Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-21
ARKANSAS.
Six White Ladies' Violated By the
Negro Militia In OrltteDden
County Last Week.
Execution OF Three Citizens by
The Militia at Marion.
No Women Allowed TO Leave
the Country.
From the Memphis Avalsbobs. Ian. 10.

| we recon- IN very terror and sick5
ness of heart from what we have TO
write. Gladly would we believe that
the sad, blood-curdling tale we're but
the fancy of an alarmist-the erea-
ton of diseased imagination. But
the truth, in justice to outraged viz
tue and for the information of a
civilized world, must be told. We
have read and written so many sick
ening tales from Arkansas of late
that the very name has become a
synonym for an earthly hell, and we
are assured by truthful citizens that
the reports concerning outrages and
oppression in Arkansas as published
in this journal have not been exag-
gerated in the aggregate, but have
fallen, far short of the whole story.
Gladly would we hear that it was all
a mistake that the people in our
sister State were engaged in peace,
full pursuits, protected, under the
laws, in life and property and secure
from lawlessness, rapine and lust,
but no such pleasing picture can be
truthfully drawn.
In Crittenden county, Arkansas,
not many miles from Memphis, lives
loyal man named Tate Galloway.
Heis loyal in truly partisan sense,
and at the last election voted the
Radical ticket. Last Friday, the
10th inst, two negro militiamen
and a fifteen-year-old negro boy
went to the house of this Galloway
and at once arrested him. After
placing the boy over him as a guard,
they seized his wife and her sister
and violated their persons in the
house before his eyes. There was
in the house at the time a small boy
named Jim MeGehee, but he was
inundated into silence by the pis-
tolls and threats of the negroes.
Having satisfied their beastly lusts,
they stripped and dressed them
selves in Mr.. Calloway's clothes.
They then asked Mrs. Galloway for
a hymn book. She told them that
they could take what they pleased,
but she would give them nothing.
They replied with brutal jeers and
oaths that they intended to sing a
hymn over her dead body, and were
about to perpetrate further violence
when some white militia came along
and released Mr.. Galloway, at the
same time giving him a gun and
telling him to avenge himself upon
the destroyeFs of his wife's purity
But to the disgrace of mankind, and
Galloway in particular, he stood
tamely by and made no effort to
STAY the brutes, who grinned at him,
wearing his own clothes.
The white militia then arrested the
negroes and took them off toward
Marion. Galloway is denounced by
all his neighbOrs for not Selling the
weapons of the negro boy guarding
him in the firstplaee, and preventing
the awful crimes committed on his
household. He is a Radical of the
EXTREMIST type, it is said, but we
cannot find in that fact palliatiOn for
the deeds of the ravishers, or enter
tain any less sympathy and grief
over their ruined peace and happi-
ness.
-Four other rapes have been com
mitted upon the white women near
Marion within few days The full
particulars have not reached us, but
we have convincing assurances from
persons who know, that these out
RACES have been committed, and that
the fiendish perpetrators go at large
UNPUBLISHED, and are still depreda-
ting unrestrained upon the terror
stricken people. One hundred and
fifty of the cavalry under command
of General Upham have gone to
Mississippi county on plundering
expedition, but the infantry high
waymen remain to further harrass
and distress the people of Critten-
den county.
From the Memphis Appeal. Jan. 10.
By arrivals from the neighbor-
hood of Marionyesterday we learn
scanty and meager particulars Ofthe
late lawless, murderous and infa-
nous proceedings of the mob called
militia in and around that unfOrtu-
nate little town.
Our readers have been apprised
of the arrest and holding in Jail of
five citizens charged with various
crimes by the militia, and also of
their promises to give these prison
ers a fair trial. We have to an
,nounce now that all these pledges
and promises, made but to lull into
a fancied security the prisoners and
their friends, have been broken
basely, faithlessly and ruthlessly
broken, and on Saturday three Of
these unfortunates were taken from
the jail, carried to Trenches Bayou
and shot to death.
Previous to executing them, the
llCu JAhtAA al Alo DVnAih0 IaEtt
backs, and throwing the rope over
the limb of a tree, repeatedly
raised and lowered them, causing
unspeakable agony, but failing to
elicit one word Of self-condemna-
ton from them-the object of the
torture. The names of two of the
were Harvey (said to
be a nephew eff Gen. Harvey and
SEipp the third we could not
learn. Hi
Our informants state that NO wd-
MAN are al1olved to leave The coltR-
hy. A lady whose husband in
this city sick, obtained permission
to come and see him, but had to
give her word and honor to return
by fixed time. This fact, in view
of the late proceedings of the mill
tia, is extremely suggestive, and
ought of itself to be enough to rouse
the men throughout the country to
instant action.
After shooting the three men,
portion of the militia went on to Os-
ceola. We will have to-day a full
account of other dOings Of theirs, Of
which we have now but vague ru-
mors, and consequently do not give
A CABLE telegram from London mem
tions that one Of the late Emperor Maxi
milian's generals is in Madrid endeavor-
ing to get up q movement in favor Of