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AIbert pikels Letter . Jaa. pavis.
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AIbert pixies Lctter TO Jef. Davis,
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FoRR McCUILooH, CHOcTAw NAuoN1 3
T., -n,nb 4 isssaa "a July 8, 1862. :
Sm:a AS private citizen Of Arkansas
having wife and children in Little Rock,
though myself happily beyond the reach
Of the Provost Marshal who holds the
liberty and lives of citizens in the hol-
low of his hand, invoke the attention
of the Chief Magistrate Of the Confede-
| raoy, solemnly sworn TO PRESERVE, PRO-
TBoT, and DEFEND the Constitution and
the laws, to the orders, which enclose,
of Major General Hindman, command
ling the Trans Mississippi District
| / might well do so in my MILF
tary capacity, since l have some time
been in command Of the Indian country,
created military department in Novem-
Der last but now part of that district;
because may well apprehend that the
absolute despotism established over the
town of Little Rock, tho County of Pu-
laski, and other parts of the State, may
be attempted to be extended to the In
dian country, and the dilemma be pre-
scented to me of enforcing such orders
here, or refusing to obey unlawful orders,
and because, indeed, il is already an
nounced in General Orders" that
on the recommendation of a Provost
Marshal, enthroned at Little Rock, mar
tial law will be declared in any portion
of the Trans Mississippi District, and
by novel proclamation of that novel
magistrate, tariff of prices is establish
ed throughout its whole extent.
| i prefer, nevertheless, to do il in my
character of citizen, because ii is chiefly
the rights of the citizen that are thus
rudely invaded.
4. But still, and because il makes the
state of things in Arkansas, and, in some
respects, elsewhere, more astounding, /
so far remember that am in the military
service, as to mark the incredulous strides
that usurpation has made within few
months, by placing before the eyes of
the Chief Magistrate a general order,
issued by me on the 9th of February,
of the present year, occasionedby an in
reference in the Chickasaw Nation Of
Indians, on the part of a Chickasaw Off
Ger in the service of the Confederate
States, with the prerogatives of the civil
authorities and tribunals of that Indian
tribe, and by the compulsory enlistment,
by The same officer, of certain individuals
in our service.
Ithen declared TO the Ohickasaw peo-
pie that it was the pride and boast of the
Confederate States that no where within
their limits, since the present revolution
commenced, had the laws been suspend
ed, the sittings of the courts of justice
interrupted, or the military power placed
above the civil authorities.
And that was then true.
A little more than year has elapsed
and without any shadow of right or au
, thority, in direct defiance of the Consti
,, tuition, we see with establishment thu
privilege Of the writ of habeas corpus sus
pended and martial law declared wher
ever in these Confederate States il pleas
} es General of any grade TO substitut,
himself and his Provost Marshal in placl
: of the law aud the Constitution. In Ar
kansas, Chief Provost Marshal is APP
D pointed and assigned to duty as Chic
: Provost Marshal of the whole Trans
Mississippi District, which includes
9 vast territory, occupied by five allied In
Y | dian tribes. On his recommendation
) martial law is to be declared, and Pro
| vost Marshals appointed wherever neoes
sary He is authorized TO enrol ant
Q compel TO serve as a Provost Guard, al
q white male persons between the ages 0
0 eighteen aud forty-fiye years, who ar
= not subject TO CONSUMPTION, and not ex
> empt from military service. He is to ar
a rest and punish, all persons, who, any
where in tho district, suspend the sal
!, Of any produce, wares or merchandise
drug or commodity, in order to eyade th
Major Generals regulations concernin
the same; all persons who manifest o
incite disallection toward the Confederat
States; and all persons guilty of an.
disorderly or immoral conduct; as, als'
all persons who refuse to receive COnfed
rate notes as currency, at par, in bushes
o transactions; and all who ask or receive
9 for any produce, goods, wares, or mer
y chandise, drug or commodity, any highe
price than fixed by him.
> BY decreeof this Chief Provost Mar
shall, all merchants within the DistriC
of Arkansas, are required 10 keep ope
70 their stores from a certain hour in th
70 morning 10 certain hour in the evening
every day except Sunday and are re
qnired TO receive Gin exchange for a
articles Of merchandise" Confederal