Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-05-02
MT. PLEASANT, CARROLL Co.,, ARK,
 April llth, 1861.

MEssRs. EDIroRs-We have before us q
 edition of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, V
 was very cruel, yet there was crime or assass
 ton committed by the citizens of Concord, Hat county, Texas, that was more attrocious than of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, for the Id
 mer was committed by the wild Indians of tl
 west, and the latter by our enlightened Amtrcir
 people, which is this: About the last of Oct s | there was man by the name of John M. WTb.
 with three of his sons, who were citizens of N, doches county, Texas, went from Nacogdocl Concord, Hardin county, to buy provisions,
 when they had loaded their wagon and sarte home, man by the name of Barton Mooney menced an assault upon Felix T. Wilburn. eldest son of John M Wilburn, and made an tempt to shoot him with gun and J. NJ. WlA interposedand prevented him-then Mir Mod
 drew q pistol from his belt and shot J. NJ. Wilb
 in the left hand and fired again and shot him N
 the right hand, as he snatched the pistol to preySl
 Mooney from shooting his son, and in the Tn
 time F. T. Wiiburn shot Mooney in the side, wh
 he was Justihabie under the laws of the UIif
 States in 80 doing, and Mr Mooney died in u span of six hours. So J. ". Wilburn started t ward his wagon, where his two young sons yal and the men of that place cried out shoot him ai MT. Long shot him in the right shoullsr with fife ball and Mr. Sanders shot him. in the shoulder with shot gun, which was Naded " buckshot and no fell though not dead at the tiI his three sons came to him and they were all g rounded and taken and chained together and guhfl cd until night, and in the meapwhie doctor dresS ed the old mans wounds While the mob was holding their council, an old gentleman and a widow woman seeing that the mob were bent on hanging old man Wiburn and his three sons, plead for them, saying do not hang them, give them 4 trial at law, and centered their plea upon the in- noceLce of the two little boys, who never ralsed l violent hand, but their intercession did not do an] good, for they kicked the old man out of the crowd. While this was going on the two youngest boys being hungry for food and water, begged for water but there was none given them, and aske,. the crowd why they had taken them and what fotV and they said never mind you must keep you9 father company, and a Mir. Green Wamack asked them if they wished to hear the Bible read, whicll showed that he was a swift witness against thPrna On the night of tho 5th of February, 1860, the day in which they were taken, sometime in the night the mob took them out about two miles from Con, cord and without law or gospel banged them, the old man on limb which projected overa creek, and the three boys on one tree, and they coRhfnuei to hang shere three days and nights, and by an oldeI of the magistrate. Mir. Chance, they were ,tgke1 down, and they digged pit and dragg teem 10 il and threw them all into it. and they made sdstri1 button of the boys coats and hats among them selves, but the old mans coat and yes. have go1 which is flied with shot holes.
 The mob retained the wagon ard team foS or twelve days and then sent them hc'ne by a Swezey and he took for his pay about eight doll Mrs Wilburn hearing of the cruel treatmentw her husband and sens received, was stricken much grief and pain, which finally produced dsS She died on the 9th of Feb, 1861, leaving f little boys, three of them under ten years of a
 John NJ. Wilburn was born and raised in M son county, Alabama; he was born in she 1874, and emigrated to the State of nrkans the year IS32, and he emigrated t. Te1sQi year 1853 Nancy Wilburn. for rmerly Nand ris. was born in the year lSIs. and was raise the State of Arkansas. E4Sion county.
 Mir. Wm H. Handoosk, of N1cogdoches, T. in his paper called tse Chroricle, seems to jy the conduc; of sle midnirat assassins of Cor Texaa ia the treatme1st of J. M. Wilburn soas, andif Mc. Handbook would Justify hat. he would justify Brigham Y daAg anI overs at the Mountain Meadows Maj John Brown at Harper's Ferry, Va, and itN hat Concord has made league with hell an, ociates with the devil, and has made Mr. ock their editor.
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