The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1869-04-09
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respondent who sigss Ainsslf O.,
writes week sfies week, y ~ Tylss
Index, mcndacious ssA visdictivs
letters, disappearing asd denoss-
cling the people Of Jsesrsss. He =
ono Of that class Of aloyslists' Who
contemplate with pleasure, the prison
house md the eallows, for his politi.
cal enemies. II he had his way, he
would hang every man, and drive
every family on, Of the country, who
did not sulsefibe 10 his radical
hcresies lie of course favors trials
Of citizens by military commissions,
and tells US if they are thus "go6bled
up and disposed Of summarily, "loy-
alisi- will be- ne thick ss toAds alter .
shower" The comparison is 1t
one If such loyalists ms he is, arc
not as lhieA a. ioads, they are as vile
aud a- offensive To the sight Of de-
cent man
The pro ten editor of the Index
is scarcely behind him in his real
in misreprescniing and perver,ing
the facts la previous number he
gives an cxirae, from speech deliv.
cred b. Co.. Calb,r on before pub
lie ucs'io 90 Jefferson, which has
sumoihiug vi bitterness IN its Ian
4uage and tone. But what occasion.
ed ii2 Why would so kind, prudent,
usually quiet, and orderly a man as
Col Culbcrson Is known 70 be, ex-
press himself in this manner II
cannot be pretended that he ever
couuselled or countenanced violence
Of any kind.
The pro ten Of the Index is more
exeusable in this. that he does not
knew the facts. If he did, perhaps
be wonld pursue different course.
No community ON earth can be
found where all the leading citizens
are bad men. Certainly none have
ever stood higher than those OF JEFF
ferson who have been recently made
the special objects of yitapsrstion BY
anonymous scriblers, who, II they
would sign their real names 70 thsi'
productions, would, we venture "a
say, be known and recognised as. ir.
responsible vaenbonds, or unscrupu.
lous political mendicants. Every in.
,sliisens person will readily perceive
that community must have been
very badly treated, when its best cit
liens wore all thus excited. Whal
was that treatment What was i
Ia, caused apprchensien' The torch
of the incsndiary and the fear o
general massacre Of tho entire
white population. Was that no
enough to excite and alarm any com
nunity Nor was this appreasnsio,
idle. They were threatend with both
And whom il h remembered, tina
the town was once laid in ashes
destroying a million Of dollars worth
of property, and the negroes in Ma
rion county outnumber the whitcl
two to one and in Harrison county
adjoining, three TO one, aud that the,
were nigh, after night excited to vic
leucc by incendiary harangues, th'
magnitude OF the danger can be un
dersiood aud appreciated. Let thu
Index give AL the facts. justice
and fair dealing demand such :
course,
Tur CONDITION OF AvvAIRs II
VAN ZASpr County Our reader
have no doubt felt considerable cnri
ositv to learn the real state Of ahair,
in Van zandt County, occupied b.
United States troops, and in which
there have been several arbitrary ar
rests, with prospective trials BY mil
itary commission
Tho persons arrested, arc DR.
Towlca. DR.. Lindsay, Capt Hill,
lawyer, Mr. Ashton, and two Others
whose names cur informant did no
know. These men are all, at nearl.
all Of them, in prison at Canton, an'
heavily ironed, with the exception o
DR.. Towles, whose irons have been
taken Of.
The immediate circumstance whicl
=
led TO this military occupancy, an,
tie arrest Of these parties, il is said
was the brutal murder Of DR.. Page
who was killed several months ago
1t was, in every respect, most re
voting affair, Page was eallsd on
OF his house at night, and murdered
his body shockinsly matilassd, al
his head cut Of aud ssrpssdsd BY IL
hair from the limb ola tree. The pr
| petrators OF this Infamous deed richl,
. ,Asritsd the galloxs, and our inform
II ant, Who Is = respectable citizen o
VISA xands County. .ays they wosl.
.tAave been forfeited out and punish
/, ID, were she people permitted 4
q naaAss shsis own aeairs. With tn
u sxesption of a lev looss charas
? ter, with whom the Masses Of tn
: people have no sGliselsa, The ccus
w ispsacsahle and orderly. ANON
thsss violent men va . ~ BY III
name Of Moore, who lay ost IL ~
bsshss during The war, sd Who ~
deavorsd, At il Close, 70 govern il !.
, thsir own ROACH way, ard we're III
n causs Of many serious ds8culsiss
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