Last Tuesday a public meeting was held in the town of LaGrange, Fayette county, at which speeches were made by six different persons, one of whom was a negro named CARTER. The crowd was composed of five or six hundred negroes and thirty or forty whites. CARTER made use of highly inflammatory words, and said that there was not to be found, even with a lantern, in broad day light, one honest man in the Conservative party! His object seemed to be a very bad one indeed, for he never failed to appeal to the passions and prejudices of his race. Just such harangues brought about the New Orleans, Memphis, Brownsville, Franklin riots, and are always the starting points of lawlessness, rapine and murder. This instigator of evil is made the associate of white men, who doubtless, applaud him for the assertion that there is not an honest man in the Conservative party. Whither are we tending?

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 13 July 1867, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.