Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-15
Discussing The Memorial.

SCENE-St0re Room IN K'a0IUitle.
| Present ,JsdsoB, the shop-keeper;
WSIki,sS, a awell-to-do citizen;
ia > I fHOrd, an occasional loafer;
Marble, a merchant from over tho
way.
He PUSHES up to Horl, and they shake
hannds.
Gitcs-How dye do, Hord?
Hord-Pretty well, thank 'ye. How is
it with yourself?
Gisss-sErst rate firsts rate. What's the
news?
Hord-Well, don't know. Suppose
you heard of the outrage on East Ten
nessee that's come to light. Press and
Herald tells all about it.
Giles-No! what outrage2
Hord-Why, some Radicals got up a
memorial to Congress about the Kuklux.
and said they were terrible here at Knox
vile.
Afarble-I beg your pardon, Mr.. Hord,
the memorial dit not say any such thing.
Hord-WeH, it said they were mighty
bad in East Tennessee.
+ Mor66e- Not SO. It spoke of the condi-
tion of things in. the State of Tendessee.
IVilkins-No excuse for the signers to
that paper Sir. "Simply outrageous - "The
whole thing from Alpha to Omega is 4
cool and wanton fabrication !" But I will
be "calm and dignifi9d. p* s'5s ssJ'7tftst4
Morbte-Come, come! Mr.. Wilkins.
That's rather hard language for Christian
man, like you to use about his neighbors.
IVitkies-Not atal1, sir, not at all! "The
instigators and disturbers of the peace
knew it to be false when they conceived
and .Ebroughts forth the hateful Flie.p*
But win be scalm and dighified. ''# 70
think of some of them, as the Press and
Herald says, occupying responsible posi-
tlons in the Church!pI -,
Mdrbge- The more reason, then, for your
showing them some of that "charity that
covers a multitude of SINS" You are
yourself member of the church?
Wilkins-( (Angrily,) Yes, sir! Yes, sir
out not Of the Loyal Church"* where
Mdr6le-Ay, ay; J. see. Too much
Unionism over there to suit your palate
Politics divide churches now, instead of
doctrines. / hope you don't look for any
advantage from the matter, to your
church
Wilkins "Advantagep' What do you
mean, Sir? ) fgvt HsE8sEslf,Y
Mar6le-I mean that when miller can
get his neighbors to believe that the gear.
ing at the mill on the creek above. here is
come to his own hopper.
Jtdson-Now, what I look at in this
thing, is the damage it's going to do in
stopping immigration to Knoxville and
East Tennessee-Press and Herald says,
it has hurt us tremendously in that way
already.
{. Mqrbte--I Immigration |! Where from 2?
: JudSon-Why from the North, to-be-s
sure
Mar5te-Phew-ew-ew That will do
for you, Judsonl Here you have been
Sneering and railing at Yankees ever since
the war ended, and wishing for your part
that they would go somewhere else, if
they must find new homes! and now you
are ready to cry and wiring your hands,
because, as you pretend, they will be kept
from coming by fear of the Kuklux! You
may raise a hue and cry now about inn
migrants from the North, to make political
capital for your party, but who'll believe
you want them to come any more than
you did before?
Giles Wagper-Well, I'll tell you what,
I'm not afrid of the Kuklux I fought
them fellers once, when they We're trying
to pull down the best Government the
world ever saw, and / can fight 'em again,
if they come about me with their scare
crow fixens. But they won't do that.
They are not going to trouble East Ten
nessee tthe land Of the free and the
home of the brave.n Plenty of 'em I sup
pose, over in Middle and West Tennessee
and down South more than ought to be,
any how. Let 'em stay there As for
the Yankees, / reckon they know what's
what. They've heard tell about East
Tennessee and its Union men, and il they
want to come here and settle, they'll do
it.
See Press and Herald correspondent.