The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-11-13
Radical Falsehnnd


A late number Of filthy little sheet at
Nashville contains a letter purporting to
have been written from this place, which
is false and slanderous from beginning TO
end. We make the following extract:
ION the last day of October Judge Cald-
we'll and Colonel Tilman had an appoint
ment at Pulaski, Giles-eounty the home
of General Brown. Judge Caldwell made
bis speech with little disturbance, other
than 10 be called a damned liar, thief and
coward. These were trivial epithets.-
Soon after Col. Tiliman opened his speech,
Gen. Brown passed from the crowd to the
court house steps, in rear Of Col. Tillman
Immediately the most hideous yells from
the crowd, accompanied with calls for Gen.
Brown were heard. Gen. Brown stepped
forward aud said my cOuntrymen-Please
desist." Wbereupon silence followed for
a very few moments, when the shouting
and hallOing became almost deafening.-
Col. Tillman being compelled to take his
seat, the same voiceslthat drowned the Col
oneIs voice, called for Gen. Brown
Brown said be wished to speak but twenty
minutes, and privately promised to keep
his friends quiet until Judge Coldwell could
reply for the same length of time. But the
"high toned' spoke more than an hour,
when his friends called on ga high toned
negro" who occupied the stand until sun
Get. This oil occurred at a republican meet
ing, at the home of Gen. Brown.
"The Kuklux were visiting the negroes
in various parts of the county. for two or
three days preceding the election, and by
threats and intimidation kept 500 Repub-
licans from the polls. There are two of
the distinguished thirteen in Giles county;
had there been three, at the same ratio
there would have been no Republican
vote, p s. R"
The truth of the matter is, Col. Caldwell
spoke without any interruption whatever.
Col. Tillman had spoken perhaps forty or
fifty minutes, when the crowd became con-
vulsed with laughter at the speakers ride
ulous appeals to the negroes. The laugh
became general, continued for some time,
and finally grew into shouts. At this point,
Gen. Brown stepped forward, not from the
! front, but from the rear of Col. TiIlman,
where he had been standing during the
whole time, and asked his friends to remain
quiet. Col PSlman thanked him for his
courtesy, and concluded his speech. After
he had concluded, Gen Brown was invited
to respond to the calls made for him by the
crowd, which he did in a few courteous
dignifed remarks, which consumed proba.
bly, forty minutes, stating at the outset thai
be would be brief in order that Col. Till
man might have an opportunity to respond
But at the conclusion of his remarks there
was not radical speaker present, and thu
crowd was entertained for a few minutei
only by Lawrence Johnson. colored.
This is,the true, uavarnished statement 0
the matter, and it Col. Tilmau or Col. Cald
well are honorable men they will refute tn,
Infamous charge that Gen. Brown sough
to disturb the meeting or incite violence, O
acted in any other way than as a courteous
honorable, chivalric gentleman. All thu
other charges about Kuklux &C., are simple
fabricatioDs-false and ridiculous.