Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-08-22
Tyranny in Missouri.

Let our people read the following and they will appreciate the refuge our State has found in "Secession:''
 MEXICO, Mo-, Aug. 3.-By tomorrow night or next morning the county seats of Warren, Montgomery, Lincoln, Galloway, Andrain, Pike, Rails, Monroe, Randolph, Howard, Macon, Shelby, Marion, Lewis, Knox, Lynn, Scotland, Clarke, Livingston, counties, by simultaneous movements, will be occupied by strong bodies of U. s. forces, the commanding officers of whom will ap- point a committee of public safety from among the most responsible citizens of the county, whose duty 1t shall be to preserve the peace in their respective sections.
 Each committee shall consist of not more than five persons, and whenever 1t can consistently be done, the proper coun- ty officers shall be selected as members- No one thus appointed shall be permitted to decline, nor shall fail to perform his duties, under such penalties as the commanding general shall affiX.
 These committees are changed according to general orders issued by General Pope, with the duty of maintaining peace and order in their respective counties, and shall have power to call out all citizens of the county to assemble at such time and places and in such numbers as may be necessary to secure these objects. Any one who shall refuse to obey such call will be turned over to the military authorities. If the people of the counties respectively are not able or willing to enforce the peace among themselves and to prevent the organizing of companies to make war upon the United States, the mili- tary force will peform the service, but the expenses must be paid by the county in which such service Is necessary.
 To secure their prompt payment levy of sufficient amount of property or on money will be at once made and collected by officers in command. Upon tAe call of a majority of the committee of public safe ty in each county, troops will be sent to keep the peace, but as such expeditions are for the benefit of the people concerned, who have in nearly every case the power to discharge the service themselves, the troops thus sent will be quartered upon them and subsisted and transported by the county in the manner above specified dur ing the whole period it may be necessary for them to remain. If, in consequence of disturbances not reported by the commit tee, the general commanding finds it nec- essary to send force into county to re- store order, they will be in like manner billeted upon the county, unless the com binations against the peace are too power full to be resisted, or the parties engaged in 1t were organize in other counties and brought on the disturbance by actual inva- sion.
 It is not believed that the first case can occur in any county of northern Missouri, and in the second, the forces will be march ed into the county or counties where the marauding parties were organized or whence they made the invasion, and will, in like manner, be quartered upon them: Where the peace and good order are preserved, the troops will not be required. Where they are disturbed, they will be restored at the expense of the county. To preserve the peace is the duty of all mood citizens, and as all will alike suffer from the breach of 1t men of every shade of political opinion can act COrulaIIy loSelHel III lue uloCnaiSe ol a duty as full ofinterest to one as to another. All persons who have heretofore been led away to take up arms against the United States are notified that by returning and laying down their arms at the nearest mill itary post, and by performing their duty hereafter as peaceable and law abiding cit izens, they will not be molesled by the military forces, nor, so far as the general commanding can influence the matter, will they be subjected to punishment, unless they have committed murder or some other aggravated offense.