The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-03-31
a SHARP FTRST.
The Entc'PrisiHg Mrder-monge
Liefaciors 81 Tennessee.

The EntePrisiHg Mrder-monge
Liefactors 81 Tennessee.
From the Nashville Banner.
Messrs. Fletcher, Maynard a Co.
wholesale retailers Of sanguinary murder.
exporters Of colored loyalty and importers
Of sensational correspondents and general
agents for the Military Reconstruction
Life Insurance Company Of Tennessee,
are zealousl Y endeav0ring 10 enlarge their
business. The firm has two branch e.
tablishments-one i'm Washington and
the other in Nashville. The branch nj
Washington is industriously supplied by
the branch nc Nashville with material. -
Both branches Of this excellent company
manage 20 have their advertising done
free by impudent impositions upon thu
telegraph, the Associated Press and III,
newspapers. The branch at this place re.
Gently resorted 10 this shrewd advertising
dogde in this city, but without success -
Not to be Disconnected, however, thoy
have just dispatched delegation Of col
ored agents 10 Washington to interview
the President and get him 10 accept a
paid-up policy Of the company These
half dozen agents were instructed by the
Nashville branch 10 call on the Washing.
ton branch and proceeded with them 10
the White House and lay before the Pres
ident certain facts and figures M 10 the
condition ofthings, representing that out
RACES on colored people and UniOnists
generally are Of daily occurrence, and that
the authorities DO not take any measures
10 protect the citizens and punish the law
less portion of the community, and ask
for national interference" The outraRea
that they we're instructed 10 present we
had the pleasure Of perusing before they
we're sent on 20 Washington. The color
ed people, who had held a meeting Of their
own in this city, had submitted them %
us for publication, but subsequently re-
quested us not 20 publish them, ne they
wished TO embody them in printed oircu-
lars for sale, This report on outragea
consisted merely in generalities, without
localities or dates, being a simple rehash
Of dispatches and newspaper paragraphs
relating 10 circumstances that transpired
several weeks previous, and which the
public had well-nigh forgotten. When
these colored delegates were IN our Office,
during the time Of their meeting, thoy
certainly did not express themselves as
bNhiE ia AhN AcdNl hAhtDUbtHiEN Win the
situation in Tennessee, and 80 far from
representing 10 US a desire for military In.
reference, expressed themselves in quite
a contrary spirit They were courteous
ly and kindly treated, and the profer was
made to publish full reports Of their meet.
ings or whatever they desired 10 have
printed. AS a general thing, they did
not seem to know what they wished, and
rather innocenty acceded 10 any PROPOSE
ton which the more garrulous and pom
pOus Of their spokesman suggested; which
suggestions were ~ incomprehensiblo and
unintelligible 10 us as an African inter
probation of VOOdhooism. The poor crea-
lures were evidently being used by white
sharpers 10 some rascally consummati,
as the sequel proves, and the prospec
n trip 10 Washington, with expenses 3
to be made much Of by the May
branch Of the firm at Washington.
too tempting for their conservative
otism 10 withstand, and they prove
inconsistent 70 their avOwed principles 4,
peace as their race generally are faithless
to all manner Of contracts.