Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-21
OBION COUNTY.
An ARRAY Between Whites and
Blacks.
Two Negroes Killed and Four White
Wen Wounded.
From the Hickman Courier. Aug. %.

From the Hickman Courier, Aug. 20.
We learn that on Sunday morning last
Deputy Sheriff Hickman, of Obion coun-
ty, Tenn, attempted to arrest some ne
groes living in Blackjack District, charged
with having stolen plumber in their pos
session. The sheriff, apprehending diff
ficulty, summoned few men to accom-
pany him to aid in making the arrests.
On approaching the cabin or cabins, it
was discovered that the negroes had been
apprised of his coming, and were in such
force, and well armed, as to render an
attempt to make the arrests at that time
hazardous. The sheriff and his posse
withdrew and went to the mans house,
who had sued out the writ, and who lived
near by the negro cabins, where they
were followed by the negroes, numbering
about eighteen, and were fired on whilst
in the house; whereupOn a regular en-
gagement commenced between the as
sailed and assailants, and ended in four
whites being wounded, two negroes killed
and seven. or eight wounded. The ne
groes getting the worst of the fight re-
treated from the house and scattered in
different directions. The news of the
difficulty soon spread throughout the
neighborhOOd and parties Immediately
went IN pursuit, and during Sunday night
and Monday morning eight of the negroes
were captured and lodged in the county
Jail. 1t is believed that two of the ne
groes, engaged in the fight, reached this
place on Monday morning and got on
I'll fbo oEo Al. Q
Police officers at Columbus were instruct
ed by telegraph to arrest the negroes
should the Commonwealth land at that
place. We have not learned that the
arrests were made. The houses or cab
ms of the negroes were burned on Mon
day night by a number of disguised men.
These are all the particulars which we
have been able to gather of this lalnenta-
BILE affair, and we do not vouch for their
accuracy. .. .
LATER AND FBRTHKR PARTICULARS.
1t was on Saturday that the arrests
were attempted to be made. A man by
the name of Cherry living in Blackjack,
missed some bacon and discovered foot
prints, leading from his meat house to a
cabin in which Edmund Jackson, a ne
gro, lived. Cherry accused jackson of
rObbing his meat house and told him that
he must desist in future from committing
such acts, else he would enforce the law
against him. Jackson became very much
enraged and abused Cherry in an out
rageOus manner, and at the same time a
son of Jackson's presented a pistol and
bursted cap at him. On this state of
affairs writ was sued out by Cherry and
placed in the Sheriff's hands. The sher
iff met with armed resistance in his first
attempt to take Jackson and son, being
fired on by concealed negroes. On Sun
day, the Sheriff reinforced, attempted to
arrest the parties. A portion of the posse
was at Cherry's house, wnen it was ap-
preached by II or Il negroes armed with
guns and fred INTO the house, then, as we
have stated above, regular engagement
took place in which, however, no one
was killed-fve whites and four negroes
were wounded. HARRISON, a white man
severely. The negro, Edmund Jackson.
was wounded pretty severely in the face,
having one eye shot out. Nearly all the
negroes engaged in the affair have been
captured and are lodged in Jail. Seven
cabins were destroyed on Monday night
by fire, and the negroes ordered to leave
the neighbOrhOOd.