The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-01-08
THE WAR IN ARKANSAS.

election, we had meagre reports
Of troubles in Arkansas, but owing
to the unreliable dispatches sent by
the Associated Press, but very little
was known of the internal condition
of that ex-rebel State. The meagre
reports of the killing of Union men
which reached US we're booted at by
the opponents of the Republican
party as sensational and intended
for political effect. The Presiden-
tial election is now over, and we wish
to present to the Democratic gaze
the sickening picture of the crime
and bloodshed over which they en-
deayored to draw the veil of ridicule,
and, in the name of outraged human
ity. we would ask them fiat its sight
they feel no compunction. Hon.
Thos. Bowles. representative from
the Sd Arkansas district, makes the
following statement:
In August, September, and Octo-
her last, about 20 leading Republi-
cans of the State were either muir
dered or severely wounded. Among
the victims were the Hon. James
Kinds. the Hon. A. NJ. johnson,
Can't Mason, the Hon. Joseph Brooks,
and the Hon. Stephen Wheeler. la
sdditiou to these, over 200 colored
men were brutally murdered for po-
1;,ical reasons. Notwithstanding
these outrages were known through
ont the State, the agents of the Asso-
ciated Press did mol give the facts TO
the public, nor did the special cor
respondent of tie Memphis Avalanche
have q word to say On the subject,
exeept in the case of the murder OF
the Hon. James Kinds, and the
wounding of the Hon James Brooks,
which was grossly misrepresented.
Let it be remembered that previous
to calling out the militia not single
case of retaliation on the part of the I'm
ion alea had eper been ch0rsed The m9r'
derers in many cases were known,
and we're allowed to 1--we In perfect
security In the communities ID which
the outrages were committed III
attempts were made to deal with
.her. by civil law, the officers were
oyerpowered, killed, or driven off by
the Rebel Democracy. The most
notorious of these assassins rode
over the country making speeches by
invitation, in which they bossted OF
their outrages. In every part of the
State leading Rebels were continually
counseling opposition TO the State
Government and the laws made un-
der it. Gov. Clayton's office was
daily besieged by refugees begging
protection from. the State in their
rights under its laws Thus besieg-
ed. Gov. Clayton made use of the
means in his hands, to ascertain the
truth, and when fully convinced that
civil law could not be enforced in
these counties, he declared martial
law. and called out the militia, in
which he was sustained by the unan-
imous vote of the Legislature. The
militia first sent to the field into act
nal service were all white men, most
of whom had seen service in the
limited States volunteer army. These
we're attacked by an organized band
in Sewer County, one of their mum
Der was killed, and several we're
wounded. =
After having been thus goaded to
desperation, the Union men have
finally resolved to have peace at all
hazards. They propose to go just
tar enough with the militia 10 attain
this end, and will withdraw the MI
htia as soon as they can be safe in so
doing. The Union men are not in
fuenced in this move by malice
Their only aim is the enforcement OF
the laws which guarantee equal pro-
lection to all persons.
Shame upon a party the road to
whose success lies through the cov-
ering up and palliation of such crimes
as these. 1t is significant fact, and
one which the American people will
not forget, that, for the past seven
years, every resort to illegal force
cratic party. When mob of black
hearted white men paraded the streets
of New York, with demoniac yells,
shooting and hanging negroes, and
crowned their infamous proceedings
by an act of inceDdiarism that would
shame devil from the lower regions,
1t was in the interest of the Demo
cratic party, and Horatio Seymour
but spoke the Gods truth when he
called them friends. When a peace
full convention was broken up in New
Orleans, and DIR. Dostie and other
UnioHists were murdered in cold
blood, it was in the interest of De-
mocrscv, and the Democratic party,
if it did not openly applaud, palliated
the fearful crime. But why recapit-
ulate farther. The history of the
crimes perpetuated in the interest
and in the name of Democracy would
ill volumes. The killing of two or
three hundred Union men in Arkan.
sas is but drop in the bucket.
When''time makes all things even,'
what fearful reckoning will that
be between the Democratic party and
the much prosecuted loyalists of the
Southern States And in that day
where will Andrew johnson stand |?
GEN. RosEcRANs has so far outstript
all A. J.'s former Ministers to Mexico
as to reach the Mexican capital and
be accorded a formal reception by
President Juarez. Of course he made /,
4 very neat speech on the occasion, s
which was as neatly responded to by
he President. The stereotyped phra. q
les of ''good WILL" ''faternal feel s
ngs,' etc, etc. (which, as everybody n
them to mean just nothing h
t ali, are perfectly harmless) were L
RELY INDUCED in by both parties e