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THE FARMER'S SONG.
A life on my native soil—
A home in a farmer's cot—
I'll never at labor recoil,
I ask for no happier lot.
The town has nothing to charm,
With its turmoil and noise and strife;
Oh ! give me a snug little farm,
With a kind and notable wife.
Chorus —A life on my native soil—
A home in a farmer's cot—
With my faithful team will I toil,
And ask for no happier lot.
Gee up ! —gee up !
Gee up, gee up, and gee O!
On my native soil I stand,
'Midst blossoming fields around ;
While the air is pure and bland,
And the hills with herds abound ;
The river is flowing by,
The song of the boatman we hear;
And the laborers, how they ply,
While echo sends round their cheer !
How cheerful it is.to view
Whole valleys of waving grain,
And the husbandman's jovial crew,
With sickies prostrating the plain;
O, the song of my heart shall be,
While earth her lich product yields,
The life of a farmer for me,
A home in the forest and fields !
& Select £aic\
THE DEAD SHOT.
A Tale of Texan Border Life.
PART 11.
One day we had all turned out for a
ceer drive. This hunt, in which dogs are
used for driving the game out of the tim
ber, scatters the hunters very much ; they
are stationed at the different 'stands,'
which are sometimes miles apart, to watch
for the deer passing out; for this reason
the party seldom gets together again un
til night. We divided in the morning, and
skirted up opposite sides of a wide belt of
bottom timber, while the 'drivers' and
dogs penetrated it, to rouse the deer,
which run out ori either 6ide by the stands,
which were known to the hunters. We
were unusually successful, arid returned to
a lar e dinner at our host's the planter's
house. By dusk all had come in except
my friend, whose name was Henry, an!
a man named Stoner, one of the neighbors,
who had joined our hunt. Dinner wa9
ready, and we sat down to it, supposing
they would be in, in a few moments. —
Ihe meal was nearly over, when Henrv,
woo wai a gay, voluble fellow, came bu-t
--ling into tbe room, and, with a sligbllv
flurried manner, addressed our host :
'.squire, this is a strange country of yours!
Do you let crazy people range it with
guns in their hands ?'
'Not when we know it. Why ! What
about crazy people ! You look excited.'
'Well, I think I've had enough to make
me feel a little curious.'
'What is it? What is it V exclaimed
everybody, eagerly.
'Why, I have met with either the Old
Harry himself—a ghost—or a madman; ■
—and which it is, lam confoundedly puz
zled to tell !'
•Where? How?'
Ha threw himself into a chair, wiped
tbe perspiration from his forehead, and
continued; —'You know Stoner and my
self, when we parted from you all this
morning, took up the right-hand side of the
bottom limber. Well, Stoner accompa
nied me to my '6tand," where we parted ;
fie to go on to his; and I have seen nothing
of him since. Soon after he left me, a deer
passed out—l shot at it wounded it—and
jamped on my horse to pursue it. The
deer had staggered at my fire, but wa9not
so badly wounded as 1 supposed, and led
foe off, until it suddenly occurred to me
that 1 might gel lost, and 1 reined up; but
1 soon found that this sober second thought !
M come too late, and when I was already i
out of my latitude, i wandered about near- j
v ail day, though taking care not to go very !
11 one direction, before I carne across
4iiything which promised to set rne right |
a gin. 1 at last came upon a wagon trail, I
4!| i felt relieved, for I knew it cnust take j
me to borne point where I could get infor- !
'"atiori. The trail was narrow, leading
tough scrubby thickets; and I WJS riding
fc "h;' 1 )w!y, looking down ; in the hope of
i:,: *".iog ihe tracks of some of your hors- !
"■> when the violent shying of my horse
( ,M, J me to raise iny eyes. And by
" : ' r ge !it was eoough to have Stamped'
(> f horses ! On the left of the I
stood a very tail skeleton like figure
in skins; one foot advanced, as
" ''c lud stopped in the act of stepping
r / * 't, and a long heavy gun, just swing
| ''Uvvn n, the level bearing on me. Of
'ny heart leaped into my throat,
111 y fl.'sli shrank and crept. Before
IPXEnSJF'IPIjiIS) JIST3) TinTr ©T!B® , T? ,
I could think of raising my gun, ny eyes
those of ihh strange figure; and such
eyes! Surprise at tl.eir cold, unnatural
expression, suspended my action; burning
with a chill of singular biilliaucy, in deep
sunken sockets, they looked as if they
never had winked. JDwtllmg steadily up
on my face for a moment, they seemed to
be satisfied, and the gun was slowly thrown
back upon his shoulders ; and plucking at
a long grisly heart!, with an impatient
gesture of his bony hands, the figure made
a stride across the trail, and without speak
ing a word plunged into the thicket. I
was so confounded by his curious dumb
show, that he was concealed in the brush
before 1 found my tongue to shout to him
to stop ; but he kept on, and I lost sight
ot him in a moment, and whether he can
talk at all or not, is more than I can
tell?'
