True Democrat., 1863-07-08


 which the public had no concern, and which were entitled to that delicate forbearance which conFte- sy always demands of gentlemen athouge pohtic al opponents towards each other. It is with iex- trenle regret that we feel obliged tQ. notice them publicly. We would be false not only to pri vate friendship, but to our duty us journalist in being longer silent. The people look to usfor informat tion We must be true to them and give It.
 Tha last, i1ufnbcraOf the Aakansrss Patriot, in commenting on the remarks of the True Democrat in favor of Gen. Roy yston, sayss sssss !ls
 "Royston, they think, .cars obtain more votes than all the gentlemen mentioRed. Ihey forgot, perhaps, that he wassfoe al0wing A>man of twenty slaves exemption from military service in the ranks. But, when he was compelled to vote; for repeating that clause he first went to the Secretary of War, or Ait. Gen., Cooper, and obtainad sex emptlon tor his o,cg son--n son, by the way, who had been set to oversee twenty slaves under the conscript flaw but who before the war, would have scorned the task" }s'ie, s.aa.s. tia.-.
 The Patriot has been misinformed We cannot think the editor of that jornal would ever have penned the paragraph with full Knowledge of the facts. We will state them plsnely as they are-- large portion of the facts are within our personal knowledge, and all of them may be. easily yer flied or contradcted. %s1''i.As'sfss ' sss
 The exemption Act of Oct. Ilth was a compro- mise bill returned into the House by committee of Conference. It was final attempt to reconcile differences between the two Houses. They were obliged to pass that act or npne. No changes init could be made. It was a cri1tcal state of the country. The bill was. passed assit was [ Gen. Royston voted for it.. It was proper t0-.do so, whatever his own opinions may have been about the twenty negro clause. Ega.
 That clause, however, was found to give great dissatisfaction to the people. The representatives met after mngling with their constituents, satish- ed that the good of the public service required its repeal. Like wise men and faithful representa- -V.l "A Nnu tnYa rYnf0 f0d nR its repeal, and sustained, the movement. through out, from its commencement, giving his co-opera- ton at the earliest moment. He was not under any compulsion to do so.si We have no right to attribute to him other than patriotic motives in bis vote. Fair and candid men, willing to exercise common charity, and suspect no evil without just greunds,swiH see from what follows that the case of his son could not affect s action as represent ative, either in agreeing to the original compro- mise bill of the conferences, or in it's change ct the
 We now reluctantly take up the, facts of the ex- empton of his son, and lay them before the people. We are forced to intrude upon the privacy of an public Ifits painful to him, it is no less the dis. agreeable office of q friend. s-
 At the beginning of the war, he was at school m khis place, and soon after entered the store Ot Messrs. D. V. Block as a clerk He remained but short time there, in delicate health, and was compelled to give up that occupation as unsuitable for ls phyaical condition. Long before the passage of the first conscript law, in the month of Decem Der 1861, he was examined by Dr1J. A. L. Pur- dom, at that time surgeon of the 9th Regt. Ark. Militia, and obtained certificate of exemption from the militia service account of physical dis. ability, upon which he was, by Col Grim, reteas- ed from the ordinary duty of mastering. Mean oyerseer having left for North Carolina on busi. ness. he assumed control of the plantation, upon which there were from 76 to 80 slaves, And, most of the time alone, has since remained upon it to tbis day. After the passage of the conscrpt act, upon the 18th of June, 1862, he was exempted from the Confederate service by the enrolling off cer of this county, upon another. sworn csruncate undoubted integrity that he was physically disable to perform military duty. Again. on the Ih eof June, 1862, he was examined by Dr. J. k. Conway . Confederate surgeon, and another exemption granted him for the same cause. Again, on the 52d day of July, 1869, he was examined by,pr; Charles P. Hart, Confederate surgeon andmedical examiner at Little Rock, and again discharged on account of phy yseM disability. All this vas be- fore the passage of the exemption act of October Ilth. containing the twenty negro clause, and Gen. Royston's motive in sustaining that clanse could not have been the exemption of his son, thus time and again already discharged, .t st as an attorney, to obtain his discharge q .n oyse
 Other exapinstion9 would oshervise be still
 They and he had ppsEgone thsn tune hinseIf of the law. wr mads tho to Captain Ferguson here end itvss grantsd without hestattcn At that time his hthsr had already left for kichnend 1gIs caused his exemption ovesee to be in4u Ind Inc time of tho repekM M tho w he could hot claim ts rfiyi ieges Hehad kefe that resorte Fan oa to s claim of exemption on account of inability On the 7th November i8oz he had been examined again by Fl A. A Hoy Confederate surgeon ahd It tte Rock and sgain exempted ancbunt of PhysicA
 This exemption wa6 spprav by Gen. Hsee! on the 20s rranted by the snrolling officer ere Tn otde hAye
 final decspn fhis last cihcate was set to Kihgond by Chem being his fahsr) to the Surgeon Gepe o tho N
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