The Forrest City times., 1888-07-21
unprincipled politicians, were given transportation out of the State.

transportation out of the State.
 Their names, as fully as could be learned. are !. w. Ramsey, J. l.. Elem ing, Fred Hunt, Dave Ferguson, Louis Ferguson. his brother, Henry Rusby, Hon. $. $. Odom, Rev. J. D. Lawrence. Rhodes, F.. M. Kitchen, attorney at law. who lived at Jerich, few miles west. and last but not least. Dr. Stith, who was doing good practice, mostly inflaming rather than soothing the minds of his patients agaipst their white neighbors. The doctor didn't like to go bit, but he was not given much time for demurrer.
 York Byers and - Deavers have not been seen since.
 "It is the opinion of many that the negro Ferguson, who has recently re- turned from the republican convention at Chicago, had the whole scheme in- stilled into him there by the bloody shirt element, who are in such aesper- ate straits for campaign material. There is but little doubt that this base purpose is part of the programme, and that what has been done by the citizens to protect their lives and property will be magnified into the bpgaboo of aDoth- CT great Southern outrage by the Hal= steads and Reids of the radical nortiia ern press. The manly conduct of hun dreds of industrious and orderly eolored citizens. who volunteered their services to uphold the law, will give the lie to all their screeds.
 The prompt and decisive action of the citizens of Crittenden county, Ark. at Marion on Thursday, had most sal utary effect. When it became known that the ring-leaders of the blatant pol, iticiaps had left the county, under a promise to make their stay permanent. the peace-loying blacks as well as the whites felt relief, which the unfortu- nate people of that county have not en- joyed for many years. The critical and anxious hours, heightened into days, which the people had undergone since Tuesday last, had quite unstrung the nerves of the defenseless women and children, and exhausted the strength of the men, who had unceasingly as sen tinels to meet the threatened danger. It was only the unanimity and prompt ness with which the people acted that averted serious trouble. Those who had shouldered arms to defend them- selves and their homes were not of any particular faction or class, but to man from the wealthiest to the lowliest- men whose regulations for fair dealing and for high order of intelligence is un- questioned. and who would not sane ton any uncalled-for violence to the humblest negro in the land. They are men who are not easily excited, who weigh well their action, ever mindful of the peace and the prosperity of their State, and who would go to any reason- able length to avoid trouble rather than to court it.
 THE ACTION THEY TOOK
 was that dictated by the necessities of the situation. They had been warned to desert their homes, to leave precipi- tately all they possessed. They could not afford to do it and didn't do it. This is the explanation of what has taken place in the last three days. The people of this county had experienced the horrors of the domination of igno- rance many times before. and they had suffered long and patiently the grossest at the expense of breaking the peace and precipitating civil strife which they hoped to avoid. But | this was the Hast warning" They l must either heed it promptly by leav- ing their homes or take the conse- l quences." They decided unhesitatingly | not to go, but to stay, and let the con | be what they might. They | were cool and deliberate. They did not | assume the aggressive, but strictly and | cautiously the defensive. They offered no violence and gave no cause for any. | The simple question with them was when the time came, and there was limit fixed in the notices to leave, they would be ready to meet the ''conse- quences." That was all. They simply took time hy the foyelock and turned the tables on their would-be banishers. They proceeded about it in quiet, or derly. but effective manner, and the re- suit is, there has not been one drop of blood shed, nor any scenes of violence"