Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-10
THE ADKINS MURDERI In GEORGIA

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The killing of Senator Adkins in
Warren county, some weeks ago,
caused great sensation and came
very near remanding Georgia back
to a provisional government and
military rule. Since the murder
the most assiduous efforts have
been made to discover the assassin,
but all to no purpose, A short time
ago a daughter of Adkins published
an address to the people Of Georgia
and of the Union, appealing to them
to avenge the death of her father
This was eagerly caught up
by the papers in the interest of
the Radical party, and an eff
fort was made to create the
impression that Adkins was a
martyr to his principles" 1t was
charged in the address bearing
Miss Adkins name, that the muir
derers of her father were known
and that the State authorities
would not arrest and bring them
to Justice. 1t has been further
said that Adkins himself before his
death stated that he knew his as
sassins and gave their names to his
family. The names of the parties
implicated by Adkins have never
been disclosed by his family, not
withstanding they have been ear
nestly importuned to do so. The
murder of Adkins, has furnished
the Radicals pretext to precipitate
the military upon the unoffending
citizens, and garrison is now
posted in Warren county, and the
Radical Attorney General of Geor-
gia, guarded by federal bayOnets,
has been busy for weeks trying to
get up all the details and minutis
of q first class Radical sensation.
But all these efforts have resulted
in nothing. The citizens have used
every possible effort to get the
family of Adkins to disclose the
names Of implicated parties, but they
have persistently refused to do so,
for what reason is known to them
selves. In regard to the matter,
the Warren Clipper, paper pubs
ished in the county in which Ad-
kins was killed, says:
"a committee, composed of Republis
cans and Democrats and also relatives Of
the family, petitiOned Mrs. Adkins to
give the names or name of the murderer.
She failed to answer the petition! The
committee waited upon the family, and
pledged themselves to arrest any one
they should designate as guilty Of the
crime, but Mrs. Adkins, who was within
a short distance of the house, refused to
see the committee, and the daughters
abruptly declined giving them any in
formation
Did ever a community do more to
aid in ferreting out crime? And was ever
the name Of murderer more tenaciously
withheld from the officers of the law?
There is a large number of troops
here, sent for the purpose of inveStiga-
ting the whole affair. The appeal is an
swered. The United States send her
soldiery to protect them, and the State
her Attorney General to advise and de-
fend them. Still, they hold the dying
declaration Of husband and father locked
up in their own hearts, and the mur>
derer goes unwhipped of justice.
1--WE now ask, and call upon the press
to echo the interrogation: Why are
not the guilty parties made kRoWn?
1--WE have confined ourselves to facts,
and leave each reader to draw his own
conclusions, holding within reach other
facts, if the above is not sufficient for the
Tribune's correspondent" ... ..