Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-08
"Brownlow's Last !"
The Bully Parson indul-
ges his Propensity

6OS A4Ao +AOCOAoAVy
And Abuses Better Men
than Himself!
The Lincoln County Mar
tyrs !
The Nashville Banner of the
18th, has the following:
i + $ "All the buster and
fanfarronade about the 'Kuklux
Klan,' darkness Of midnight
peace and welfare of the State
whipping and hanging of loyal
citizens 'colored men driven from
crops and refuge in Cities pre-
vailing terrorism 'inhammatory
speeches, &C., is the merest balder-
dash of u snivelling old hypocrite
and cheat" =
To which Brownlow's Knoxville
Wing responds as follows:
"Yes the killing of Pamplin
and Dick Smith; the shooting Of
Lusk aud Edmonson the hanging
of a family of negroes near Mill
vile; the midnight assault upon
and whipping old Senator Wyatt
the murderous midnight assaults
upon the Blooms and Mclaughlin;
the driving of the Blooms, Nc
Laughlin, Houghton and Newman,
in Lincoln county, (Ab uno disco
omnes,) Tenn, all this, of course,
according to democratic authority,
is peace, and when referred to the
reference is 'all buster and fanfar-
ronade.' OF course Pamplin and
Dick Smith were killed Lusk and
Edmonson were shot; the negroes
were hung; old Senator Wyatt
was brutally assaulted and beat ;
the Blooms, Mclaughlin, Hough-
ton and Newman were driven off
because they were cut-throats,
murderers, midnight assassins, and
a general nuisance to the commu-
nifty in which they were foolhardy
enough to attemp: to livel
"Oh mol the 'Kuklux' don't in
terfere with men on account of pol.
Iitics
"Let the murdered be resurrec-
4, ted, let the MANNED and abused
speak, and you viii find wonder
Gus unanimity, not for Seymour
and Blair, but for Grant and Col
fax. 1t seems strange There must
be magnetic infuence) that every
man killed by the 'Kuklux,' up
on investigation, proves to be a
Radical Yet this state of af-
fairs must not be changed; the
'kuklux' must not be interrupted,
but be permitted to go on and finish
their inaugurated and well-nigh
completed 'reign'of terror in Ten
nessee, for fear that the dear, dar-
ling chivalry may be offended and
inaugurate a swar of races. If
tufts of grass will have no
influence, let us try what virtue
there is in stones
Lincoln county, like every 9th
er section of the civilized world
that has been scourged by the hand
of war, came out of the struggle to
some extent demoralized. Civil
law was slow to resume its sceptre
and some excuses were committed,
though by far less in number than
might reasonably have been ex-
pected. The great mass of our
people have at all times opposed |
extreme measures, and this oppo-
sition has tended, in no small de-
gree, to shield us from the anarchy |
that has ruled in some portions of |
Brownlow's favored locality, East
Tennessee. True, Pamplin and
Dick Smith were killed. The for
mer was clever, industrious man,
and no Radical !; Smith was repu-
ted bad negro. Lusk was woun-
led-no malice in the shooting
and no such man as Edmonson
1as been shot. No ''family of ne
yroes near Millville" has been hung,
out negro was executed who was
convicted of carrying arms and
ammunition into the neighbor-
lood for the avowed purpose of
war upon the whites.-l
Senator Wyatt is trotted out again,
# course, but nothing is said of