Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-07


out his brains, and ride off laughing at
the joke.
ain another county, two white Re-
publicans are taken from their beds, and |
cruelty whipped. -~rrrE-
Gin mother, colored preacher is shot
down by band of desperadoes, while |
niinistering in his pulpit
ain another, two colored citizens are
hung ap by the neck until they make o
solemn promise not to attend another
Republican meeting. .7ia Ia}D
"In more than one, the United States |
revenue officers are resisted and threat
ened with the loss Of life. ~. --..r
'From q score or more comes reliable
information that the ghostly machinery
of the Ku. Klux Khan has been set going,
and is to be used on election day to keep
colored citizens from the polls. h5yo.q|
SIT being known that here and there
an ex-Rebel citizen has consciens
tious scruples about voting upon his lilies
gal certificate, a leading Democratic
paper (the Memphis Appeal ridicules
such scruples I; tells them they never lost
the right to vote, and that it was only
withheld from them for time by usur-
patton and tyranny b1- a,a."'
1.-THE Rebel Democratic press through
out the State has utterly thrown aside
its pretended moderation is assailing
with most bitter and INSCRIPTIONS abuse
the opponents of Senter, and threatening
ccndign vengeance against ringers"
"carpetbaggers" and "scallawags."
Republican speakers are interrupted
with cheers for JEFF. Davis and the ku-
Klux>Klan. '- ..i.i e.i j
"Gen. Stokes himself is threatened
with assassination at Murfreesboro, and
the loyal men of that region are made to
pass through day of horrors which
they unite in declaring was worse than
aught that befell them in 1861.
This malignant traducer of Ten
nesseeans says "these are few of
the results of Senter's revolutionary
action" He takes very good care
not to locate these outrages, as in
that case he would furnish the sur
est means of disproving his asser-
tions; for they are nothing but the
fancics of his very vivid magma
ton. One or two instances will
suffice to show this. He says
"From a score or more (counties)
comes reliable information that the
ghostly machinery of the Ku-Kluz
Klan has been set going, and is to
be used on election day to keep
colored citizens from the polls
The election is over and not the
| slightest indication of the Ku-KluS
was seen anywhere in the State
Now, the Gazette's correspondent
manufactured this story, or he suf-
fered himselfto be imposed upon. HI
further declares that the Demo
cratic press is threatening with con
dign vengeance "niggers," carpet
baggers," and "scallawags," ant
that "Republican speakers are in
terrupted with cheers for JEFF. Davis
and the Ku-Klux KlaD." all Of which
existed only in his Imagination. HI
also declares that "Gen. Stokes wa
threatened with assassination a
Murfrcesboro." The Tennessee
correspondent of tho Cincinnati
Commercial gives this assertion :
quietus as follows:
"The State Journal claims that thu
spirit Of 81 runs riot at MurlreesborO
but in his Shelbyville speech Stoke
denied it, and explained why it was tina
he did not speak. Physical prostratioi
was the cause, and nothing else. O
course Stokes ought to know, for he ha
had considerable experience in "tht
spirit of '6l," having been prOminen
agent about that time in getting up tn
spirit
Here we have the Gazette's cor
respondent affirming one thing il
regard to Stokes, and then we hav
Stokes positive denial of the story
Which shall we believe? w
should think if the Cincinnati
Gazette had any regard for its re
f putation as a fair, honest journal
it would dispense with the service
of this malignant fellow. Tn
quotation we have made from hi
letter of the I'd inst. is a tissue 0
misrepresentation from beginnin!
to end.