J. C. MORRILL, EDITOR.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS :
SATURDAY.....JULY 27, 1861.
Southern Arms Victorious.—In addition
to the despatches in our columns which de
monstrate the splendid achievements and vic
tory of the Confederate troops, we learn
through Northern despatches that the victory
on our part was complete. It is estimated that
between eighty and ninety thousand federal
ists, and from fifty to sixty thousand South
erners, participated immediately and remotely
in the contest. The estimates of killed and
wounded make an aggregate of from eight to
twelve thousand federalists, and from three to
four thousand confederates. The names of
Beauregard, Davis and Johnston stand
foremost as the heroes of the great battle of
Manassas. Davis seems to have turned the
fortune of the day in our favor at a time when
it was doubtful to whom belonged the victory
Again, as on previous occasions, has he proved
himself “the right man in the right
PLACE.”
But while we congratulate ourselves upon
this glorious victory, we should not be un
mindful of the noble spirits who have yielded
up their lives in defence of the South. The
wail of woe that will arise from many a habi
tation for the loss of falher, brother and son,
should remind us that in many a Southern
home there will be sorrow and affliction.
Those who but a few short months since left
their homes with the smiles of love and hope,
will no more return to gladden the hearts ot
dear ones around the family hearth. All hon
or to the departed brave, may chaplets of glory
be woven to “blend ’round their fame.”
Many of our cotemporaries think this will
be the battle of the w-ar, and that it will vir
tually destroy the Government at Washington.
But we think differently. The federalists are
not without their hope. Too much caution
and prudence cannot be practiced by the South
to hold the vantage ground she has obtained.
But we have confidence in our leaders. They
have proved themselves men of might both in
the field and in the cabinet. All honor to the
leaders of the armies of the South—and to the
noble and gallant soldiers under their command.
We learn that Col. Cleburne’s Regi
ment is stationed near the Missouri line, at
Camp Yell, in Randolph county. Our latest
dates from the Rector Guards are to the 21st
inst. The Des Arc boys were all well. On
the 19th several companies of the 1st Regi
ment, accompanied by Col. Cleburne, made a
trip ir.to Missouri about thirty miles, to a
place known as Reeves’ Ferry, where there
were about five hundred abolitionists assem
bled. On the approach of the Arkansas boys
the enemy took to their heels. Some fifteen or
twenty horses and mules, some sheep, and near
se\enty head of beef cattle were captured and
brought into camD bv Cni.
men. They also brought in seven prisoners.
Reeves’ Ferry has been a rendezvous for the
Lincolnites for some time, and several seces
sionists have fared roughly at their hands. It
is said their leader, a St. Louis Red Republi
can, either hangs or shoots every Southern
man that falls into his hands. We are pleased
to learn that Col. Cleburne’s Regiment have
been placed in the lead. They are worthy of
the post of honor.
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3“ W. G. Brownlow, editor of the Knox
ville (Tenn.) Whig, runs up to the head of his
paper the following Union Ticket: “For Gov
ernor of Tennessee—William H. Polk, of
Maury. For Congress, First District—-Thom
as A. R. Nelson, of Washington. Second
District—Horace Maynard, of Knox. Third
District—George W. Bridges, of McMinn.”
^ These men, it will be rememberdtfr, are can
c.Ma.cs ^or toe Lincoln Congress, and not that
of the Confederate States’ Congress.
Confederate Congress.—The proceed- 1
ings of this body, which met at Richmond on '
Saturday the 20th instant, are given as follows j
in a dispatch to the Augusta papers :
Richmond, July 20.—Congress rnet at noon
to-day; but few members are absent. The Pre- l
sident’s Message, with the accompanying doc- ,
%ments, was read, and five thousand copies
ordered to be printed. No other business of *
importance. E
§3* A Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Exchange, writing under date of
the 17th inst,. giyes the following: “Thepris- c
on here is full of soldiers and citizens, most *
of the latter being arrested on charges oftrea- j
sofi. It is rumored that General Mansfield c
wiil use the old capitol building as a military
prison.” J
3- The Boston Post says : “Trade is noth-1 1
ing at all, except in war provisions and mate
rials. Distrust hangs over commerce in gen- °
eral, and no one desires business, inasmuph as b
>/e kjj0wr*hot whom to trust.”
