Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-19

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Men OrgaaizIng-scareisy Of Money,
etc, etc.
Correspondence Of the Union and Dispatch.
BR1sroT, Jan. II, 1s6S.--There is con.
siderable excitement in this place over the
threatened revolution. Every omen indi-
Gates such woful reality. Each days
revelation, independent Of the reasonable
caucusing and usurpations at Washington,
tells too plainly to the observing mind that
fearful aud bloody work il at our doors,
unless something is done to crush the revo-
lutionary movement in its inception. As
an evidence of this, the negroes throughout
this country have been, for some days,
diligently collecting arms-purchasing
them-going to the merchants and en-
deayoring TO purchase cartridges for such
arms They boldly affirm that the time is
near at hand when they shall obtain their
tortg acres of land and fair division Of The
goods and chattels of the Rebels" and
Conservatives.
A few days since negro remarked that
he was from South Carolina; that when =
left the Gold State he would not speak his
sentiments, but he could do so now, and
that with the prospect Of greater privileges
and immunities. When questioned as TO
where he obtained his information as TO
the probability OF the negroes obtaining
forty acres Of land each, he said that M.
Horace Maynard, 1r. TfOsObridge, and Mr..
Bropnlow and son, had made these statements
IN their loyal league councils! He was
Intercepted as TO when he heard the last
speech upon this subject and who was Its
author. Presuming bis catechiser to be a
good Radical, he said that Horace May
nard made The speech-delivered day or
two after his return from Washington, in
the African Church, in Knoxville. He said
that the far-seeing Horace told them that
it might be sometime before they should
obtain their lands, but that they would
obtain the grant sometime chat the
matter was under consideration at
Washington He said that all
the negroes were armed-not one
in the whole country without some kind of
arms, and that if Congress should pass an
act granting" them the lands of the
Rebels and Conservatives that they would
have them at all hazard. If the Rebels or
their friends should refuse to give them
up they would seize them at the point of
the bayonet; and that the "colored man /"
who would not assist in driving from the
country or killing the Rebels 20 this end
should be hung. He said that he was
ready for the work at any time. If killed
in the struggle his race wonld be bene-
fitted by his sacrifice!
Such are the ideas entertained by the
negroes in this portion of the kingdom, or
the once republicl There is a source, a
cause for such ideas. They are not origi- |
nal with the negro. The responsibility il
easily located.
This morning, gallows deserving skunk,
one Of Brownlow's militia, was found in |
the kitchen of one of our citizens in this |
place, trying to sell pistolto negro, evil
IDENTIFY attempting to aid in the work of |
revolution. Daily armed bands of these |
filthy, worthless and starving negroes can |
be seen wandering through the country |
around this place, hunting and shooting |
with as much IMMUNITY and impudence as
though there was no law, and the whole |
country was subservient 10 their dietation |
or rule. A majority of them show but |
little disposition to work, preferring to pill
fer-ioyfully awaiting the GLORIOUS day of |
distribution" To counteract negro suprem- |
acy, organizations are being formed through |
out East Tennessee, (atieast in this por- |
tion), known az the WHITE MANS PAR
TY," which promises to be ar effectual |
barrier to all negro domination where such
exist
We understand that as many as FIVE |
hundred men belong to one of these organ |
izations, made up of men from all parties, |
having for their purpose the forcing of the |
negro from the country. The hostility to- |
ward the negro increases daily, not on the |
part of Rebels or Conservatives alone, but |
also among some of the most bitter Radi- |
calls.
In consequence of the unsettled state of
affairs at Washington, and the proAigate
legislation which has characterized not
only Tennessee, but Virginia, in connec-
ton with the present issues in the conyen-
tiOn of the latter, all enterprise is at a
stand still. Property of no kind can he
sold. Lands in Scott and Lee counties, of
Southwestern Virginia, have been adver-
tised for months without single sale. There
is no money off from the railroad. And
even in East Tennessee proper, real estate
is not held at its former figures by fifty
per cent. This is the result of Radical
rule OBSERVER.