, being here, over
hauled the matter, and after thorough in
vestigation, said it amounted TO nothing,
and dismissed the case. Yet, two weeks
thereafter a nameless libeller-'a gentle
man of high character !!!-attempts to
make political capital out of the affair by
living. There is not a bushwhacker in this
county, and the gentleman knew it when
he lodged his slanderous report. Decent
Radicals condemn the circulation Of such
malicious falsehoods as the gentleman Of
high character is guilty Of Disirust and
arrangement which may resultin personal
collisions, frequently follow slanderous
publications And odium attaches to the
more respectable members Of the proscrip-
tive party, although they may be innocent
Of traducing their neighbors. Knowing
this, they deprecate the efforts of the char
acterless vagabonds of their league to de-
fame this community.
Here we have in this lincoln county
incident an illustration of the character
Of much, perhaps all, of the information
lodged with the commander Of the loyal
militia touching outrages upon "loyal
and law-abiding citizens Why is it
that Gen. Cooper does not find out that
these swift witnesses are imposing
upon him2 When a case like that from
Lincoln county occurs, he should have
the fellow who practiced the imposition
upon him arrested, and with ball and
chain put to digging up stumps, or sent
to the penitentiary, to do the State some
service II few of these dastardly
wretch IS were served in this manner, we
should hear less n the outrages reported
as occurring in various portions Of Mid
die and West Tennessee If General
Cooper would be true to the people Of the
State and just to himself, he would make
examples of few Of these falsihers. Let
him do that and he will soon find that there
will be about as much use for his loyal
militia as there is for a third wheel to a
cart