A Correction
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Title
A Correction
Source
Chronicling America
Publisher
Daily Union and American
Date
1866-08-24
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Transcription
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A CORRECTION.
Our intelligent and just-minded correspondent, VEDETTE, wrote some time since, that a negro assemblage at Knoxville had appointed delegates to the Philadelphia Radical Convention, to be held on the 3d of September. This was an error, and he writes us the following correction, in which he displays a fairness as prompt as it is admirable:
I think very probably I have been led into error, and may lead your readers into to error by the statement made in a recent communication, that negro delegates had been appointed by a negro Convention at Knoxville, , to attend the Radical Convention in Philadelphia next month. I am informed that these delegates were appointed not to the Philadelphia next month. I am informed that these delegates were appointed not to the Philadelphia Convention, but to one recently held in Nashville. I regret that I should have been led into this error, and still more that I should have given it circulation, as I do not wish to do injustice to any one, and I now beg your pardon of both the Knoxville and the Philadelphia Conventions.
VEDETTE.
A CORRECTION.
Our intelligent and just-minded correspondent, VEDETTE, wrote some time since, that a negro assemblage at Knoxville had appointed delegates to the Philadelphia Radical Convention, to be held on the 3d of September. This was an error, and he writes us the following correction, in which he displays a fairness as prompt as it is admirable:
I think very probably I have been led into error, and may lead your readers into to error by the statement made in a recent communication, that negro delegates had been appointed by a negro Convention at Knoxville, , to attend the Radical Convention in Philadelphia next month. I am informed that these delegates were appointed not to the Philadelphia next month. I am informed that these delegates were appointed not to the Philadelphia Convention, but to one recently held in Nashville. I regret that I should have been led into this error, and still more that I should have given it circulation, as I do not wish to do injustice to any one, and I now beg your pardon of both the Knoxville and the Philadelphia Conventions.
VEDETTE.
Convention Minutes Item Type Metadata
Convention Type
State Convention
City
Nashville
State
TN
Country
USA
Start Date
1866-08-06
End Date
1866-08-10
Provenance
Library of Congress
Event ID
1866.TN-08.06.NASH
Citation
“A Correction,” Colored Conventions Project Digital Records, accessed October 22, 2026, https://www.omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/2684.