Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-02
RU.RLUS OUrRAGEs-FICTIO OF
TKyE RADICAF, PWE6S.

duu "Edhiys Ahc1 art COlA6CllHR
off the poor people who have no means of
resistance. The more violent class of Reb-
els have become much holder since John
sons acquittal, and many of the substaa-
tial Union people are contemplating de-
parture from locality where they have
no protection either for life or property"
The next day the Press and Times cor
roborated the statement of its perfectly
trustworthy correspondent BY copying
from the Memphis Post the following
particulars of these outrages - F.
"On Sunday night, June 9th, three col
ored men were murdered near Pieree's
Station by them. No effort has been made
TO bring the parties 10 Justice. We do not
hear Of even preteTt for these murders.
Near Fulton Station some weeks since,
four or five called upon a respectable and
industrious colored man, Toney Smith, and
demanded bis money, and 10 order to force
him togive it up, tied rope around his
head and twisted it, producing the agony
Of crushing the head and wringing the
neck.
Indeed these operations extend gener-
| ally to getting from every Legro his money,
his registration papers, and any arms he
may have, or the taking Of bis life if they
so fancy. They got money from Tarleton
| johnson they took FIVE cents from Samuel
| Lock bridge, who was sick and died one
hour after they took a shot gun and five
cents from Howell Rsgsby they got from
Henry Mitchell sixteen dollars from
| Billy Mitchell two dollars and a half and
a watch from All. Carr sixty seven dol
lars and a watch, and from Reuben Gray
gun" .s...
Here was a formidable array of out
RACES The editor of the Union City
Herd1d, published in Obion county, says
be has made diligent inquiry in regard to
these reported outrages, and has found
no one who has heard of them, and even
those who live at and near the two sta
tons mentioned are entirely ignorant of
the murders and robbsries which are re-
ported to have occurred in their midst
There seems not to have been the shadow
Of truth upon which to base these outs
rageous ISLANDERS upon a peaceable and
well disposed people. Weakley is an ads
joining county, yet the Herald has heard
of no outrages having been committed in
that county. 1t is of a piece with the
Obion county inventions. This is the
character Of ISLANDERS which the Press
and Times has been heaping upon the
people Of Tennessee who are not Radi-
Gals for more than year And it is re-
markable that notwithstanding these in
ventions are continually being exposed,
the Press and Times preserves a studied
silence in regard to their exposure.
There is another species of invention
INDUCED IL by the more scrupulous of
the Radical press, an instance of which
is furnished by the Huntingdon West
Tennessedn That paper states that
Isaac Penny, who is represented as an
orderly and quiet citizen, residing at
Newbilrs cross roads, in Carroll county
was takea from his home on Friday
morning, the 10Th Of June, by squad of
men in the disguise of Ku-Klux, and Sc,
verely whipped" That paper states that,
SO far as it could learn, the only sup
possible cause for this outrage is that
Penny has been q steadfast Union man
uncompromising in his opposition to dis
loyalty. but withal quiet and unobtrusive
in his conduct aud conversation. The
Vest T6nHesseaH also hears of various
outrages upon negroes in the same viciai-
ty, and there Is every reason TO believe
that there is an organized gang of out
laws in that section of country" Here
is all the information that the West Ten
neSSedR has in regard to the whipping of
Mr. Penny and outrages upon negroes,
yet it assumes these mere rumors TO be
facts, and proceeds at once to charge the
Rebels with she entire responsibility
for the outrages, and TO read them very
plain lecture upon propriety and good
behavior Here IS a specimen:
Men who would scorn to engage in the |
ouuages of the Ku-Klux, should learn that |
by the course pursued by too many 10 de- |
nouncing the government, and cursiug the |
adhereuts Of the government, they are |
but setting on the low and interruptions Of /
their party, and are IN this sense, the real
authors Of the mischief Therefore, if they /
would have peace, if they would pre-
vent a collision, so much to be dreaded,
the consequences Of which no man can at
this time foresee, and the ultimate and
necessary presence Of a military force, let
hem cease TO supply fuel to the flames By
.tirring up the passions Of the ignorant and
brutal of their party to the commission Of
bese Cutrsges"
This covert threat to inAict Browns
ow's militia upon the good citizens of
Carroll county, is addressed to men who
IRE held up by the party which the Vest
fe,ReSSeaR represents as model crimi-
lals, as men who are unfit to be trusted
With the rights Of freemen, whose bad
minenco justly places them under the
IAN Of the law, and that they have no
lights which loyal man is bound to
aspect Even in the article from which
We quote, that paper declares that the
utrsges reported to have been committed
n Carroll county, ARE in keeping with
he systematic effort which is making
throughout the South 10 establish q reign
{ terror which shall prevent the express
ion oil all political sentiments unfriendly
> the policy Of the late rebellion" The
olicy which this oracle Of Radioalism !
seks to have the "Rebels" adopt to pre- /
ant a collision, so much to be dreaded,
le Consequences Of which no man can /
,resee, is to tamely submit to the ieers c
I'd taunts and the outrages which the
adicals are continually heaping upon
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