Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-12

trars. We're they men known as loya
men, capable of taking what is known a
the iron-clad oath?
AIN the appointment of regis
trars, SO far as my recollection now serves
me, my course was to appoint none bu
loyal men, and my impression is tina
| five-sevenths of the registrars or-four
seventies at least had been federal soldiers
who had been through the war.
0-Would the future peace and goo(
order of the State be promoted or impalre.
| by Withdrawing from the men who hac
now the right of suffrage that right anc
DISTINGUISHING them as they were in 1866
in your opinion?
A-The question is one that might be
right hard to answer, but as said before,
reason would teach that the enfranchise-
menk of all men would tend to produce
peace in the country.
Q-Has that been your view, both on
the stump and in the course of your con-
duct to encourage that idea? ll-gs ID
Ayes. / was led to that conclusion
from the amount of money Tennessee had
to expend to keep them in order when they
were DISTINGUISHED.
By Judge Woodward, of Pennsylvania:
OIL want to know whether before the
war, under the Constitution, if there was
not militia in the State
A-Before the war my understanding
was, that the Constitution of the State OF
Tennessee gave the Governor the right to
call out the militia, but it required q spe-
cial act of the Legislature to equip and
provision that militia.
n ,1oys tlna INTnC
Constitution ?? -.F tlr
Ave have no militia laws on the stat
ute books. The Governor has power to
call it out, but no power to equip or pro-
vision it.
Q-And before the war Tennessee was
about as other communities with reference
to disorders?
Ayes, sir / think it was.
Q-Now it is different from other COM
munities-that is, there is more disorder
and violence than in other communities?
A-That is simply by comparison. There
is disorder, and good deal of it. could
not say how much of it.
Q-Compared, for instance, with New
York?
AIN proportion to the number of in
habitants, perhaps there is more.
By Mr.. F. Wood-What proportion
of the entire population of the State have
participated in these Ku- Klux outrages!
A-The only statement that we have had
that was looked upon as authentic was
made by Gen. Forrest, that there were
forty thousand Ku-Klux in TENNESSEE
Q-Gen. F. is not looked upon generally
as a reliable man in his statements, is he?
Ale is a shooting man, and reckon
had better not say much about that, but
my conclusion is, reasoning upon the sub
ject, that there must be very stringent
organization, not only well organized, but
well differed, from the fact that they have
committed these outrages and neither
money nor law has been able to reach
them.
Judge Lawrence, of Ohio, propounded
some questions of no special interest, and
then, without concluding Gov. Senters
evidence, the committee adjourned till
Tuesday.
Special to the Louisville Commercial
WASHINGTON, April 1O-The Democratic
Conservative dement, are not at all pleased
with Gov. Senter's testimony before the
Reconstruction Committee, yesterday.
They say he does not take the bold stand
against the Radical party in Tennessee that
his friends had every reason to expect he
would. They accuse him of trying to
smooth matters over, and to get into the
good graces of the Radical leaders here
again. There is a good deal of interest
manifested to know the nature of what he
will testify to before the committee on
Tuesday.