Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-09
ANOTHER ROUSTABOUT.
One e. A. Boone
What of Him ? Read and Learn

A few days since Mr.. or Gen. E. A.
Boone, of the Brownlew militia, passed
through this city en- route for Washing
ton, breathing threats of vengeance
against his former fellow-citizens in Ben
ton county, and asserting that he had been
driven from his home; that he could not
live there in safety; that he had been
compelled to abandon his property, six
hundred acres of land and mill. etc.
To have heard his story, one would have
supposed that in order to have
depicted martyrdom in all of its
most horriic horrors, John Fox
should have lived three hundred and fifty
years later than ne did. The story of his
recent life as told by the unfortunate
Boone was not believed here where he
was known, .as a matter of course; but
he has gone to Washington to repeat it,
and as he may not be so well known
there as here, some of his most intimate
acquaintance have written to us the fol-
lowing letter. Two of the most reliable
gentlemen of our acquaintance assure us
of the truth of its assertions, and of
much more, if time were afforded to pre-
pare and publish all of the facts con-
nected with the sojourning of said Boone
in the county of Benton:
To the Editors of the Union and American:
BENTON COUNTY, April 7, 1S70.-One
Z. A. Boone, an occasional citizen of
Benton county, and formerly Adjutant
General of Brownlow's militia, has lately
been in Nashville, amp has reported that
he was run off from his home by the citi-
zens of this place, and is afraid to return
for fear of violence. The people of this
county have been exceedingly patient I'M
der his abuse, which has been violent and
unmeasured for some time past. His
financial affairs have been in a bad condi-
ton. He is considered insolvent. He sold
two-thirds of his interest in his property
and the balance is under attachment for
debt, the most. of which Is due to has
father who lives in Ohio. He has moth
ing to keep him there, and of late his
every effort has been to provoke diff
Guilty with the people. In this, he has
been foiled. Some two weeks since at
preaching, he was particularly abusive of
the whole people of the county, and
offered every insult that he could. He
went home with a citizen and grossly in
suited him in his own house.
He insulted the wife of his partner
with whom he was boarding. With all
this he was unable to get up difficulty.
He was accompanied to the railroad by
citizen not as an escort, but by mere
accident. He was not disturbed by any
one, and could have staid as long as he
pleased, Notwithstanding his course.
Last summer he'was a candidate for the
Legislature as a supporter of Senter, and
the only difficulty he has had was with
the family of his partner who
was one of the few who voted for him.
He signed the affidayits as voucher for
the loyalty of nearly all the parties to
whom certificates of registration were
given.
Boone was candidate last summer for
the Legislature, and came out decidedlyin
favor of enfranchising everybody, and
denounced the policy of the Brownlow
administration IN restricting the elective
franchise, and denounced Mr.. Brewer,
the former representative For his
support of that policy he and
Brewer came near having personal diff
ficulty-but his conduct was such during
the canvass, that he lost not only the con
fidence, but the respect of the whole peO-
pie, and received at the election only
some ninety votes in the two counties,
which fact accounts in great degree for
his malignity towards the people of this
county.
As regards the people of Benton and
Humphreys, we can say there is not, in
the State, q more peaceable and quiet peo
pie, and as an evidence of the fact,
at the last term of the Circuit Court for
Benton county there was not a jury
sworn during the term of the court, there
being not single jury trial.
The truth is simply this, Mr.. Boone
could not get the votes of the Radicals for
any Office in his county. He has lost the
esteem and confidence of the people, of
his partner and of his own father, who
has attached his property. He wants the
reputation of martyrdom to enable him TO
get an appointment at Washington. He
made a good thing of the Brownlow
militia, and he would like to have more
of them. More ANON.