Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-15
ISLANDERS AND LIES.
The Conspirators Exposed.
The Meaning of the Caucus at
DR. Young's.

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4 Tie Knoxville Press and Herald 9
the 18th inst. contains the following al
ticle:
Many of our readers do not appreciat
the devilish malignity of the men who
right here in our midst, are conspiring /,
have Tennessee placed under military rule
the channels of business stopped, and uni
yersal anarchy throughout the State. =
1t is well known that q number of mel
have left Tennessee in the last fortnigh
for Washington, to SO misrepresent tht
condition of Tennessee, TO the Presiden
and Congress, as to induce the latter body
to send military force to rule the State.
These men are after Office and pllnder. al
the expense of the taxpayers and honest
men of all parties. pzF
From Knoxville, DIR. j. b. Young. col
ored, and Eldad Cicero Camp we learn,
haveg gone on this nefarious Grand. Money
was raised to pay their expenses. A eau
Gus was held at Young's house to raise
this money. Men, whom our citizens
are in the habit of regarding as clever
gentlemen, met with this negro, aud help
ed him on his journey, by raising the
money and contributing themselves.
Young left for Washington, and took
with him the following memorial which
was framed by the late convention of the
conspirators:
''To the President: We, the loyal
people of this State, in mass meeting as
sembled, to take in consideration the out
RACES committed upon us, and to devise
some means to relieve, as far as possible,
the loyal people from their unfortunate
position, by being the prey of a well or
gained band of outlaws, prowling about
the State, committing depredations that
would set to blush the darkest ages of the
world; crimes the most heinous committed
under the cover of night, and by day,
with impunity. We have suffered long,
and lost many of our best men, both
white and colored, and notwithstanding
that, we had hoped that the time had
come when we would not have to make
an appeal to you, for the protection of
our lives and property; and to our
discomfort and the displeasure of every
good citizen living in our State, crime is
largely on the increase of the nature de-
scribed above. We have appealed in
vain TO the authorities of our State, and
in every instance it has only proved more
injurious to our people, so much so that
it is with great difficulty that the colored
people can be induced to give information
of their true condition. Having thus ex
hausted every means known to us legally,
to seek redress or check the outrages per
petrated upon the colored people-as q
last resort, and the highest known TO our
country, we nowappeal to you, sir, to give
US some relief. We find that since the
authorities of our State arc Indifferent
to our appeals, either from an intimacy
with many of these outlaws, or from fear
of their powerful organization, to even
make an attempt to feret cut the guilty,
and bring to justice and punish those that |
should be the last to escape. Sirl we APP
peal to you, ID the name of justice, in the |
name of the hard working men of our |
State, in the name of our wives and chill
dren, and in the name of our country and |
her honor, to send us some relief. We |
have invited the envy of these people by |
our devotion to this Government, and can |
it be possible that our Government intends |
to give us over again 10 the tender mercies |
of these people. The war, in open
combat, where soldiers decided the dis |
putes of their country, has ceased, they
have merely returned from the field to the |
farms and cities, in ten thousand forms
upon the labor and loyal people of the
State, seeking revenge for past defeat
we, therefore, pray that you will, by
special message to the Congress of the
United States, make known our condition
here, or by some means best suited to
your judgment, send US some relief The |
people are being taken from their beds at
night or from prisons and hanged or shot
down like beasts, and it would seem as
though they were taken and put in prison
for the convenience of these lawless bands.
"Hear this, our first appeal, and we
nope it may be the last of its kind, is the
prayer of the ill-used and loyal people of
DIR State