The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-04
ARKANSAS.
srne Fruits OF HAIRS Letter.
open RebeIIIon In Three Counties.
freedman Murdered for Being a
RepubIIean-UniO white Men
Fired on-Pr0eIamRtIOn
by the Governor,
etc., Get.

| Fired On-PrOeIamRtIOn
by the Governor,
etc., Get.
Specfal Correspondence Gin. Gazette.
LITTLE Rock, Aug. 20.
There are not only rumors of war,
but there Is actual war in RECONSTRUCTED
| Arkansas. Conway, Perry and Column
biana counties are in open rebellion;
the civil authorities are detied, and are
wholly poWerless. A Court was broken
mp in Conway, and a general onslaught
was made on The Union men. Finally
the rebels proposed to sdesist, If the
until after the election. This was re-
fused, and the dfsarming cOmmencedi
which was resisted by the Union men,
and a light eusued. The rebels had
greatly the advantagein numbers, and
were being reinforced from other coun-
ties, and the Union men were falling
back, but fighting considerably. Firing
was heard at Lewisburg all day Tues
day. The Governor has gone to the
scene of action with small force,
hoping to restore order. He will ex-
hanst all peaceful means first, but will
suppress the rebellion at all hazards,
costswhat 1t will. He has issued the
following proclamation:
PROCLAMATION by THE GOVERNOR. :
WHEREAS, 1t has been made known
to me that a large number of lawless
and evil disposed persons in the coun-
ties eff Conway, Perry and Columbia,
in the State of Arkansas, are in open
rebellion against the laws of the State;
that court OF justice has been broken
up, and the civil authorities overpow-
erred in said counties by bodies OF arm
ed men, who have driven from their
homes q large number of peaceaole
| nj and that the officers Oh
1.-THE law are wholly powerles 10 pre-
serve order and protect citizens from
i violence within either OF said counues,
/ and reliable information having been
| received that quiet men have been as
sassinated, and attempts have been
made upon the lives of others in vari-
GUS other counties in this State, In
(which the laws are set at defiance, the
Hives of officers are threatened and the
Icivil authorities of the State are openly
ldefied and set at nanght, rendering IL
impossible for the constituted authorl-
ties of the law to preserve order or pro-
tect the lives and property of the peo-
pie.
AND WHEREAS, BY the provisions of
an act of the Legislature of Arkansas,
entitled IAN Act to provide for the en-
rollment of the Militia, the organization
and discipline OF the State Guards, and
for the public Defense" approved July
14th, 1868, It is made my duty to cause
to be enrolled the Reserve Militia of
the State, to consist of all able bodied
electors OF the State who have not vol
unteered in the State Guards, and are
not otherwise exempt blythe provisions
of said act, which Reserved Militia will
constitute a portion of. the military
forces of the State. ~
Now, therefore, l.. Powell Clayton,
Governor of the State of Arkansas, do
hereby enjoin upon all persons within
said State to keep The peace, and COM
| mand all bodies OF armed men, not Or
ganized in pursuance OF the laws OF the
| State or of the United States, to lmme-
diately dispense and return to their
homes; and hereby call upon and re-
quest all law-abiding citizens to use
| their influence and efforts to prevent
disorder and preserve the public peace.
LIDO Furthermore make known that
shall at once ,causeto be enrolled and
organized the Reserve Militia, in pur-
suance of said act, and shall use, as far
rs may be necessary, all the power and
1 authority vested in me by the Consti-
tuition and laws of the State of Arkan-
sas. to preserve order, enforce the law,
and protect the lives and property of
every person within the State.
In testimony whereof, / have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
OF the State of Arkansas to be affixed,
ut Little Rock, this the twenty.seyenth
day of August, A. D., one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.
[Seal.l HOWELL CLAYTON, Governor.
/ By the Governor:
RoDERT j. WHITE, Sec'y of State.
A coloIed man announced himself
for Grant in Columbia county, and was
taken TO the woods in open day and
literally shot to pieces, by about one
hundred and fifty white rebels. They
returned, boasting. of the act, and de-
fled the civil officers 10 arrest any one
for killing "nigger.n
The Chief Judge and all other Union
men here have been compelled to flee
for their lives. Several colored men
have been murdered in Lafayette Co.,
and DR.. johnson, Union member of the
Legislature from Mississippi county,
was assaSSinated by the rebels as he re.
turned from the Congressional Conven-
ton. Senators Wheeler and Barker,
who were victims of attempted assasSi-
nation at the hands of the rebels, will
recover. aea4
The rebel speakers and press advise
the murder of Union men, especially IL
they are from the North. About half
of the rebels are as enthusiastic for war
as they were in 1861. They publicly
announce that the Northern Democrats
will help them this time, and that the
war will principally be in the North.
Blnir's letter has done much to produce
this condition of things. and the igno-
rant, deluded creatures feel confident
that the Democrats will help them out,
and that the rebellion will yet succeed:
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