New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-28

tho laws Of the Xth were s vndictyc and violent
as will DO shown by the following acts;
An Act to amend Act TO define and punish sedlton
An Act 10 prescribe the punishment for encouraging deser
ion from tie Army and Navy # tho Confederate oa'e' VI
the State Of Texas. Xth Leg. p. 20.
An Act supplementary and auendatorT OF AN AS 70
This act the most Infamous piece Of legislation .Gs ete
Jisgraced American statute book Ii makes M @
%non 'V and The punishment Pen
uary upon any maintaining allegiance 20 a, ss
States denying that his allegiance was due 70 TINS
These laws were executed with the same spnt OF ferocY
that enacted them and under their operation owe, loV
Union wero IN various ways murdered mos. VI .p
murders occurred in Northern and western neAHf 'Fo
former district under command OF Brig -Gen. al; -.
McCuoch, the latter under Brig. Gen Ii. Z. Dug, &c
you may know their feelings send you some ehaS'' o
letters written by them to tho Rebel doVchor ="
Lubbock az
McCuioch writes from Houston under date OF May To-
1--WE ought not TO be idle and extraordinary efforts shouil
be made TO close this during this season Great eG,xy
may mako bloody but even az sna. We WI "a
fewer by balls than will by disease uro syess bat
te-ed and fight up to It, and conquer or orc IN & hs
make the fights oener. We hare 10 aaVsnoe upon '
This man commanded the Rebels at Millikens Bend
and you will recollect that our othcers chargea tn h
hung some prisoners of the colored regiments during h
psogress of tho battle which infuated the colod
troops that they turned and defeated him. He denies inc
hanging, 1 am informed. - go -.
nndcr date of October g. 1862, as follows: .
my DEAR SIR; The mail OF Yesterday IN addition TO tne
news from Galveston brought dispatches from Richmond 70
Gen. Heber concerning procauing martial law and
the making Confederate notes legal tender You w receWe
copies OF both and will agree with that they leave no al
Tentative but to recall his procamaons really sm sorry
for Heber The authorities at Richmond make no allowance
for his distance from the War Department ana tne
necessity that he should be as little trammeed rs possbe
blythe orders ysgares Of who can nave no des o.
he did upon representations made to BIN oy your
self myself and many other prominent citizens o. sS
clearing but little for the people his or wei
fare would have boon srbe TO to the morcaton he
today feels would not have listened to the suggestions
Of who knew ought to have known the Oh
the State but confined to his military duties kept e AZ
from the Of the War Department As s'anos
The General requests to write to you on this subject
Can you will declare martial law in certain districts Of
the States He must obey the order from Richmond and
law will surely take place Of martial law and perhaps may
be effective need not repeat ell we talked about con-
know you have the IT, bat doubtful Of the
power Gov. Moore OF Louisiana proclaimed martial law ana
them ali the
ties simply for general superveiaDoe passing
pol teal or revolutionary objects and in the mean time
the troops ready Tor domestic well as foreign foes
Here think may close the testimony this point,
and claim that proven that the Nayasota
guilty Of atrocious calumny whom 1t charged the
State vn and
citizens and adherents to the Federal Union
war"
When Gov Hamilton organized the courts last year
five hundred bills found against parties who
had been engaged the murder Of Union citizens during
the but when the reconstruction convention met tho
members were determined that these men should not BIO
punished for their crimes they passed an ordinance
That person shall be sued In any civil action nor
prosecuted in any criminal proceeding Tor or on account
OF any seizure sale imprisonment or injury TO person OF
property other act done since the second day OF Fcb
sy A. ID. 1861 by virtue or IN pursuance OF military OF
civil authority given by the Confederate States Govern
ment by this State pursuance OF orders given by
any person vested with such authority
Tho Convention also passed an ordnance settng apart
magnificent school fund and prosdng for setting apart
portion OF all future taxes for educational purposes
and said fund and the income derived therefrom shall
be perpetual fund exclusively for tho education of all
the hf scholastic inhabitants Of this State In the aS
laws no exemption IL made 10 taxing negroes but all alike
pay revenue TO the school fund but part thereof can
ever go tho education Of black scholar Is not thif
unjust and oppressive toward the freedmen IN ou'
midst" speak not of personal violence and injustice
which they daily and hourly encounter but here is great
official wrong done By the State. The Legislature has not
yet acted upon the subject Of the freedmen, but from the
material composing that body. 1t requires no prorh'' W
forcisll attempt 10 practically reensiNo ,nem H.
What becomes Of tho declaration OF inc Navssoa toh
serysyes that these charges seyeraly aud COLLECTIVE
Is fle and malicious made solely for political objects 10
inanmo aud embter tho North against Texas T. Does
not the proofs offered clearly convict them OF inc very
crimes they charge upon the Radicals Nothhg can e1u
the npudence of sccessionist but his mendsciy They
are their father the deyls the hIst seces
sonist and the father of lies. .
As 20 the charge that the Radicals only seek the at
tainment of unjust political power will only remind
them that 1t was Mr.. johnson who said that the
work Of reconstruction Rebels and traitors must take
back seat Until the loyal men Of the South control the
dcsnies Of these States there be harmonious
union with the loyal people Of the nation and this they
understand well dos and the Radicals of Texas
decide whether not this would DO Ubiquitous at
tainment Of unjust political power"