Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-02-09
FROM CLARK COUNTY.
DOVE PARK, ARK.
Feb. 9th, 1884.

DOVE PARK, ARK.
Feb. 9th, 1884.
Editor Mansion.
DEAR SIR.-Circuit Court has
been in session at Arkadelphia
for two weeks. I have been over
there 9 part of the time; aed man ..x
that If the democrats kept on that
the republican party Of Arkan-
sas would soon all be in the pen
at Little Rock. A white demo-
crat and juryman at that, re-
piled that there was where all of
them ought to be.
saw them have two oolorsd
men up for very trivial causes,
one a poor ignorant colored man
for not giving a list of his pro-
perty to the assessor. he was
fined five dollars and costs besides
his lawyers fees. The poor
creature I learned had nothing to
give in. The other a very thrifty
clever man was arrested and put
in Jail for defending his own
house and family. 1t was about
this way. Tho 18th day of July
last a colored women went to his
house and abused him and his
family very bad and he, George
Browning, ordered her off, she
replied that she had ceme there
to wip them all out and that she
intended doing it, Brewing
picked up a fishing cane and ran
her off and then went before = re-
publican justice of the peace and
submitted his case and had all of
the witnesses examined and
evidence recorded. Now there
was plenty of bourbon justices in
Arkadelphia that he could have
went to but they were out Of his
township. Now after Browning
had had his trial, paid his fine
and cost, tho ri righteous bourbons
must take him up and put him
in Jail and try to ruin him just
for the simple offenso of pleading
guilty to an offense before a re-
publican justice of the peace,
when he only done it through
fear of oppression from the bour-
T talked with Browning and
he is perfectly reliable, and he
told me that he talked with the
three colored men condemned te
be hung for the Howard county
riot. He said that they talked
thus: First one. "The reason
that the democrats want me out
of the way is that lead my peo
pie politically right and this Ii
the way that they do it, The
other two said that they were
forced into it against their Wills
They all solicited the prayers o
all that would pray for them
They fsaid that their only hop
was that God would deliver them
but that they were resigned t.
the will of God. 1 asked then
what kind of treatment that they
we're getting, he said that tn
jailor and sheriffs were very kint
to the prisoners, that they ha'
plenty to cat and that that wa
good enough.
l talked with several OF tn
leading citizens OF Arkadelphi
myself and they said that the,
did not think the men wer
guilty. The sheriffs told me tina
parties from Howard county ha'
been talking Of taking them ou
and mobing them, but that the.
would have to kill every man il
Arkadelphia first.
They had man by the nam
OF Brady before the court il
Arkadelphia this week for burg
larry and if a stranger had com
into court while his trial was
progress he would have been tn
last man that he would have pick
ed out for the burglar, as he wa
tho best looking man in the hous
by odds.
| Arkadelphia is a clever tow
and 1 like it, but talent and Gu
ture is too much depreciates
money is God and favor is powe
If So lomon with all OF his know
| ledge was to appear before tn
Arkadelphia bar unknown an
: without bottle of whisky an
, all the grips and signs of a pul
bourbon 1 doubt that he woul
be noticed. Well l must say ths
when a man is tried there h
, must employ a lawyer and thu
!, lawyer must find out from tn
,, ring what will be done and ths
must be done and if L under
. stand them they are a lot of blin
, christians.
WIN. G. DUTHERAGR,
Dove Park, Ark.