Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-07-23
ng. Messrs Bob Pat.
"A. nfien, Jr., Chris Powers

excellent spirits. After the committee
adjourned, they went to Brien,s office. ac.
eompanied by ParsOn Dillin and A. A.
Carter, but remained there only a shor,
time. 1t is understood that strong effort.
are being made by the white members
Of the committee to get Robertson, the
colored candidate for jailer, to withdraw
in favor of Bob Patterson but the colored
portion of the committee fail to rec it in
that illumination, and swear they'll stand
by Robertson, while the latter says he is
on the track until 4 P. NJ, Aug. s.. Hence
there isa GOODNESS in the committee,
among its individual members, and it is
possible that it will share the fate of the
party in Davidson county, ana become SO
divided against itself that it will be unable
to accomplish anything. Meanwhile the
ticket nominated by the Democratic Con-
vention is growing more popular every
day, and its complete triumph is already a
dead certainty"
Mr.. Bell-"Yes, l wrote it,"
PattersOn-"Didn't you know you were
writing a id lie?'
When the question was asked, Mr..
Bell was sitting, in a l%eisurely way, with
his chair tilted back and his feet upon a
table. Before he could frame a reply,
Patterson struck him behind the right ear
and felled him to the floor. II is not a
hard matter to hit and kick q man when
he is down. This the cowardly r%uAian,
did until Mr.. Bell, bruised and bloody,
was all but insensible from his injuries.
In the meantime, another member Of
our editorial staff had left his seat and
was fastening to Mr.. Bells assistance.
He was promptly met by Steele, who
presented a revolver at his head and
threatened to shoot him if he moved an
inch further.
Alter Patterson had gotten through his
brutal job, he and the hired ~blackguard
who had accompanied him withdrew from
the room, Patterson remarking, 'If you
use my name again, we'll come down
tomorrow and clean your whole Office
out"
No person in Nashville is more quiet
and inefensive in his habits than Mr..
Bell. He weighs perhaps 12O, certainly
not over 125, pounds. Neither he nor
his associate was armed. Patterson is a
man of burly frame, stout as an OK, and
a recognized bully. His alder and abet.
tor in the outrage, Steele, is a tall, raw
boned, muscular fellow, with all the fe.
roclous instincts of the bull dog, whose
company he prefers to that of decent men.
AZ intimated above, both are officers
elected blythe people of Davidson county
the one to guard offenders not one whit
worse than himself, the other to conserve
the peace which he assisted, yesterday, to
break in SO disgraceful a manner.
The cause-if cause there be-of the
attack upon Mr.. Bell Is alleged to be the
extract above quoted. 1t was certainly
an inoffensiye allusion, written without
malice and intended by Mr.. Bell simply
as a report of what he had gathered the
evening previous. Every word of it was
true. No doubt, it was the truth that
hurt Patterson. His fortunes are at their
most desperate pass the game is up no
respectable white man will vote for him,
and the choice of the negroes has fallen
upon one Of their own color he is already
beaten. We are charitable enough to be-
lleve that an assurance of this fact goaded
him on to perpetrate the outrage Of yester-
day or, at the worst, he may have done
it, as 50 many suppose, at the instigation
Of S~teele-Steele, whose, tender sympa>
thy for slaughtered x>Confederates'' has
stirred the whole community.
But, after all their real purpose was to
bully and brow>beat the UNION AND
AMERICAN into silence. And on this
point we care to say only a word or two.
Patterson and Steele, backed by all the
cut.throats and ~assassins that Turk in the
slums Of Nashville, cannot silence this
paper. As the pistol must be substituted
for the pen, the shorter and sharper will
be the argument. When our visitors of
yesterday return to "clean out the
whole Office" no qustitns need be asked,
no explanations made. IL they mean
business Of that sort, we will be with
them to the end of the canvass.
In the universal exscration which has
been Leaped upon these r%ufians for their
brutality We gratefully recognize the
popular Endorsement of our course in the
county canvass. Threats of violence.
actual violence itself, shall not turn us
frnm that cnnroa