Knoxville Weekly Chronicle

COMMUNICATED.

Editors Chronicle: I see in this morning's Whig an editorial entitled "Not Consistent," in which the writer calls in question the action of the parties who took the lead in the late demonstration in honor of the Federal dead, and seems to think great injustice was done the colored people by the Republican party, and says: "Not a single niche was set apart for the colored people." Let us see how this is. In the order of exercises we find the following:

"ORDER OF PROCESSION
5th. Mayor and City Council of Knoxville.
7th. Delegations from abroad.
8th. Citizens in carriages.
9th. Ex-Federal officers and soldiers in uniform.
10th. Citizens on foot.
11th. Citizens on horseback."

Does our Democratic friends claim that there was no place assigned the colored people? Are there no colored men in the City Council? Are the colored people not citizens? Are there none of them who deserve to be called ex-Federal soldiers? And do our colored citizens complain that they were ignored, as the Whig claims?

Are they not satisfied to be called citizens, without the prefix "colored?" Does the Whig claim that the Republican party is the only party that honors the Federal dead? We are surprised that the writer should do us the distinguished honor of being the only party which holds in grateful remembrance the patriotic deeds of the gallant defenders of the Federal Union.

The efforts of the writer to give the ceremonies on the 30th a partisan coloring is as contemptible as his insinuations are unfounded. And for him to complain that the colored people were ignored in the appointment of the committees is simply ridiculous. The chairman of the meeting, a leading Conservative, appointed the committees, of which there was no complaint from any source. We had hoped that the Whig would say nothing more about this matter after the cooling down the Chronicle gave him on a former effusion on the subject of decoration.

Respectfully, &c.,
Ex-FEDERAL.