'Did you look at his feet, Henry?' inter
rupted one of the party. '1 expect it was
old—'
'Never mind what you expect—hear
me out,' he continued. 4 I followed the
trail, which wound about, it seemed to me
towards all the points of the compass, for
an hour or more; whpn at last n led me
out into a prairie, which I thought I recog
nized. I stopped; and was looking around
to make out the landmarks, when a horse
with a saddle on burst from the woods be
hind me, and tore off across the prairie,
as if he too had seen the devil.'
•What color was he?' exclaimed half-a
dozen voices in a breath.
4 He was too farofffur me to distinguish
more than that he was a dark horse—sav
about as mine. I could distinguish the
pummel ot the saddle and the stirrups fly
ing !'
'Stoner's horse was a dark bay,' was
buzzed around tiie table in low tones,
every one looking seriously in his neigh
bor's face.
'Yes!' said the Squire raising and step
ping uneasily to the window. 'Stoner's
horse was a good deal like yours; he must
have got away from him, and that is what
detains him. But then the nag was a very
kind creature, and well trained. I wonder
it should have behaved so !'
'Don't believe 'bay' would have dor.e it'
Squire,' said one of the men. 'Something
gone wrong, I think ! Was the bridle
down, Mr Henry ?'
'lt was too far off for me to tell. 1 fol
lowed in the direction the horse took, and
soon found myself here, and expected to
find it here too!'
'iNo ! Stoner's is beyond here,' said the
Squire. 'That wagon hail you were
turning and twisting about in, is a road I
had opened to a number of board trees,
we cut and rived out there; you might have
followed it for hours and not been more
than a mile or so from the p'aceyou start
ed from. 'I hat ghost of yours, by-the
way, may be some crazy fellow, who has
wandered c If into the se parts, with mischief
in hi in ! Did you hear no gun V
'I thought 1 did—about an hour after
parting wuh that man, or devil, or what
ever he was—but the sound was so faint
and distant, that for fear I miht he mista
ken, I did not go to it; and the road had
turned so frequently, I could not tell
whether it was in the direction he went off
or not.'
Here the " driver" interposed, saying
that he had heard a rifle about that time
on the right, but supposing it to be Henry
or Stoner, be thought nothing of it. And
a half-laughing discussion followed as to
the probable character of the wood-ghost
Henry had reported of —some asserting
that he was quizzing us, for these men
were too much accustomed to the exigen
cies of a hunter's life to be for more than
a moment seriously affected by the cii
cumstances of non-arrival. In
the midst of this, a horse's feet were heard
galloping up to the door, and a loud "Hal
loo!" followed. The Squire rose hastily
and went out. In a moment al'tei he en
tered, looking pale and excited.
' Tom l>ix (one of &tonr's neighbors;
says that his horse has come home without
a rider, the reins upon his neck, and a
clot of blood upon the pummel of the sad
dle ! Boys ! he's been shot! Just as 1
expected from the first.*
Every body rose at this announcement
—looking in the face of hi in opposite with
a blank pallid stare.
' The crazy man !' ejaculated several.—
•Strange!'—'Very mysterious business!'
said others.
4 1 tell you what,' said the Squire after
a pause, ' has struck rne from the first. It
is that this strange looking fellow Henry
saw, mistook him for Stoner, until he look
ed into his lace, for Henry's horse and gen
eral appearance are not unlike his—and
when he found that he was wrong, got out
of the way and went on till he met Stoner
himself, and has shot him!'
' No doubt of it !' said several.
1 But it's a very mysterious alfur,' con
tinned he—' I know of no such looking
man HI this region us Henry describes ; but
at any rale he will be hunted down to-rnor
row, for Stoner was one of the Regulators,
and flinch is a perfect blood-hound I He
can hardly escape him crazy or not
crazy "
This seemed to be the most satisfaclory
solution of the difficulty, and us it was too
dark for us to do anything that night, we
resumed our feats to discuss over again
these details; while the Squire sent off a
messenger summoning Hindi and the Keg
' ulators to bo on the ground early in the
1 morning !
