Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-02-09

the cases OF the thlrtythree
Howard county colored rioters,
that were convicted at Centre
Point, Arkansas, some thirty to
the pen and three to be hanged.
To this l wish to note my sins
cere regrest, not being situated to
t. take ah! hold lddoislsnek nnd Mkf have, on ac-
count of living among both the
Jews and Gentiles, where every
one most are aspirants to Nicode-
mus, but they must be borned
again,
The thirtv-three men taken or
torn from their families, causing
wives to sell all their stock, lands,
etc, to save them from eternal
woe, may have truly been in
dicted and convicted by the
eighth judicial circuit court, aud
the judge and attorneys may all
be good men, but they had to
work according to the jury's
verdict.
Sec. 1907, of Gantt's Digest,
which has little change reads:
If any porson or persons do an un-
lawful act with force or violence
against the person or property of
another with or without a COM
mon cause or quarrel, or even do
a lawful act In a violent or tu-
multuous manner, the person SO
offending shall be deemed guilty
of a riot, and on conviction shall
severally be fined in any sum not
more than five hundred dollars,
or imprisoned in the county jail
not more than three months or
both:
Murder is the unlawful killing
of a human being in the peace OF
the State, with malice afore
thought, either expressed or i'm
piled. See Gantt's Digest, Sec.
1248.
Riot-If three or more persons
assemble together with intent, or
being assembled shall agree mu
tually to assist each other to do
an unlawful act with force or
violence against the person or
property of others, or against the
peace or to the laws of the state,
and shall accomplish the purpose
furtherance of such purpose, in n
violent or turbulent manner,
every such person so offending or
who shall aid or assist in doing
an unlawful act, shall be adjudged
guilty of misdcmcanor and
shall be punished by imprison-
J ment not exceeding one year, or
by fine not to exceed $500, or
both fine and Imprisonment, See
Gantt's Digest, Sec. 1906.
Now the jury all l suppose are
good men who rendered the YER
:; !; dict, (all white) but they allowed
the heat of passion, we think, to
: run high against the impotent
colsred man, with some of oul
> own colored people assisting
them. L do not and did not ex-
pect in many cases a very differ
ent verdict and decision, but
e must say before justice supreme
! ! it is wrong to try thirty three
negroes with twelve prejudiced
white jurymen.
Some of my race are SO simple
as to think that no good can be
done in the country except by the
y whites. Texas has termerity
g enough to introduce a bill in the
i congress of the United States tC
u ask pay for every negro slave that
l was emancipated, Louisiana
y claims for things destroyed dur
N ing the late civil war, North
Carolina in her legislature at
. tempts to exclude from the free
II schools entirely the colored you'll
) that he may come up as you may
Q say fit subject for the pen o1
q gallows.
@ May God hasten the day whel
& every knee shall bow and every
's tongue confess that the Lord i
70 king. Aside from all this, doe
such state of things exis
n with the decision Of the Unitc'
/ States supreme court against tn
J. negro appear to be a warranty
r. guaranteed protection for thi
:" couptry's arch and pillows?
le No one I hope will understan'
q me as saying the eighth circui
q did wrong in it's sentence of thirty
e three men but that improtabilit
a follows everything.
At I shall do what L can for tn
le imprisoned people my breathern
At Yours for good,
le M. M. MURRAY.