Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-19
BLOWING HOT AND COLD.
How Immigration is Hindered-The
Role the Governor n Playing.


There are thousands of people in Il
North who are looking Southwark e
homes, and very naturally such Peep
are inquisitive in regard to the locality
which they may desire to locate. Man
of these are good citizens, moral and il
| dust.ious, and would add much to th
material prosperity of any State in whic
they might choose to settle. Men de
string to permanently establish them
| selves in q new community also desire th
assurance of peace and security OF perso
and property. Thrust be patent to ever
one that the enormous fabrications an
menstrous representations in regar
to lswlessness and violence, SO studiousl
circulated by Brownlow's Wig, tn
| Press and Times, and Memphis Pos
and re-copied and disseminated by tn
New York Tribune throughout tn
North, have done more than aliother in
fluences combined to deter worthy mel
from taking up their abode in our State
while, on the other hand, they hav,
served as invitations to the carpetrbaggel
and bummer-the vulture and cormo
| rant-to flock down among us to tax.
advantage of our supposed disorder. W.
are led to these remarks by reading 8
correspondence between West Phila-
delphian and the Governor. Mr.. Johr
P. Tarraut, under date of November 30
writes to his Excellency to tell him the
truth about matters here. he has heard
so much of cowhiding and bloodshed in
this section that he says:
1--WE cannot exactly bring ourselves to
feel that our little ones would be safe, OF
the fruits Of our labor secure, in North
ern sense, in East Tennessee, even il
Grant is elected"
So it seems the torch and-turpentine
articles of the Wing, and its CO. laborers
in getting up Radical sensations and Ku~
klux horrors, have excited the fears of
Mr.. Tarrant, which the Governor very
promptly proceeds to set at rest. Hehed-
ges in handsomely on his editorials and
proclamations, and virtually says to his
correspondent, pay no attention to what
| say in the Wig about Rebel outrages.
| have to write them to keep up the ex-
citement and save the party. It's our
only hope, you see. But l can say to
you there's no truth in it. These Rebels
are the worst "cowed" people you ever
saw. Come on, there's no danger" We
say this is what the Governor virtually
says, for here is what he writes in reply:
"In reply to your letter l have to say,
end say it in candor East Tennessee,
above all places on earth, is the place for
you and your colony. We are psaceable,
quiet, loyal and prosperous, and you
'cOuld be as safe here as you aooaId
in Pennsylvania.
"The troubles and disturbances of
which you hear so much said are con.
fined to Middle and Vest Tennessee,
where the rebel influence predominates.
Come out and see for your
selves, and you will be constrained to
say, in regard to the advantages Of our
country, as the Queen said to the King,
4" the half has not been told !""
These are sonsoling words. They
sound well. They read admirably.
They will do the, anxious soul Of Mr..
Tarrant much good.
But what will he think when he turns
the sheet and reads the principal editorial
in the same paper that contains his letter?
A short time ago, the Presbyterian
Church in cambridge was destroyed by
fire. Two correspondents furnished US
accounts of the disaster, the substance CT
which was published, to the effect that
the cause of the fire was unknown
though it was supposed to have origina-
ted from the bursting of lamp that had
not been wholly extinguished. The OPP
pVrtunity for Sottlng up nrst-ciass
Kuklux sensation was not to be neglec-
ted by the Governor. So, in the same
copy Of the Wing that contains the
honeyed invitation to Tarrant and his
" colony" he charges the whole thing as
q rebel outragc. We make a few extracts:
1.-THE meeting OF Wednesday night was
taken up in discussing the free school
law of Tennessee and in unmasking the
plans Of the Rebels in the attempt now
making to repeal that law. Now their
wrath became rage. The church had, at
the close of the war, purged itself of a
nest of disloyal members, and Rebels had
endured it. Latterly the basement has
been in use for school Of colored chill
dren, and the Rebels had not laid hands
upon it, except in the trifing pleasantly
of stoning the teacher and the pupils in
the streets. But this loyal teachers in
stitute, and this plain dealing with RUM
selling, was the Feather that broke the
cancels back" So that night, at two
O'Clock, in the midst Of strong wind
from the east, Hopewell Presbyte-
rian Church was discovered to be on
fire.
That same night, at Chestnut Grove,
about three miles from cambridge, an
other church-in radically loyal neigh
borhood-was found to be on fire, by
near neighbor, who happened to be up
on account of sickness in his family. Run
ming down TO the church, he found fire
of fat pine knots in the middle Of the
room, and hole burnt through the floor,
but was luckily able to put it out"
"AIl the work of the Rebels, of course
This Christian article closes with the
following extremely piOus ejaclation, got
ten up in the very pest style of Gov.
Pearne:
30, that there was some way to make
the property of rich Rebels pay for the
damage done by Rebel hate outbreak
ing in arson Perhaps Muddy crock has
yet the duty before it Of purging Dan
bridge"
What hell we have in Tennessee
through the senior editors column
What a paradise we enjoy-through
Uncle Sans mail bags !-KnOrvWe
Press and Herald, Dec. II.