The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1870-04-27
"OUTR4GES."
"OuTIAeES."
Outrageous Outrasss, Atr0eiOus Out
RACES, Oufrages Upon 0utrages!.


construction Committee. as published IN
the Nashville Banner Special dispatch
by grapevine;
J. Smith. Of TenneSsee. has been before
The hecohstruct:on CohnnIttee. Smith Is
a Union man, is "a RaG5cai. is an ex-men.
ber Of Stokes cavalrY. Is an ex-brIdre.
burner Is an ex-Browaiow miliiiaman, Is
the owner. of Il large proportion Of the
school.iund, a little agricultural scrip. and
is candidate Tor Gowrnor. or Constable.
or pair Of old breeches. His testimony
was substantially as fellows:
Almost every two Seconds for the last
fifteen centuries or SO, intelligence has
been coming OF somss act of violence or
oppression directed a q, inst negroes, North
ern settlers, or l8yal residents, sometimes
in the shape of local item IN ne wspa-
per, merely stating the fact Of the hang
ing, shooting. or whipping. scourging.
burning, mutilating, stabbing, roasting
beating, irving, pulveriziug, basternador-
ing. ear-siiiting, poisoning, tomahaWking
of certain persons Of all sexes and ages,
from infancy TO second childhood, ire
speciive Of color. by the citizens of Ten
nessee, male and female, in masks and
14s HftEi 40 taaA4NS lllti4AA-tAEAa- anu AHE
authorities told OF 1t in the strictest con-
ideace with an earnest injunction never
10 reveal the name OF the informant.
In Middle and West Tennessee every
shade of crime, from simple assault to
murder by slow torture, has been commit
ted with impunity, aud there Is not conn
u in those parts of the State in which
there have been no exhibitions of this
kind, nor a square inch Of the soil from
Carter TO Shelby that is not moist with the
blood of the faithful, nor a rivulet or
stream from the Cumberland to the Ten
nessee, nor from: Reel foot lake 10 the head
waters of the Calfkiller that is not incar-
nadined with the crimson gore of martyrs
who voted the Stokes ticket and then died
in the last ditch, and without office or the
profit which is not without honor, save in
his own country. In the..mountain coun-
ty of Overtn the Ku Klux easily assem-
5led in few hours 100000 persons to
take the life Of two new born infants. In
the planting county of Obion they had as
little difficulty in raising sufficient force to
murder 5000 nigger babies on the farm
of Mr.. Jones. In the loval county of
Carroll they collected a force of 100000
to take five men out of prison and shoot
them. and then thew roast them and then
slice them, and then eat them without salt,
and without benefit of clergy.
During the peaceful reign of Brownlow
SO many men we're pardoned out of the
penitentiary that it was necessary TO en-
list them in the State militia, which was
instituted for that purpose. Mr.. Smith
saw two men on Christmas night enter the
residence of one of our first families, in
mask and disguise. One was disguised as
Macbeth and the other as Hamlet Both
of them whistied in a manner to alarm
witness Macbeth whistled Yankee Doo-
die and Hamlet whistled medley of pixsl
lie and Shoe Fly.
STATEMENT OF SMITH FROM MEMORY.
The following is a memorandum of such
cases of violence in the State of Tennes-
see as am able to recall to memory, oc-
curing within the last eight centuries,
and so far as have heard they have been
entirely unpunished, and generally with
out any judicial investigation. The first
two cases occurred III the year 1868, near
" eight hundred years ago!
First: The Hon. Almon Case, Senator
from Obion and other counties. was way
laid and shot near his residence in Obion
county in the autumn of 1910. His only
offense, so far as was known. was that of
having personal difficulty and shooting
affray with the man who killed him, who
was his neighbour and who neglected To
put on his "disguyzen' before the fight.
Second: A son of Senator Case, bare
ly of age, assassinated about the same
time for no other ofense than that of his
father.
The Hon. Wm. Hyatt. Senator from
Lincoln and other counties, was taken
from his bed at night, and beaten ON the
head with a pistol till his family were
forced to manufacture masks, ETC., for the
Ku Klux. This is the way their DISCUSSES
are made and the thing kept profound
secret, as has been the case for many cen.
turies.
For the last two thousand years the
streets of Nashville have been thronged,
upon the eve of municipal election by
colored Republicans from Maury and ad
jacent counties, exhibiting their beaten
backs and detailing interesting and entire
II reliable narratives of the hanging Of
to every telegraph pole, and IN
many instances where the poles are not
thick enough. along the wires Of the Wes-
tern Union Company.