The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-31

racy was entered into somewhere, cul-
minating at New York, evidently de-
signed to injure the credit of our State
aid depreciate the price of her bonds,
| for speculation. The result of which
has been to delay the payment of the
July interest, and also to greatly dcpre-
ciate the value of the State Bonds. To
meet this extraordinary emergency is,
in part, the design of converting the
General Assembly at this time. [ am
unable to indicate tho guilty parties in
these nelarious transactions. The New
York press, as well as sundry letter
writers, implicatc Tennessee railroad
men and members of the Financial
Board. Others charge it upon New
York parties, bond-holdcrs and stock
Spectators. What propose is this !:
that you appoint q Joint Select Com
mittee of your best and ablcst men,
with full powers to send for persons
and papers. so as to sift this mater to
the bottom, and ferret out the guilty
parties. whoever they may be; and if
found guilty. YOU should proceed to sue
them for damages in the name of the
State. Such summary and exemplary
lIcuulicut VI 81 hdS RAW ohohuclo hl'y
serve to protect the State from like dis
astcr in the future, and to maintain the
standard value of her bonds.
Some of the Railroad Companies
committed the great error of not max
ing their payments i'll advance of the
first of July. The Comptroller will in
form you who they are. In the dis
charge of my duty, / served the follow
ing notice upon them all:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.
Nashville, Tennessee, May oath, 1868.
To the Railroads Of the State Of Tennessee:
1t is made your duty by the law of 1852, and
also by the act entitled IAN Act to iquidatc
the debt of the State falling due in 1868 and
1867" passed March 10, 1868; to pay the inte-
rest on the Bonds loaned you, at least fifteen
days before said Bonds become due. The
penalty for the violation of this duty is that l
am to appoint a suitable person, at your cX-
pense to take charge of your road
| therefore warn you that the interest due
from you on the first of July next. must be
paid TO the Comptroller of the State at least
fifteen days before that date.
W. q. BRowNLow,
Governor of Tennessee.
Your attention is also called to the
still partial confusion, Indebtedness,
and crowded condition of the Pcniten-
tiary. A full settlement with the les
sees is desirable, if, indeed, it is not alb
sOlutely necessary. do not advise the
erection of additional buildings at this
time, at Nashville; but l suggest, as
have done on former occasions, the
commencement of a Branch Penitentia-
ry in the Eastern Division of the State.
The Penitentary at Nashville ought to
be self-sustaining but instead of this
| large appropriations of money are an
nually required. The whole matter is
with you, and to you | submit it with.
out entering into detail. ......
Col. A. L. Boone, whom you desig-
mated by special enactment to settle
with, provide for and pay off the Off
GERS and soldiers of the late State Mill
tia, has performed the work assigned
him, and is ready for settlement will
such Committee as you may designate
I.havc been appealed to by prominent
men of both political parties, to urge
upon you the propriety of removing
political disabilities formerly imposed
upon large class of rebels. The con
duct of that class of people has been
and it still is, such that l do not fee
justified in making this recommends
ton. They have military organiza
ton III this State, whose avowed objec
is to trample the laws under foot ant
force the party in power to enfranchis
themselves and their sympathizers.
cannot stultify myself by yielding t.
this request. accompanied with threat
of violence. If members of the Gen
4 eral Assembly are alarmed for thei
personal safety, and feel disposed t.
: sue for peace upon the terms propose,
) by an armed mob, they will, of cOurs
take different view of the subject
: Any recommendation of this kind,
! made at all, should be at Il regular, an
not at a called session of your body
And whether such recommendation an
-, corresponding action thereupon shal
: be deemed wise at your adjOurne
; meeting in November next, can be the
more safely determined, by strictly oil
: serving the conduct of these unrecon
structed Ku KluX rebels and their sym
=, pathizing supporters, between this tim
: and that. 70...... .. ......
Trusting that your session may b
! brief and useful, may the hand of
: kind Providence guide your families il
, your absence. -
49,. .... w. G.. BROWNLOW.
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