Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-23

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through the Train last Saturday night, as
sorting their intention Of summarily deal
ing with Mr.. A. The entire party is said |
TO have come from the north side Of the I
river, and Numbered about thirty or forty. !
Whether these rumors are true or not,
they have excited considerable feeling |
among our people, and they are much NOR
t6ed thereat. Mr.. Arnell certainly has
not ulerited the good will Of our people, |
but az the injury he inficts is by virtue Of |
his political power, Jet his chastisement be
a political and not personal one. This
is the sentiment Of our people, and we trust
we shall hear no more such reports. We
do not know who these disguised persons
are, and consequently only can warn them
in public manner that they are mourning
theemphatic displeasure Of our people.
"Since the above was put in type, we IN
derstand that Uncle Tommy Douglas con-
fdently asserts that the report circula-
ted about two men passing through the cars
in search Of Arnell ia a mistake"
There are some points connected with
this affair to which il is proper attention
should be directed The Senior Editor"
Of the Knoxville Wing is the nominal
Governor Of Tennessee, and it is made
his duty by the Constitution he has sworn
to support, to @ take care that the laws
be faithfully executed The civil off,
GERS Of Maury county are in political
sympathy with the Governor, and only
too ready to execute the laws upon
"Rebel" law-breakers, If such could be
found. How, then, does the Governor
treat this attempt TO modest " the Hon.
Samuel NJ. Arnell, NJ CT" Does he or
der the Sheriff to summon posse and
forthwith arrest the men who have set at
defiance the laws passed by our Radical
Legislature 2 Not bit Of it. From his
mountain retreat he issues his bull
"This is the Democratic game this suns
mer." We beg to inform His Excellency
that this is not the Democratic game.
The Democrats in this State have shown
themselves to be a law-abiding people,
and the Democratic party enjoins upon
its members strict observance of the
laws. In this county Of Maury, where
there is Radical Judge, Radical At
torney General, and Radical civil officers
to execute the fat of the court, not
single arrest has been made, nor an at
tempt to arrest, SO far as we can learn.
If crime should run riot over that county,
who is responsible, the Democratic party
or the Governor and bis Radical Judge,
Attorney General, and civil officers ?
IL will not do to say that
a grand jury cannot be found who will
return true bills against the violatOrs Of
the law, for the Sheriff can summons as
jurors only "loyar men, if need be. The
whole machinery for the execution Of the
laws is in the hands of the Governor s
myrmidons in that county, and if vio-
lator Of the law goes unwhipt of justice
they, and they alone are responsible, and
it is the sheerest demagoguary to endea-
vor to screen them behind the Democratic
PARTY. Here is the Governor Of the State
crying out in exclamation of unfaithful,
ness of his chosen officials, that "this is
to be the Democratic game this summer"
yet the Democratic paper at Columbia
denounces this lawless demonstration.
The Democratic party has no sympathy
with law-breakers, and If the reverse
were true, the Governor is not the man to
make the charge. How does he stand
toward offenders about whose crimes
there is no uncertainty Let the record
Of the penitentiary answer this question.
The @Senior Editor" Of the jackson Wing,
(who was, in years gone by, political
chum Of the "SenioT Editor Of the Knox
vile Whig and knows him well, y says in
his paper Of the Doth inst;
"Whilst st Nashville few days since
we learned from Mr.. Ward, one Of the
managers Of the penitentiary, that Gov
Brownlow, so-cslled, has turned ont three
hundred convicts from the penitentiary,
many Of them good wOrkmeB. Years ago,
when Andrew johnson was Governor,
on the recommendation of the Judge and
Jury for clemency for three Democrats, who
had attempted TO carry out Radical princi-
pies and got into the penitentiary, exercised
the hardening power, our pious Governor,
20 called, suggested TO Andy the propriety
Of establishing 4 precinct in the peniten
tiary 80 that all tho Democrats there could
vote. We would now insist that the pre-
ciuct be established so that the "trooly
luip may vote the Toll ticket"
We have seen itcharged but not denied,
that nearly all the criminals thus let loose
upon the State are Radicals, and to this
fact was attributed the Governors Glenn
ency. So notorious has he become in
connection v it'll turning criminals cut of
the peritentiary, that whenever a party
is sentenced to the penitentiary for any
crime whatever, the remark is made he
had better exercise the pardoning power
at once, and save tte State the expense
Of bringing the prisoner to the penitenti~
ary. Seine of the Radicals he has turned
out Of the penitentiary, were criminals
of the worst character, and had been
sentenced for long terms. This is the
Radical game the Governor has been
playing for many months, and there is
little doubt that he intends to keep It up.
Who then are the responsible parties for
whatever of lawlessness exists in Tennes.
see, the Democrats, or the Governor and
his army Of Radical officials, who sre
only too ready to execute the law against
Rebels" if they should violate i'll
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SOME Of the Democrats do not yet know
whether Grants name is q. II. or u. s., or
IL. u. or II 5. and they are in 4 great
worry about this,-C Chicago Republican.
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