Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-10
gAsTTENNESsFE ..OUTRAGEs.r

The Southern Outrage Convention, "
which meets in Chattanooga on the 18th
inst. to aid in the incendiary policy Of
the Republican party by the retailing
of manufactured "ORtrages," should
by all means have some East Tennes-
see delegates presen Mt to tell about the
"outrages" which have taken place IN
East Tennessee this year. So far as
the public prints have given them pub
hcity, there have been Just three tout
RACES" in all East Tennessee since Jan.
l. We proceed to enumerate them:
First, there was a negro murderer
and a rayisher of white girl hung by
a mob in the strong Republican county
of Carter last spring. Hon. Newton
Hacker, Republican Attorney General
of the circuit. should be delegated to
tellabOUt this outrage" ThehonOrable
Hacker-but We leave the Nelg York
Tribune to tell why he should by all
means 20 to Chattanooga:
Newton Hacker, Attorney General
for the First Judicial District Of Ten
nessee, has seen fit to print in the
Joaesboro Echo, a card containing a
statement Of his views of lynch law
which he indirectly approves IN a way
not Over-much becoming an Attorney
General Mr.. Hacker, 1t was reported,
had expressed a determination to pros
ecute certain parties engaged in the I'M
lawful hanging of some colored friend,
and be "takes earl y occasion to de-
nouncc the report as an unmixed false
hood" adding: Ii there ever was an
instance in the worlds history in which
the summary execution OF a brutal
wretch was jUstifable, this was one." "
He concludes that az the case row
stands the law requires no action In the
mat ter, and he trusts never viii. That
is'to say, certain parties IN Hacker S
district having committed murder, this
person, charged With the execution of
the laws, denOunces as a scandal the
report that he Will do his official duty
in the premises, and trusts that the
felons viii escape legal punishment
We do not see why the NASHVILLE
UNION AND AMERICAN, IN view of
such a scandalous fact, should ask
Whittier are we drifting?' The
whittier is plain enough, we should
think"
Secondly, about the middle of last
month, in the strong Republican pOUn-
ty Of Sewer, United States Deputy
Marshals Doyle and Walker, while in
charge Of captured Illicit distiller,
were fired upon by a dozen armed men,
Doyle's horse shot, Walker captured,
disarmed and robbed, and the prisoner
released. United States Attorney Gen
erai Andrews should 90 to Chattanoo-
ga and tell about this outrage"
Thirdly, there is the following MARIA
tive of a Ku-Klux midnight attack on
a negro, which took place in the strong
Republican county of. Roane, last Sun
day night, as narrated by the Kingston
Independent, a Republican Journal:
On Sunday night last, abo1t 10
O'Clock, a company of masked men,
numbering some eight or ten, visited
the residence of VIM. McElwee, Esq,
three miles from lockwood, went to a
barn, some two hundred yards from
the house, and caught a black boy
about seventeen years old, dragging
him out of the bed where he was sleep
ing by the feet. The screams Of the
lad aroused the family, and Mr. Geo.
Nixon and Rev. j. o. Shelley went i'm
mediately to the rescue of the boy. Mr..
Nixon succeeded in snatching a mask
from the head of one of the party.
When the boy commenced screaming,
the mob fell to beating him with
club, and on the approach of the
family the party commenced firing
and throwing stones. The boy was
considerably bruised. and Mr. Nixon
received a slight wound on his head
with a stone. The mob then left.
What would have been the result had
the family not been awakened by the
loud crying of the boy, We are unable
70 say.
Now Roane county voted, in 1872,
], l67 for Grant, and 3S5 for Greeley,
SO that the probabilities are at least
three to one that the masked men were
Republicans. One OF the rescuers,
Rev. ]. o. Shelley, is a minister of the
Southern Methodist Church. Hon.
Horace Maynard's attention should, by
all means be called to this Outrage"
and the editor Of the KaO1UiIle ChrORi-
Gle should go down to the. Chattanooga
gathering and explain t. the crowd the
above ",act about East Tennessee.
If any other ''outrages" have occur
red in East Tenness C, this year, we
have failed to hear of them.