Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-28

to whom il was presented in a crowd
of negroes, saying eff Haynes were
alive / would see him dead, damned
and in hell before l would sign such a
| document"
We have some questions to pro-
pound to these signers: 1st. Did
Haynes use a negresS or mulattO as a
wife? ID. Did not Haynes dictate
and dOmineer over everybody in the
county? When he spoke was not
every one else silent? Could he not
have ordered absolutely the killing of
any one in the county without chance
of being brought to trial or punish
ment? Sd. Were you not afraid of
Haynes? Answer.
There are men in this world who
consider it their supreme duty to live
at all hazards. Such are the signers
of this document. There is no ex-
tremity to which they can be pushed
in which they would display resent
ment.
Tomorrow, were it not for surroun-
ding counties into which they could
flee a crack of the whip from a burly
negro would drive them into their
felds-slaves of their former slaves.
If one of their number were slain
by a negro no one of them would be
found manly enough TO raise his voice
in GisapprObation. Their friendship
is nothing; they have no portion of
that great heart of human sympathy
which pulsates for the sufferings of
friends and neighbors. Their enmity
can never rise higher than the instiga-
ton of the negroes to murder, or the
burning of some neighbours gin house.
With a diabOlical, serpent-like wis
dom they lately headed negroes and
led them away from their Oirn neigh
6OrROOdtO plumber poor, honest, harm
less John NJ. Jones.
Enough, such men as these have made
Crittenden county the laughing stock,
the scOrn and derisiOn of the inhabi-
tants of all other counties, and their
base submission and junction with the
negroes UiU finally result IN their OlC7l
massacre and determination. Their
cowardiee is transparent, the negroes
see through it.
To THE FEDERAL SOLDIERS IN CRIT-
TENDEN.
There are men who were once in
llAI 1tDOldl dlLAN MllOAI L Nd1A ny
friends. l should like them to weigh
well the facts which | here set forth
they have felt naturally hurt and
alarmed at the killing of Haynes, they
have not known the truth, and l fear
can never know and feel as l know
and feel the diabolical tyranny of
Haynes, that tyranny which quietly
submitted to would disgrace forever
the blood of an American and make
the pale face of the white man synonO-
nous with cowardice.
The very CONFUSION which followed
Haynes death showed the extent of
his fearful power /; no man was safe
from assassination at the hands of his
negroes, if he willed it. To these
Federal friends Of mine i would say
that they are no more like, and there
is no more danger of their becoming
like Haynes than there is of my
becoming like those who signed that
infamous card, classifying history and
whitewashing Haynes.
l was one the comrade, the friend
of. Clarence Collier, and though all
the world speak against him [ will
stand up for him; and l hereby throw
down the gauntlet to any apolOgist OF
the tyrant in Crittenden county who
feels offended at my remarks, and con-
stitute myself his champion against
any who signed that card.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS.
p. S. Capt. Haynes was the first and
only eX-Federal officer ever killed in
Crittenden county since the war. The
following are the names of eX-Federals
who planted there without being mo-
Tested: Capt. Lefevre, Capt. Cooley,
Capt. Staley, Mr.. Reid, Capt. Henry
Jones, Mr.. Lane, Mr.. Norris, DIR.
Stillman, L. S. Surgeon, Col. Irwin,
Capt. Irwin, Lieut.. Irwin, Capt. Cook,
and many Others whose names | can-
not recall.
Capt. Cook was a Captain in the
Federal army, and a Captain in the
militia last winter. After diSband-
ment of the militia he entered into
partnership with Rice at Marion, and
in this last emeute he was (torn by his
own hOunds) robbed by the negroes,
who pretended to be avenging the
death of Haynes.
Capt. Irwin and Lieut.. Irwin had
to flee away from Crittenden last Win
ter, because of sympathy with the
people-being afraid of being muir
dered by the negro militia.
1t is useless to enumerate the rob-
berries of the last few days; there is no
power to look into them, no one to
avenge them. In a short time 1 shall
give the experience of q man captured
and danced around by negroes-his
simple, unvarnished narratiVe-which
will stir a fever in the blood of age,
and will strengthen the hearts of all
to resist the insidious whisperings Of
which has brought that county
into its present wOful condition.
S. S. T.,
OF Crittenden county.