Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-15
GILES COUNTY.
VindieatiOn Of the People Of Gamers
VIIIe-ResOIutionsA Adopted at a Pub-

Findteation Of the People Of Corners
VIIIe-ResOlutions Adopted at a Pub-
lie Meeting. i..s.rr q a
The following communication comes to
us from ten welI-known and responsible
citizens of CornersvilIe, whose character
for yeraeity is unimpeachable They state
that thirty-eight citizens enrolled their
names and took part in the meeting which
adopted the accompanying resolutions;
To the Editors of the Union and Dispatch.
CoREERsyTLLE, TENN, July ii, 1865
We notice in the Press and Times of July
9th, report of maltreatment Of the colored
people of our vicinity which Is calculated
to injure us in the estimation of strangers.
But for the gross Misrepresentation OF facts
above referred to, we would not have trou-
bled the public with an account of the re-
cent insuFrectionary demonstrations on the
part OF the colored population in the vi
cinity Of our hitherto peaceful and happy
village. The accompanying preamble and
resolutions will give true statement of
facts as they occurred. They were unani-
moUsly adopted al a large meeting OF eur
citizens without respect to politics. In the
Press and Times il is stated that ga dozen
or more colored men arrived from Giles
county, Tennessee, with narratives of hard
ships and suffering which they had received
in our community" leaving their crops
unhOused, (?) their families driven to the
woods and they only escaping with their
lives, ETC., etc. We know of q few who
have recently left their homes and families
-fugitives, not for, but from Justice. One
colored man, Walter Scott, left in haste a
few days ago, there being warrant out for
his arrest on charge of stealing a bride
and saddle from w. II. johnson. Parties
went TO arrest him in open day-the bride
having been found in his house-but he fed
the country, and il one of the reporters of
the sufferings of the poor freedmen.
Nose and Stanhope Body and Guy, also
left the country few days ago, all having
been in the armed, threatening, insurrec-
tionary movement referred to in the pre-
amble and resolutions accompanying this
communication.
Nose Body and Guy are charged land
there are respectable witnesses at hand
who will give evidence of the fact, with
firing upon a peaceable citizen who was
returning late at night to his home from
meeting of the l. o. OF.
Mink Burk, who was killed in the at
tempt to kill others, was a colored man,
the same who was recently convicted of
stealing hogs and bacon, and sent to the
penitentiary, but was shortly released by
the Governor and turned loose upon the
country. He was also a leader in the in
surrectionary movement above referred to.
Mention is also made in the Press and
Times of Bcwles' school, of forty children
being broken up Bowles taught two ses-
sions or more near Cornersville, and closed
both sessions, never having been beat or
otherwise molested At the close of the
last term, he announced he would teach no
more, as he had not been paid for his ser
vices, only having received four dollars,
and that was paid him by Mundy, a eolOred
Conservative
The report in the Press and Times that
the children of the fugitives are in the
woods, is wholly untrue.
The worst and most libelious statement
published in the Press and Times, to wit
that the house of Mrs. Mary Gordon is the
rendezvous of robbers and murderers,
"0ho meet almost nightly at her house and
plan their internal Work Of blood" Ia infa-
mously false. Mrs Gordon is too well and
favorably known by the citizens of the
country TO need vindication. .....st
REVOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT A PUBLIC MEET
CoRNERsvILLE, TENN, July l, 1863
We, your committee appointed at pre-
vious meeting to prepare resolutions ex-
pressive of the sense Of this meeting, beg
leave to report that we have had the sub
ject Of the recent insurrectionary move
ments in our town and community under
consideration and in view of the fact that
on the nights of the Goth and 9th of last
month, large number of colored persons,
about forty or fifty in number, marched
into the town of Cornersville in military
order, carrying army guns, congregsted in
and about a school house on the public
road, placed ont their pickets large
number of their men taking their
positions behind rock fence, and halt
ing peaceable and unarmed persons
passing along the pike, at the same time
cooking their guns in a threatening and
defiant manner, and remaining at their po-
sitions until IL o'clock at night, when they
we're prevailed on to retire, by being as
sured by some Of our citizens that they
would not be interfered with if they would
do so in an orderly manner. The commit
tee further state that, for days previous to
the time above alluded to, hostile demon
STATIONS were made by colored men stand
ing as pickets during the night on the
public roads within one mile and half Of
our village, firing their guns, and retiring
before daylight, greatly to the alarm and
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further state that from all the facts and
evidence before them, in order to restore
peace in the community and maintain the
dignity of the law, the offenders and guilty
persons, both white and cOlored, should
speedily be brought before the civil au-
thorities, and dealt with as the law directs
in such cases. Therefore, -
LIST. Be it Resolved, That the observance
of law and order being the only guide for
the preservation Of peace and prosperity in
our country, justice should be extended to
all according to the laws, and all persons
held amenable to law without distinction
of color.
End. Resolvd, That We do most sincerely
oppose wrong and violation of law from all
and every source whatever, and ardently
desire to live in peace and harmony with
all, granting equal rights to the eolored
people under the law.
3rG. Resolved, That we, as your COM
mittee, recommend that proper and legal
steps be taken Immediately to bring to trial
the guilty persons engaged in, and those
aiding or abetting, the recent riotous and
insurrectionary movements.
Tho. J. KENNEDY, Chairm'n.
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GEO. s. ALTMAN.
DIPTHERIA IN HoRsEs.-The papers
say an extraordinary and fatal disease has
broken ont among horsea in the neighbor-