{"id":537,"date":"2013-09-04T23:52:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T04:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=537"},"modified":"2013-09-04T23:58:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T04:58:48","slug":"unprovoked-shooting-of-a-negro-1866","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/unprovoked-shooting-of-a-negro-1866\/","title":{"rendered":"Unprovoked Shooting of a Negro (1866)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Cleveland (Tenn.) Banner we clip the following: <strong>Wash. HENDERSON<\/strong>, a colored man, was shot through the thigh, at this place, on Monday evening last, by a man named <strong>COLEMAN<\/strong>, from Hamilton county. Wash. is a very peaceable and orderly \u2013 attends to his own business and interfere with the affairs of no one. We learn the shooting was done without any provocation at all on the part of the negro. It is said <strong>COLEMAN<\/strong> was very much intoxicated when the shooting was done. It is time such conduct was suppressed, and if the civil authorities are unable to do it, negro troops will be sent here to do it. Where a negro is behaving himself and conducting himself in accordance with the laws of the country, it is wrong \u2013 very wrong \u2013 for him to be maltreated and abused. Let the civil authorities arrest this fellow <strong>COLEMAN<\/strong>, and let him be sent to the Penitentiary, provided the negro don&#8217;t die, and if he dies let his murderer be hung. (pg. 3)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><i>Brownlow&#8217;s Knoxville Whig.<\/i>\u00a0(Knoxville, Tenn.), 07 March 1866.\u00a0<i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers<\/i>. Lib. of Congress. &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045629\/1866-03-07\/ed-1\/seq-3\/\">http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045629\/1866-03-07\/ed-1\/seq-3\/<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Cleveland (Tenn.) Banner we clip the following: Wash. HENDERSON, a colored man, was shot through the thigh, at this place, on Monday evening last, by a man named COLEMAN, from Hamilton county. Wash. is a very peaceable and orderly \u2013 attends to his own business and interfere with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,36],"tags":[698,697],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-bradley","tag-coleman-no-first-name","tag-henderson-wash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}