Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-28
CARD ONCE MORE.
The Kingdom of Satan upon our
Borders.
The Signers of the Card Again Man
handled.
The Man Haynes and His Murders.
The Rapes in Crittenden County.

infinite depths, arouse all the ferOclty
of the tiger, and all the noble quail
ties of the lion, while they awe and
reduce to a craven submission Others
who have nothing in common with
the Creator except a parody on His
image degraded in their pusillani-
nous persons.
Capt. A. J. Haynes, recently killed
at Marion, Ark, was a murderer, a
cOnniver at the ravishment of white
women by negroes, q tyrant in a land
where men were born free; yet even
dead he finds apOlogists who alsify
the truth and strive to place the seal
of disgrace upon the noble brow OF
him who set them free. We have
seen hearlded through the Mem
phis press an infamous card in
which Clarence Collier, who killed
HAYNES is pronounced can ulcer on
the community that community
which he at fourteen of age volunteer
ed in the Southern army to defend ;that
community which he so lately freed
from the most CALLING tyranny that
ever was suffered by people of the
Anglo-Saxon race. That community
is capable of producing few such Ill
GERS. Were there many like him a
second Caligula like A. j. Haynes
would be impossible. The APPEAL
remarked the other day that it was
not acquainted with the history of
Clarence Collier. Beyond the time
when he came to that county, about
1856, the writer ofthis article is equally
in the dark, In 1864, about February,
he enlisted in Capt. Hills company
of McGhee's regiment. Trans-Missls-
sippi Department. Though only four
teen years af age, he made a gallant
and dashing sOldier-in all times of
peril, he was first to volunteer on
scout, on picket line or skirmish, his
splendid craftsmanship made his
courage dOubly effective. He was
through all the last Missouri campaign
with Gen. Price, and the writer recalls
several instances when he was singled
out by Col. McGhee for important SER
vices of a peculiarly dangerous ma
ture. Returning from the Missouri
expedition in times when ravenOuS
hunger was abroad in the regiment,
he divided with unequaled generosity
among his comrades the last mOrsel
which his capacities as a scout had
enabled him to acquire. He was all
that was generous, manly, noble and
clever.
In February, 1865, a Federal cavalry
force made a raid on Crittenden cOun-
ty, attempting to surprise a force of
Confederates that We're encamped back
of Merriwether's. They We're fOiled
in this endeavOr by information being
conveyed to camp by a boy, but on
their return, though numbering at
least two hundred, they were attacked
by Clarence Collier single handed
solitary and alOne-he being mounted
4 fine black horse and armed with
Henry sixteen shooting rifle, think
ing perhaps, boy like, that he could
shoot some Of them, and escape by
OF the swift qualities Of his
In this he was doomed to dis
appointment, and after being fusiladed
in Frank Rodgers field, was captured.
who first captured him robbed
him, but on being brought before the
commanding battalion, he de
nOunced and cursed the robbers and
and the Major compelled them
to restore the stolen pocket book to
the "fOolhardy boy" After the
he killed a negro with a repeater
at Hopefeld, who had snapped
R shot gun at him, and
some year and a half ago he got
into an unfortunate difficulty with
Bethel, and killed him. Up to the
time of the killing of Haynes, these
were the only persons whom he had
slain.
There is some reason to believe that
when A. j. Haynes first came TO Crit
county he was a tOlerably fair
nan. All mean men were once innO-
,ent babes, and we cannot deny
the common privilege of man.
But Haynes being far away from
nome, outraged the laws of decency
Dy taking unto himself a negro wife,
md being, perhaps, alarmed by the
.IapOrings of Reub. Redman and 9th
sTs Of his ilk, pOrthOled his house, and
commenced TO strengthen himself
lmOng the negro population by eXclu-
i've association with them, and the
OrmatiOn of Loyal Leagues among
hem. These things produced their
ruit in the inSOlence and arrogance of
he negro. This insOlence and AFRO
yance was not met in the manly way,
" being fastened upon its author.
but some sO-called regulators
among them, no doubt, some of the
of the infamous card) asSum-
ng the garb of that grand bugaboO of
he newspapers, the Ku-KluX KIan,
'eglH0ted some negroes, carefully re-
note from Haynes plantation, and
egulated them efiectually out of ex-
for nothing more than n mere
mumbling expression of Opin-
ON antagOnistic to the whites, which
some debased eaYeSdropper
t the cOrne of their cabins had per-
laps heard,
With these regulators Clarence Col
Ter and themurdered JohnHOrgan had
to do; but when Haynes made
his a preteXt to summon to the county
he unlawful hOrdes of negro militia
asst winter, with the spirit of true
nen they attempted to rally the pOpu-
alton of the county TO the just defense
4 their wives, their property and their
resides. This attempt was met
Clarence, finding it a failure,
ed to Memphis, and John Organ in
his way back home was
rounded and captured at fifteen mile
ayOu bridge, five miles west of Ma
ion. What followed this capture,
a0rk sceU, all who have hearts in
our bosoms. Haynes was in COM
land OF the squad. John Organ, in
he agonies of his wound, appealed to
to save his life from the savage
egrOes. Wounded and on the
round, he clasped Haynes around
be feet with his arms in attitude of
application. The demOn-hearted
pressed his foot upon his
rcast, forced loose his hold, and say
~ you have not long to live"
hot him twice through the head at
ne temples. There are negroes and
mites who can testify to this, and
ne internal evidence of its truth is
lat Haynes afterwards detailed to !
is friends some conversation ne had j
ED with Organ, and no man ever
poke after being shot through the
{
Haynes afterwards commanded at !
he killing Of Harvey, IAN ex-member !
[ the Union army, MeAllister, :
icer, Wallace, DIR. AGREE and WaE !
all but this last killed without
the form of a trial by military ,
Dmmission. :
commanded when Miss Sweep }
on, Mrs. Watson, Mrs. McGhee, !
rs. Galloway and many Others .
hose names have never come to !
yht, from the degraded nature of