The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-06-12

NWM"'IIh AN"'A ~ NWN""
~oommitts& By nv whites aeAinie ihe BLACKS
Ia New 0slaars, &ehlhhia MIA Nav Yofk,
just a. N Huch bhingp had. really occurred
here. X IA asmoat needless 10 soy % tbosu
WHO are RSQualRtel with the quiet and re-
spectacle character OF The negro population
Of this city, and Of thu ~urscrupulous char.
aeteg Of TIE preas referred 60, THAI there 10
not one word Of truth IL the statements re.
ferred 70. There never was q mule quie.
election held BY the whites Ia Any cilyln the
Union; and there never waB seen more peace.
able Fejoieipgs, uEdrF all circumstances, than
thoae Witnessed 10 the torchlight process
sions Of the negroes aud other Republicans
In this city after the great victory was known
to have been won. This truth Is known BY
every man who witnessed the same, and who
has bad opportunity to be present at tho
polls ia New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
St. Louis, Louisvills, or other large cities os
other mendacious prints have beautiful chap
tiers on the subject Of these {" negro muir.
ders." 6elestsble chapters &C "schools for
scandal" in which white men, women aHd
children were cut across the ribs, "shot
through the tboraK," stoned, robbed, AVID
maltreAted generally. Ftrvid and fertile I'm.
aginAtions have these writer's, truly. The
only murder that has been committed in this
city since the election, was BY a drunken
white Democrat, who deliberately blew out
the brains Of a Acknowledgement with a horse
pistol and the only other killing or hOmi-
eide, was the unintentonal aud juStifabls
killing Of Il rutiaR white man BY a negro iE
self defence. The white man, who gave the
irst prOvocation, was chasing the negro with
a chilly" when the latter gave him 4 cut on
the arm, which CHANGED to cut an artery aud
caused death. The election, or its results,
have nothing TO do with the matter, so far as
is known to the public, though tho Copper.
head papers TEEN With falseheOds and sensa-
tionNl stories ia regard to it, to prove that
negro suffrage Is a bad thing. And yet, these
same journals are daily working to make Mr..
Chase the Presidential candidate of their
party, in the hope that be will be able to
catch the votes Of the negroes.
But these freedmen, these new citizens Of
the nation who sustained our army against
the rebellion, know the intense hate Of all
CopperheNds for them, and they are also
perfectly aware what party and what noble
Republican statesmen gave them the right Of
suffrage, md placed them on a political
equality With the whites. They nre perfectly
aware that It WAS to the burning and elo-
quent words spoken, and the Overwhelming
facts snd statistics presented, by such true
men and Republican philanthropists rs Judge
VIM. u. Kelley, and others Of the seth Con-
gress, tina, the colored population Of the Dis-
trict of Columbia were endowed with politi-
cal rights. Well do. they remember the just
eulogy pronounced upon the fourteen or hf-
teen Thousands o. blacks in this District, BY
Mr.. Kelley, in the debate upon the subject Of
doing them this tardy jusiice-in which he
said they were not the low, filthy vpgabonds
the negro-hating "Demoeratsn represent them
to be. but quiet, peaeeable, industrious hu-
man beings, many, very many Of whom bad
not ouly purchased their freedom, but had
accumulated millions>nf property, and sup.
ported scores OF churches and schools in the
District, to the sham: Of the American Con.
gress, and Of the people who severely taxed
them and yet failed to give shem represents
ton or voice or benefit from the products Of
such taxation. Yes, they remember these
things, aud will not be likely to vote against
the standard nearer o! the party which had
the honor Of procuring them to be treated as
the spirit Of the Declaration nf Independence
Intended them to be treated.
The present Republican Congress Is com
the good work and the next Admin
~istratIon will find tbs business of Recon-
accomplished, 90 far as laws and
can do It. But no matter how
the votes may be cast at the next election, |
our Republican Congressman are advocating
the admission OF all the States. The Demo-
cratic members, beaded BY Senator Doolit-
tie, however, oppose the admission, though
rTafm that m. urhftaa vvha, H. Csaen,
are admitted, viii obtain the former suprem-
acy over the blacks, and insist on the ne
gro's un6tness for seltgoysrnment. They
admit, also, as did Ne. Doolitile, in his
speech yesterday In the Senate, that " the
would accept every vote they
could get-those Of negroes, monkeys, tad
poles, or anything else"
have devoted this letter to tie subject Of
The supposed troubles between the whites
and blacks at Washington, because the Con-
or CoPperhead papers are trying to
make political capital out Of the same, BY
In their way, that the coloFed
.;itizenI have been the aggressors. Let me
assure you, as an attentive witness on ths
that, in the little trouble there has
been, the whites, or to speak more justly, the
I'D rebs, have been the proyokerS and Ag-
They were unable to tolerate the
Ipeetaelss Of the blacks celebrating the Re
triumph, sersnading the victorious
candidates, aud hurrabing for Grant, Collar
nd other chiefs Of the Radical party. Only
few years ago, these then black pariahs
ook TO eight at the least menace Of the
dominant race. Nov, these old slaves are
and they defend themselves when
This il a moustrous fact 10 the
Of the World, the Herald, and others Of
bat Tx while, to all impartial spiriu, Il IL
imply a natural right | wish not to say,
that the blacks were right IN
yerythiug. II y true, as certain eorrespon-
Oents afhrm, that the colored men, who are
ell Republicans, endeavor to iatimi.
the few Conservatives among them from
citing with the Democrats. They should be :
blamed for such eonduct and they
hould DO cautioned sgainSt thus initiating
heir adVersaries who have 50 often bad re- A,
curse TO such odious means in the elections ,
! toe South. A. Y. BoYLE. :
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