The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-16

| and scalped, one nloini'S Ai'"'"
the lies No soldier of my regiment was
ever found dead and scalped;l never saw
apv soldier living or dead that was scalped
in NV lIfe-never kew such a soldier Now
for the facts; There was q soldier, Us ]
was informed utterly unknown to me, who
belonged TO the regular army, and whom
never saw or knew, who was killed and
scalped at Bowling Green, KY, for his
money, and Elisha j. Oldham, now citi-
zen of Hardin county and amember of the
Oldham family who are prosecuting me to-
day. and two other of my company were
arrested for the murder and turned over to
the civil authorities and were retained in
prison until the war was over, and until
long after my company had been mustered
out of the service. James A. Lowry,
editor of the Hardin Gazette, who has been
making such vicious attacks upon me,
knows the above 10 be true as gospel, and
all the members of my company know the
same facts *" further says Several
years since man named Doris whipped
Belt in fight at Elizabethtown. Doris a
short time afterwards, was assassinated in
his own house in Gallatin county. Belt
was indicted, proved an alabi, and escaped"
The only thing true in the above was that
Doris was cruelty and in cold
blood assassinated in his own
house near Equality in 1870, by
some deperate midnight assassin. 1t is
false tina. was ever indicted for the crime
| was arrested simply because he had lived
| in my neighborhood before, and we
had ouarreled. had an examination be-
fore ex.Judge Robert D. Pearce at Equality,
| and the people having failed toprnduce one
iota of evidence against me, or even the
breath OF suspicion, and 1t appearing on
the trial that l was eighteen or twenty
miles away at the time the fatal shot was
fred, was discharged, Judge Pearce vol
unfairly giving me the following certif-
icate: This is to certify that Logan
Belt was arrested and had an eyamin-
alton before me, on the eth day OF
February, 1870, for the murder of
Samuel II. Doris, and that there
was not the slightest evidence against the
SAID Belt, but on the contrary Belt proved
positively that he was in Hardin county
some eighteen or twenty miles from Equal
lty at the time when said Doris was
| shot.
Thus falls to the ground this vile SIAN
der, hawked through the newspapers to in
lure me in the approaching trial
The correspondent "X' has 4
great amount of slush hashed
up about the Belts being organized into
ku-klux. khan, all of which is UNANIMOUSLY
false and has no foundation in truth. And
the writer hereof has proposed time and
again to his enemies that if they would
produce one single respectable witness that
he (Belt), or any of his friends had been
seen in Hardin county, either day OF night
under arms or il disguise, or in band to.
gether for any purpose, that he would then
admit that there was some foundation for
such rumors; but no such witness has been
or can be produced and these anonymous
scribbers and slanderers well know
it. On the o.her hand have pro-
posed to prove by not only one but by doz-
ems of honorable, high-mined men that my
enemies are BANGED together, with pistols
and shot guns, in numbers from six to
eighteen in one gang, not friend ofmine
with them; that they roam the country
both night and day carrying demoraliza-
ton to the quiet and peaceable citizens of
Hardin county. Why is it, my fellow citi-
zens, that myself and my friends suffer
continuously from poisoned dogs, poisoned
horses, burned fences, burned houses, and
all such devilment too tedious to mention
while no one can point to single one Of
this gang who has ever been injured to the
amount Of one cent, either in person or
propertyI And echo answers, Why is it!
will give a reward of one hundred dol
lars for any reliable proof that myself Or
any Of of my friends have ever left any
threatening letters at any place, seeking to
drive any person away from his home
That such letters have been written and
sent do not deny. l have received such
letters myself, and can show one now in my
possession, which have retained; and per
haps it was fortunate did so, for the one
found in the papers Of the poor, untortu'
nate, murdered Hambrink is in the same
handwriting Of the one received by myself
The letter to me warned me to do certain
things il ! wished to enjoy life and prop
erty in Hardin county, and was signe(
"Regulators."
The editor Of the Hardin Gazette, thong!
an avowed enemy of mine, while publish
ing the infamous *" article recoils iron
: the false, slanderous and reckless charge.
and says editorially; I'VE do not wish tn
impression to 90 out that all the Belts il
this county are bad and lawless men, 70
many Of them are IS good citizens as W
have; peaceable, law-ablding, mindingt hei
own business and having no difficult
with any one. With these correc
! tons we give the article C'XD to the pee
pie as q matter Of news" No one know
better than this editor that the "X" al
ticle was conceived in iniquity an
born of corruption. He knows its state
. ments are as false as hell itself He know
' the object of author was, by SANDER, false
hood and abuse so to poison the minds O
y the people of Gallatin county that it woul,
he impossible for me to receive a fair AM
impartial trial. He knows the article ha
been spread broadcast over Gallatin anC
Hardin counties 20 that the slime of th,