Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-09-10
ALABAMA.
Startling Developments.
Discovery OF q Negro Plot TO
Burn and Pillage-ArreSt
OF the COnSpiratOrS.
An Attempted Outrage FOIIed.
Effect of Radical Teachings i'm
Alabama.

From the hunISNlIe independent, Sept. D.
We learned yesterday from q gentle
man of Madison Station that when the
negro Bob Ice was arrested near Moores.
vile. he remarked that there was a sim.
liar organization to the Evans band, o.
Marshall, in existence in that nejghbor,
hood, and that a meeting would take
place at Bibb's Lane, on Friday night
ed inst.) This was made known to the
Sheriff of Limestone, who went quietly
and summoned a number of white citi~
zens to be ready at that time to go to
Bibb's Lane to prove the truth of lees
assertion. On reaching the place, they
found, sure enough, body of negroes
there, and succeeded in arresting five of
them, from whom they learned that
there was such an organization, and that
on Saturday night Qast night it was
their purpose to burn the store Of Will
liam Patterson, and kill him and the two
young Donnels and others. These ne
groes were secured, and on the next day,
our informant said, twenty-five more
were arrested, who were implicated as
members of the band. We suppose they
were all taken to Athens, where a full
investigation will be had.
1t appears that this section of country
was on the verge ola fearful enactment
of bleodshed, plumber and rapine, by
secret organizations of white and black
miscreants, and some Of them known to
be Radicals and loyal leaguers. With
such developments as have come to
light, what class of men stand forth as
of the law, and enemies of the
peace and quiet of the State? Is it the
'RebeP class, whom the Radical papers
have held up as enemies Of the govern
ment and fomentors Of strife. We dare
the leaders ofthe party to an investigaS
ton, and for one instance of Rebel law
we can show hundred cases Of
Radical deyiltry and outrage.
From the Huntsville Independent, Sept. 6.
We learn from citizen of Vienna that
The judicial investigation Of the charge
against Bob Ice, Loyal League negro, of
in outrages heretofore pub
ished) on the Stevens family in the
western part Of Marshall county, and in
/ conspiracy of negro and white Loyal
Leagues to blow up the village of Vi
,nna and kill certain citizens, was set for
Friday last at Ices Spring. Bob, after
lis arrest in Limestone, was taken back
o Marshall county by his captors and
vas under guard at his own house on
Thursday night last. when body Of
.rmed men went to his house, and one of
hem shot him through the bowels with
sixshooter, and then entered the house
nd discharged the other five balls into
lin, killing him. We understand that
he man who shot him was without
my disguise whatever, and was not
,nown by the guard or any one else in
he house.
1t is said that after shooting Bob he |
vent to Bob's wife and asked her, "Do
'ou know me?' She answered, mo-
Ie replied, "It's well you DON'T" and
sked the guard if they knew him. They
eplied in the negative, and he and his
rowd rode of. 1t is said the confession |
# Bob, or some other of the conspira-
ors, implicate a white man named |
}rumstan, tory of that vicinity DUR
ng the war and a Loyal Lacquer since,
n doing the writing for the cOnspirators.
3ob's testimony led to the discovery Of |
he ploC Of negroes to destroy the lives
# white men near Jones' Lane, Lines
tone county, an account of which we |
opy from Sundays Independent.
This taking Of the law into ones own
lands is a serious evil, and greatly to be
but it is the natural result
f the present condition of affairs.
People have no confidence in the admins
ration of justice by men who have ass
umed the robes Of Office and the exer-
Use of official authority, in violation Of
tatutory law, and of the constitution,
which used to be recognized as the su-
rene law Of the land.
rom the Fayetteville Tenn.) Observer. Sept.9
We have been placed in possession of
he particulars of an affair in which two
coundrels received what they deserved.
n Limestone, near the border of this
county, resides a gentleman who, last
week, was called from home on business,
o be absent two days. About nightfall
# the day of his departure, two travellers
topped at his house, and asked permits
ion to remain over night The
ady objected, alleging as o reason,
hat her husband was absent but
IpOn being assured that the applicants
we're gentlemen, finally consented that
hey should remain. Late in the night,
here was loud knocking at the door,
which aroused the lady, as it did also her
,uests in another part of the house. Up
N opening the door, she was seized by |
i've masked men and dragged into the
'ard with evil intent. At this moment
he guests, who had approached the door
fired, killing two of the as
atlantis, and the other three Immediately |
led. The corpses, on unmasking, were
ounl IN ha neUrnaS