Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-01
TnERADICAL KU-KEUx CAMPAIGN

BubAACdA NDAhCANAOAis " sISSS a. NtAthS-
tanooga on the 18th inst, is the name
of Charles Hays, Congressman from
the Fourth Alabama district.
The alabama Baptist, a religious jour
nal, published the lying prOpensities of
this fellow by the following statement:
Charles Hays, Representative from
this district, reports that near "his
place the negroes had quietly assembled
to hold caucus for choosing delegates,
and though their proceedings were Of
quiet and peaceaDle character, large
body of armed horsemen rode up to the
building, masked, and fired their guns
and pistols through the windows and
doors, killing ten men and breaking up
the caucus. The murderers then qui-
etly dashed away" Now, we have this
to say in reply, that we live within a
DAYS ride from Mr.. Hays residence,
and would have heard of the outrage If
it had occurred. The statement is a
malicious and cruel SANDER, invented
for party purposes, and without any
shadow of justification. Mr.. Hays
knows to the contrary when he adds
'that the negroes are IN a perfect state
of panic, and know not what to do"
But when he complains that he is
"shunned by the white people, and
that This old friends refuse TO recognize
him on the Streets he deals withfac
And these facts have reasons.
The Baptist suggests significantly
that when the outrage market ceases to
exist, the outrage factory viii suspend.
Such incidents explain the Washington
dispatch which, the Chicago Times,
anything but Democratic paper, pub
fishes under date of Sept. %, with the
expressive caption, alabama Lie-fac-
tories:''
IL kilograms and letters can effect
that purpose, Alabama is bound to be
the scene of the next movement of Fed
eral troops. For days past the Attor-
ney General has been receiving intel
ligence, not from Federal officials, but
| from persons unknown, detailing al
legged Outrages committed on colored
people in various parts of that State.
Yet Republican candidates and trust
worthy parties residing in the localities
where II is said these crimes are COM
mitted, write and telegraph here that
everything is peaceful and that the po-
liGcal campaign Is beng conducted
without any improper interference
from either side.
As further illustration of the char
acter of Hays and the nefarious work
in which he is engaged, we may cite
the startling confessions Of Toney Will
der, a negro recently captured near
Pleasant Ridge, in Greene county, as
given by a correspondent of the Vest
Albanian. Toney is described as ga
likely young buck, whose horns are
Just beginning to prong and harden for
the combat" His testimony is given
as follows:
The night before Saturday he was
present at a large gathering Of negroes
at the Coleman House, one mile this
side Of Pleasant Ridge, thirty or forty
Of whom were armed, met for the pur-
pose of marching to Gainesville TO tight
an obedience to call from the Gaines
UilIe GLIB. The march WIS not to be-
Gin until all was uuiet-cOuld not say
that 1t was their intention to burn the
Ridge, but was not in all the secrets
/ of the club, not being an officer. The
club had met two and three times n
week for the last two weeks. There
were many clubs or societies in Greene
and other Uounties-one Just forming
at the Smarr place IN PIcRens, with
twenty or thirty members, but they
were not as far advanced as the one at
| the Coleman House, not having received
| their commission as yet. He was TO be
a member of the Smarr clu; all the
negroes IN the neighborhOod were to
| Join as soon as the commission came to
hand" He was asked who gave or is
sued these commissions and he said,
Charles Hays"
Here We see Congressman Hays, the
leading spirit in the coming pow-wow
at Chattanooga, IN the role of arming,
equipping and commissioning negro war
clubs to murder and burn out the
whites OF his district. Outrages must
be had OF one sort or another. Any
kind is expected to suit the Northern
deutand, whether the negroes be the
aggressors, the victims, or both at
once, as was the case in the following
fatal riot detailed by the Montgomery
Morning Ne1rs, Of Sept. 2S:
On Saturday night the negroes in
the vicinity Of Wilson's Station, about
ten miles from the city, on the Mont
gomery and Eufaula Railroad gathered
together for the purpose Of holding a
political meeting. And while Geo. W.
Cox, negro and a member of the Radi-
cal Legislature Of 1868, was making a
speech in favor Of the Strobach wing
OF the negro party Of this county,
disOrderly mob composed Of Robinson
and Buckley National Guard bullies
and rOwdies, after repeatedly inter
rupting Cox by insulting language,
| loud talking, etc, advanced towards
him and with cries of Take him down.
Take him down. and upon reaching the
stand upon which the speaker stood.
they overturned it and knocked the
speaker, Cox, IN the head, inficting a
painful wound and doubtless smashing
the rock OF other missile into atoms.
a general melee then ensued, IN which
a pistol wasfred by some one, supposed
to have been Cox, the ball from which
struck negro by the name of Minor
McCay, killing him instantly.
Cox, although stunned by the blow
on his head, managed to get into the
store of Mr.. Wilson near by, who, with
great difficulty kept the mob Of infuria-
ted demons from lynching him. By
great effort the crowd was kept back
and Cox turned over to an officer of
the law, who brought him to this city
and placed him in gail, where he viii
await a preliminary investigation.
We wish it distinctly understood,
that all hands engaged in the meeting
were Radicals. and, with few excep-
tons, negroes.
Since the above was put in type, we
have received the Cincinnati CONNER
ciaI Of yesterday, in which appears the