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We learn from the Fort Smith Times
and Herald of the 17th, that the Texas regi
ment would arrive there on the 23d inst.—
There are about five hundred beside the regi
ment coming as independent companies—ma
king in all 1600 men, with a large park of ar
tillery. They are well mounted. The same
paper of the 19th say:
A letter received here yesterday evening
from Capt. McIntosh, says that there are
about 10,000 troops concentrating at Sprintr
field, Mo., and that they are fortifying the
place. Gen. Lyon is there in peorson. We
are to have hot work in Southwest Missouri,
and if the Federalists get the upper hand in
numbers, we expect that Arkansas will soon
be invaded. There should be at least 20,000
troops under Gen. McCulloch; and if he is
not fully sustained in his present movement,
the entire South must suffer. Send him armed
men, at once.
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Harper’s Weekly—Incendiary Sheet.—
The proprietors of Harper’s Weekly, in their
lust for gain, have grossly caricatured the South
and published infamous pictures of a “slave
auction,” and other scenes, which of course
were all false. The following from the New
York Evening Day Book of the 16th furnish
es fit subjects for Harper’s pen. Will they
copy any of these, or stand rebuked :
Thus, if Harper’s Weekly got up a picture
from British alm9 houses, scenes taken frrm
the three millions of worn out and mangled
wretches in the prison palaces of England, in
contrast with another from a Queen’3 draw
ing room, there would be sense in it, however
repulsive. Or scenes at the Five Points, or
still better—if this war goes on—scenes of
the unemployed poor in contrast with Fifth
Avenuedom and the fashionable churches
would be sensible, and would show how aw
fully man had perverted the designs of omni
potence, for He sent them into the world like
and equal.
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Don’t Write Gloomy Letters.—Those
who have relatives or dear friends in the army
ought not to write gloomy or discouraging let
ters to camp. The soldier has food for sad
and gloomy fits, in his own quiet meditations,
without being assisted by despondent missives
from home. Write the soldier cheerful and
encouraging letters. A letter from home pas
ses the rounds of the camp, and if its tones
are bright and chee:ful it puts a pleasant hue
on all. If you feel sad, don’t write at all,
rather than write in a sad strain.
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The Blockade.—Bacon is selling in Cin
cinnati at and 7',c.; lard at 8@8£c.; and
no demand; and bulk meats at 3^4ijc.—butter
7@10c. As the South can get along pretty
well, at least without suffering, with her pre
sent supply of bacon, lard and butter,— p:ay
which side does Lincoln’s blockade injure
most—ours or his ?
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The war loan in Illinois, Mr. Lincoln’s
own State, has turned out a perfect failure.
The commissioners got no bids they would ac
cept, and the negotiation has been necessarily
abandoned for the present. We should like
to know how Mr. Lincoln expects to get the
four hundred million which he calls for to
subjugate the South, when his own State refu
ses to lend a dollar for the prosecution of his
unholy war.
The Flag oe Truce.—The New York
Tribune credits the statement that the dis
patches brought under a flag of truce by Lieut.
Col. Taylor, from President Davis, referred to
the Savannah privateers, and says:
We see no reason for concealing it any lon
ger that the flag covered a long argument on
the subject of privateering, and a threat of
retaliation in case the pirates ofthe Savannah
or of any other vessel were hung. Toward the
end of the document there was some allusion
to a proposed exchange of prisoners, but its
burden was piracy.
For what reason a dispatch of this charac
ter has been so sedulously kept from the coun
try is inexplicable to us; but this is not the
only secret which gets to the enemy long be
fore it reaches the cars of loyal citizens.
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The Real TsAiroRs.-The Concord (N. H.) j
Standard holds the followin'? lansruaffe:
The real traitors who are responsible for
the disruption of the American Union and
the present civil war, are Wm. H. Seward,
Abe Lincoln, Hannibal Hamlin, Charles Sum
ner, Henry Wilson, John P. Hale, &c. They
have accomplished the disastrous result by
preaching Abolitionism, denouncing union
with slaveholding, and offerin'1' in Congress
petitions for (he dissolution of tiie Union. If
there are any persons in this country, who de
serve the doom of traitors, they are these au
thors of our national calamities. And if this
war continues three years, they will be oblig
ed to flee their country or receive a traitor’s
fate. They have misled and deceived the peo
ple to the ruin of the country. And when the
reaction takes place, as it surely will, popu
lar vengeance will seek them for punishment.
When disaster ancj suffering pervades the
North, as they certainly will; when the peo
ple cry out under the burden of taxes and
iebt which this war will force upon them,
hen will come the day of reckoning for the
eat traitors—-the political demagogues—who
ire the authors of the nation’s calamities.—
Hence their superhuman efforts to crush the
<outh before the reaction takes place. But,
hey cannot evade their accountability to God
md the people. If the war continues three
'ears, the men we have named above will be
ugitives in foreign countries.
