The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-24
CRITTENDEN.
Has Its Excitement Passed Away 2
A Belief and Sincere Hope That the
Trouble is Over.
Those Indictments and Judge Red
dicks Strong Language.
An Appeal Reporter Visits and
Surveys the Bloodless Fold.
No Race War, But Merely a Rid
dance of Bad Rubbish.
DR.. Stith in Prison and Sandy odom
Agrees to Disappear.
The Affair Laid at the Door of the
Chicago Convention.
The Affair Laid at the Door Of the
Chicago Convention.
Who Will Arrest the Whites In the
Event Of Their Indictment 2
No Further Movement Contemplated
Unless 1t be by the Memphis sympa-
thizers OF the Exiles, Who Are
Believed to Have an Under
standing on the Subject.

There is no troublein Crittenden county,
Ark, at present, nor will there be unless
lone OF the offensive but banished negroes
Ihow their ugly faces in that section.
So far as they have been seen, there is
40 danger OF this emergency. They are
,ontented TO carry whole hide and be
permitted TO breathe.
The meager report that the grand jury
lad concluded its labors for the July term
md turned over the document TO Judge
Reddck, along with the vague rumor that
he first act of violence toward the blacks,
we're sufficient to call for the personal in
gestigaton OF an APPEAL reporter, who
vent over TO Marion yesterday. Atten-
ion was first directed TO the grand jury's
work. Inquiry was made Of the newly
appointed clerk, Squire Vance, one Of the
oldest, most respectable and popular ciIi-
Eens Although
CAPIAsEs HAVE BEEN ISSUED
on all the indictments only one arrest
has been made. andt because the party
-.Sas innoccntly indiscreet enough 10 put
in an appearance Sunday. Even this was
n surprise. No one was looking for the
victim, and IL would not be- said that the
arresling officers were armed with the
warrant. lie was marked, however. II
was known that the paper had been issued
and the cage claimed him.
The grand jury was composed Of sixteen
men, twelve white and four colorcd, Us
follows Samuel Keel, J. II. Mann, Is. I.
NAV, Busker Hill, A. B. Reeves, Jack
Cole, John Braden, NJ. NJ. Morrow, Sam
Hamlin, w. II. Daniels, Thomas o. Mos
by, II. VI. Brooks, white men; and Of
Rufus Bragg, Andy White. Lewis John
son, Pat Ward, colorcd. All Of the jurors
are farmers. Two OF the colorcd men own
good plantations. The other two are
vouchcd Tor rs responsible men. The ro-
port, returning some forty indictments,
concluded with the following
STRONG LANGUAGE:
at Il with regret that in this report and
~ part thereof, II must be said that since
The meeting OF this court there has been
and is now some excitement in the county,
a condition Of things that the newspapers
of Memphis and elsewhere have seen
proper 10 call 'Crittenden County Troubles,
and Of which they have spoken, through
their columns, as a state OF affairs during
which the law has been violated and over
ridden by both white and colorcd. In
obedience 10 your honor's instructions
In harmony with the wishes, rs well as the
inclination Of this jury, and for restora.
ton OF quiet, perpetuntion Of peace and
order and Observance OF the law In the
,ounty, rigid and complete oxamina-
A. a.. 10. -
hat excitement, and by whom the same
vas produced, fOstered, countenanccd or
Encouraged, during which examination
many persons, both white and colored,
ave been summoned and examined.
> While the result and fruit Of such exami-
nation can not bo made known in this
export, the result In detail will be seen nj
hc next term Of this court, n not ut an
,arlier date, when the veil Of secrecy shall
nave been removed from lis work and all
AN see, know and speak. Your honor,
our county and State
Flaw AND RIGHT Will M SATISFIED
"and approve our investigations.
'In many instances, both rs 10 the
shitos and the colored people Of oui
,ounty, when, In our judgment, indict'
nents ought 10 be found and presented, II
has been discovered that all available eyi.
lcncc was insufficient 10 20 do; hence, the
aumber IL not greater than here reported,
During IL sittings and under It's labors nc
evidences Of race trouble were offered; and
gith pleasure We add that In our judg
ment no such trouble exists In this county
and now, upon the eve Of the adjourn
mcnt Of this court, and the end Of the Sos
,ons and sittings Of this body, We declare
that our deliberations and the result
thereof has fallen alike upon the whites
and the colorcd, race, color and politici
being ignored, and that the recent, ant
perhaps the present, trouble In our county
sas caused by plain, positive and deiian
violation OF the law at the hands OF a few
And now that the yiolaton have been In
iicied and the trouble removed the county
,oday enjoys a tranquility Of peace an'
order, and the law Is now supreme, bear
ng equally upon all, more than for man!
ycars in the past. .,
Under the charge Of Judge Reddick &
The grand Jury at the beginning Of II
work, nothing less than the indictment o
white and colored offenders alike woul,
have been possible. lie said:
MAKE 40 DISTINCTION.
''There Is no such punishment or expa
tialion known 20 the laws OF this country
and even II there were, lis execution coul
not safely be trusted either 10 set {
midnight conspiratos or TO a LOT OF arme
and excited citizens. II equally follow
from this that the parties who ordcre
certain negro citizens Of the county
leave the State were cach Of them guilt
Of a violation Of the law. 10 drive cit
zen from the State by threats OF display {