Before sun-rise in the morning, flinch
arrived with six men. 1 was waked by
his loud blustering and swearing. He was
ravmg, as I atterwards understood, about
Henry ; calling Ins story about the meet
ing with tbe remarkable personage—all
humbug—and asserting his belief that if a
murder had been committed, Henry was
its author.
Our host quieted him in some way, and
when we came out to join them he greeted
us with a snarling sort of civility. He was
a thick set, broad shouldered, burly looking
wretch, with blood shot eyes, and face
hearing ail the marks of riotous debauchery !
Our search was for several hours entirely
unsuccessful, until Henry by accident found
the place lie had encountered the Bearded
Ghost as some one christened him. Hero
one tf the keen eyed burners found the
traces of a large moccasined foot. These
were pursued for several miles and lost,
but on spreading our line and continuing
the same general course for some distance
farther, we at last found indeed the body of
Storier! It had been so much mutilated
by the wolves and ravens (hat l:ttle exami
nation was made of the bones. We gath
ered them together to carry them home to
his family, and in doing this I noticed the
Iracture ola bullet through the back of the
skull. It had been stripped bare of flesh,
and both eyes plucked out by the birds,
and was too shocking an object for close
examination. But what puzzled all parties
most was the discovery, a short distance
off, of the trail of a shod horse. Now,
there was perhaps not a horse in Shelby
county that wore shoes, and certainly not
one in ourparty. Shoeing isnever thought
of, being unnecessary where there are no
stones. This was as perfect a pozer as
even Henry's story, and threw yet a great
er air of inexplicahdity around the affair !
It was thought this track might he traced
to any distance—hut after worrying about
it for several days, it was given up in des
pair and the Regulators, fatigued and dis
heartened, scattered fur their respective
homes.
But one of their number never reached
his. Being missed for two (lavs, there
was a general turnout to look for hi in ; and
as had been the case with Stoner, his
body was found torn to pieces by the
wolves, 'i he report was, that he too was
shot through the back of the head.
These murders, and the singular circum
stance accompanying thcin, created great
sensation, if inch and his troops scoured
the county in every direction, arresting and
lynching suspicious persons as they called
them. One poor inoffensive fellow they
hung and cut down four or five times, to
make him confess; but nothing was elicited ;
and they left him with barely a spark of
life.
That evening, as they were returning
to their head quarters at the store, one of
them named Winter, missed a portion of
his horse furniture which had become ac
cidentally detached. He said he had oh
seived it in its place a mile back.—that he
would return to get it, and rejoin them at
the store, by the time itiey should be rea
dy to commence the spree they had deter
mined in going into that night. He left
them and never returned, 'l'bey soon got
drunk and did not particularly notice his ab
sence until some time the next day when
his family, alarmed by the horse returning
with an empty saddle, sent to inquire af
ter him. This sort of inquiries had come
to be so significant of late, that they
were instantly sobered, and mounting r.ide
back on their trail. Y ery soon a swarm
of buzzards and wolves, near a line of
thicket ahead, designated the whereabouts
of the object of their search; and there
they found his fieshless bones scattered on
every side. They were appalled. The
reddest-bloated cheek among them blanch
ed. It was terrible ! They seemed to be
doomed ! Three of their r umber dead and
torn to pieces within ten days, and yet not
the slightest clue to tbe relentless and m
visible foe, but that ghostly stoiy of Hen
ry's, and the tracks which only served to
tantalize them ! It must be some dread
supernatural visitation of their hideous
crimes! They shivered while the great
drops started from their foreheads, and
without looking for any trail, or even
gathering up the bones, they started back
at lull speed, spreading tbe alarm every
where. The excitement now became uni
versal and tremendous. Nearly the
whole country turned out for the purpose
of unravelling this alarming mystery, and
the superstitious frenzy was iri no small
degree heightened by the report, that this
man had been shot in the samo way as the
others, —in the back of the heud !