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ol. Kane, Marshal of Baltimore, has
een indicted for treason. R. H. Mitchell, and
5. Welsh Owens, both of the same city, simi
arly indicted, had given heavy bail to appear
t the November term of the United States
'ourt. and were released.
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Chief Justice Taney.—The London Tel
graph speaks of Chief Justice Taney as “a
lan to be ranked with the class of illustrious
Americans who are authorities even in our
wn courts.”
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The following dispatch from General |
Ieauregard to his wife at New Orleans,
fliich we take from the Delta, afterthe model
f Cffisar’s veni vipi vioi :
Manassas. July 18, 1861.—The enemy has
een repulsed. I am well.
G. T. Beauregard.
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Pre-Emptions on Swamp Lands.
Having been written to on the subject, we
made enquiries of the proper officers and ob
tainedcei tain information concerning pre-emp
tions, which may be of interest to some of our
readers.
The ordinance of the convention adopted
May 2?, 1861, has the following sedtions:
Sue. 19. Be it further ordained, That no
public sale of swamp lands shall be made be
fore the first day of October, A. D. 1861.
Sec. 20. Be it further ordained, That where
proof of pre-emption rights have not been
made, pre-eraptors on swamp lands shall make
proof on or before the day of public sale, and
upon satisfactory proof being made, the State
land agent shall give his certificate, which
shall state that the pre-emptor has proven a
pre-emption to the tract of land therein men
tioned, which certificate may be transferred
by assignment, indorsed thereon, sealed and
acknowledged by the assignor.
Sec. 2i. Be it further ordainad, That pre
emptors, their heirs, executors, administra
tors and assigns, may make payment for such
lands on or before the first day of January A.
D. 1863.
Sec. 22. That in case of a claimant of a
pre-emption being in the military service
of this State or the Confederate States, the
proof may be made by others than the pre
emptor.
Sec. 23. Be it further ordained, That all
laws of this State, not inconsistant with this
ordinance, regulating pre-emptions, are here
by continued in force, and this ordinance may
be altered or amended at any regular session”
of the General Assembly of this State.
These, obviously, refer only to swamp lands
which have not yet been offered at public sale.
Where the land has been offered, the pre-emp
tor has a year, from the date of filing his dec
laration, to pay for the land. In other words
pre-einption rights to offered lands are not
changed or affected by the ordinance.
The fifth section of the ordinance referred
to, says :
“AH the swamp lands which have been lo
cated, or reported as such to the proper au
thorities of this State, and which have not been
confirmed by the commissioner of the general
lanH ofiirp. nrul flip nnfhrwifiao of
Wash ington, be, and the same are hereby deem
ed to be fully confirmed and this confirmation
shall have the same effect as though said lands
had been patented to tbe State of Arkansas,
except all those tracts or parcels of land that
were sold by the registers of the several land
offices of the United States, to any part or
parties whatever, who shall be entitled to
their patent deeds for the same.”
It will take some time to make out lists of
these lands and have them compared with the
registers of sales in the several land offices..
When it is done a large quantity of the best
lands will be brought into market. It is not
probable that the sales of these lands can be
-made until next spring. Of the lands hereto
fore confirmed no sale can be made until next
October. Pre-emp‘ors in the Batesville dis
trict have until the day of sale to make then
proof, and until the first of January, 1863, to !
make payment for these unoffered lands.
When the lists heretofore referred to are
completed, it will c’ose up the selections of
swamplands. Pre-ernptors on these lands
will have until the day of sale to make proof
and payment.— [Little Rock True Democrat.
Those Kentucky Arms Secured.—We
conversed yesterday with an officer from
Union City, who confirms our account of the
success of the Kentuckians in obtaining the
arms and munitions of war from Mayfield._
The Kentuckians were kindly treated by the
inhabitants of Mayfield, who rejoiced that the
arms had fallen into the hands of them that
would use them against the tyrant usurper._
The successful party returned to the Tennes
see line Sunday morning with 800 rifled mus
kets and their accoutrements, four six pound
er brass cannon and two twel ve-pounder how
itzers. In addition to these they obtained a
large quantity of ammunition. They assert
that if Old Abe’s minions want them back
they must come after them.—[Memphis Ava
lanche 23d inst.
