Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1864-1869, 1868-10-10
Number 1S.

GEORGIA AND TENNRssET.-lt is hard to
determine who are responsible for outragcs
like that reported from Camilla, Georgia.
Two different accounts of this class of distur-
Dances always appear-the one Democratic,
the other Republican, Each always puts the
whole of the blame on the other and not even
the wisdom of Solomon could decide from the
internal evidence how much ofeither to believe
Reasoning from experience on the subject of
American election mobs, it may safely be
said that the severest condemnation of such
murderous outbreaks should rest not upon
the rank and file Of either side, but on the
leaders who communicate their partisan fury
to the easily excited materials of which poll
cal meetings are composed. With reference
to the unfortunate affair at Camilla, if it i
true that the radical candidates armed
u band of negroes and marched from Balm
bridge, or any other point into that town, to
overawe the citizens or impress them with
sense of radical strength, then we should be
obliged to regard the radicals as the aggressive
party and fix upon them the chief responsible
lity for the blo0dshed The other version of
the story admits that the negroes did march
into the town, but denies that they were ar
med, II the latter part of this statement is
correct, then we should wait for further and
more impartial testimony before Undertaking
to apportion the degrees of blame, But rs to
the prime responsibility of the rash and intem-
pcrate leaders of one party or the other, there
can be no question.
In this connection we are glad to commend
the course resolved upon by the Democratic
Executive Committee of Tennessee, They
have been meditating on the negro question,
and have decidedto pursue towards the freed
men policy of kindness and conclioton.
Hitherto, whatever has been the attitude of
the Tennessee conservatives towards the ne
groes, they have been misrprcsentcla as filled
with the spirit of hatred and persecution. To
correct this impression and show the negroes
who are their real friends the committee have
published an address, the tone of which is
quite moderate for political document,
emanOting from the South The portion ad-
dressed to the negro voters is as follows;
Accepting facts Ns we find them, recogniz-
ing inevitable truths as they exist, blinded
by no prejudices of the dead past to the obs
curity and detrimcnl of our interests in the
living present, unbiased by passion obeying
the dictates Of reason rather than of impulse,
with the courage to be just tat our quarrel
be thrice armed, acting honestly up to the
ayowcd principles of ourparty that there shall
be no taxation without representation, let it
be universally proclaimed throughout the
Democratic party in Tennessee, Nnk,and file,
front and rear, that no colored citizen of the
State uniting with us in the overthrow of q
common tyranny and in the redemption Of
our noble State shall be disturbed in any of
his vested rights, if through bis agency our
own rights should be restored to Us. With
this distinct and unequiyoeal pledge to the
people through whom and with whom we EN-
alone expect to triumph over the common OPP
prcssor, there can be no shadow of doul t as
to the triumphant result of our combined
action. Our own interests and those of our
colored citizens being mutual, and the inter
csts Of the radical adventures being diNmetr-
cally opposed to both, this course upon our
part is demanded by every consideration of
party cNpcdicncy common gratitude, and
right,