{"id":1762,"date":"2015-03-04T19:22:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T01:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tngenweb.org\/blount\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2015-03-04T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T01:22:54","slug":"colored-citizens-meeting-1882","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/colored-citizens-meeting-1882\/","title":{"rendered":"Colored Citizens Meeting (1882)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a meeting of the colored citizens of Maryville, on Thursday night last, my name was presented as a candidate for Justice of the Peace for the Taxing District of Maryville. \u00a0Upon taking a vote I received a majority of votes, after which my nomination was made unanimous.<\/p>\n<p>I hereby acknowledge the honor and accept the nomination, and ask the suffrage of all citizens of the town, irrespective of party, race or creed. \u00a0If elected, I will try to discharge the duties of the office impartially and as efficiently and faithfully as I can. \u00a0I will administer the law without fear or favor. &#8212; <strong>W.B. SCOTT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: Blount County Democrat, 22 July 1882, page 1. Available at <a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a meeting of the colored citizens of Maryville, on Thursday night last, my name was presented as a candidate for Justice of the Peace for the Taxing District of Maryville. \u00a0Upon taking a vote I received a majority of votes, after which my nomination was made unanimous. I hereby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270,279],"tags":[374],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-newsextracts","tag-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/blount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}