These incidents were all so unaccounta
ble, that I own I felt no little sympathy
with the popular associations of a super
natural agency tn their perpetration. —
Henry laughed at all this, but insisted
that it was a maniac; and to account for
the peculiar dexterity of his escapes and
whole management, related many anec
dotes of the proverbial cunning of madmen
—the wildest, most absurd, and incredi
ble stories were now afloat among the peo
ple concerning this deadly and subtle foe
SATURDAY, JIM 21, 1*49.
of ihe Regulators, for it was now univer
sally believed and remarked, that it was
against them alone that his entnity was
directed. The story of Henry was great
j ly improved upon and added to; and, as
some reports had it, the Madman,—as
others the Bearded Ghost, was seen in
hall a doz'*n places at the same time, —
now on loot, stalking with enormous
s rides across some open place from thick
et passing out of again before the
observer could recover from his surprise;—
then mounted, he was seen flying like the
shadow of a summer cloud over the prai
ries, or beneath the glo mi of forests, al
ways haggard and lean, dressed in skins
with the hair on, and that long, heavy,
terri L. e rifle on his shoulder ! I noticed
that there was only one class of men who
ventured to assert that they had actually
seen with their own eyes these wondeiful
sights, and that was constituted of those who
either had suffered, or from their character
and pursuits, were most likely to suffer
persecution from the Regulators— the class
ot hunter emigrants. '1 hese men were
most industrious in embellishing all cir
cumstances of character, feats, and relent
less hatred to the Regulators, as highlv as
the excited credulity of the public would
bpur. I hey never saw him except in the
vicinity of the homes of some one of these
hated tyrants. In their versions this being
was forever hovering around them, wait
ing the moment to strike while they were
alone and far from any help.
They carried this thing so far as to at
tract attention to it, and arouse in the cun
ning mind ol Ilinch the same suspicion
which had occurred to Henry and myself,
namely that all this was the result of a pro
foundly acute and thoroughly organized
scheme of this class, headed by some man !
of peculiar personalities and consummate
skill, with the object of exterminating or
driving off the
possible, that, without collusion with many
others, the murderer should have been
able to baffle all pursuit. Hinch and his
band had been thoroughly cowed and awed;
but tbe moment this idea occurred to them,
the reaction of their base fears was savage
exultation.
Here was something tangible ; their oppn
and united force could easily exterminate
an enemy who had acknowledged their
weakness in resorting to secret combina
tion and assassination from 'the bush !'—
They forthwith proclaimed 'war to the
knife,' with the w hole class ; and during
the next week several outrages, so revolt
ing that I will not detail them, were per
petrated upon these men in different parts
of the country ; and the fact that, during
this general tumult, nothing was seen or
heard of the mysterious Rifleman, encour
aged them with the belief' that they had
succeeded in getting rid of him through
the intimidation of his confederates.
They had now been for nearly a fort
night in the saddle—had glutted them
selves with vengeance, and as they con
ceived, broken down this dangerous con
spiracy against their power ; and if they
had not succeeded in detecting and punish
ing, had at least frightened off their singu
lar foe. They now concluded, they might
safely disband. That day, after they s-p
arated, one of their number, named Rees
--almost as bad and savage a man as
Hindi himself—was riding past a thicket,
in sight of his own house, when he was
shot from it. His negroes heard the gun,
and seeing his horse galloping up to lhe
housa riderless and snorting wildly, they
then ran down, arid found him stretch
ed in the road dead. He teas shot, in the
eye, and the ball passed out at the back of
ins head.
When Hinch heard this, he returned
perfectly livid, his knees smote together,
and with a horrible oath, ho exclaimed,
It's Jack Long, or his ghost, by G— d !
cowie back for vengeance!' It was now
perceived, for the first time that all the
men had been shot through the eye, instead
of in the hick pnrt of the head, where the
ball had passed out after entering at the
socket. The other heads had been too un
pleasantly mutilated for examination, and
this fact had been before observed. Of
course every body was satisfied now that
ibis terrible being was in one way or ano
ther identified with Jack Long ; for the
nolori?ty of his favorite mark and his match
less skill instantly occurred to all, as ac
counting for much that was unaccountable
in these occurrences. Tins produced a
great change in public feeling. The better
sort began to conceive that they undersood
the whole matter. The lynching Jack
bad received was fresh in their memories,
and they supposed that its severity bad
shaken his mental balance and made him
a monomaniac, and that the disease had
endowed him with the marvellous cunning
—the staunch, murderous hate —and the
unnatural appearance, which had created
such sensations. They could not under
stand how a being so simple hearted
aud sluggish as he was reputed to have
been, could have been roused or stung to
such deeds by the mere depth and power
of his natural passions. But monomaniac
or not such a vengeance, and the daring
conduct of the whole affair, were very im
posing to their associations and preposses
sions, and they sympathised heartily with
him. It was only while the general un
certainty left eveiy man in doubt wheiher
his own person might be next the object of
this murderous aim, that the public were
disposed to back the Rangecs in whatever
violent measures they might choose to re
sort to, to drag the secret to light, and (lie
i actor to punishment ; but now that it was
apparent Ins whole hate was levelled
against the Rangers, and all that uncertain
ty was confined to them, be he devil,ghost,
madman, or Jack Long, the public had no
intention of interfering again. It was a
personal issue between him and them—
they might settle it bet ween themselves !
