The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-01-29
LATER FROM ARKANSAS.
Infamous Doiugs Of Gov. Clayton'a
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(From the Memphis Avalanche, january 1877
We have read and written 90 many
sickening tales from Arkansas of late
that the very name has become a sy-
nonym for an earthly hell, and we are
assured by truthful citizens that the re-
ports concerning outrages and oppres-
sion in Arkansas as published In this
journal have not been exaggerated in
the aggregate, but have fallen far short
of the whole story. Gladly would we
hear that It was all mistake, that the
people of our sister State were engaged
in the peaceful pursuits, protected, un-
der the laws, in life and property and
secure from lawlessness, apine and
lust, but no such pleasing picture can
be truthfully drawn. spl 7gaas ~
In Crittenden county, Arkansas, not
many miles from Memphis, lives loyal
man named Tate Galloway. He is 10y
al in truly partisan sense. and at the
last election voted the Radical ticket
Last Friday, the 10Th inst, two negro
militiamen and fifteen year old negro
boy went to the house of this Galloway
and at once arrested him. After pla-
cling the boy over him as guard, they
seized his wife and her sister and vio-
lated their persons in the house before
his eyes. There was in the house at
the time, small boy named Jim Me-
Gehee, but he was intimidated into
silence by the pistols 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 hymn over
her dead body, and were about to per-
petrate 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 destroyers of his
wife's purity. But to the disgrace of
mankind, and Galloway in particular,
he stood tamely by and made no effort
to slay the brutes, who grinned al him,
wearing his own clothes.
i The white militia then arrested the
negroes and took them off toward Ma
rion. Galloway is condemned and de-
nounced by all his neighbors for not
seizing the weapons of the negro boy
guarding him in the first place, and
preventing the awful crimes committed
on his household. He is radical of
the EXTREMIST type, it is said, but we
cannot find in that fact palliation for
the deeds of the ravishers, or entertain
any less sympathy and grief over their
ruined peace and happiness. Ia
-Four other rapes have been commit.
ted upon white women near Marion
within a few days. Full particulars
: have not reached us, but we have con-
, vincing assurances from persons who
know, that. these outrages have been
committed, and that the fiendish perpe-
traitors 90 at large unpunished, and are
still depredating unrestrained upon the
terror-stricken people. One hundred
and fifty of the cavalry under COM
mand of General Upham have gone to
Mississippi county on a plundering ex-
pedition, but the infantry highwaymen
remain to further harrass aud distress
the people of Crittenden county.
(From the Memphis Appeal, January 1877
BY arrivals from the neighborhood of
Marion yesterday we learn scanty and
meagre particulars of the late lawless,
E murdereus and Infamous proceedings
of the mob called militia in and around
the unfortunate 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
f to give these prisoners fair trial. We
have to announce now that all these
pledges and promises, made to lull into
fancied security the prisoners and
their friends, have been broken-basely,
iaithlessly 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 fiends
tied their arms behind their 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 sef-con-
demnation from thcm-the object of
the torture. The names of two of the
unfortunates were Harney (said to he a
nephew of General Harvey, and Skipp
the third we could not learn.
Our informants state that no women
are allowed to leave the country. A
lady whose husband is in this city sick,
!, obtained permission to como and see
him, but had to give her word and hon.
: or to return by fixed time. This fact,
D in view of the late proceedings of the
militia, is extremely suggestive, and
ought to rouse the men throughout the
: country TO instant action. u
After shooting three men portion
of the militia went on to Osceola. We
will have to day a full account of other
: doings of theirs, of which we have now
9 but vague rumors, and consequently do
8 not give them. '''4h
HI- A witty Michigan justice, hav.
ing warrant of commitment against a
\ cOlOred man named Thompson, indors-