The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1865-08-02
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Jacksonport, Ark, TO be paroled few weeks since,
the redoubtable hero of the white plume mounted a
barrel and spoke to them after this wise:
Gentlemen, have come here to have a little family
talk with you this will be the last time may
meet You together. have here to tell YOU the
! news. Many Of you don't know vet that Vcksburg
has fallen, and many of Won don't know that Lee or
Johnston have surrendered but | tell YOU it is all
true. Many of the 900 men now see around me,
very many Of you, have been skulkng for the last
three years in the swamps within few miles of your
own homes skuking duty and during that time have
not seen your own children | see many faces about
me- that have not been seen BY mortal man for the last
three years. and what have you been doing all that
| time? Why, you have been lying in the swamps I'M
I'll the moss has grown six inches long on your backs
and such men call themselves ''chivalrous soldiers
A few weeks ago Cen Reynolds sent flag of truce to
my headquarters, and sent out to gather up res
pectable force to those officers, and not of
you responded; few days later, when Colonel Davis
! and Capt Bennett of Gen. Dodge's staff, bore dis
patches to from that General again attempted to
| call about me enough of you to make a respectable
show and how many of these brave 5000
ported at the call One sore-eyed man, with green
| goggles. But you rally like brave and gallant men
around Uncle Sans commissary stores and i
to surrender YOU and hope you will make better
citizens than you have soldiers. Voice from the
crowd, General, talk to us like gentlemen.D Now
you ust dry up until get through and then you can
get this barrel and talk. know there are some
gentlemen here and know there are more id
sneaking, cowardy dogs who "have never done moth
! ing on nary side, and am going to talk to you all.
In the first place, want to say to you: The federal
officers who have come here to parole and feed you
have acted as gentlemen, in good faith. They have
not gone about peepng under your coatst il you
had pistols; they have sped about your camps to
see if you were secretng your arms, but they have
treated you gentlemen; but tell you that you have
| not acted in good faith Those of YOU who had arms
with very few exceptions, have left them at home
and those who had government horses have failed to
I report them here Now let me say to you, one and
ALL those of you who have retained your arms, as
soon as you get home, take them to the nearest mill
tary post and deliver them up, burn them or get
rid Of them in some manner for sure there is
God in heaven if they found in your houses just
so will your houses be burnt to the ground, and
| hope to God every one Of you who keep good arms
property of any kind in your possession will be
! hanged, aud you viii be too.
Now want you to 60 home and work hard and take
of your families work early and late and get up
at night and see if your crops growing. Above
all things avoid political discussions II any says
niger to you swear that you never knew one
in your life. We have talked about the niggers for
forty years and have been outtalked; have fought
four years for the niggers and have been id badly
whipped, and now it is not 'your putt" the yankees
| have the Niger, and will do what they please
with him and you have say in the matter; if they
want him they will take him, and they say that you
must keep him, you must do it and no mistake. l
tell you that you have say in the matter, and you
oughtnt to have any Go home and stay there; don't
go anywhere but to mi don't go to church, for the
ministers will put knots and mischief in your heads
and get you into trouble. Be good citizens, and then
those Of you who have been good honest and brave
soldiers have nothing to fear but warn those of you
who have been nothing but sneaking, cowardly jay
haWkers, cuttroats and thieves, that just retrbu
ton awaits you and hope to God that the federal
authorities will hang you wherever and whenever they
find you, and they will do it Now want to talk
| to you Missourans. You talking about going to
your old homes to live again. What did every one of
you say last fall, when you went into Missouri and
/ pected to remain there? Why that you would make
every Union "climb tree" and many threats of
a similar character. Now do you think that those
| Union men whom you threatened with the halter a
few days ago, if you got the power, now going to
permit you to come and live among them, and have
all the rights aid privileges they enjoy? Not much.
Now the tables turned if you 90 back there they
may make you climb trees and hope they WILL for
m2BEu Of FtfRu was tie crowd and by
stander suggested to the General that they might mob
! him. ''Nob HILL" / don't worth d-n :" re-
| piled the General
/ want you all to 20 home and be peaccabe, quiet
citizens, and if marauders and outlaws come among
YOU do not take the law into your own hands, but If
you do it. arrest them and deliver them over with
| such evidence you can obtain, TO the commandant
of the nearest military post; by this means you will
place the responsibility upon Others and avoid neigh
borhood quarrels and strife.
Do not complain if you not permitted to have a
voice in elections and civil affairs You have forfeited
all such rights, and it now becomes you to submit to
such laws and regulations the federal authorities
may deem proper to enact. believe, and know that
they will do the best they for you, especially if
you show henceforh that you desire to merit their
confidence by strict obedience to the laws where you
may reside
We are conquered, subjugated; we have no rights,
but must accept such privileges and favors the gov
eminent may see proper to bestow upon us.
JOHN II. SURRATT.-A Washington correspondent
of the World communicates the following. There is
not the slightest doubt that young Surats testimony
would have entirely excupated his mother, and, for
that matter, each and every of the conspirators
might have been "excupated" by the same easy meth
cd. We have heard before of families whose testmo-
NV was useful t. each other in lawsuits, and always
wonderfully harmonious
/ During the late conspiracy trial, the counsel for
Mrs Suratt wrote to the secretary of war, through
Judge advocate general Holt, requesting the privilege
of making John II. Surrat witness for the prosecu-
ton, and pledging themselves to bring Surratt mere
from Canada in good season. asking in return that our
raft should be made witness in favor of his mother
and also that informal pledge should be given that
Surratt would be pardoned The secretary OF war re-
fused to entertain the proposition, on the ground that
Surratt was deeply implicated in the conspiracy,
according to the theory Of the government that he
could not under any circumstances, receive pardon.
1t is believed by Mrs Surras counsel that his test-
mony would have entirely exculpaed his mother, and
this opinion is strengthened by statement of Payne,
to the effect that evening, the occasion of his
last visit at Mrs Surratts, be made remark to Sur
ratt in the paror from which the plan to abduct the
president might be inferred, when, Immediately Sur
raft took Payne of the parlor, and told him never
to say anything of that kind again in the presence of
his mother sister, as they knew nothing about the
affair, and should not.
; THE MERRtMAc AND CUMBERLAND-THEy ARE 10 M
RAIsED.-The fortress Monroe correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, writing under date Of the 9Th