Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-14
THE WHINE ABoUr OUTRAGEs.

W nave ltiJ IL uuIy 10 cflLlClSe pref
ty sharply the course of the Radical pa-
pers in this State, who have attempted
to fix upon the white people who are not
Radicals the responsibility for the out
RACES which are committed by parties in
disguise, said to be Ku-Klux One of
the papers thus scoriated is the Hunting
don JIcsi Teanessean. That paper re-
spends as follows: .....
"The Union AND DESPATCH is informed
that we are not accustomed to base charges
upon mere rumOrR,' or 10 assume mere
rumors TO be facts" What we state is
upon positive information and not mere
rumOr"
We are to understand from this that
the editor Of the West TennesseH has
positive information" that "Rebels"
committed the "outrages upon Union
men ofwhich it complained few weeks
since, and yet we do not hear that the
Sheriff Of Carroll county has been pat
upon the track Of one of these "Rebels
who deiies the laws and tramples upon
the rights of private citizens Why
has he not communicated this posi-
tive information" to some civil officer
whose duty it is to sec that
the laws are vindicated aud the
guilty punished? Is he afraid to discharge
the duty he owes to society Let us have
no more ranting about "Rebel" and "Ku-
klux outrages upon Union men, by those
who profess to know by whom such out
RACES are committed, while they fail to
discharge their duty to the community IN
which they live and to the men upon
whom outrages have been committed.
Let lawlessneSs, in whatever shape and
in whatever section it may appear, be
put down, and the guilty summarily pun
ished. This is a duty which the civil au
thoriies owe to the people and to the
State, and they should be held to a strict
accountability for the faithful discharge
of this duty Let us have more action
and less Of this whining about outrages,
and the character of the State will be all
thc better for it We areglad to see that
n portion of the citizens of Carroll coun,
~, those living in Mckenzie and vicinity,
have set themselves right in regard to the
outrages of which the Vest Tcnncsscaa
complained. In an address 20 the people
OF Carroll county they say 1876
. We in common with all good citizens.
deeply deplore the present unfortunate con-
diuon OF aiars 10 our community. Ii IL
needless COR us 10 attempt a discussion Of
he causes which have led TO the present
state OF feeling among or people. The
unlawful acts of viOlencs complained OF,
have been conn lifted, as we learn, by par
tics IN Disguise, and know only 10 them
selves and a. We are entirely ignorant as
~ who the parties we've who committed |
these acts or what their objects were. We |
repel, as unfOunded, the charge that the |
citizens of this community are in cOmph- |
city With the perpetT ators Of these out |
RACES We arr aDd always have been, un- |
lualihediy opposed. o. any violation of the |
laws of the country, 10y whOmsoever COM |
nitted. la this come CtiOn, il seems proper /
or va to IS that we dissent entirely from /
DE idea setforth by some, that those who
ire known as Rebels" are in any way re-
ponsible for the acts which have given
use To the present excitement, for oppOsi-
iOn Ia lhe party in power is certainly not
nilitient evidence on which 20 base a
,harge of Iawlessness. We wish further 10
tate that the action Of the County Court
n refuSing 70 permit those who were elect
u ia our district to Gil the yari Gus civil
'thces, 10 qualify for the discharge
Il the duties Of Offices, has left us at the
mercy of all who saw tic TO violate tire law.
Ne feel that the lTtseni state Of affairs
annot long continue without involving fhe
.ntiTe community IN very serious tro able,
md We therefore entrest all men Of either
'arty who may have engaged in any
rgAnized effort 20 set the laws of the ooun-
~ az defiance, or who contemplate doing !
b, to pause and reflect upon the terrible
which may follow any such
ashness upon their part-that il is not
MY themselves who will be effected there
y but that all, whether guilty or inno-