Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-04-20


formed as to the name Of the
party slain nor the circumstances
attending the staying. His de-
sign, however, was to parade it as
an instance of rebel oppression of
loyal men for political reasons.
He heretofore alluded to. this cir
cumstance, and to give his state
ment coloring and force, he impli-
Gated the sheriff of that county in
the outrage. Ispeak from author
ity in saying that the sheriff was
in no completely in the affair that
it was personal, not political; that
the person slain, Mr.. Inman, was
a Union man that he went dis.
guised to the house of an old ne
gro named Wiley Kimbro; that
he forced the door open and shot
into the house, when the negro
fired and killed him. The negro,
upon trial, was acquitted. The
editor of the Monitor, a Demo-
cratic paper published in the same
county, makes the following com
ment:
GAS for ourselves, we wish to
enter our earnest protest against
all such midnight work. Even
admitting one of the negroes was
of a viLlainous character, which
from all reports we believe to be
the case, such does not in the
least palliate the enormity of the
outrage of going at the midnight
hour, armed to the teeth and in
disguise, to the residence of a ne
gro, and commanding its inmates
to come out, and on their refusal,
beginning to batter down and
shoot through the door of the
house. Even if there were no
stringent laws against such acts,
the citizens of this peaceful COM
munity and section, to a man,
have put their seal Of condemna-
ton On all conduct Of this kind" "
Hence, we find this outrage was
without the ingredient Of loyal
oppression; that it was sternly de-
nounced, and the law promptly
administered. This is but a sam
| pie of the many caustic irritants
which are applied to the exposed
nerves of Congress, and hence
sent forth, with embellished rheto-
ic, to infIame the northern mind.
But [ felt Inundated to know
that my colleague from the Knox
vile district could SO far forget
his duty to his State and his con-
stituents as to use a garbled ex-
tract to their prejudice from the
Chattanooga Times. The expos
ure and rebuke by the Represen-
tative from Wisconsin Mr.. ED,
RIDGE were so prompt and blast
ing that | spare him any further
inflicti0n.
The Representative from Penn
sylvania, Mr.. KELLEY, from his
tour through the South in 1867,
seemed to imagine that the very
soil was burning with rebellion
and that the air was shimmering
with sitting heat, and he conclu-
ded that northern men and north
ern capital could not venture there
in safety. Capital is calculating
and timid, and just such speeches
as his are depressing the outflow
of the redundant capital of the
North.
lean say that northern mel, who
were northern soldiers, with north
ern capital, with republican poll
tics, have erected wooden mills,
the dull thunder of whose looms
.reverberates day and night through
the streets of my own quiet viii
lage. Our mountain gates in.
East Tennessee stand open wide.
The great basin of Middle Ten.
nessee, with its blue mountain rim
on the east and the Tennessee
river as a water-belt on the west,
with soil exuberant in the pro-
duction of all the grasses, cereals,
and staples, .and West Tennessee,
alike remarkable in fertility, and
washed by the Fathers OF Waters
on the west, call stand open to
the influx of honest industry,
capital, and improvement in use
full arts. Her quarries of mar
BILE, her beds of copper, of iron,
and of coal, exist in mountain
masses; ay, her coal beds are suf-
ficient to feed the smelling furnaces
ofthe nation. The renown of Low
ell will pale before her WATERFOWL
ers, whose roar, UNDECIDED for ages,
has been calling to lie apprenticed
to the servitude of machinery
All are welcome to come with
their capital, to be of US and az
fliate with US, but not TO make