Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-04
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Alarming Condition Of Affairs.
The Negroes Openly Threaten
Outrage.
The Police Profess Themselves
POWerleSS to Protect
Our Lives and
Property.

The fearful consequences to result from
negro supremacy are APPLY illustrated b.
the course of the lately enfranehised ne.
groes in this city. Every demonstration
they make is attended by outrages all the
more shameful because utterly unproyoked.
Whenever they parade, every squad is Of
hcered by negro armed with a drawn
sword; while it is safe to presume that
nearly every one of these neW-made voters
! carries concealed weapons.
1t Is but short time ago that they held
a meeting at the City Hall at Which a full
Company of armed and uniformed Zouayes
were present. At the conclusion of their
proceedings they sacked stores, carried off
their contents and destroyed the furniture
and fixtures. Another time they serenaded
Mayor Bowen, and after his address they
stoned drug store, smashing windows and
bottles, and INDUCED in many similar
amusements alongthe line Of march. Their
recent terrible outrages are fresh in The
memories of our readers. An aged and
honored citizen, high officer of the Grand
Lodge of Free Masons, while peaceabIv
proceeding from the hall 70 his home. was
brutality assaulted by band of negroes
who had been parading the streets seeking |
to create a riot, and was cruelty beaten |
with clubs for no offence whatever. Police |
officers were assaulted and almost killed. |
White women were insulted and brutality /
beaten. Stores we're sacked and windows |
smashed all along the route. Another |
time an inOfensive spectator was struck |
with razor and killed.
But our space will not permit us to par
tCularize further. The negroes have, |
since these outrages, openly proclaimed |
their purpose the next time they paraded |
to clean out establishments "where they /
could get something" and their fulls in
tention to do so cannot be doubted. Hear
ing that demonstration was to be made
last night, the police visited stores along
Pennsylvania avenue and besought tine
owners to close their establishments as
they would no doubt be attacked, and they
(the police were powerless to protect
them
What a fearful commentary is this on
the Radical policy of exaltiDg the negro
above the white, Here, in the very eve
of the government, in the very face of the /
supreme authority Of the nation, the lives
and the property of our citizens are openly
threatened, and the authorities proclaim |
themselves powerless to defend us Des-
pite all ihese robberies and murders, not a
negro has been brought to Justice, and |
while Radical rule continues probably none |
ever will.
The people of the North do not hear of
these things, and when they do they think
them exaggerated. The Radical papers
carefully exclude all reports of them, and
denOunce the accounts in Conservative |
journals as "Rebel lies, at the same time
their own columns are crowded with manu-
featured reports of Rebel outrsges.
Could the Northern people but witness for
themselves the condition to which the ne
gro-ruled South is reduced By the outra-
geous Legislation of a Radical Congress,
the last yestige of Radicalism would be |
speedily swept from the land. Still, we |
are not without strong confidence in the +!
intelligence and patriotism of the people,
and their firm purpose to sustain their
rights and liberties Washington Express,
October 81.