Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-29
/" l,et ms Have Peace"

Said General Grant in accepting the nominal
the Presidency. and SO should we oil speak ana ioo'
For MANY months there has been very BAD state
~ Affairs in many counties Of West and Middle
Tennessee. Many Union men, white and colored'
have been murdered and beaten. As an illustra-
lion of the hgh-handed outrages of the disoyai anu
lawless Kuklux Khan, We may mention Tue osa'lne
almost TO death of man at Shelbyville Tor no otner
ofense as the rsscas themselves SAID thsn tnS' ne
tsurbt a oolored school Only few days since Mr.
Wyatt, aged about seventy years Chrlstlah
| gentleman and a member Of our State Senate
was taken from his homo and cruelty beaten
Many cases of the unprovoked murder OF
Union men could be mentioned but all
people who ever read Republican journal are Ia
miliar with the character of these outrsges 1t Is
not the policy of Rebel Democratic journals to say
anything shcot these oItrsges, and hence they sell
dom DO So When they do they almost invariably
say amen y to the murder Of Union man say
| ii is as it should be- Under the teachings Of the
Democratic newspapers of the State, which have
been for months making inhsmmatory appeals to
violence and lswlesness, things have come to that
pass in several portions of the State that great
deal of prudence and wisdom viii have to be exer-
cised by influential men of both parties to prevent
riots and bloodshed. The spectacle Of bands OF
armed men riding through the country and lynch
ing and numbering men for political opinions was
never witnessed in the Unied States Except during
the war when in some sections there was no semb-
lance of any law or authority until this Kuklu1
Khan was originated.
The secret political organization known as Know
Nothings became odious with the great mass Of the
people and was put down because it proposed i'm
posing certain political disabilities certain classes
on account of their birth place and religious views
But this organization, numbering among its mem-
bers one-half Of the leading men of both the Con-
sentative and Radical parties Of Tennessee OF to-
day, and many Of the editors of the Conservative
Rebel party of to-day, was peaceful, law-abiding
organisation and was never charged by its enemies
with contemplating violence and the disregard of
law. What Know Nothingism proposed to accom-
plsh it proposed to accomplish through the legal,
peaceful instrument of the ballot. The same may
be said Of the much abused Loyal Leagues
With them there has been no purpose Of violence
or disregarding the law to do anything, and their
enemies even do not pretend that there is.
Unless these outrages by this Kuklux Khan, sworn
they to resort to assassination if need be to
carry out their purposes, are stopped, civil is
inevitable The authorities of the State do not de-
sire this Members of the Radical party do not
wish it. But while this is true, it is also true that
they will not be longer bulled and longer unresist
ingly submit to these armed bands of desperadoes.
Rather than do SO they will have large militia
fierce organized for protection, and defend them
selves they are resolved, let the consequences be
what they NAV