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d^A letter from Fort Pickens says that the
Biitish war vessels have engaged all the coal
to be had at Cuba, and that it will be impos
sible now to keep the United States vessels in
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(&r W learn from the Charleston Evening
News that, in consequence of the scarcity of j
silver change, the State bank, on the loth i
inst., issued a large number of notes of the
denomination of fifty and twenty-five cents.
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£3?“ I ho Shreveport Southwestern learns
that many offers have aliendy been made to
deliver corn of the growing crop at fifty cents
per bushel. Iso evidence of starvation in this.
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1ST All the steamboats that now trade be- j
tween Baltimore and other parts of the State,
go out and return with an armed guard pro
vided by Gen. Banks, that the French ladies
deputed by Jeff. Davis can’t capture them.
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Waking Up.—The fact is, our government
must, to the utmost of its power,stop all com
munication by writing or otherwise, between
the two sections If we have traitors among
us, let’s institute means for finding them out,
and when found out, give them quickly a pass
port to that country ‘-from whence no traveler
returns.”—[Wetumpka Spectator.
Arkansas Congrkssionai. Districts.--The
recent Convention divided the State of Arkan
sas into four congressional districts, and an
election is to be held in each district on the
6th of November, 1861, to elect a member to
the Congress of the Confederate States.
The counties of Benton, Washington, Mad
ison, Carroll Newton, Crawford, Franklin,
Johnson, Pope, Marion, Searcy, Van Huron
and Conway, shall constitute the first congres
sional district.
The counties of Scott, Polk, Sevier, Yell,
Montgomery, Pike, Hempstead, Lafayette,
Columbia, Ouachita, Clark, Perry and Hot
Springs, shall constitute the second congres
sional disstrict.
The counties of Pulaski, Saline, Dallas, Cal
houn, Union, JefFerson, Bradley, Drew, Ash
ley, Chicot, Desha, Arkansas and Prairie, shall
coustitute the third congressional district.
The counties of Fulton, Izard, Randolph,
Lawrence, Greene, Independence. White, Jack
son, Craighead, Poinsett, St. Francis, Crit
tenden, Mississippi, Monroe and Phillips,
shall constitute the fourth congressional dis
trict.
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Synopsis of President Davis’ Message.
Richmond, July 20.—My inaugural called
i attention to the causes which formed the
Southern Confederacy. It is now only nec
essary to call the public attention to such
facts as have occurred during the recess and
to matters connected with the public defense.
I congratulate Congress on the recent acces
sions to the Confederacy of free and equal
sovereign States. Ithas been deemed advisa •
ble to remove the several departments, with
their archives, to Richmond, to which place
Congress has already removed the seat of gov
ernment
After the adjournment of Congress the ag
gressive movements of the enemy required
prompt and energetic action. The accumula
tion of the forces of the enemy on the Poto
mac sufficiently demonstrated that his efforts
were directly against Virginia, and from no
point could the necessary measures for her
defense and protection be so efficiently direc
ted as from her own capital.
The rapid progress of the last few months
has stripped away the veil, behind which the
real policy and purposes of the Lincoln Gov
ernment had been previously concealed. They
are now fully revealed. The message of their
president and the action of their congress du
ring the present session contirms the intention
of subjugating the seceding States by war, a
folly which is equalled only by its wickedness
—a war which, while it cannot possibly at
tain its proposed result, will inflict its due ca
lamities upon us, but will also fall with dou
ble severity upon themselves.
Commencing in March last with an affecta
tion of the ignorance of the Secession of sev
en States which had organized a Confederate
Government; persisting in April, in the ab
surd assumption of the existence of a riot
which was to be dispersed by a posse comitn
tus. In the succeeding months there were
false representations that these States intend
ed an offensive war; in spite of conclusive ev
idence to the contrary, furnished, as well by
official action as by the basis of our Consti
tution.
The President of the United States and his
advisers, succeeded in deceiving the people of
these States into the belief that the purpose
of this government was not peace at home,
but conquest abroad—not the defense of her
liberties, but subversion of the United States.
A series of inancevres, by which a false
impression was created; the acts which were
devised, and the perfidy by which they were
executed are already, known. Could it be
supposed that they would make their success
openly a subject of boasting and self-laudation
in the message of their executive ? Fortunate
ly for the truth of history, Lincoln’s message
minutely details the attempt to reinforce Fort
Pickens, in violation of the armistice, of
which he confesses to have been informed,
only by rumors too vague and uncertain to
attract attention.
