Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-15
RADICAL j. ENCRoACHsaENTs
The Powers OF the states 60 be Dis
regarded = Measures now before
CongrcsS-An ExhortatiOn 10 Fur
ther Usurpations of Authority
Bogus Ku-Kitsx 0utrages q

regarded --ueshsureS la0sx HetOl
Congrcss-An Exhortati0n 30 Flu
ther Usnrpations of Authority
Bogus Ku-Kiux 0utrages. g
e. Correspondence Of the Baltimore Gazette 9
WASHINGTON, March 20, 1S70.AIf
be supposed by any one that alacrity
recognizing and industry in enforcing u
outrageous encroachments of Congre:
: upon the local powers of State Legfsls
lures would appease the dominant paft5
the folly of such suppOsition viii ver
shortly be=abundanily@ and conclusivel
shown. The Radical party cannot, if
would, and would not if. it could, stop il
its onward march, of absorbing in Con
gress every scintilla of authority in tn
country, Federal, State or municipal
Something more than subscrgiency is re
quisite to stop the revolution now in rapi'
cOnsummation. .i5.,r.1g,r.- -..f
The measures now actually Before bot
branches of Congress unmistakably poin
to further and still more startling innoya
tons, and it win be seen from the follow
ing extracts that the organ of Sumner arc
| Butler, of this city, throws off the mash
entirely, and marks out the path the revo
lutiOnists intend to march: y G5
DEMONSTRATION Qt says) strictly 81
called, may speedily become a thing Of
the past. But another great practical
question viii take its place., and already
looms up in the near future. Indeed, il
is already before Congress in the various
bills and resolutions which have been pre-
scented upon the Tennessee question. As
| this is subject which no longer has to
deal with the admission of States from
outside the pale, but rather with the mode
of keeping them to their pledges within
the Union, another word should be substi-
tuted to express the appropriate legisla-
ton which our amended Constitution
empowers Congress to enact in behalf of
the vested rights of all American citizens
of whatever shade or color"
1t is with great reluctance that ever
quote from the Radical organ here. But
it can not be overlooked, when inquiring
into the character of contemplated addi-
tional outrages, that the Chronicle is the
exponent of the views and intentions of
the masters of the two houses of Con-
gress. | am also aware that the sheet
named has no circulation in Maryland,
and that therefore, its important an
nouncements this morning would not,
otherwise, perhaps, meet the eyes of
those who should be thoroughly posted
as to. the designs of the impudent usurp-
ers at the National Capitol. 1t is clear
that nothing that any State in its legisla-
tive capacity could now do, either in the
way of endorsing or ignoring the Fiji
teenth Amendment, would weigh feather
in the future action of Congress. The
leaders of the Radical faction have long
ago agreed to disregard the voice of the
people. If it ever should become neces- \
sary in a national election, the vote of
New York city would be asquicklythrOWn
out as that of Louisville or Baltimore.
No action of your Legislature, short of
practically putting the negroes into IN
controlled authority throughout Maryland,
will satisfy your enemies, or save the
State from military CONTROL If anybody
doubts this, let him digest the annexed
paragraph taken from the same paper:
''That the recalcitrant State of Tennes-
see will be, and properly may be, sub
jected to a process equivalent to a second
reconstruction, we do not for a moment
doubt. 1t will be for other States to de-
termine by their future conduct whether
the same process shall or shall not be
applied TO them. If it be true that the
perfdy of the Rebels who have obtained
full control in Tennessee is the most |
damning instance of its kind, it is no less
true that other States, especially Kentucky !
seem inclined to repeat the experiment.
The time when Congress may properly |
pause to question its own constitutional
right to guarantee to every State a re |
publican form of government in its |
fullest sense, and subject to all the limi-
tatiOns of the reconstruction acts, has
passed, and it only remains TO march |
with firm tread toward the vindication of |
every right of every citizen"
Your readers have doubtless observed |
The extraordinary number of Ku-Klux |
Outrages telegraphed from all points of |
The South very lately. These lying mis- |
'ives always, as remarked by Mr.. Farms
worth, precede the preparation of some
new villaiHy by Congress. But the poor
Est specimyn of ''blood and thunder / |
have yet seen is the following, which
comes to this metropolis from a doomed |
ocality in Tennessee:
NASHVILLE, March 9.-Secretary
Fletcher has called on the authorities for
IN escort of United States troops to pro-
ect him en- route to his home in East
Tennessee, charging the 'Ku-Klux Kan
With having threatened his life!'
And such Ku-Klux outrage is deemed
70 L
Ian or Terry to take possession of the
State. The denunciation by Gen. Brock
nridge of a set of vagabOnds, together
With declaration that she was free from
my fear of them, is seized upon to show
hat 'tKu-Klux- Khan" exists in Kentucky
nimical to the UniOnists, when the dis
,atch (true OF false) proves, if anything,
has the scOundrels were Threatening ex-
Jonfederates. p" But the sublimest lie of
his mornings batch is q reputed dispatch
rom Marshal Slack, dated at Wheel
ne, and headed in conspicuous black
ype in the Radical paper, thus: ''Ku-
in West Virginia
The Governor to Call on the General
government for Military Support" etc.
Now, happen to have it in my power to
triangle this fabrication in its birth. A
gentleman "a Radical in politics. fully ae-
Iuainted with all the facts assures me that,
far from this being ''Ku-Klux" affair,
n connected in any manner with politics,
t had its origin in a fracas between la
,orers in the salt works and in the coal
tits, near Charleston (Which has recently
,een selected asihe future capital of the
'tate); that no such an organization as
hat named was ever heard of in that
ocality by any one, and that the difficulty
vas altogether confined to white Northern
men, who refused to work on an equality
With negroes. Just such collision, and
10 more, as in a little while we shall hear
# all over the Northern States as the
natural and inevitable consequence of the
madness which is now sweeping over the
country.
CHICAGO.