Miscegenation.
--The
Bristol (Tenn.) Gazette says:
‘
There is now confined by the
Federals, in the penitentiary at
Nashville, a gentleman from
Huntsville, Ala., by the name of
T. Lampkins, for whom at least a dozen
Unionists should be at once incarcerated.
A gentleman who was a prisoner companion of
Mr. Lampkins informs us that the sole charge against
Mr. Hampkins is that, whilst a Yankee speaker was holding forth at
Huntsville in favor of practical amalgamation, he rose in the audience and expressed his decided approval of the speaker's propositions, adding that he was led to the conclusion after some enforced intimacy with the people of the
United States, that amalgamation with the negro would improve the
Yankee race.
For this expression, Lampkins was arrested and thrust into a convict's cell, from which he is occasionally taken and marched to the office of the
Provost Marshal in
Nashville, where he is regularly interrogated as to his opinions upon the subject of amalgamation, and invariably replies that he still thinks the process would result to the benefit of the
Yankee, but to the deterioration of the African race.
’