Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-10-28
HOW TO RESTORE OUR GOOD
NAME.

Buta few months ago every law
abiding Tennesseeau was indignant
over the startling developments of
murder and assassination that burst
with such rerocity upon the county.
Every public man and every newspa-
per, whether sincere or insiucere,
spoke out against the massacre at
Trenton, the numbering Of the Reeves
family, the killing of Julia Hayden,
and the long list Of crimes that made
the month of August bloody. How
sincere certain papers were in de
nouucing those crimes is now evident
from the feyocity they manifest al every
reference to those crimes Talk about
lwlessness in the south, and they get
as mad as a bull in Spanish pen
when their inLuman assailtnls shake
the red flag at them. AS far us the
ring organ III this city dared do it, it
has been the apologist ;Or this lawless-
ness, ending with the White League
revolt in Louisiana, which it at first
defended. Gov. Brown admits that
the stream of immigration .frgm the
State is greater than that to it, but still
the Democratic organs halfway apollo
gise for crime when they can make
political capital out of it. The Gibson
county outrage, and the killing of
Julia Hayden, have been read Of by
millions, while Prosser's address has
not been published outside of the State,
or even noticed, as far as We have seen.
Yet, the latter is denounced, aud the
murdereTs, who have given our State
an advertisement that she will not get
over for years at least, are already
forgotten.
Every man with a grain OF sense
knows that this great fuss over the ad-
dress and the silence as to the men
who have really injured US all we can
for the present be injured, is the work
Of political demagogues and done for
political effect. No one suspects them
of wanting immigration or desiring
The growth of the State In their
present temper they would establish a
line of sentiuels on the State borders
and drive back at the point of the bay
unet every immigrant who hadn't an
old grey coat or couldn't prove that he
mad voted the Democratic ticket
ever since his majority. Their
sincerity everybody suspects, for it is
patent tuat all they are after Is q little
temporary capital to put through a
iaVUTIte candidate, amid the excite
uIent Of the hour. We do not care to
repeat these stories of crime or Cata-
lOgue the fearful list, but If in less
than two months after the bloody car
nival IT is criminal for Republican
Convention TO refer to lawlessness as a
fact no one disputes, it may become
necessary to revive the recollection of
those who profess to have forgotten it.
1t ought not TO he necessary. The
political canvass is near its end, and
the good they can accomplish by their
hypocritical howl is very little. If they
really desire 10 restore the State to its
former vantage ground for immi-
grants, let them direct their surplus
zeal and energy towards securing the
punishment OF the assassins Of tile
Trenton prisoners and poor Julia Hay
den. The whole world has read of
these Outrages and by them Tennessee
has beeninjured all she will be. Punish
the perpetrators of those outrages and
our good name will in part at least be
restored.