Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-17
OUrcRoPPINos OF THE RADICAL
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SPIRIT.
The Radical leaders and presses are
doing oil they can to bring about a
bloody collision between the two pOliti.
cal parties in this State The Memphis
Post furnishes fair illustration of what
is being done in that direction. In its
Issue Of the 18th inst that paper calls for
the organization Of "a regiment ofcolored
militia" as follows
I'VE have the authority of the ablest aud
strongest Rebel leader in West Tennessee,
that Radicals and Democrats are not DO.
litical opponents, but deadly foes. We
have seen detachment Of the regular Con-
federate army parade our streets. There
is standing Rebel army chartered in
every county in West Tennessee. They
are warning now upon homeless and help.
less Union men, white and black. We
hear something almost daily Of the guer-
rilla and assassin's warfare TO which their
leaders and their principles have educated
them. The helpless are the victims to-
day anybody may be the victim to NOR
row. With the declaration Of war sounded
by our enemies, and the Rebel battle flag
flung 10 the breeze, shall we sUpinely allow
our friends to be outraged and shot down,
and await our tnrnI Let US proceed at
once TO strengthen the lawful authority
OF the State by the tender Of military
service. There should be at once a strong
regiment Of colored militia organized in
this city; not 10 wTeak personal or pOliti-
cal revenge, not 60 act outside or against
~ IL II -
defend the peace and dignity Of the State,
aud assure the security Of the humblest
citizens against the standing army Of
Rebels, which has appeared in our midst,
and threatens the life and liberty Of us all. y
Ii is sheer nonsense to assert that there
is any such organization as is here stated
Ii is by such wild assertions as are dealt
in by the Post that the Legislature is to
be justified in ordering ont a large body
Of militia to be quartered upon the peO~
pie who are opposed 20 the Brownlow
goVe-nment and its outrageous usurpa-
tons It has been determined by the
Radical leaders that is necessary TO use
military force To carry the elections in
the fall, aud they feel that il is necessary
to get up some excuse having the APP
pearancs Of deeenoy for ordering out the
militia to do this work Such thing as
a free election in Tennessee under the
Brownlow rule is unknown, and the
Radicals have determined that the
election shall form
10 exception to the rule Here is
he leading Radical paper in West Ten
lessee, a paper that owes its very exists
nee to the legal advertising swindls, ads
locating the Organization of a negro regi-
nent 70 dOmineeF over the white men Of
hat section The policy Of the Radical
eaders ia this State, as in the whole
'outh, has been and still is to degrade, as
ar as possible, the white men, and every
imaginable insult is heaped upon them
the hope Of provoking some demoRstra~
ION that would afford a pretext cor put
ing into execution the bloody policy
nth which this people have beeh mem
csd Even the Governors own paper
be Knoxville Whig-has thrown of the
isguise il has occasionally assumed of
eaco and fraternity, and openly counsels