The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-02-04
The lSabbIe,

The following special correspondence
of the Coerter-JourRdI from Nashville.
Jan. 26th, gives a vivid and truthful
picture Of the disgraceful scenes enacted
by the Andrew Johnson rabble, by
which they sought to overawe and in
timidate the Legislature. We have no
wOrls to express our own Indignation
at this outrage upon decency, to say
nothing of justice, perpetrated upon the
State and upon the people by this COM
mune mob, melted and encouraged by
their leader, Andrew Johnson. 1t is
needless to say how successful they were,
or to comment upon the action of those
professedly democratic members who
suffered themselves to be influenced Ell
ther by the demonstrations, or caioled,
or inundated by their instigator. The
following is the c. Us account of the
scenes during Mondays session:
Long before the hour of assembling
on yesterday a steady stream of people
began 10 pour into the Capitol, and
when the hour of II arrived fully 5000
men were assembled on the floor and in
the galleries. Speaker Paine of the
Senate took the chair at u NJ. and the
convention came 20 order. Speaker
Paine then read n firm and manly pro-
test against the scenes of disorder which
characterized the proceedings of Satur-
day, and annoUced that, IL the rabble
would not allow the convention to pro-
coed in order, he would adjourn it to
some point where 1t would be secure
from interruption. When he had con-
cluded, Senator Logan moved a concur
renee in the Speakers remarks, which
che convention unanimously adopted
Chat before a whirlwind would pretty
well represent the idea of the impress
sion the speakers timely and manly
words had upon the mass of maddened
humanity In the galleries. II was re-
ceived with half-deriSive chuckle, and
disregarded I'm less than five minutes by
more than half the crowd, despite the
earnest efforts "a number OF elderly citi-
zens who were heartily ashamed of the
disgraceful scene.
] think that I'm my series of letters
from this place, i'm the past two weeks,
1 have maintained that spirit OF impair
TALLY which l determined upon when
came here. have sought to write down
no man; ! have written no word In the
interest of this or that man, and have
sat quiet when the uproar which attend
ed the proceedings would have been
fearful In the most corrupt ward meet
ing of the most corrupt ward of New
York. But there is point beyond
which / feel no impartial journalist
should go. While / have hesitated
heretofore because l was a citizen of an
other State and the representative of a
paper published i'm another State, / do
not feel that | am called upon longer to
see such conduct and not write of it in
the manner which it deserves. But
when l would write OF it my pen fails
me. Had / the most facile pen that
ever drew the most wondrous word
pictures the world has known, it might
yet pause before such task Imagine
the most tumultuous Congressional
convention You ever knew, intensity its
noise, its excitement, its confusion a
thousand fold, and you have an idea of
the uproar yesterday. a Senator has
just characterized the assemblape as a
meeting of the French Commune. Per-
haps you may form an idea of things
down here from his remark.