The hostile expedition dispatched to supply
.Fort Sumpter, was admitted to have been un
dertaken with a knowledge that its success
was impossible; the sending of a notice to the
Governor of South Carolina of the intention
to use force to accomplish this object; and
quoting from his inaugural, that there would
be no conflict unless those States were the ag
gressorsjhe proceeds to declare that his prom
ise in the past, as well ss for the future, was
the performance of this promise, which could
not be misunderstood. In defiance of his own
statement that gave notice of the approval of
a hostile fleet, he charges these States with
being assailants of the United States. The
world cannot misunderstand this unfounded
pretence. Mr. Lincoln expresses concern that
some foreign nations so shaped their actions
as though they supposed there would probably
be an early destruction of the Union. He
abandons further disguise, and proposes to
make the contest short and decisive. Even
the increased force demanded by these enor
mous preparations was a distinct avowal that
the United States had engaged in a conflict
with a great and powerful nation, and were
compelled to abandon the pretense of disper
sing rioters and suppressing insurrections, and
were driven to the acknowledgment of the
Union being dissolved. They recognize the
separate existence of the Confederate States
by the interdiction of an embargo; they block
ade all commerce between the two. and thus
repudiate the foolish idea that the inhabitants
of the Confederacy are still citizens of the
United States, they are now waging an in
discriminate war upon the Confederate States,
with a savage ferocity unknown to modern
civilization. i
Mr. Davis compares the present invasion to
that of Great Britain made in 1781, which
was conducted on more civilized principles.
Mankind will shudder at the outrages com
mitted upon defenceless females by those pre
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horror with which they regard deliberate ma
lignity, which, under the pretext of suppress
ing insurrection, makes special war upon sick
women and children by carefully devised mea
sures to prevent their obtaining medicines ne
cessary to their cure.
I he sacred claims of humanity are respect
ed by all nations even in the fury of battle.
By a careful deviation they at ack hospitals,
now outraged by a Government which pre
tends to desire to continue paternal connec
tions. Such outrages admit of no retaliation
unless the actual perpetrators could be cap
tured. 1
Mr. I aylor’s mission to Washington was to
propose an exchange of prisoners taken on the
privateer Savannah, and to inform Mr. Lin
coln of a determined purpose to check all bar
barities on prisoners of war, and by such re
taliation to effectually put an end to such prac
tices. Mr. Lincoln promises a reply,but it has
not yet been received.
In reference to the peculiar relation which
exists between this Government and the States
usually termed Border Slave States (which
cannot properly be withheld from notice) the
hearts of our people are animated by sen
timents towards the inhabitants of these States,
which found an expression in your enactment;
rei using to consider them as enemies, or to
authorize hostilities against them—that a
large portion of the people of these States re
gain us as brethren, if they were unrestrained
by the actual presence of large armies, by the
subversion of civil authority and the declara
tion of martial law, some of them, at least,
would joyfully unite with us. They are, with
almost entire unanimity, opposed to the pro
seciition of the war waged against us. In fact,
or which daily occu: ring events fully warrant
the assertion that the President of the United
States refuses to recognize in those of our late
sister States, the right of refraining from an
attack upon us, and justifies his refusal by the
assertion that the States have no other power
than that reserved to them in the Union, by
the Constitution; no one of them having ever
been a State out of the Union. This new
Constitutional relation between these States
and the general government is a fitting intro
duction to another assertion of the message,
that the Executive possesses the power of sus
pending the writ of habeas corpus and dele
gating that power to military commanders at
discretion, and both these propositions claim
a respect equal to that which is left for the
ad ILtional statement of the same paper, that
it is proper, in order to execute tt^e laws, that
a single law, made In such extreme ten i
of a Citiien’s liberty, that practical!* •
lieves mdre of the guilty than of the 1 11 r,“'
should, to a very limited extent, be y''l?C('nt>
We may well rejoice that we haver ^
severed a connection with a government^®1'
thus tramples on all the princinles n tha
tutional liberty. ' 1 '-°nsti
Our operations in the field will be
extended by reason of the policy wbirl7i!at,y
tofore has been sacredly entertained k re*
now avowed and acted upon. The ’ TT • *
States force# hitherto raised have mm.i'
pie for defense. pl0Ve«* am
The seven States which originally ar* ■
ed a Confederacy; with the exception
fortified islands, whence the enemy h - n®
driven completely out. In those States*"
at the expiration of five months frorti the f *
mation ofthe Government, not a shwle h„ y?,N
foot presses their soil. Our forces, Chow°S ' ®
must necessarily prove inadequate to rene?^’
vasion by half a million of men. now nronl1"]
by the enemy. If , err.,,,ttj!
ot our forces becomes necessary, abunH*,?
crops will sustain us, the most aK
known in our history. Many of our
believe the supply equal to 'two years’ cot
sumption Our citizens of every condition
life exhibit their devotion by manifesting
laudable pride in upholding their indepe'pd*
ence, unaided by any resources other th
their own; and the subscription to the l0,a"
proposed bv the Government cannot fall si]0".
of $50,000,000, and probably will largely ei.
reed that sum. °
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letter from E. E. Dunlap.
