Year: 1867

Finally TOR Emancipation IN Order to


Ertermiaate the Colored Race Warn


ing to oar Colorsd PeopJe-His L1Uestiga-


ton Of Ko5s to break up Dioine WorsHip


and Haltreat the Ministers Of God-Ap-


pointnieRt Of Hob Leaders to Office, etc,


We cannot possibly find space this morn
4 ing for Col Baxters third card, which ap-
I peared IN the Knoxville Commercial of the
/ llth inst, but the following extract is so
significant and crushing that we displac
other matter for It's insertion


Seeing that they (the negroes) would be
emancipated by the operation of civil war
! he consented to fall in with the current, and
: in his Wing Of May 26th. 1864, he gave the
following reasons for his change:


Nv e have never diffeIe ed with the South on
the abstract question Of slavery, and do not
now differ, and we are free to say, that the
condition of the slaves when liberated if
left In the South, will be worse than it has
been during their serVitude. And we are
for emancipating every negro IN the South
notwithstanding all this. For taking this
ground we have two controlling reasons,
first, it VIII be the seyerest punishment Of
the Southern rebels that can be inflicted
and next, it viii be the very means Of ex-
tinguishing the negro race as the removal
and civilization Of the Indian tribes have
tended to extinguish them"


Here again the peculiarity of the Cover
nor's humanity is made prominent He
does everything to punish, and proposes
nothing for the benefit of society. d" Two
controlling reasons one to punish the
white people and the other to extinguish the
! negro race. What a relief it must be to the
| Governors mind to advocate policy which
would involve both races In the South in
general and irretrievable ruin.


| As evidence Of his sincerity, in the same
number Of his paper from which the fore
going extract is taken, ne demanded of the
military authorities of Knoxville an order
to the effect " that no contraband shall be
| allowed to remain in the city who Is not en-
/ plOyed by some white person in some legiti-
mate business, who does not reside at the
| dOmicile of his or her employer and no
/ contraband will be allowed to hire any
| premises in the city for any purpose what
ever; which, if he could have effected,
would have reduced the negro population to
a more abject state of slavery than they
were IN before imposing upon them all the
! burthens, and leaving them without their
! former protection.


| And it would seem frcm his policy that
he Is still bent on the extinguishment Of the
! negro race He is using all his influence,
/ personally, as an editor of public newspa-
| per and as the highest official Of the State,
/ to array them in hostility to the white popu-
lation, in which he and his followers here
have been partially successful On Sunday,
! the 2lst of April last, a few Of his most
honest followers at Maryville inveigled about
| forty negroes to join them IN mob to expel
a minister from the town for no other reason
than that he belonged to the Methodist
! Church, South, which they did under the


most aggravated circumstances After
| doing this, d portion of them went into the
country aud dispersed a congregation of the
same church assembled for Divine worship.
! The mob, headed by a Mr.. Parham, was
also encouraged by the sheriff of the county
and one of his deputies Here is case, If
one has occurred, for the interposition of the
! State guards. But no, the guards have not
! been organized for this purpose; it is for
the encouragement, and not for the suppress
sion, of the lawless assemblages of the Gov
ernors friends. Since the mob, and since
! It's general publicity in this town, where the
/ Governor was, the public arms have been
sent to Maryville, and placed in custody of
| Mr.. Parham, the head and front Of this dis
graceful breach of the public peace Ano-
! ther one of the active rarticiprtors, who
was for a time in the Rebel service and who
was recently indicted In the Circuit Court
at Maryville for stealing corn, and under this


charge fed from the country until the prose


cutiOn was adjusted by the payment of costs


has been commissioned by our most excel
lent Governor a Captain and authorized tC


raise company for his Excellency service


most fit representative for such a cause


Thus the governor has made himself, foI


more than forty years, the evil genius o.


East Tennessee. BY his low and vulgar


abuse, he has lowered the standard Of reli-


gious, moral and political controversy de


graded our literaturei sown the seeds of bit


terness and strife among our people pro


voked and encouraged the baser passions OF


the people; demoralized the country, anC


substituted violence for law, and deserves


as he viii receive, the execration of every


good man In and out of the State and b.


his present elevation affixed foul stigm'


upon the history of the times, which cal


scarcely be atoned for in hundred year


by the most exemplary conduct of our peo
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