The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-14
Rebel Prescription - How Native
LOyallsls are Treated.

4
ZION and rebel outrages of Union men
are rapidly multiplying. La every
loyal paper, North and South, VIII be
daily found statements Of murders,
outrages, prosecutions, threats Of vio-
lence towards the loyal men of the
South, both whites and blacks, ma
tives Of the soil and residents from
the North And yet Democratic pa
pers aud politicians denounee the ac-
counts as lies or gross eXaggeratIons,
manufactured for political effect in
the North. We heard yesterday a
narrative which would. if listened to
from the lips Of the narrator, convince
the most incredulous, and satisfy all
candid men that the spirit of rebel
hate is as relentless and uncompro-
missing as it ever was during the reign
of terror in that section.
We met, yesterday, ia this city,
JAMES Y McCALLA, an intelligent
old gentleman of sixty-two years, and
his son THOMAS NJ. McCALLA, who
were en- route from Northern Louisi
ana to our neiehboring town Of
Princeton. The father is a native of
South Carolina, but for the past
thirty-four years has been a citizen
OF the State Of Louisiana To politics
he was educated as a Democrat, and
has always voted that ticket But
when the rebellion broke out he re-
manned faithful to the Union of his
fathers, and steadfastly refused to
yield allegiance to the Confederate
Government. His son could not be
induced to volunteer in the rebel
ranks, but was finally consoTipted and
placed on duty on board the famous
(" Queen of, the West after its cap
ture on the Lower Mississippi; but
at the first favorable opportunity he
abandoned the rebel army and made
his way to Indiana, where he had rela-
tives. He at once entered the Fed
eral service 10 one Of our regiments,
and upon the expiration Of his term
of service, returned to New Orleans,
where he joined the First Indiana
Heavy Artillery, with which he re-
manned till the close of the war.
When he was mustered out of ser
vice, he returned to his fathers
plantation in De Soto Parish,
in Northwest louisiana. From
the time of his return to his ma
tive home, the entire family have
been subjected to one continued
series of prescriptions and annoy
ances, as was the father in some de-
gree during the war; but it was more
and open after the return
ofthe son, who had been guilty Of the
objectionable crime of having fought
for the flag of his country. They
were ostracised from society" every
possible personal indignity offered,
their property endangered and their
lives threatened They have borne
all patiently and hopefully, with not a
single white family in their neighbour
hood to support or sympathize with
them, anticipating from month to
month, and from year to year, that the
State would yet be reconstructed upon
a loyal basis, and that the Federal
would furnish such pre-
lection aud authority as would guar
antee to loyal men safety and comfort
in their homes and property.
They have sought quietly to attend
to their own pursuits, being content
with the privilege of mere tolera-
ton of existence until the Federal or
State Government should provide
such support as would render it safe
for them to be more outspoken in
their loyalty But recently the per
secution manifested itself in such
relentless form that both father
and son have found it unsafe to re-
main any longer at home.
1t will be remembered that during
the progress of the Red River Expe-
dition, under Gen. BANKS, a battle
was fought at Mansfield This battle
field was near the plantation of the
McCULLAs. In pursuance of the
orders of the War Department, the
Federal dead Of th= Red River region
are being collected and re-interred in
a National Cemetery at Alexandria.