Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-09-08
mORELAwLESSNESSI II


OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IN TENNESSEE.
The Maryville Republican is pubs
lished by a negro man and edited
by his son. When the Republican
abandoned Stokes and espoused the
cause of Gov. Senter, the friends of
the former became greatly incensed
at the publisher and editor, and
vowed that they should not vote.
So vehement were the Stokers in
their denunciation Of Scott and his
son, that the latter deemed it pru-
dent to stay away from the polls,
in order to avoid q collision that
might result in serious conse-
quences. The Republican of the
4th inst, contains tho following al
fusion to the affair:
"Why is it that certain parties so readi-
IL and perSistently deny that threats
NGlb AldAG d3dll1SI 10 VII GlEGLlOu Ndl
They must be in some way connected
with the plot to mob US if We voted. We
repeat again, that persons did make
threats against US, which we can prove
by competent witnesses, white and cOl-
ored. We care nothing about this mat
ter, only to correct falsehood. We have
no feeling Of hatred or vindictiveness
toward those who boot at US under the
cover Of darkness or threaten US with
mOb>law if we dare exercise our free will.
Ours is a nobler cause, that aims at the
complete triumph Of freedom, law, justice
and humanity, Salts verLorum"
Here was an act Of lawlessness
which has never attracted the at
tcntion of the Radical press. If
these negroes had been kept away
from the polls by white men who
profess no sympathy with the RAD
zeal party, is there q man in all this
broad land who does not know that
the Radical press would have
grown eloquent over the wrongs of
these negroes? This was a clear
case of lawlessness; we have the
testimony Of the negroes them
selves on this point, yet because
they were objects Of Radical ven
geance, there is no demand for a re-
dress Of their wrongs. This case is
not pointed to as an evidence of the
disloyalty Of Blount county, and OF
the absolute necessity for the pres
ence of military to assist in enforce
ing the laws and preserving the
peace. These evidences of the law
less character of large numbers of
tho Radicals are TO he found all over
the State, but they are passed over
by Radical politicians and journals
very quietly, as such occurrences
brand with hypocrisy the wall they
have raised over the late "unpleas
antncss' in Rutherford county.
HEADING OFF ANDREW JOHNSON.
Thd Press and Times has dis
covered a new way to head off ex-
President Johnson, whom itregards
as formidable candidate for United
States Senator. In its issue Of yes
terday it says:
"Thefe are indications given by the ex-
tremists on both sides that The erection of
4 separate State ont of East Tenne 'see will
soon he press, I with more energy and
earnestncss than it ever has been before.
There are ouicroppjnss Of deep seatsd
dislike TO that division Of the State in sew
eral Democratic journals Of West Tennes-
see, and the dis,lke is cordially returned
in the East. II good sen'e should control
our STATE councils, "a we trust may be the
case, the III feeling will soon blow over;
but a few hctspurs may kiudle flame that
all the waters Of our rivers would fail 10
quench. An attempt TO deprive Esst
Tennessee ef her constitutional rights
of representation in the next legislature
would doubtless produce intense excite
ment in that quarter. il is not unlikely
that Congress would be dispo'ed, on the
exhibition Of unreasonable local prejudice
sgaiDst East Tennessee, 10 give all possible
aid TO the new State project, which would
which would add two Senators to the anti
Democratic strength in the Senate of the
United States. This movement would
place Mr.. johnson horS du combat, so farss
his citizenship in that end of State was
concerned: and drive him to the more con-
genial society Of Middle aud West Tennes.
see"
IL will be seen that tho Press and
Times threatens those who may be
disposed "to deprive East Tennos-
see Of her constitutional rights of
representation in the next Legisla-
ture," with The secession of that
section of the State This is new