New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-25
to publish an extract from The Arkansas Gazette
of February 20, paper of over fifty years
standing, and the organ of Mr.. Berry's party. in
that State
GENERAL HINDMANs ASSASSINATION

matter for serious regret that it thought
necessary the accomplishment of any good purpose to
drag the tragedy in which General Hindman LOST his life
into public notoey again. and set 1t up beside that Of
Colonel John NJ Clayton for judgment in comparison Just
what COED result be accomplished by 1t cannot easily
by understood 1t diabocal crime, and the wounds
a. left which healed ought not to be torn
atresh The OF that has crept into the
recent rehearsal Of this assassination is astonishing Even
% careful and Just Senator Berry is msed by
common report repeating Of them on the floor
~ tho Senate order that the truth Of the matter may
he correctly presented 1.-The Gazette" has back its
aes for that period and collected the following data In
regard to 10;
General Hindman was assassnaed the night Of Sep
paign In support Of Hanks for Congress- for Hanks did
or SonGre: uptn 1870 He vas shot mot a, the
which is is said by denied by others that he
made had taken S h% IL ho no Of ss
% ss psps1 %a 9si hs s With
siY'ai All ia splendid zeal and energy
n e the 8nS $500 , for sSS S %sSSS
SSo while drunk had made some acknowledgment q his
se Sd with the crime He WAS S5resed s and ana
seoqIttea The DroseeutiOn was conducted BY Judge
ct ably and vigorously assisted BY Judge HsnCy, then
Ae leading Democratic lawyer Of Eastern Arkansas and
natiOn Of General Hindman attributed various
but ea 1 all % Yet whatever hat that me-
plot that human maevolence concocted, IL
any other crime comnt,ed in other times and other Dor
IL The way to silence thoso 80 wRo attempt tenn to - put les
commission to Improper use Is 70 handle II in such man
courts that the pcnltenary and the galOws may
accusers for us.
cLAYToNs MURDER ONE OF MANY LIKE GRIMES
From the above.H said General Clayton, it
viii be seen that the assassination of Hindman
was in no sense parallel with that of John M.
Clayton. If Senator Berry had really desired to
state parallel case. he would have called atten-
Republican member of Congress from Arkansas,
while riding along the road with Joseph Brooks
then a member of the Arkansas Legislature, re-
turning from Republican meeting where they
had both spoken. was shot and instantly killed,
and Brooks severely wounded, by oonceaiod
assassin named Clark a member Of MIR. Berry's
party, who was fed, harbored and passed from
county to county by political friends until ne
escaped beyond the boundaries Of the State. Mr..
Berry could also. while he was indulging in recon-
struction "reminiscences, have called the attention
of the Senate to the further fact that during the
same canvass another member of the Legislature
was shot and killed while in the aot. of putting
ms fsm upon 70 ssnr nnem eryUma as
shot at night, through the window of his boarding
house, in such manner as TO make the am
putation of his necessary that another
member was shot and wounded while escorting the
dead body of his wife TO send 1t North for burial;
that another member was shot from ambush and
severely wounded by would-be assassin while
the State Senate shot and wounded while
riding along the road, and only escaped by pre-
cipitate fight into dense thicket near by. he
could also have informed the Senate that
all of these men so shot were Republicans and
that the men who shot them belonged to his
party. II would be asking too much to expect
him TO enumerate the hundreds Of less prominent
men who were shot or otherwise outraged during
that canvass If Mr.. Berry, in speaking of my
having my heel upon the neeks OF certain people
in Arkansas at that time, refers to that
class of people who committed these
crimes, tfien / admit that / did place
my executive heel. SO to speak. upOn, their necls
And think most honest people, both ia and out
Of Arkansas. will regret thai up 10 the present
time there rcens TO be pcwer in the State able
70 put iis heel upon the neck OF the dastard1y
wretches who by their acts have shocked the
humanity OF the entire country and brought dis
grace upon the name OF great State-a State
containing as large a proportion Of honest people
as other States Of the Union, but. unfortunately,
within the clutches Of desperate and unscrupulous
usurpers who, TO maintain oheir hold upon power
against the wishes Of a majority of the people,
have resorted to the frequent robbery and stufing
Of balot-boxes and other crimes against suffrage,
one Of the legitimate fruits Of which was the as
sassinaton Of John NJ. Clayton