Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-15
FROM EAST TENNESSEE.

The Radicals Opposing the Negro
and One IL Elected notwithstanding
"A BushwhReker Meets with Ter
ribIe Death. etc, etc.
Correspondence of the Union and Dispatch
BRISTOL, Tenn., March 8, 1SGS.-Radi
| cal impudence and usurpation at Wash
ington, seconded by the prefer of iks
Legislature to aid in this work of treasos
against the national government, has giyer
new life to the mobs which have hitherto
| cursed East Tennessee The leaders Oh
| prime movers in this work of lawlessnes:
and outrage, feeling the eensure and criti-
eislms of the press, have determined to give
success to their fiendish and savage pnr-
| poses if the country is plunged into an
other revolution, or the woful scenes that
| followed the close ofthe war are re-enacted
Since the recent outrage upon Rev. II.
| @. Neal, in Blount county, there have been
| frequent efforts at outrage upon other min
listers whose sympathies were known as
having been identified with the South.
Where ministers preached a few weeks
since with impunity, to their Aocks or
churches, they dare not show themselves I'm.
derpenalty of being mobbed Their churches
or communities of worship have invaria-
bly, been visited by some emissary of that
most despicable ofall organizations, known
TO the country as the Northern Episcopal
| Church. These gallows-deserving scape-
| goats, in order to influence and prejudice
the popular mind against the Southern
masses, harangue their congregations upon
their suferings- they endured for
| the Union that the Southern ministers were
the cause of the thousands of Union men
| having to cross the Cumberland mountains
into Kentucky, and that they should not
suffer them 10 minister unto their Rebel
friends anywhere in the country" One
miserable old opostdte, whom rumor
says was among the John Brown raid
ers, but made his escape, delivered
a Sermon" of this character few days
SINCE just after administering the
Lords sacrament! The consequence was
that the church doors were nailed up and
notice given to the minister who had been
preaching there not TO return; that if he
did, he would get the dose administered to
the Rev. Mr.. Neal, in Blount county. This
occurred in Sewer county. But a short
distance from the above place few days
afterwards, a minister was met some fifty
yards from his church door by "men"
armed with clubs, who told him that the
services of that day were his last in that
church; and that should he persist in re-
turning they would put an end to his ex-
istence This was done in the presence
of ladies who accompanied the minister
These "men" we're committee, appointed
to give this cowardly, but truly Radical,
notice. A few miles north Of this place,
a .so-called Rebel minister was deferred
from preaching on the 1st inst. by a mob of
one hundred and fifty Loyal Leaguers,"
all of whom were armed as if for battle
The savage Capt" Fulkerson, who
headed the mob which executed the bloody
work of Pearne & Co., in Blount couaty,
heretofore communicated made speech,
after the "loyal work" was performed, in
which he told his band to stand by the
step they had just taken, and should the
Rev. Mr.. Neal ever make his appearance
again in the community, to make such dis
position of his carcass as would preclude
any further trouble as to his influence. In
concluding his speech to the mob, he used
the following infamous bat characteristic
language: 'If you can't stop the assem-
bling together of these id Rebel Metho-
dists by threats, drive them from the
country. If this remedy is found too
troublesome, cut their id backs to pieces,
male and female; aud should they then
persist in worshiping, according to the
Southern method, cut their Cd id
throats-annihilate Them" The glorious
work has commenced-now keep the ball
rollingp These are the words of an in-
famous blackguard and outlaw, who came
very nigh being elected Representative
from the county to a seat in rump No. .,
aud is an aspirant still for this "honor."
These Ignorant blackguards and coward
ly murderers are prompted to such measures
by influences of stronger character than
those engendered by mere local differences.
Political aspirants, in the shape of North
ern Methodist ministers" are at work in
the back grOund-urging the "commen
herd" as Horace Maynard calls them, on
to the attack. These deluded wretches are
TO keep up the strife-deter Conservative
men from the county, so as to enable them
to ride into Office. 1t will be for the voting
population of Tennessee, in the next CUB
ernatorial election, to vote for or against
one of these infamous preachers-political
hucksters. Mark the prediction. Senter,
Smith, Aldridge, and such other aspirants
for the Executive chair, are going to find
bitter and determined opposition in the
person indicated. Some aspirants, in the
more eastern portion of the State, have
already smelt mouse" Cline proves
all things" is an old saying we bide
time to the elimination of these conolu-
sions.