Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-29

FROM the Knoxville Press and Herald
we learn Of one OF the most Infamous
cases OF outrage that has ever been per-
petrsted in the State. The scene trsns-
pired in Blount county, ia loyal East
Tennessee, very near to the sacred pre-
einct where BROwNLOw breatkes, and
where the various Radical states srs
made up and revised. A modest, zeal
Gus, EARNEST disciple Of CHRIST, a faith.
fol minister Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church S)uth-Rev. JACOB SMITH
who, last March, succeeded to the circuit
of the faithful Rev. HENRY C. NEAL.
while On his way to preach before an or
Derby and devout congregation, was set
upon by Q crowd Of Disappearing Radi-
Gals, black ard white, who first killed
his horse and then assaulted him in &
most brutal and rufianly manner, &C.
campaigning their demonstrations with
b~laspbemy and obseenity Of the lowest
character. They beat him on the head
and body with clubs and pistols, and Of
fered him the grcssest personsI indigni-
ties. This not satisfying them they took
him into the woods, about q half mile
from he road, end there stripping
him TO his shirt, TIED him to
3 tree AID whipped him with
clubs and switches until he was well
nigh robbed OF life. Th& then LET'S
him. a few minutes after their DEPART
nre a party Of citizens who had been ssn-
moned to the assistance Of the poor gen.
tleman found him quite&int from the
excessive brutality TO which he had ben
subjected. Previous to this MIR. SuITTr
had been insulted ard annoyed, Il il suo-
posed by tie same psrty, the etcry ~
which he tells in simple, plain and
Christian language, praying al the
while, as did STEPHEN, for his persecu.
tors. Against this fresh iufsmy, the
Knoxville Wing offers 2 feeble protest
suggesting ct the Same Tina what il
false, that it was to be expected in view
Of similar treatment having been melted
TO Northern preachers in his section.
Nothing could exceed this In false.
hood, unless it be one OF BROWN
LOWS p-roclamations. But, granting
1t a truth, does 0ne wrong Justify
another? OF course not. TIE plea is only
advanced IS q fimsy excuse for an out
rage that will tingle the blood Of every
honest mA and that win mantle with
shame the. cheek of every person who
at all yielded to the refining aud
eievating influences Of Christianity. The
truth IL, IS the Press AID Herald tells il
" that this outrage. ike the many which
have preceded il Ia the am section. Is
the direct and the expected, yes, and the
wished foF result OF the ineendiarv and
wicked teachings of the officials Of the
Methodist Church, NoEth-the loyal
ehurch-of the Simpsons, the Pearnes.
the Spenees and the Drakes.
These men have used the cloak Of
loyalty to carry out the schemes of per-
sousl sgrsndiz smsnt. Under the lying
pretense Of a feIvent patriotism and an
undying loyalty, they have taken the
property OF churches and Of indigidusl
members, and have applied it 10 their
own use. In violation not only OF Chris
tan courtesy, but even OF common de-
csncy, they have assumed to take posses.
sion OF the entire property Of the Metho- /
dist Church South, to which the body
they claim fellowship with renounced.
years ago, its claims, and not satisfied
with the seizure of the property, they
have spared no pains to sir up strife, ill.,
fesling and contention smsug brethren
ald kindred. By their preaching, thsir