Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-26
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Nczro President and Cross breed See.
rotary.
W.,ropoIitan police Political Hire
inEs.
Should an iIl-wind blow some pestiien-
,iaI eraft laden with all the damnable dis
eases that "Aesh is heir tor 10 the Nash
Vile shores; or should Pandora'abox with
all its internal contents be spread loose
upon the crowded city, we hardly deem the
mischief could be half equal 10 the infer
nal conclave that assembled At the Court
house yesterday. God Almighty, when he
inflicted Egypt with the @seven plaques"
overlooked, or else had hensr iaeenios a "nig-
ger-Radical hummer scailawag eOnyen-
ton" No, he certainiy could never have
lhOught Of them, for trarsferenoe Of a
anall.si5sa one, such as we haye here in
Nashville, into the midst Of PharaOh's do
mains would have .humbled the haughti-
ness Of hat august sovereign in 1 triee.
But, Of the scallawags we write, when 9
o'clock p. NJ, the hour Of assembling, had
arrived, the passages TO the courthouse
were literally blocked by the moving,
sweating, sinking mass Of negro bummers,
cross-breed bummers, scallawags, pimPs,
hangers on, "black spirits and white, blue
spirits and gray,ph beautifully mingled,
mixed and eonglomerated, after the fashion
Of sandwiches, Of bread, meat and mustard,
which is somewhat in this manner, first,
slice Of "Noo Inglan" cross-breed, then 4
layer Of Ethiopian, saddle-colored OctorOop
mustard big piece Of Ham, in fact sey-
eral pieces Of Ham, "biled' ham, "stooeP
ham, and ham la mode, and lastly, 4 bot
tom layer Of stale cross-bTeed.
That was the crowd. Some Cor Mercer,
some for Prosser, some anybody, everybody
and nobody but themselves. They kept up
such furious yelling that it would have
put the ''Yshoo'sp 10 blush, had they been,
beside them. Some were cursing, swearing,
gesticulating, sweating sinking and mena-
eng each other for fully an hour, when a
squad Of the Metropolitan Police, humber
ing twenty-five or thirty, arrived upon the
spOt and commenced brandishing their shil-
lalahs in furious mountaineering two
or three white Cd men and a negro named
Alexander Sumner, and carried them of TO
police headquarters.
Up stairs ia the third story the
convention Of wire-WOrkers had as
sembled and the police guarded the
portals AT length they Organized"
and the command was given to unbar the
door The crowd, a yelling mob Of de-
mons, rushed forward, but were confronted
by the MetropOlitans with orders to show
their Certificates" Those who possessed
60. a 4
Radical sneak, Sias F. Allen, whom we
ventilated through our columns a few days
since we're passed in behind the can
vas !" others who had them not, were ex--
cluded. Such VlllianOus proceedings were
entirely unlocked for by the Merceriies,
who gathered their clans aud assembled on
the second floor. Following the Prosser-
ites we went up ia the third story, and
saw such mongTel set as we never wish 10
see again.
Across the center Of the room a railing
was placed 10 keep the small fry" ont,
while from the railing back 20 the walls
was a dense crowd Of negroes. On the in
eide were the delegates, who were appoint
ed from the city, Thursday nigl last
Bin Sumner, a buck aigger VAS made
Chairman, and a cross breed hummer,
named Gray with a selfstyled title Of
"Major" acted az Secretary Allen Nc
Teer, the spider-legged negro captain Of
"hook and ladder boys,D was given the
office Of Assistant Secretary, and write"
nObly, too, did Allen perform his duty.
The convention, after some moments con-
fusion, then got to work. glance around
the assembly revealed 20 the optics of the
reporter, Randall Brown "Msiaw" Hop
kings, "Doclhor" Sprawling, Nobody"
Peabody, Northwestern lines, and others
and others. Business commenced. A COM
mittee of FIVE was appointed TO select del
egates to the Congressional District Con-
yention, which assemblies here on the 10Th
of August. ~
After q few moments palavering, they
returned the following names, as delegates
TO the Congressional District Convention
Enos Hopkins W. j. Murphy, Nathaniel
Brown, o.. s. Flagler, JAS. Whitney, VIM.
@. Kinney, jackson McLain, Jno. Bent
ley, Hook Patton, a. A. Carter, Allen Nc
Teer, ID. w. Peabody, John Cockrill, Jno.
Chumbly, Henry JOlley, A. ID. Otterson,
s. f. Allen, Julius Hadley, Fred w. Spar
ling, Squire Fame, +. T.. eagle, w. p.
Innes, Randall Brown, Robert Il. Knowles,
T. G. Boughton, JAS. johnson, Morris
2. Clark, Jas. Allison, Robert johnson,
VIM. A. Garrett, VIM. Austin, Hugh
Overton and w. w. Ingersoll. i
The following Central Committee was
also appointed M. b. Kockel, w. G. Kin
ney, A. S. McTeer, A. ID. Otterson, Ran
dali Brown, John Ruhm, All. Washing
ton, Ii. II. Hammer, j. Whteman, II. c.
Buchanan, X. johnson, NJ. p. Clark, w.
A. Garrett.
A motion was made by Bill Sumner,
Chairman, TO instruct the Davidson county
delegation in the State Convention TO cast
the vote of the county for 7. A. Hamilton,
of Shelby county, as Congressman at large
for the State.
After a great deal of discussion, and
little crawtishing' on the part Of ''ye doc
thor, " who was a Joe Cooper man until he
found the "nigs" were for Hamilton, when
he came over beautifully, and the motion
prevailed. &. EfE.HE lsf8t
Moved BY Peabody, that the District
Convention be instructed 20 cast the vote Of
Davidson county entire, through the Chair
man, FOR Prosser.
During the absence Of one Of the COM
mittees, Senator Garner, Of the Tennessee
Senate being present a furious cry was
raised for a speech from him, He favored
them, OF ooigse. The fellows outside the
railing kept up such a noise that it was i'm
possible for our reporter % catch the gist
Of his argument, but from snatches Of his
talk heard between times, be concluded
that Garner was an ''Anti-Kukluxer," full
Of fulsome abuse Ter the Democrats, and
even going 30 far ar TO style the New York
Democrat Convention the "Cucluck' Con-
Ventiou. #-... I..
1 The committee returned after few mo-
ments, and reported the following Fellows
IA delegates 60 the State Convention which
assemblies here on the 20ih inst
ID. ID. Dickey, Jno Hugh Smith, VIM.
Shane Jno s. Mullins, Richard sPagsley,
WIN Wright Jno w. Cloyd, Jno Ruhni,
Robt. J. Hayes, T. J. Sheridan, Buck
Lewis, Jas. sumner, ID. W. Classic, Alex.
Glesves, Adam Wolfe, Jnu. Brown, J. b.
Re1iord, Hick Fleming, B. +. Cook,
Alfred Washington, 4. Johnston, Randall
Brown, VIM. Gray, r. &. Trainer, w. q.
| Erenp Nm C,ufhprlahd Nm lehman.