The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-10-27
Radical BuIIdOzing.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY Re.
COMING DESPERATE.
Hon. RObt. L. Taylor Almost
MObbed i'm the First District
NEGRO MObs i'm the
NOrth---Killing Chill
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From the Knoxville Tribune.I

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From the Knoxville Tribunel
AS the day that decides another
four years of fraud and misrule, or
restoration and peace approaches.
we have daily evidence of what the
tearing agape of old wounds. and an
eternal waving OF the bloody shirt
may do. We have striven for peace
and an irrepress:ble war has been
thrust upon US, While we have
contended that the spirit of the re-
bellion was dead, and have proved
our sincerity in every official act,
the indiscretien, of perhaps one in
dividual in ten thousand, has been
enlarged and then proclaimed as an
exponent of the party's desires and
intentions, and a cowardly cry rails.
ed of rebellion" "war claims"
Southern pensions" ETC., on to the
shameful end of the long list cfliea.
Within three days we hear of little
child shot down in cold blood that
cheered for Hancock; of a Demo-
cratic procession stoned by a lot of
negroes influenced by the stories
and lies of re eBslavement. lat
Kingston pistol was drawn by Re
publiCans and Democrats were abus-
ed when Mr.. Williams met Judge
Houk there according to appoint
ment, and to-day we hear that Petit
bone has not only appeared indiffer-
ent as TO quelling mob of his party
that were threatening the Hon. Robt.
Taylor's life, but used language to
incite them to the deed. We give
here the testimony of "a reliable wit.
ness nov in the city. The germ
once planted will grow and the tree
in due season will bring forth its
fruit: I'VE listened with no small |
degree of modification to the speak. |
ers, Psttibone, Randolph and Mil.
burn, in Newport last Friday, where |
those men, by every means in their
power, sought to wake from their |
sleeping silence the differences. ami
mosities and hatreds of the last half |
century, and fire the people with |
partisan malice and partisan spleen,
by the utterance of such declarations
as it has been our happy fortune
never before to hear fall from the
lips Of public speakers advocating
or opposing the accomplishment of
any end; James H. Randolph, to
repeat whose utterances the black.
Of the ink that flows from my pen
would pale to whiteness, spoke with |
the same vehemence that he used in |
the legislative halls of Tennessee in
1861, and shame be TO those insati-
able ghouls that continue to hold /
revelry around and feast themselves
and try TO feed a patriotic people |.
upon the putrid carcasses stolen |
from the political burial grounds Of
the past, where the blest harbinger
of peace has stood for the last de- !
cade and a half. and plead to Danish
this gospel OF hate. But the con-
summation was inevitably. The
speaking ground on Saturday was
the place where this feeling must be
acted out. Pettibone himself open
ly personated one of the best citi-
zens of Cooke county, who has ever
been as true to the flag as any man
in the district, and we are reliably
informed encouraged rather than
discouraged the insults offered to
Mr.. Taylor. Parties present say an
attack was made upon Dan Ellis
and also upon some parties for ad,
vocating Taylor, one of whom was
badly beaten, and one while
Taylor was speaking-told Petit,
bone to get an axe and cut his id
head off. Are those gentlemen 10
favor of free institutions, freedom of
the press and freedom of speech?