The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-08-21

roes" shoot Their Political Opponent
from "the Bush," and Boast that The
Have Killed "a ID Yank ee."
little Rock Cor. Chicago Inter-ocean.l
According to the census of 1870, Ar
kansas had population of nearly 500,
600. During the three years following
there was an increase by immigration o.
whites from the North, and coloret
people from the older States OF the
South, of at least 100,O0O so to-day
we have 600, 900 people on %, 900 square
miles of the richest soil the sun shines
upon, and who live under the vilest
government on the face of Gods earth
Talk about Russian despotism, Turkish
barbarism, and African savagery-why,
they are all tame and insipid things com
pared with the Baxter Bourbon brutal
rule in Arkansas. Murder even among
the savage tribes of Africa is crime
punishable by some law, but in Arkan-
sas it is never crime when the victim
is Republican or negro, and the per-
petrator a rebel or Democrat. The
young Arkansas warrior is honiZed ac-
cording to the number of niger or
Yankee scalps he bangles at his side,
and he who cannot boast of goodly
number is hardly entitled to a cordial
etree into first-class society. Murder
ing a Yankee or negro q crime in Arkan-
sas ? Why, it is glory, chivalrous
thing indorsed and commended by "our
people.
Within twenty days there have been
twenty eight murders in the State, and
not SINCE arrest made Think of that,
people of the North, and esp ecially
those of you who have joined in the
senseless howl about carpet-baggers.
Bring it home to yourselves, and tell us
what the people of Illinois would do if
the country and State authorities per-
mitted those bloody crimes to be enact
ed before their eyes without an arrest
or an attempt to arrest the offenders.
And, further, what would the people of
the North do if the dominant party in
any of the States should, through their
Governor and leaders, connive and wink
at the butchery Of their political OPP
penants. That's what they do in Ar
kansas
To be explicit, will give a few de-
tails About a year ago, desperate,
Sid Wallace, who was connected with
one of the "high toned" families near
Clarksville, had been numbering right
and left for some time, and not finding
Republicans enough to satisfy his MUIR
derous appetite, he found it necessary
to slaughter one of "our people," for
which ne was sentenced by Republic
an Judge to be hanged. When the
day for the execution arrived the Sher-
if of the county had been warned by
Wallace's relations that if he performed
his duty and hung Sid, they would kill
him on sight. Under these threats the
Sheriff refused to do the hanging, and
deputied Mr.. Kline, a Republican, to
act for him. Kline hung Wallace.
Since that time he has not dared to step
outside his house after shutdown, and
has not had a light in his house for
months. But after so much time
elapsed, his vigilance relaxed, and the
other day he was passing along a road
near dense thicket, within quarter
of mile of the county town, and aOds
shot from the bush. No arrest no re-
ward offered. Kline dead.
Union county joins the Louisiana
line, and has a considerable number of
carpet-baggers who have built mills,
put up stores, opened plantations, and
committed other outrages against " our
people," Mr.. Colt, formerly of New
York, lives in Union county. He fool
ishly moved there after the war, and
took considerable fortune with him.
He has erected storehouses on the
Ouachita river, constructed wharves,
built residences at Eldorado, the coun-
ty-seat, and at the same time plants
cotton and corn. In short, Mr.. Colt is
lust such q man as Chicago or any other
town in the West would welcome, but
one of the brave old Bourbons said to
me yesterday, "We've had enough of
that d-n Yankee i; if he crooks his
finger at one of our boys, we will fix
him." Fixing" in Arkansas means
double barreled shot-guns from ambush.
Poor Colt would no doubt gladly leave
the hell-cursed land if he could get %
per cent. of his investment back. A
letter from Eldorado, dated July %,
SAYS: eve have had only three mur-
dcrs this week. One of them is too
black to pass without notice. One
James Cupp had some words with a
harmless negro, and, without warning,
shot him, killing hIm almost instantly.
Cupp went to Hillsboro and gave him
self up to Esquire Harrison, who
opened his court to try the case. A
jury was called-who ever heard of a
jury in an examining case ?-and, after
few words, Cupp was discharged with
out bail.
The same letter gives a detailed ac-
count of two other murders equally
shocking, and not one of these MUIR
derers has been arrested or bailed,
confined or punished. The mockery
in Cupp's case was the only semblance
of trial that any one of them was
brought to. 1t is well enough to take
note of the fact that the three men
killed were Republicans, and the MUIR
derers were our dear and gentle peo-
pie. Of course it is said by the rebel
papers that these acts of violence have
no political significance that they are
personal quarrels but let me say that
the brigands and cut-tbroats who per.
petrate these inhuman butcheries know,
and are told by their masters, people