Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-09
r6S- In the Senate, on the 23d ult., the following memorial was presented by Sen .tor Evane. t

ator Evans:
 H STATE OF ARKANsA~. l
 COUNTY OF MONROE.
 Ata public meeting assembled accoi l ing to previous notice, at the residence oi E. H. Cottons, on the 18th day o January, 1869, said day also being the one appointed for public sale, large portion of the citizens of Duncan. Jackson, Montgomery and Cypress townships being present, II II. Green. Esq, was called to- the chair, and in few brief and we'll timed remarks explained the object of the meeting; whereupon c. D. Dawson was elected secretary; and upon motion the chairman appointed a committee of hve,i composed of Win. M Mayo, 5. F. Kerr l.. S Mayo, R. Mathews and E. Redmond, to draft and report resolutions expressive of the sentiments of tho meeting on the present state of the country. Said com mittee after retiring and conferring repor- ted the following preamble and resolutions,
 
 to-wit: as WHEREAS, Several wanton and outra- geous violations of law and order have | occurred in our midst within the last three months, resulting, in one instance, in the foul murder of the Hon. James Hinds, and the wounding of the Hon Joseph Brooks, and in another in firing upon Wesley Crisp, Esq, worthy and esteem ed citizen and officer of the law, and in another instance in the shooting at and woundipga colored man, (name unknown.) RESOLVED, 1st, That we deprecate and condemn such acts, not only as outrages upon the individuals upon whom the 1 injuries were inflicted, but as outrages upon the hitherto fair fame and name of our community, as q peaceful and law abiding community, both before and since the war; and we regard the perpetrators of said deeds IS inaicting the most deadly injuries upon the whole people, not longer to be borne with and VIC hereby pledge our hearty and zoalous support to the off, cers of the law, in arresting and bringing to justice said cfianders whenever and wherever we may te called on, regarding the majesty ef the law as the very suro rock upon which can rest our hopes either for liberty or for pro'sc.ien of lifo and property.
 REsoLvEo, , That Ho T. gas5' and will support the present state government as a fixed fact :; and tLat thfea%ll IS several 1 departments, llaited by tho present constitution and the constitution of the United States, NC can alone look for and hope for peace and happiness, and when time and experience shall have demon. l strated any necessity for change, it can only be sately affected in the manner laid down in the constitution.
 RESOLVED. 3. That we deprecate land deplore that the Executive and Legislative should have been impelled by any neces- sity or cause to enthrone martial law on i the pedestal of civil law; and we do earn cstiy, but respectfully, petition both the Governor and Legislature to re-establish the civil law at the earliest practical mo ment wherever it has been abandoned aud VIC do implore our fellow citizen: throughout the state to rally around the civil law where it is restored as the price less legacy that was handed down to us by our ancestor, which has survived every conflict of passion or prejudice, and has caused every man to feel secure, under his own vine and fg tree, even when the element of human passion ragged like bil lows upon storm-lashed sea for whom the civil law is lost, al is lost and We beg them to recollect one thing more which all time and history have demonstrated, to- wit amidst the clash of arms the civil law always expires.
 l THEREFORE, Le. us be peaceable and quiet, and never despair of the republic And in due time we may reasonably hope that the majisty of the civil law will be restored tc every nieh of our stste And then VIC c;.n rejoice and be glad.
 RESOLVED, 4 That having full and implicit confidence in our representatives J K. Whitson and senator A. H. Evans, they be requested to present the foregoing preamble and resolutions to their respec- i tive branches of the Legislature, and to the Governor as an expression of the sentiments of this community on the sub ! jest referred to.
 RESOLVED, ,. That the Republican and Gazette newspapers of Little Rock and such other newspapers as feel an interest in the peace and welfare of our State, be requested to publish the same
 On motion the preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted; and the meet ing then upon motion adjourned, sine die.
 II. D. GREEN. Chairman.