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Letter. (From the
We make the following
extracts of a letter from “Everything is quiet here
politically, and we are doing very well – would do better if it was not for a
few so called refugees here, who have concocted some diabolical tale, and
misrepresented affairs to our Governor, and caused him to give authority to
one of the worst men in North Arkansas, to raise a company of militia for the
purpose-as they way, of assisting in the inforcement
(sic) of civil law, but the only men in our country who are outbreaking, and persistent in, resisting civil law, are
the men who got this thing on foot. “Men, who come into this
country after the declaration of peace and the disbanding of the armies, and
took confederates who were under parole, and peaceably following the business
of their farms, and brutally murdered them.
Now they fear that civil authority will inflict the punishment due
them, and they-under false pretences and representations, have a company,
composed of their own kind only, to resist, instead of assisting the
enforcement of civil law. “When the crime spoken of
above was committed, these men who perpetrated the deed,
were not federal soldiers, and some of them never were any thing but
jay-hawkers during the war. And not
this one crime alone, but they have been committing depredations upon the
citizens at various times since they have returned, and an ardent and
universal desire for peace and harmony, has caused the better class of
citizens of this country to keep quiet, but we have forborne until
forbearance ceases to be a virtue, and justice demands that we speak for
ourselves. “We have promised
obedience to the constitution and laws of our State, land the United States,
and we are keeping up to the letter in good faith, but we did not promise to
submit to the insults and depredations of unprincipled men; and now we ask
that the matter be looked into by the authorities, and the evil remedied.” |
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