Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-21

Saturday last; writs were sued out bef,r,
Judge Brooks of the United States D;s.r;c
court, Tor all the prisoners, and placed !,
the hands of the United States marsbal f.,
service.
THREATS OF A OWL WAR.
Whetherthe Governor, under the adyic,
of bis coadjutoIs, will still resis,, remains
J to be seen. His organ, the Standard
of this morning, intimates that he will
declaring that 'sif Judge Brooks persist.
In having the writs executed, and civil wal
thereby ensues, the blood will be on his
own head" He has virtually suspended
the writ of habeas corpus in the state, and
seems determined to resist its execution
either by state or United States authority.
we shall know the result in day or two,
and ascertain whether the President really
backs him in setting all law and constitu-
ton at defiance.
TRIUMPH UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
But, notwithstanding all the efforts of
the conspirators, the old North State has
achieved glorious victory. The more
Holden attempted to frighten the timid
and keep them away from the polls. the
more they were determined to go there
and vote down the corrupt, dishonest, in
competent administration that has been
the curse of the State and the people.
We have elected large majority in both
branches of the Legislature, perhaps an
impeaching majority, an equal propor-
ton of all the local, county and township
officers, the Attorney General of the State,
and five out of the seven members of
Congress. II .-
z. RADICALS AND NEGROES.
The election has settled one thing be-
yond change-the negroes will never
vote with the Republican party in a body
in this State again Many nf them voted
with the Democrats this time; the re-
fusal of the white Radicals to support
the negro, Jim Harris, for Congress in
the fourth district, and the defeat of
most of the negro candidates in the State,
has opened the eyes of the negroes to the
fact that while the carpet baggers and
native scalawags consider the negro a
very good voter, they have no use
Tor him as an Office-holder. There |
will be general hegira of carget-bag-
gers from the State in consequence of the |
result of the election Just passed. Those |
who have not been obliged to go before
now, to avoid prosecution for rascaIties,
viii leave now, except few who hold |
Office for terms not yet expired.
KIRK's CRUELuEs. %
Before concluding this letter I will |
again allude to the affairs in Alamance
and Caswell, TO say, that all the state
ments of the cruelty, oppression, and bar
barity that have gone North, as far as
have seen them in telegraphic dispatches
Or correspondence, as practiced by Kinks
troops on the helpless people of those
counties, are true, except in this, they
have fallen below the reality. One we'll
case l forgot to mention,
which is that of a citizen who was tied |
)y. his thumbs and toes, and kept in that
condition through the night, stretched on
! goods box, because he would not tell
who hung the negro, Wyatt Outlaw, and
persisted that he did not know. This, as
well as the other cases have mentioned,
md hundreds of others equally outrage
BUS, can be established by indubitable tes-
imony before any competent tribunal,
md all that the parties ask, and all the
people ask, is an opportunity to have
hose matters investigated. |