The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27


tnfs Violating the person OF young
SIN gifl, was shot by the girls brother
tkis 10 blood. And then, because few
e tceus colore1 citizens, led by an limo
lHnsban lawsabiding white citizen of the
cen sof Beersfield, amused themselves b,
paH ktsng the girls brother from behind Q
f shoa fence, Mr.. Beersfeld, who was dis
stos ffsbed and influential negro bar keep
IN Had his magnificent soloon surrounded
81 INas shot, because he eyinced his dis
ana togal Of the shooting of the negro, by
apPAn9 the girls brother shot for avenging
r. lSisfer's dishonor.
his cOl0red woman was murdered in this
IN Hickman county. by men mounted
a masks. | remember her name as
an iel Or PrownelI. It was the men who
snoupsed and not PrownelI nor the
aring he Florida war, there was a
ie betseen Boslegs aud the Sheriff OF
~ y. fne cCtsnty--the latter beseiged in a
kade. There was also some heavy
- Z in Paraguay, and since that time, ii
Z npi nlistakeil. some lively skiFmish-
ID end "a seymour, Indiana.
this Fear / beard OF q n,iinber nf
q - .ls s5re Zen ur, becaue4 Of tie rebels
7
ers, running off with the school fund.
Shortly after the battle of Bunker
/ Hill. in I7-well disremember the year
fourteen thousand men were seized near
| Columbia by masked men and carried off.
| They have never returned. Their families
are now supported by the sale Of West
| Point cadetships.
In the year 646, b. c., remember to
| have met with number of colored men
| from Marshall and Giles counties, who
said they had been driven from home and
| beaten. They also reported several cases
Of hanging and shooting of colored men.
only remember the name of one of these
refugees. and that was Brown, Jones,
Smith, Thompson with a p, White,
Black, Gray, Simmons or some such
name.
In this year the '&wYers took the color
ed women to the tscotg and stripped them
and read the bred Sco;t decision to them.
Officers OF the Ereedmen's Bureau were
directed to prosecute crimlnaI cases IN
Henderson, bur couidh't ge: anv witnesses
for less than Eve dollars 'swea!.' 1t
wouldn't pay.
Ia 1851, a man was raped in Lincoln.
In 1852, q woman was scalped in
Bl0uut.
Ia 6s53. baby vas roasted aiive-al
most anywhere.
Ia 1851, | remember hearing of the
killing oi a man named Nashville IS.
Davidson. The ak iatier were Federal
soldiers.
In $50, small boy murdered sixteen
men in disguise. he was an ex COnted- /
erale Congressman.
IL 1898. eolored man, weighing about
two hundred averdupois, was strapped on /
the bare euuele for chewing slippery elm.
Shortly before the year 2oG. every man /
Ia Polunk vas murdered at tbs ballot-box /
aud the polls fenced in with their defence /
less bodies 10 intimidate the loval vote.
In the year after the surrender of Corn j
wallis, Hell was fazzyl
a red.mouthed, copper headed. copperas !
breechered, democratic, rebel hearted Sc
cesh stood up in a peaceaJls celored con i
yeniion aud remarked that ale didn't 1
care d-u >shat color they painted the /
engine SO long as they painted her red, /
with bullock heart en the sh-lde :. +
II ibe yeas IL man was kicked over I
a church steeple, tearing out the gable-end /
of his pantaleons, for teliiHga Union man /
his LOYALTY was like dab Of patty on "a
elazier' ) hiatt was all over his face.
Ia 1859, Shoo Fig was hissed in the 4
theatre By rebels, supposed to be "ka-
faces" or Pale-klux.'
Two hours ago 100 colored men were
taken from Huntingdon Jail and hung or
shot-it's immaterial-by i've coi0red wO-
men in disguise.
Preachers we're shot dead in the pulpit /
every Sunday of last year.
The year before SIX men in 2iSUUiSt
went into loval county la East Tennes-
see and spread the small pox. The glan-
ders, the seven year itch and the lock saw
among the inhabitants None Of them
have ever been brought 10 Justice or sent
to Jericho.
In church at Chattanooga, a Union
citizen had his hat jammed over his eyes
for .'coppering' the ace against a two
eyerd box" whea it was dead
In 1900, Union men Of Nashville were
warned to leave BY cabalistic signs on the
street and alley walls signed "Poer PATIO
Flynn
Since arrived here haze heard of
several murders in Havana. aud few in
noceni Piegan citizens massacred by
Phil. Sheridan, an exrebel officer.
Dogs have been poisoned every August
for their Union sentiments, while rebel
cats exultingiy sing, holy morriah-h!i
from house roofs of moonlight nights.
And vet the civil officers do nothing.
The Constitution vacates judicial Offices.
The laws are ineffective.
Ter drnd silent iegeS.
Let us have peace and a Provisional
Government, and bully boy with glass
eye to catch ku klux.