The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
THE OTHER SIDE.

Last Sundays Appeal contained one
of the soundest and most sensible
letters we have vet seen from any
public man in regard 10 our recent
troubles. Judge T. ". Brown, of
Memphis, will long be kindly remem-
bered by our people as a man who is
not afraid to rebuke cant and hypoc-
risy wherever found. We copy eX-
tracts from the letter. Speaking Of
the Indignation meeting held at the
Exposition building by the citizens Of
Memphis, he says:
1t was abnormal, because altogether
unusual. 1t Is not customary for one
local community to deal, by public
meeting, with transactions in another,
unless those transactions rise to the
dignity Of State affairs, affecting the
interests of whole peoples and States
or when human suffering or gross OPP
preston properlye!icits such,
for instance, as III the ease ot LoulSi-
ana. Even il the now obsolete law
prevailed hoicing each hundred re
sponsible for a crime perpetrated il
their midst unless the guilty one Wa.
surrendered to punishment, the CITY
OF Memphis nor the county OF ~aei't
was not implicated nor under o1ii-@-
ton to purge lt@cii OF gu!.t. We DO
not ind II the northern states that
other counties al "a = L. i.yiH ,udigna-
ton meetings over The Seymour lynch
ing in Indiana. Indeed north, not
even ii the local communities where
outragcS occur, are Indignation meet
ings held to clear up the character oi
the particular locality or Of the stat
generally. Up there il Is supposed
that all good citizens are opposed IL
lawiessness and violence without a.
protest of innocence o. a public de
claration If their convictions. To-day
two counties in PENNSYLVANIA are raw
aged by laWloss bands Of white ma.
ravishing women, burning and rob
bling. The orderly citizens seem to be
powcrlcss to arrest these marauders or
stop their crimes, vet We hear OF no
Indignation meetings. In Tennessee
before the war We did not hear Of such
Indignation meetings as that at the
Exposition building, even when white
men were lynched. Therefore, being
abnormal, / feared that itmight excite
suspicion Us to the sincerity Of tne eX-
preston obtained and only tended to
fix upon our people the murdcrOus
and lawlo,s stigma sought to be PAT
upon Us b. or enemies. In fact, ii
is only necessary to read the speeches
of such men AS Morton, and the para
graphs of Journals in Sympathv with
hiFa. 10 show that sa,h has been the
precise effect Of the meeting in cues
lion the VERY reverse of that desired
bv fl, movers Is il not a fact that
the active enemies of the south have
modo or hi. naat;nr and the ,,ttor-
onco. If tl,n .no,l,o,s "a tor;aI for f,a.b
ossa,,I+s ON obr soc;otv2 !:
Nv. Jo,,, tho a,;,, .rcb condition
n ,,;oIo,'oo a,;stoa -. L. ,lo,,. go,
:, T.rnas.oo IN :, no ST. ~
tLa I-n;on whore tba laws ora mora
f,;tbf,ii-a,,J ~, l.. aan,i,,;',,,n,i -
- - ','' tLa - IL : =,
co,'I;,;on Of son4in,cnt tLnro i No.
Iay.Jessress Of conduct Of which II
conld ba tru,brIllv nrD,Ijcaf,l as int,r-
farinr With the Dc;t.aIal and law-abi1-
mo inbobitant whatever NAV he hi,
color. or however bpmhIa may he his
no.iiion That tborc have becn crimes
norcotrstad alas too frequently. that
tbere has heen and norhans Is vet
existing in the South some irritation
of feeling that has a political aspect,
cannot be denied. But it must he
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