Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-08
FROM RUTHERFORD.

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, April z, ISL
1t will be remembered that upon that
memorable occasion at Rome when Cice-
70 in burst of indignation gave utter
ance to the following language, "QuouS-
que tandem dbutere, Catalina, 1oGtien-
tia nostrd," the people had been vexed
and harassed beyond measure by fac
tious party spirit which had eliminated
in the conspiracy of Catalina, and that
the patriotism of the Roman orator and
the liberty loving of the nation had
grown weary of the constant intrusions
of partisans upon the peace aud equau-
unity of the people. At this moment of
supreme popular indignation the audacisy
of the chief conspirator in appearing in
the Roman Forum elected that stern re-
buke just quoted, GLOW long, at length,
Oh! Cataline, wilt thou abuse our pa
tience9"
With what high degree of consisten-
cy could, not only the people of the
South, but all good people throughout the
entire length and breadth of the country,
utter the same indignant rebuke to those
designing and unprincipled political de-
Lunciators of the South who, under the
encouragement and sanction of their
Northern masters, are continually dis
gushing the public with bogus Ku-Klux
fsbrications. Nothing ever more strongly
merited popular condemnation than this
vile and persistent intrusion upon the no.
tice of our people.
But while these wicked and untruthful
fulminations of Southern Radicals are, of
themselves, so perfectly contemplate and
disgusting, they are hardly so much so as
some of their results. Upon these false
and mischievous stories, emsnating from
sources in all cases utterly destitute of
reliability, we find the President of the
United States sending a especial mes
sage" to the Congress of the nation, and
calling for new line of legislstion-tO
the detriment and disturbance of the
whole laud-such legislation as could not
possibly bring anything but disturbance
and mischief as its results. Continually
these maliciously devised stories of Ku-
Klux outrages upon '1oyal men" are
being echoed in the ears of
partisan authorities, by which they
allow themselves to be insti-
gated to acts of violence and rsshness,
and thus the county is kept in state of
constant fermentation. Under this state
of things even our high officials have lost
all sense of dignity, and have got down
in the dust TO pander to the Caprices of
hair-b Drained and worthless political NAL
contents. May not the intelligent and
honest masses of the country rise up and
in the hight of their Indignation and say
to these miscresnts GLOW dong, at length,
o Cataline, wilt thou trifle with our pa
tienceln
By these political loafers and hybrids,
Tennessee isrepresented as being in a state
of lawlessness. Every man, woman and
child in the State knows that our people
are at peace with each other. There are
occasionally, unfortunate acts ofviolence,
but Union men and negroes are the actors
as often as those Of any other class; and
in all cases these acts of violence are
more universally condemned by the So
called ''disloyal" people than by any 9TH
er class. We CAN speak without reserva-
ton for the people of Rutherford. In all
cases of masked interferences with white
or black, within the past eighteen months,
our people have been unanimous in their
condemnation of such things. Twenty
so-cslled disloyal men have closed their
doors against masked visitors where one
of the opposite class have done the same,
while from three to five negroes
and Union men have been detected
as "'Ku Klux," where one of any
other class has been justly suspicioned.
These are facts that will bear any kind
of test. And we believe the same can be
truthfully said of all the other counties
of Middle and West Tennessee.
l think it ought to be sufficient evil
dence to every intelligent mind, that life
is safe in Tennessee, that such malevo-
lent and unconsciousable vagabonds as
circulate these Ku-Klux reports, are per-
mitted to live here, after sending out to
the world such unfounded ISLANDERS. Life
and property are both safe in Rutherford,
and perfect quiet would prevail were it
not for these vile maligne1s of our people.
These are the facts, and if Congress will
not believe them, let them send any de-
cent, truthful man down to investigate,
and the writer will ride over the county
with him that he may see and know.
ANRPIruc