Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-17

hands by the Radical cohorts, and wreak.
ing vengeance upon their political oppo.
nents. To Justify 1t in advising a resort
to mob law, that paper assumes that the
white men, who are not Radicals are
bent upon doing some mischief In H.
issue Of the 18th inst that paper saws i
III Is evident that that class of Knox.
v'he Rebels who stu swear they will es-
tabilsa Southern Coufederaeg, and their
more inlamous associates who call ~ Z
selves "ConserVatiVes,p are ba--
liner troubles and blood ---.-..,sn-
10. - oTenseiie" -. upon fur
'ue hSAo' -,aed. HitheE,1 we
peace, as have all men Of
--Gi party. These assassins have
S.islrued our course 20 mean scowardice.
We no longer counsel peace. War is what
they evidently desire, and In GODS name
We say let il come. OG Cav street they
/ (the Ashby sympathizsrs) have the ma.
jority. Inthe country we (the RadicalsI
have the majority. Our friends in The
country tell US they are all armed and prf-
pared 10 march into Knoxville on sboit
notice. Let the fight come, and that
speedily, and We win gut and clean out the
uisrnsl traitors and assassins who back
ashoy: camps fight is Olg fight; il ia the
hght OF every Union man 10 Knox county.
ana We viii stand by him to the death. -
Here is a personal difficulty in which
Oniy TWO men appear to. have partici-
pated, which is made to assume politi~
cal character, and that, too, by the
Governors own paper More than this
u Is made the pretext for denouncing in
bitter set phrases the political opponents
oil the Governor, and to invite a fragrant
breach OF the peace and the laws of the
State. The Governors paper counsels
peace no longer, but advises war, bloody,
discriminating war If this counsel
coming from the paper of which the
1oVernor Is the Senior Editor" is to
prevail, what security have the peaceable.
laW-abiding citizens of this State for life
and property The Governor paper
counsels peace no longer. The laws of
'he state which Ere ample for the protec-
tion OF life ard property, if executed in
'heir iet1',r and spirit, are to be thrown
ASIDE as weak inventions, and an
I'M Lriated mob is TO take the
redress of wrongs, whether real or
imaginary, into their own hands If this
may be done in Knox county, what as
surance have the people that it will not
be the rule in every county where the
Radicals feel they have the numerical
strength to carry it out2 This is the
bOldest step towards reign of terror
such as characterized France in the days
of the revolution, that has ever been put
forth by Governor in any State in this
Union, and ii shows the imminent danger
which menaces the peace and the liberty
Of the citizen in this State. While an
organ of the State government is demand~
ing the organization of a negro regiment
to dOmineer over the political opponents
Of that administration in West Tennes-
see, the Governors own paper, published
under his eye, is counseling resort to
the law of the mob. We have drifted
more rapidly upon the dangerous edge
OF things" than the greet body of the
people of the State perhaps imagine If
bloody work does not follow the revolu.
tionary teachings of the Governor own
paper, it certainly will not be because
the lawless among his political adherents
will not consider themselves licensed to
resort to the pistol and bludgoon to en-
force Radical ideas and Radical rule.