The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1869-03-06

-ClaykOn's Blood Hounds at Work in
- Memphis.

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The temporary lull, says the Memphis
AAppeat,5 which , Succeeded tAez Wholesale
murders committed by Clayton's militia, in
Arkansas served to induce many people to
believe that quiet and peace had been once
more restored TO that unfortunate 9nd truly
miserable section of the country. Quiet has
indeed been restored, bat alas, it is the
quiet afethe graveyard, : Z empire c est la
pdaT but the peace was smoking homes
steads, murdered men, ravished women, and
orphans. Such a peace has the Dictator of
Arkansas provided for his subjects. Peeans
have been sung in his praise; Legislative
enactments have "legalized his actions
but for all that he is a MURDERER AND
THIEF 20 .day1in tse,sbFoad- light-of AeaVen9
he riots IN his iniquities and makes them
his glOry.fyg an srl47 ze4
We published his infamies from day to
day as they occurred, and though We have
given to the world accounts of atrocities, at
the bare reading Of which the blood curdes
and grows cold, We have yet to detail his
browning infamy. :, ....r- ID, 81
AIMING those driven from their homes in
Crittenden county, by the atrocities and
rigors of the SO called martial law ;"
(Which was naught else than proclamation
giving unlimited leave to loyal" negroes
and whites to commit all crimes and shanes
upon white people who were not " loyal" J
was Maj Josiah Earle, who, to avoid the
storm, came with his wife and family to
Memphis Here he remained undisturbed
until yesterday morning, when his peace
and quiet was most rudely broken into by
the following little episode:
When Clayton, the infamous. left this
city he left behind HIM an emmIssary
no. vub T-aS n
structed tosdog and hunt down any persons
whose names might thereafter be sent him
or pointed out to him. Among others thus
designated was Maj. Earle # Z 7
Yesterday morning about half-past seven
clock as the Major was standing in front
OF the Webster Block waiting for his wife,
children and father-in-law, whom he was
about to accompany to the landing, on their
way home to Arkansas, he was approached
by Sergeant Mooney and officer McEIroy
who informed him that he was their pris-
oner on a warrant from Gov" Clayton.
Mai Earle submitted iInmediately, and
was being dragged of when he saw his wife
and family coming up in buggy, and held
back to speak to them, Officer McElrOy, 1t
is said, struck him with his club, making a
bruise and causing blood to flow freely. In
Justice to officer McElroy we will state that
he claims to have struck Maj. Earle, acting
under the impression that ne was attempting
to draw q pistol He was carried to the
First district stationhouse where he was
irOned and searched. A pistol and some pa
pers were found on his person. Among
the latter was one, a garbled extract of
which was printed in the Post yesterday
evening This paper reads as follows:
"TeIi --A----A that feefi my duty to
inform him that acting in accordance with
the enactments of the Legislature, hereafter
the association known as the Ku Klux Khan
in Grittenden connty, and all other parts
of the State-will be disbanded. This is
d6Ee inserdeT to and by ecent'ena etTnent on
the part Of the State, in restoring civil law
and order IN. the county, ? Gaarzs
The miserable, loao fang, lying Scoundre5
tChO nlUtiIdted at, did so ruth MURDER an his
heart, and with he intention of prejudicing
the public against Maj. Earle9s The " re
porter" or any one else who asserts that
any such order as that published in the
| Post was found on Mai Earle person, lies.
! MessFs Brown d Ly les, the energetic at
torneys Who have taken SO prominent apart
| in thwarting the previous designs of Clay
ton, were Informed of the outrage almost
Immediately, and MIR. Brown set about OBJ
tanning a writ of hd6eaS corpus, which
Judge Harry Lee, of the Common Law
Court, granted n application. Meanwhile,
| the police officers had taken Mai Earle,
heavily irOned, down to the boat. hut before
they could sneak him out of town they were
over taken and the writ served 1t was
returnable at o'clock p. m.
The affair spread like wildire, and was
! known. all over the city almost imm ediately.
/ Hundreds of friends of Ma, Earle thrQpged
| the streets, and in spite of the exciting
scenes which Were Transporting. elsewhere
gathered IN little knots all around, discuss
| ing the affair, and wondering who was to be
1.-THE next victim. ( . - -
Three clock came, and the prisoner and
his friena and attorneys Brown, Lyles, Ed.
Yerger, w Brown, Ed. Beeeher, MIR.
Massey. Major Sanford, Maj. Thorp, Arch.
Wright and forty Others, all volunteer
counsel, thronged the Law Court room
/ Here fer an. hour and "a half. the case was
argued, and at half past four Maj. Earle,
was released on.sl 1000 bail to appear this
evening at three clock. .
! , He will be there, and his frieRds with him
and we are confident that he will be released
But if he is not, if the murderer and thief
Clay ton, eonspiring with that other muir
derer, tyrant and thief. Brownlow, have so
arranged their cards that Maj. Earle blood
must pay for his being a WHITE MAN and
daring to assert his rights. then We can only
say, God help our manhood. s@bs
The editor of that able and influential
1paper, the Louisville aCOarier- Journal, thus
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