The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-05-02
Negro Riat.

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there was n considerable disturbance
among the neeroe- On Sm"ky Row.
L. seems that q negro from Memphis,
who has been in this vicinity, of and on,
for the past mouth or SO, employing ne
groes and taking them West to work on
farms Railroads., 6c.,was in town,and Lad
induced a lumber to consent to 90 with
him, and had arrangements made to leave
Sunday or Monday.
Some of the more sensible negroes con.
cluded that lie should take no more Of
their race from this country, as they had
learned he was taking them to the cotton
fields undS,ell!ng them ut % per head,
aud placing them Immediately under
masters as before they were made free.
Saturday night it seems that a crowd Of
some ten or Gf,cca, met and made arrange
mcut' to Ku-klux tho negro emmigration
Agent and thereby prevent him from sci
ling into slavery o, they alleged any more
Of their color. Consequently, at the time
above stated, after finding out the where
ab0uts Of the agent, which was at Art
Heiskei's (colorcd) on Smoky Row, they
laado an attempt to enter the house, when
the agent smell a mouse, and made his
escap" out At the back door, aud split tho
creek. Finding that tho agent had LETT,
the crowd dispersed, but it wa, evident
that they intended to capture him it he
could be found. From what We can
learn Of the affair, the agent went down
tho road and as tie night freight train
came up, got aboard, When the train ar
rived at the depot, the crowd Of negroes
were in waiting, evidently believing that
he would be on the train. Upon search,
they found him when they tried to get
him out Of the car, beating him with
clubsand sticks aud cutting him in several
places with knives, We understand that
he was badly used, and could they have
got him out Of the car would certainly
have taken his life. The officers Of the
law have taken the matter in hand, Issued
warrants, and on Tuesday arrested Thos.
Dunkin, and tried him before Esquire
Reagan. j. W Robertson, was counsel
for the State, and Thos. 9. Boyd counsel
for defendant. The case occupied the
most Of Tuesday evening, as there were u
number Of witnesses to be examined.
The court decided upon the evidence,
that the defendant was not guilty Of the
charges made in tho warrant, and turned
him loose.
MIlas LOnoir, another one of the accus-
ed was arraigned and tried, tho same
evening, aud was acquitted.
Andrew Mays and Dick Hightower
we're tried yo'torday--fouud guilty and
fined s. each and cost of suit.
Liberal.
The Swootwatcr Enterprise Of this
week in commenting on the Joint Rep
resontatiye from Monroe and Loudon
counties agrees to alternate with Lou
don for the Representative but he wants
a Democrat. We are not 50 particular
about hispolitics, so us he is II good man.
One that will work for hie constituents,
and as VIC have no particular choice, We
say let the people have a convention and
nominate their man, regardless Of poll
tics, The Enterprise proposes to have
a convention Of his own ut Sweetwater,
on the LIST Monday Of July next. Let us
meet ut Philadelphia, rs that is the hpf
way ground, and have some mutual US
derstaudmg.-LoudoE JouraGi.
Oicourse We want a Democrat The
Democracy Of Monroe will hnro 10 9th
CT, Neither do we propose to be adj
vised by the Jo1uGl MS to the proper
course to pursue. 1t is natural to sup
pose that the JomHai man does not
want a Democrat. tt would doubtless
like to have Flem. Harrison elected or
some other of his sort As to the place
Of holding the Joint convention, we SIM
ply deny the charge made against us
in the above paragraph, that we propose
to have n convention Of our own at
Sweetwater on the lst Monday of July.
In the article referred to by the JoVrnai,
we proposed that the Democrats and
Conservatives, Of the two counties meet
in convention, and nominate . candidate
to represent us in the next General As
sembly, and that the same be held eth
er at Philadelphia or SwoGtwater. Meth
or did we propose that the radical party
be represented in that convention. The
Journal Is tho hardest case we have ever
met. 1t is impossible TO tell whether
it is Conservative OF Radical. We like
to see boldness on the part of tho Press
Of our country, but it seems that the
Journal is afraid to speak out and let
the people know where it stands politi-
cally. If it is Democratic aud will work
for the success Of the Democratic party.
we extend it our right Lnnd, and will work
with it in the interest of the great Dem
o%cratic party Of tho State and Nation.
On the other hand we don't propose to
take its advice in anything. The Con-
v~ention will be held rs We said before
either at Sweetwater on Philadelphia
either of which will Bait the Democrats
OF Monroe,
We clip the following from the Athens
Post, of the 18th instant:
ATHENS, TENN, April 9th, 1872,
Mr.. j. Il. REED-Dear Sir; l pnr.
chased from you 4 bottle Of DR.. Harris
Great Relief" manufactured by Il. J.
Sanford g. Co., KnoxviIle,) and I fad it
for Neuralgia or any kind of pain the best
medicine have ever used. | think you