Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-26
Queer Case Of Insanity.

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A colored woman of the Ninth Dis
trict, named Jane Stockard, was arrested
yesterday upon a writ of nqujrendO de III
| naticO, and pronounced insane. The cause
of her present erratic state of mind is said
to be the prolonged absence of her hus-
band, who is a soldier in the United States
Army, and from whom she has had no
tidings for long space of time. This is
certainly singular instance of affection
in one of a race notorious for the looseness
of their affections and marital obligations.
She was transferred to the County Asy-
lum.n
Theaboveis from the Nashville Banner,
the most Simon pure, " unconditional "
Greeley paper in the South, 1t is local
editorial entire, 1t is not garbled eX-
tract, but the full, round voice of the Gree
ley organ, towards the colored people, as
" a race notorious for the looseness of their
affections and marital obligations" :" A
queer case of insanity" says the Greeley
lite! And why? Queer because for
sooth the unfortunate is ga colored wo-
man." and the cause of herr insanity
is g the prolonged absence of her hus-
band !" Does not this show how far the
Greeley party has become recOnciled to the
rights, interests and welfare of the cOlOred
people? This article contains a libel on
them of all humane sympathies and feel
ings and degrade them to the level of the
brute creation, and incapable of affection
and marital obligations"
Such everybody knew to be the theory
of the ancient slave lords of the South,
who held to the tenets of the slave
code, and attempted to establish "a
new Gospel in which it was taught
that the colored race descended
from the monkey, and slavery was
" a divine institution" But it was not to
have been supposed that the chief or
gan of Horace Greeley, who is now a can
didate seeking the suffrage of the colOred
voters eff the country, would thus review
the paradox of incapacity, ION account of
race and COLOR" by asserting the ColOred
race to be notorious for the loosenesss of
their affections and marital obligations.
1t may be supposed however, that the
foregoing view of the matter may have
largely contributed to the past course of
many of the present Greeley men of the
South, in taking such extended liberties
with the wives and daughters of these
slaves. However this may be there is no
risk in asserting that nine tenths of the
supporters of Greeley and Brown through
out the Southern States are correctly rep
resented by the local editor of the Banner,
or at least by the editorial copied which is
to come from that member of the
staff. And yet these men seek to carry the
Southern States for their ticket by the aid
of cOlored votes. Indeed, there in not
sane man. possessed with any degree of
political information, in the State who
for a moment the Democracy
can carry Tennessee, unless they can sue
coed in dividing the colOred vote with the
Grant electors,and stump speakers would
do well to clip this article and give it a
place in their scrap books, as it will make
good reading to the colored portion of
their audiences, as well as show to all class |
es of sincere people that the professions of
the Cincinnati platform which the Banner
keeps standing i'll its columns, are only in
tended as a sugar coating to induce the |
people to swallow the Democratic party. |
whose cardinal creed is defined by Mr.. |
Greeley himself to be, "love, rum and
hate niggers." And of which Democracy |
the same Mr.. Greeley has said: MAY it |
be written on my grave that [ never was a |
follower, and lived and died in nothing its |
debtOrO