Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-15
MURDERED. FOR THE FLAG IN
KENTUCKY,

On the Sd of July one Reuben Tanssly
assassipated Jim Blair at Carlisle, Ken
lucky. Blair was defending the Union
flag. He was murdered by coward for
SO doing. The murdered mans brother
tells the story as follows. in letter to a
gentleman in Sacramento:
On the evening of July Sd. while nu-
merous flags were being hoisted. the one
previously belonging to Colonel Metca'f
was hoisted from the business house Of
the present husband of Mrs. Metcalf.
Mr.. Brewington This was more than
some of the hot blood-d could stand. and
thew went Immediately and made a Con
federate flag, eighteen feet long, and at
tempted to raise it on the Court House,
but this was prevented by the County
Judge and County Clerk. Then the,
attemp' ed to pull down the Netcnlf flag.
ard Mrs. Me,calf, to prevent its being
destroyed, had it taken down and con
cealed. News of this insult TO the flag
was sent to US, and Jim and l went to
town with the intention of hosting the
flag. When we reached town an attempt
was made to get the flag. we stating pub
licly that we would put it up and defend
it. We failed to get the flag, and Thought
it was all over for the time, and before
night went out home. Soon after night
some one yelled for the Confederate flag
and some one else for the Metcaf flag.
Jim was standing out in the street, and
simply asked who it was that hallooed
tor the Confederate flag. The reply was,
60 You. l can whip You jim
started for him. and another man shot
him from behind some others. then
wheeled and ran. Jim only lived twenty
hours after being shot. These are the
facts as to his being killed. The worst
of all was the trial of the wretch whom
he had arrested for the murder. We
proved the killing positively, yet he was
acquitted.
We can make no more timely or ap-
plicable comments upon this atrocious
murder than to adopt the words OF the
Sacramento Record: I'VE have before
u.s." SAYS Saturdays issue of that paper
"a copy of the Carlisle Mercury. con-
tanning communication from the broth
er of the deceased. In this letter the
assertion il made that when Reuben
Tanksly. tho assassin OF Blair. wa'
brought up for examination, the rebel
women of Carlisle were 30 confident OF
his discharge that they actually prepared
. wreath of flowers with which to deco
rate the cowardly rsfian after his &C
quittal, aud sent this wreath into the
Court room by one Of the attorneys for
the defense. The fair presumption Of
course is that the Judge, who, it is hard
ly necessary to say, is himself rebel.
had caused it to be known among the
friends of the prisoner that he intended
to discharge the latter. The whole af-
fair. indeed, is very suggestive, and tends
to show what rotten reed those rest
upon who profess to think that the old
animosities have died ont in the South.
The fact that women in Carlisle we're
capable of such disgraceful act as offer
ing public tribute of admiration to a
dog of an assassin who has since fed
the country, like the poltroon he isl.
pro-es to what nights sectional hatred
is i'll carried in that region. The fam
lily of the Blairs. like many another
loyal Republican family, has been deci-
mated by Southern sut-thrsats and
rebels. We believe that this is the third
brother who has been murdered for bis
opinions, and probably the end Is not
vet. Yet there are men who talk as
though it was safe to surrender the con-
troll of the Government to the party
which has always been dominated by
the South. and who imagine, or pretend
to imagine. that it is only necessary to
change the Administration to cause the
of all sectional feeling.
Does any sane man think that the NO
men of Carlisle who wove that floral
wreath for the bross of skulking muir
derer would be soothed into permanent
by change of Administers
ton? No, the deep ana ineradicable
hatred of the North and the Union which
still burns in millions Of Southern hearts
would sac in thu change only an oppor-
tunity to crafty long sought revenges,
and to accomplish the end which armed
failed to achieve. The Carlisl
murder, like the Hamburg massacre,
proves the fallacy of all attempts to bury
the bloody shirt out Of sight