Indeed, men felt in their inmost hearts that
every man of the ten engaged in the lynch
ing of Jack Long deserved a dozen times
over to be shot; and now they looked on
coolly, rather enjoying the thing ,and earn
estly hoping that Jack might have the best
of it.
And of this there seemed to be a strong
probability, for the Regulators made only
one more attempt to get together; but ano
ther of their number being killed on his
way to the rendezvous, his body bearing
that well known arid fearful signature of
skill, the remaining five, perfectly unnerv
ed and overwhelmed with terror, retreat
ed to their houses, and scarcely dared for
several weeks to put their heads outside
their own doors.
The class to which Jack had belonged,
at least those of them who had managed to
keep a looting during tbe relentless pro
scription of the Regulators, now began to
look up, arid hinted that they had known of
Jack's return from the time of Stoner's
murder, and had aided and abetted his pur
pose in every way in their power ; furnish
ing him with fresh horses when the noble
animal he rode back from the States became
fatigued ; assisting his flights and conceal
ments, and furnishing nun with informa
tion, as well as spreading the exaggerated
stones about him. One bluff old" fellow
remarked :
' You are fools who talk about Jack's
being crazy ! He's as Calm and cold as a
frosty morning up in old Kentuck ; and his
head is as clear as a bell ! He's just got
tighten' and l ory halin' blood waked up in
! him by them stripes! That's blood you
know that's dangersomer than a catamount
J when it once gets riz!'
Jack was now frequently seen, but it was
known that his work was only half done,
■ and that he meant to finish it, and he was
regarded with great curiosity and awe.—
rhe five wretched men were entirely un
strung and panic stricken. They made
no attempt at retaliation, but all their hopes
seemed to lie in the effort to get out of his
reach. That long heavy rifle haunted them
day and night. They saw its dark muz
zle bearing on them from every bush,
through the chinks of their own cabins !
One of them, named White, who was
an inveterate toper, with all his terror could
not resist his inclination for liquor, and
j after confinement in his house of nearly
three weeks, determined to risk all and go
to lite store and buy himself a barrel. He
went in a covered wagon, driven by a negro,
, while he lay stretched on the bottom in the
straw. Thebarrel of liquor was obtained
he got into the wagon—lay down beside
it, and started for home.
All the way he never raised his head un
til, near the mouth of his lane, a log had
been placed on the side of the road which
tilted up the wagon in passing over it, so
as to roll the barrel on him. He forgot his
caution, and sprang up with his head out
of the cover to curse the boy for his care
lessness, and at that moment a rifle was
discharged. He fell back dead— shot thro'
the eye! The boy said that his master
suddenly cut short bis oaths, and exclaim
ed •There lie is !'—at the moment the gun
fired. He saw a tall man with a beard
hanging down on his breast and dressed in
skins, walking through the brush with his
rifle on his shoulder.
The next man, named Garnet about two
weeks after this got up one morning about
sunrise, and in his shirt sleeves stepped to
his door and threw it open to breathe the
fresh air. He whs then rubbing his eyes
being about half asleep ; and when he got
them fairly open, there stood the gaunt
avenger beside a tree in the yard—the fa
tal rifle levelled, and waiting till his victim
should see him distinctly. He did see him
—but it was his last look ! The bullet
went crashing through his brain too !
Long is said to have told one of his friends
that he never in a single instance shot one
of these men till he was certain the man
saw and recognized him fully.
