Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-01
RADICAL DEyILfRY.

Mere Troops 60 be Quartered upon the
People-MEfffary License to Annoy
and HINT Down, IL not Murder
PeaeesIsle Citizens.
The brutality Of "Brownlow's militia" is
still fresh in the memory of the people OF
Tennessee. 1t seems from the following
article from the Rockville WAig, that the
blood honnds from the Governors leash are
to be again let loose upon this people. The ]
reign Of terror which existed 10 Franklin /
county last year is to be re-enaetesi. And
the men who represent this State 10 Con-
gress are calling upon Brownlowto inaict
this addition outrage upon this people
From the Knoxville Wing. April q.
We present an important document be-
low. The Governor prepared tie first
draft of proclamation, covering the whole
ground in this matter, the week before this
Congressional document was received. He
is pleased, however, to be backed up in his
views and purposes with such a document
as this. The late militia act, reducing the
pay of priyates and officers 30 low, that
men could not serve, il is not the purpose
said act but TO call out otherwise, and to
rely upon the loyal people Of the State to
sustain him
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 2lst, 1865
| DEAR SIR: As constituents identified with
| you in the success of your administration,
we beg leave to call your attention 70 what
cannot have escaped your notice, the dis
| orders prevalent in certain localities of our
| State. Lawlessness and violence have at
tanned alarming proportions. Peaceable
citizens are terrified by threatening mis-
sives; the sanctity Of their homes is in
| vaded, often in the hours of sleep; their
| property is consigned to the flames; some
are seized and scourged aud otherwise
| cruelty miatreated; others are shot dead,
or hanged or subjected to some other form
| of murder and assassination. Punishment
| rarely follows; and in most instances, no
| form of legal redress is resorted to. On
the contrary, the victims of these outrages
are maligned, and their characters DETAINED
by the perpetrators, whose conduct finds
many TO connive at it, and not few to
| justify it.
Upon you, as the First Magistrate aud
| Peace Officer of the State, devolves the
| duty, under the Constitution and the laws,
of seeing these disorders suppressed. Not
| the statute law merely, but the common
| law, even without legislative enactment,
clothes you with very high powers. You
do not bear the sword in vain. The safety
| of the people is the supreme law; and
| nothing less than the exercise of all the
| physical and moral force of the State, by
summoning to your aid, if need be, all
| the good people of every age, sex, color
and condition, will satisfy its imperative
| requirements.
The community must be protected at all
| hazards and at whatever cost. Happily
| for our beloved State, the exercise of this
extraordinary authority has seldom been
required; so rarely, indeed, that some are
possibly unaware of its existence. We're
/ fer to it, therefore, rot only by way of adj
monition to evil ,doers but to shield you,
30 far az our counsel can do it, from the
imputation of transcending your just and
| legitimate powers, in taking all necessary
measures to suppress the maladies atiiicting
the people.
We respectfully suggest the propriety Of
organizing and arming, under the recent
act of Assembly, small militia force,
with judicious and competent officers, to be
1 stationed at points Wnere the CIVIL law Is
found the least efficient, to repress and pun
ish high handed crime. We know your
indisposition to impose unnecessary bur
dens upon our people, already oppressed
with debt and impoverished by war and
| have the utmost confidence that you will
exercise your great official powers, within
the limits of necessity as defined by the de-
mands of humanity. While we hope
not to see, our State government driven
to dependence upon national protection,
we, at the same time, hope soon to see the
moral influence of the national gov
eminent exerted in its behalf and against
| its enemies
We have the honor to be, very respect
fully, your obedient servants.
HORACE MAYNARD,
JOHN TRnIBLE,
SAMUEL M. AREELL,
w. B. STOKES,
JAMES MULLINS,
r. r. BUTLER,
JOSEPH s. FOWLER,
D. A. DUNN.
His Excellency VIM. G. BrownloW, Gov
ernor of Tennessee.