Memphis, July 15, 1861.
Dear Morrii.l:—I cannot complain or
blame you for having published an account of
the intended negro insurrection in the vicini
ty of Hickory Plain; though it was greatly
to my injury, and by no means beneficial to
Southern interests—showing our weakness to
our enemies.
Your friends and patrons I presume desired
it, without thinking of the private or general
injury it might do.
Being one of your patrons, and having right,
life and liberty to protect; I feel it my privi
lege, if not my duty, to write to you, touching
the subject, as I am still pressed by the twenty
four gentlemen, (in part at least,) to move mv
negroes. When really they have placed it out
of my power to do so, in consequence of the
publication. Where they are, the circumstan
ces, facts and example are known and felt—
hence, there they are not feared, but pitied,
while in other localities I would not be per
mitted to bring them.
As to negro insurrections,from the beginning
to tlie present time, no harm has ever been
committed after the plot was discovered. That
the negroes were not planners—that plans
were not perfected—and that ammunition,
guns, rilles, or other weapons were not found,
the proof all show—but that they were the
ignorant dupes of white council, is shown be
yoi d controversy. The proof in the case w s
ot three kind-; 1st, voluntary, 2d, under the
lash, 3rd, leading questions. The first admis
sible; the second and third discarded by all
Courts of Justice.
The twenty-four gentlemen, composing the
Committee, ordinarily, are first rate clever
gentlemen, and are certainly my friends, hav
ing never wronged a man in that country,
neither in person or property. But 1 think
they are pursuing me with too much severity
have permitted their undue excitement to get
the better of their judgments.
Great God ! why, anything further, after the
scenes of the terrible Friday, when God in
his wisdom seemed to frown upon the haste.
Such an example terrible in itself, is certainly
sufficient lor an age to come in that region.
1 have no feelings of enmity, and desire none,
but think it time to reason, having enough al
ready to regret. In all such things cooler
moments will discover things to deplore.
All insurrections have been mixed with
facts and falsehoods--guilt and innocence.
I claim nothing, desire nothing, ask notli
ing, save the rights of an American citizen,
in I. —1—1 . I'l r i • » .i e
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rnan. When 1 perish by abolition hordps, or
other violence in the protection of my rights,
I will surely die with the consciousness of
right on my side.
War news favorable, particularly for your
section. Some forming, some ordered, and if
necessary, all will go from here. Calm tbe
public mind and parepare them to hear of re
peated victories that will perch upon our ban
ners, under the lead of such Generals as Mc
Culloch and Hardee, with their invincible
officers and troops.
The people of your State should occupy a
position free from alarm, so far as they are
immediately concerned. As invasion under
such circumstances seems impossible, should
they attempt it, which I think quite improba
ble.
Messrs. Thomas and Reinhardt, agents for
your county, to buy arms, ammunition, 4c.,
were rendered every facility. Seeing thecbief-S
hearing from all quarters, and finding it im
possible to accomplish their mission, left
means with me to do so, in the event an op
portunity presented. Ammunition in the war
department here, I cannot buy, as they sup
pose. I can buy unglazed powder, smutty in
ferior looking, at $20 per keg, and shot at $3
Shall I do it, just as soon as it lands, unless
instructed differently.
Respectfully, &c.,
R. K. DUNLAP
Memphis, West Point, Jacksanport and
Pocahontas Packet,
COL. MORGAN.
J. H. QUISENBERRY...,,.Captain.
d^a-1 THIS fast and reliable
‘steamer will make regular
through trips from Memphis to West Point,
Augusta, Jacksonport and Pocahontas, arriv
ing at Des Arc from Memphis to-morr°'V'
mencing on the 28th inst.
All orders entrusfed to tpe care of the
Morgan will receive prompt attention.
(HT For freight or passage apply on board*
July 27, 1801—tf.