Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-18
Il individual accounts are true. there Is


that the pictures are overdrawn, as they
have been proved to be IN most cases,
and in some entirely false. Injured and
interested parties were apt to give ex-
trayagant accounts, and with unprinci-
pied men this was q cheap and conye
nient way of making political capital,
and inducing large rewards for made up
sham cases. lie thought the State courts
were sufficient TO restrain lawlessness if
the Governor would cease his wholesale
pardoniDg. The rights of the negro were
safer in the hands of upright, Intelligent
white juries than in those of negro juries,
in the present condition of that race.
There was, with some persons, strong
prejudice, and even haired, against the
negro, mostly because Of the political
rights conferred upon him; but large
potion of the wisest and most substan-
tial men, especially if they are politicians,
and have no objection to holding Office,
are rather pleased that those rights have
been conferred to the extent of voting,
as it makes more offices; and they will
control the negro, and, through him, gain
political and representative strength for
the South. The South generally admit
the legal, binding force of the reconstruc-
ton acts and the new amendments to the
Constitution, until changed legilimately,
if changed at ali, claiming the right of
appeal, or judicial negative.
STATEMENT OF MR.. ANDERSON.
Mr. E. c, Anderson, of the city of
Savannah, was also examined before the
Ku Klux Committee yesterday. Upon
being questioned as to the condition of
the city of Savarn1h with reference to its
government, he replied that it was law
abiding city, and was fortunate and pros
porous under Democratic rule for the
past four years. The Committee then
Intercepted him as follows:
Q What do you mean by that2
A. Municipal rule.
| @. Do you know of any instances Of
preconcerted violence in the city of Saw
annahl
A. know several: l. The blocking
of the polls by negroes. On the day of
the Presidential election the polls in the
city were taken possession of at A. NJ.
and held until the time of the opening of
the same, z A. NJ. Shortly after they op-
ened the operatives from the Central rail-
road depot came up in q body TO vote,
with instructions to deposit their ballots
aud return at once to work. They were
prevented from 80 doing by the negroes,
who had taken possession of the polls.
| The police authorities were called into
requisition, and as they approached the
voting precincts were fired into by the
| porrOoo. ono yooy, uuoa sly;Ilnd OUTRIGHT ar,d
another MORALLY wounded. The firing
then became general, and the polls were
cleared for the day.
Another instance was the tarring and
festhering of negro by negroes, because
he had voted the Democratic ticket. lie
was taken out on the outskirts Of the city,
and coat of tar and feathers applied to
his body.
The witness stated he did not remember
of other preconcerted Outrages, when
Senator Pool charged him to tax his
memory. After rejection, he recited two
other csses, one the killing of boy
whilst hunting, by negro, and another
an attempt to Ku klux a negro named
Bradley, all the participants being negroes
and Radicals. A bag was thrown over
his head, and an attempt was made Il
place him in al ambulance; his cries al.
tracing the attention of policeman, be
was rescued, ind by him taken home.
There had, of couree, been isolated cases
of disturbance and murder among the
whites, but they did not proceed from
any preconcerted plan, and the witness
thought it would hardly be fair to con
denim the city for these isolated
cases Of disorder, any more than it would
be proper to Judge Of the morals of B0s.
ton from HE records of its Police Court.
In response to a query whether the
people of Georgia were loyal to the gov
eminent, Mr.. Anderson replied that his
construction of loyalty meant devotion
TO the maintenance Of law, and that, in
that sense, the people were essentially
loyal; that when construed IN regard tC
their loyslty to the government, they
were not hostile to it, but that they utter
ly condemned the administration Of the
government, as illustrated in the persons
of their representatives holding office IL
their midst.
He stated thst the sentiments of the
Southern people toward Northern mer
who came to locate with them were thCsl
of kindness; that they were glad to have
them; that many had come and settled
with them, and were prosperous in bust
ness, and made good citizens. He fur
ther stated that he thought the effect Of
general amnesty would be to soften dowI
at once all asperity of feeling, and unit
the hearts Of the people in support of tin
country.
The witness was then asked if he knew
or had ever heard of the existence of TIT
Ku-Klux Klan in Georgia, to which hi
replied he had not as an organization. III
had heard Of az instance where disguised
men had released a prisoner in Rome
Ga, taken by the United States military
authorities, without warrant OF law.
Mr.. Anderson testified that the court!
in Georgia were impartial in their admin
istration of the law; that it was admin
! istered without reference 10 Class or con
dition, and that they were amply able tC
dispose of cases coming before them,
/ and at the same time upholding the su
premscy of the same.
He then explained what be meant by
the remark that under Democratic ruiz
the city Of Savannah was prosperous, by
stating that real estate had advanced RAP
idly; that before the war the exports never
exceeded twenty eight millions of dollars
that one year after The war they fooeC
up fifty-eight millions, and the presen
year up till date they amounted to seveBtJ
millions, and that 700, 900 bales of cotton
had already been shipped this year.
Mr.. Pool then asked the witness Wha
the people of Georgia thought of the ad
mfnistration of Governor Bullock, e
which he replied that, irrespective Of
party, they thought his administration
most infamous, from the fact that he ha(
almost bankrupted the State.
AN ApACRE GIRLS REVENGE