Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-16

I Whai blacR man. horse, On STATION /
belicve.) The negro and the white
man got toge,herand adjusted the mat
/ ter, the white man paying the negro
/ $40. The white friends of the white
/ man regarded this settlement as op-
| pressive unjust to the white man, so
| a band of nine young men, at the dark
hour Of night, 20 10 the npgros cabin
and demands the refuudinu of the
/ money. We are told that these men
/ We're disguised and armed, and took
/ the mouyy by force The negroes Of
. the ncighbnrhoOi went with the in
jured color5d man TO trial. aud the re-
port went abroad that The ne
grOos were 'Tisiu.' II | have
/ exaggerated the facts, I am open 90
correction but, would state that ]
am supported by ihn statement of the
| best citizens I'm Che country. SIN The
press teens with the riot0us conduct Of
/ the negroes at SOmoryillc, and BvhalIa.
/ Suppose a band or negroes, to every-
body known had gone to white
MANS house. and robbed him of $40,
/ as in the Byhalia casn, would they
/ have been arrested and punished ac-
cOrdinE to law? 10 strikes casual OBJ
/ server, of passing events I'm this c9uu-
/ Try, that they certainly would have
/ been arrested, to say The least OF it
! but how punished, ia a different ques-
/ ton. This kukluN outrage, committed
/ under the shadow Of our courts and
| press BUILDINGS, has never received
/ even passing notice, and the authors
/ OF The rUm0rC9 difficulty and riot have
/ been permittcitog at large in defiance
/ Of every principle of law and Justice,
/ and the colored people have not, and
| dare not make a single demonstration
! to avenge this outrage, and | am glad
| they do not, for the truth j. mighty,
and will sooner or later prevail. So
| far as am concerned, I would advise
/ the cOiored people to act in the future
| as they have in the past, viz keep the
| law inviolate and on their side, and
| rely implicitly, though it be at the
expense of fire and blood, on the legal
| tribunals of the State, and if they be
| unable TO afford the relief and protec~
ton, then appeal, as a dennier resort,
| to the protective power Of the
| General Government After all
these things had trauspired, we
find the minds OF The people and their
| trained prCiudices, wrought up TO
such a pitch, that there were many
who stood ready to 60 any and the
/ most aLiioclous ac,s OF IA""ieahlhs
ana uioo9shed. Ihe negroes near
/ trenton, give Tor inet own eNJ theh'
/ "a barbecue, Two Whl,e @tnuemth' $50
. ceieNl' a.tehutd ana pNIcii'ssu piece
/ OF pig or iaih"' "" WI. "Cu. p!J'"s Iyl ~
nom Wh.ch ullHtut'y ARISES anu '"1
young men are reported us oeIh[ ing"
al Isnh AMBUSH US was 7"pP.a5"' ny
Two negroes No" comes tnifu Us
naIch from lE'nlon' 10 me eLeyL '"''J
the |hoia negro .p"uNIaIon, OF gibson
. county was ii7Ih ana Iu"l me ne
Hruts were "Ilhe"-iau Hl'uG an us,
Saull upon 'sc lo"2 auu SLoV anu al
Killed TWO "hlle Iauics' NOV ne
county was l4pe IoL IL NJ; olA'e
negroes We're arrested anu loHeeu III
jan safely, o.'en o"c OF ''oo Igo''@, on
the part OF G'sJH'8eI "'c''' I" Jake
ihem from the EuaFus anu IhuIHCI
them II seems men 'haS Iile JM'or
was warned OF me DANGER IN Whlch
the IlNes o! ms prisoners were p.aceu,
oHt we hnu Lhat he!lheT JnI.9L OF
l 1911 Ga -. w 49, an 5d ~
u r,i5,bt L ,Ur loon ,, oxnacted Wien the
s sI,5Ilr 20 of night were thrown over
and around the town of Trenton, and
tho y yrGulr" ,' vai and avilIv dsnosed
! pnr1l in measure hide thpip
iIavI o ILL., doa al and norgdy ~ hand
o 'f'' frnn1 loo 70 9O6 armed and mounted
NJ uIo sled mon me- rjIeTntotheiai awaken
tb ,,s iHe ee , and II MAKO neremntorv de.
u mn mIf far The Eavs which after n little
na aIru are surrendered the prisoners
are bound together by secure rope fas-
Jennings, and taken out of town and
what followed, the whole world is in
formed. and Tennessee stands to>day
| stipmatised by all lust and honest men,
women and children, ms pre-eminent
among all the States of this Republic,
for outIawrv, murder and crime, the
execrated of all the friends of law and
civilization. both at home and abroad
The blood of these helpless and muir
dered men to-day glitters in the shin
ing sun of heaven, and reflects back
one of the most unwarranted, coward
w. shameful and disgusting crimes
that ever darkened the pages of the
history of this or any other people on
the face of the globe.
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