{"id":84554,"date":"2020-11-01T02:09:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T07:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=84554"},"modified":"2020-10-09T00:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T05:46:05","slug":"vigilance-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/vigilance-committees\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigilance Committees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Little Rock] <em>Old-Line Democrat<\/em>, November 1, 1860<\/p>\n<p>State of Arkansas,}<br \/>\nCounty of Greene.}<\/p>\n<p>On this 10th day of October, 1860, at a regular session of the County Court of Greene county, Arkansas, it was brought to the notice of the County Court, that the property of our citizens was daily endangered by the acts of unknown persons, who have in the course of a few weeks past, stolen and conveyed off a considerable amount of property in slaves and horses; as the officers of law, have as yet, been unable to discover traces of the persons who are committing said depredations\u2014It is, therefore, recommended to the citizens of the different townships of this county, that they organize Vigilance committees to ferret out the perpetrators of these above cited acts, and also to detain and examine all suspicious characters, who may be going about without any ostensible business, and make them account for their presence among us; and that the following persons be requested to act and take the lead in the formation of said Vigilance committees:<\/p>\n<p>Chalk Bluff Township.\u2014A. M. Boyd, Wm. Liddell and H. W. Granade.<br \/>\nConcorde Township.\u2014F. S. White, E. M. Allen and W. R. Kibler.<br \/>\nBradshaw Township.\u2014Henry Holcomb, Watson Forest and T. Dalton.<br \/>\nUnion Township.\u2014A. H. Davies, T. H. Wyse and J. B. Williamson.<br \/>\nSt. Francis Township.\u2014J. C. Graham, J. W. Knight and A. Strickland.<br \/>\nCache Township.\u2014G. B. Croft, J. R. Grambling and S. Willcoxon.<br \/>\nSalem Township.\u2014J. Lamb, J. S. Anderson and Wm. C. Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>And that the Little Rock <em>Old-Line Democrat<\/em> and Pocahontas Weekly Advertiser, be requested to publish the above Resolutions, and request other papers to copy; and that the same be spread upon the records of this court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Thomas Clark, Judge,<br \/>\nTrue copy: Geo. Leech, As&#8217;t. J. W. Rogers, Assistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Little Rock] Old-Line Democrat, November 1, 1860 State of Arkansas,} County of Greene.} On this 10th day of October, 1860, at a regular session of the County Court of Greene county, Arkansas, it was brought to the notice of the County Court, that the property of our citizens was daily endangered by the acts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/old-newspaper-thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}