Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-08

II is getting to be very well understood
that the Ku Klux ouirages which have
within the past few months been reported
50 frequently by the Radical mischief
makers, were manufactured solely for re-
construction purposes. We are pleased
TO see so. important an organ of Radi-
calism as the Missouri Democrat de
nouncing this species of political warfare
against the Southern people. Speaking
of The situation in Georgia, the Democrat
SAYS:
SIT is amazing that the daily and
hourly murders in Georgia have uddenly
ceased-now that they can no longer
serve to keep Bullock & Co. in counte
nance! Since the Senate acted on the
Georgia bill, we have not heard of q sin
gle murder, single outrage 1t is high
time for the country to understand that
there is something besides loyalty at the
bottom of the Georgia business. The
Bullock ring, it is openly asserted without
denial, has q vast deal more interest in the
control of railroads, bonds, and other
facilities for getting rich, than In the re-
storation of the State. Nothing
except a continuance in power for two
years, in spite of any popular vote, would
meet the necessities of this ring. Hence
it was that they fought desperately against
any plan of military rule, as well as
against any return of power to the people
by new election. In this position they
had neither logic, nor law, nor practical
common sense TO sustain them. In logic,
Georgia was either State when it ratified
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments, or it was not. In law, the formal
admission of the State by act of Congress
in 1868, was just as valid as any act of
Congress can be, and has not been inyali-
dated by any violation of the express con-
ditions named"
AS in Georgia so in Tennessee: the re-
ports of ''daily and hourly murders" cor
respond with the exigencies of the occa-
sion for political purposes. We find in
the Banner letter from Jerry Polk,
colored man of Maury county, which we
are requested to copy, and from which
we make the following extract exposing
another of the Radical canards. Jerry
says:
Having seen it stated that the Hon.
Mr.. Secretary Fletcher, in his testimony
before the Committee of Reconstruction
in Congress stated, on the authority of
Mr.. Sam Arnell, that had been whipped
by the Ku-Klux, and other things false
and slanderous against our white folks, |
beg leave through your columns to state
that he lied when he said that the Ku-
Klux whipped old niger Jerry with a
stirrup leather $50 lashes. was born and
raised in the 10Th civil district of Maury
county, on the waters of Carriers creek,
where | now live with Master Jim K.
Polk, son of Master +. A. Polk.
Dis old niger is now diggin' de
foundation of de drug store at
Carter's Creek Stashun, whar DR..
Green expects to have somethin for the
folks to buy, drugs, dye stuffs, etc.
Desc folks in dis country knows dis old
niger is of small dimensions; measures
six feet three inches; weighs 300 pounds;
raw boned; no superfiuous flesh; is not
to boast of his stature, but de
white folks say that Jerry is a good Mig
ger, but don't know whether dat is so
or not. But ! always votes rite, l think.
l don't vote like Mr.. Fletcher and Mr..
Arnell does, or any body else that Sian
ders our Maury county folks for political
purposes. Mr.. Editor, will take the re-
sponsibility to say that | am personally
responsible for what | write, and kDrSy
all the respectable portion of us com.
munity will voueh for DE- old niger.
We hope that our people will continue
to expose the falsity of the Radical re-
ports of lawlessness in this State. Let
he people of the North know that Con
5ress has not even pretext for mterfer-
noe in our affairs,