All were gone now but Hinch and the
two youngest men of the party, Williams !
and Davis. The two latter were permit
ted to escape. Whether it was from re- !
ler.ting on the part of tiie dread avenger—
or that he had observed some trifling thing
in their demeanor on the occasion of the
outrage he was thus punishing, which com
mended them to his mercy, now that his
resentment had so deeply drank of the hit
ter delight of atonement —or that in his
anxiety to secure Hinch, he confined his
ellorts and watchfulness to him alone—
-1 do not know. They made a forced and
secret sale of their property, and cleared
out during the night. But it was for Hinch
ho had with passionless calculation reserv
ed the most inconceivable tortures. He
had passed him by all this time, while one
after the other he struck down the tools
and companions ol his crimes. He doomed
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him to see them falling around him with
the certain knowledge that the avenging
hate which slew them, burned with tenfold
intensity for his life—that it must and
would have it! But when would the claim
ibe made ? Should he be the next one ?
No! But then each succeeding death, so
I sure to take one of their number, drove
i away every sophistry of hope, and realized
to him in bare and sterner horror that his
I own fate was as fixed as theirs. As each
| one fell away the circle of doom nariowed
—slowly, steadily, closing in about him.—
. Soon there would be no one lelt but him !
flow could he call an hour his own ?
W hen could he feel safe ? That relendess
subtlety had baffled them all ! One, two,
' three, four, five, six, seven, strong men
had gone down before that fearful rifle—
every one of them, shot through the eye !
God of Heaven ! —and the sharp agony
would spangle keen points of burning light
through his brain, as if the ball were al
ready bursting through a socket! •! too
must be shot through the eye !' Horror !
—lt was worse than ten thousand deaths,
and he died them in lingering tortures told
over day by day.
From the time of Rees' death he looked a
changed and stricken man. In a few
weeks he had lost a great deal of his flesh
and became pileously haggard his eyes
and gait and voice were all humble. His
turbulent arid fierce animality faded before
the harrowing suspense of this fear. The
bully and murderous ruffian trembled at the
rustling of a leaf. His own imagination
became his hell—and hungry remorse
grew stronger and stronger with feasting
at his heart! He never left his house for
weeks, until the escape of Williams and
Davis inspired him with some hope. Ha
procured a fine horse, and set off one dark
night for Red River ! Every body regret
ted his escape—for men had looked in
quiet expectation upon the progress of this
affair, and in strong faith of the sense of
wild border justice would be gratified in
seeing this stern, righteous and unparalel
| led vengeance consummated by the fall of
Hinch—the monster instigator and chief
actor in all the grievous outrages which
had roused the simple hearted Long into a
demon-executioner of doom.
Hinch reached the bank of the Red Riv
er—sprang from his foaming and exhaust
ed horse, alter looking cautiously around,
and threw himself upon the grass to wait
for a steamboat. In two hours he heard
one puffing down the stream, and saw the
white wreaths of steam curling up behind
the trees. How his heart bounded!
Freedom, hope, and life ! —once more
sprung through his shrivelled veins and to
his hps. He signalled the vessel! she
rounded to and lowered her yawl. His
pulse bounded high, and he gazed with
absorbing eagerness at the crew as they
pulled lustily towards the shore. A click
—behind him ! lie turned with a shud
der, and there heicas! That long rifle was
bearing straight upon him—those cold eye 3
dwelt steadily upon him for a moment —
and crash ! all was forever blackness to
Hinch the Regulator ! The men who wit
nessed this singular scene landed, and found
him shot through the eye ; and saw the
murderer galloping swiftly away over the
plain stretching out from the top of the
bank ! And so the vengeance was consum
mated, and the stern hunter had wiped out
with much blood the stain of stripes on his
free limbs ; and could now do, what I wa9
told he had never done since the night of
those fatally expiated siripes, look bis wifa
again in the eyes, and receive her form
to rest again upon his breast.
It was an awful deed. In view of all
its circumstances, the provocation, the char
acter of Long, the deranging influence of
the outrage upon his brain, though no oth
er indication appeared of impaired sanity
—the mind is lost in uncertainty as to the
judgement which should be passed upon it.
He did not remain in Shelby county ; but
in what direction he had intended to go
after returning to Arkansas for his wife
and children, I could never hear. He ia
probably living now his old quiet and good
natured life in the heart of the green wil
derness ; and it is likely as not that one of
those two chubby boys who rolled with
him about the floor of his log cabin on that
memorable night of which I have above
simply related the events and the conse
quences, will some of those days come to
Washington from congressional districts
beyond the Rocky Mountains.
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