The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-11
TIE WHITE LEAGUERS.
A Chapter Of Atrocities tn Arkansas
Gov. ksllogg's Account of the Cou-
shattaI(La.) Butchery.

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Gov. KsIIogg's Account of the Cou-
shattaI(La) Butchery.
ARKANsAs-A CHAPTER OF TERRoRs.
Little Rock Cor. Chicago Iuter-ocean.l
When one has passed through the ex-
tensive rooms of Madame Tussaud, of
Lond IN, and enjoyed her charming ex-
hibition of statuary, wax figures, and
paintings, he reaches the last room,
which the Madame has very properly
named, "The Gallery of Horrors" Let
a traveller leave New York, pass through
the blooming and peaceful Western
States, down through the prosperous
Missouri, and he will find himself
plunged into a gallery of horrors the
moment he crosses the Arkansas line,
the like OF which Madame Tussaud has
never dreamed. Every hill and valley
has it's hidden mystery, and every house
and cross road it's bloody story, which
would fittingly adorn her gallery of hor-
rors. The banditti of Italy pursue
their unlawful calling to make money,
without malice or hatred toward their
victims. Traupmann murdered the
family of French peasants for q few
paltry bits of gold. These thirgs shock
the civilized world. Is there nothing
more valuable than gold? 1t is because
the red-handed murders of the South
scorn to receive pay for their bloody
deeds that the world looks upon it in
differently. In Arkansas they do not
kill for money gold, no ! Yankee or
negro blood, yes Malice, vindictive-
ness, hatred, and revenge are the main
oil r.. Il
and vindictive, because it is their ma
ture to be, and is grated from father to
son, from mother to daughter. They
hate the Yankee because he whipped
them, and the negro because he is free,
and they intend to drive out the one
and re-enslave the other. They must
first get rid of the Yankees by killing
or driving them out, then the work will
be easy.
The Yankee will fight. He is also an
organizer. He has seen service and
understands the outside measure of an
average rebel ; moreover, he will not
respond when long haired, chiyalric
cuss says Look heah, boy"
Then he can read and write, and in
slsts that the negro should be taught to
do the same. He also builds houses
with the chimneys inside, makes roads
that you can pass over with wagon,
builds railroads, wants churches and
school houses, and what is more alb
surd, positively insists on having jails
to put murderers in. He also has the
audacity to demand the punishment of
these murderers. Can our best peo-
pie" endure such things? Certainly
not. Listen In the last campaign an
eloquent Republican speaker undertook
to explain to rural gathering the
mission of his party, which was b build
railroads, erect manufactures, induce
immigration, and make waste places
blossom as the rose when he closed
his finely drawn picture, fair repre-
sentative of the average Arkansian in,
terrupted by saying, Look aheah.
Mister, we don't want any of them
No such for us, cause that ERE doctrine
would drive all the game out O. the
country" That's Arkansas in a nut
shell.
But in the meantime the work of kill
ing must go forward, and if Yankees
are too dangerous to tackle, negro,
though not so gamey, will do. That no
doubt was what the outlaw thought who
killed Cook Ross, leading colored man
in Lafayette county. Ross was a
Methodist preacher, who worked a
small farm with his own hands during
the week, and preached to the dumb OF
his race ON Sunday. He was o tall.
gaunt, angular featured man, q
philosopher and Christian. He
could read and write, and he took
newspapers, which he read to his flock
one night in. each week at their LOG
church. Ross was Republican, OF
course, and when election time came
around he was always ready to explain
to his colored friends the great princi.
pies of that party. So Cook Ross was
a marked man-marked as a keen, able,
clear-headed backwoodsman marked
as an influential Republican among his
own people-nnd marked to kill. He
preached his last sermon the other day.
After the evening services were over,
and as the congregation were about
leaving for home, a squad OF White
Leaguers rode up to the church and
called for Ross. He came out, and was
induced to walk off with them few
PAGES to the edge of the brush, when
one of them, speaking so that others at
the church heard it, said:
81 haven't killed Cd d-n niger
s-n of b-h for some time now,
take that"
He took it. Cook Ross was shot dead
on the spot, and the assassins deliber-
ately rode away. No arrests; no at
tempt made to ascertain who the MUIR
derers were. 1t is not even mentioned
in the rebel county paper.
Maj Gibbons told you his story in
my last letter now we have the second
edition. There lives in one of the re-
mote hooks in that county, in Tennes-
see township, poor, widowed colored
woman, who had an only child, son
about Is years of age. She has a
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