The Portland daily press., 1892-08-19

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, August ia
dispatch just received says the troops at
Camp Anderson, Coal Creek, surrendered
this morning. The soldiers and convicts
at Clinton are en- route for home.
Chattanooga Responds.
CHATTANOOGA, August 1s.-In conse-
quence of the governors call for posse
from this and other counties, Sheriff Kill
lern, this morning began swearing in
such citizens as were willing to go with
him and sent deputies out on the streets
to summon enough men to fill the quote
called for. Some of the best men in this
city, many of them over the age at
which they are exempt have offered to
go with the sheriff.
The Situation.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, August 18.-The
entire mountain region of East Tennes-
see is an armed camp, where thousands
of desperate miners are arrayed against
the handful of troops that have been
sent to the scene Of the bloody encounter
of the past few days.
How far the war extends may be
guessed from the fact that the free min
ers of Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia
and Alabama are making a common
cause, and have formed secret league
whose sworn purpose is to rid the South
ern States of the rivalry in the fair fields
of labor of the men whose only claim to
work against them is that they wear the
garb of the prison.
Every miners hut is hidden arsenal,
where the state has an enemy SO long as
the system continues, and the citizens
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son, Knox and adjoining counties are in
When Judge Moon issued IA warrants
against the miners who attacked Inman
on Monday, Sheriff Morrison declined to
serve them or call out a posse of citizens
to assist in protecting property.
The folly of attempting to cope with
the thousands of miners, who hold the
roads leading to the beleaguered stock
AIDES, ,Awith a handful of militia was
shown when 200 men attacked the
diers were obliged to surrender. and,
with the convicts IN their charge, were
marched to Clinton this morning and
locked up in warehouse.
Many indignation meetings have been
held in Nashville, Chattanooga and other
cities, and Governor Buchanan has been
condemned for not using more rigorous
measures to suppress the uprising.
Threats to lynch the executive of the
state have not been few, and from this
fact may be inferred the fever of excite
ment which burns in the brains of the
people. Sd ~
These critics of the Governor fail to
comprehend the position in which he is
placed.
On the one hand he is called upon to
uphold the dignity of the State against
open rebellion, on the other, he is ex-
pected to preserve the rights Of the free
miners of the Commonwealth.
His appeals to the militiamen have not
been needed; they have hidden in their
homes rather than obey a summons to
wage war against men whom they think
in the right.
His appeals to the citizens have been
treated with contempt, and not even
when the soldiers of the State are in the
hands of rebels, can he rouse the citizens
to sense of the danger and the disgrace.
The massing Of the State troops, of
which much has been said, sounds large,
but means little.
The entire force of the state is less than
1000 men, and many, if not most of these
are malcontents, who will shirk the
duty of shouldering arms in such a
cause.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, August 1S.-The
latest information received at the capitol
from Coal Creek is that Col. Anderson
has been captured. His men are still
fighting. 8 ai