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P. O. Box 480040, Linden, Alabama 36748
From our county commission to the U. god with top secret emails and the direc-
S. secretary of state, we have seen the tor of the FBI said no reasonable prose-
Kenyan administration administer tribal cutor would bring charges. American
law in America. lives were in the veins of those emails.
Freddie Armstead was caught on video
stealing cars but the district attorney
allowed the local grand jury to hear a
plea that this old man didn't deserve to
go to prison over some old cars.
It was not said nor did we see any
record of it, but knowing what we know
about the Kenyan administration and the
political corruption is spreads and know-
ing how the Department of Justice oper-
ates and bows to pressure, and having
seen and heard how the Kenyan King
complains about how half the population
of America's prisons are people with at
least 10% negro blood in their veins,
then we deduce that if it walks like and
amuck and quacks like a duck, it must be
duck. ,-
There were American lives ignored in
Benghazi and she she smirked, "At this
point, what difference does it make?"
Folks this is the democratic party's
way of life in America, tribal justice.
Civilization is diminished when the
ruling class is not punished for crime. In
fact, this is the same way unciv'dized
tribes in Africa still run things.
In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the
French people finally revolted against
this kind of justice.
They put Marie's head on the guillo-
tine and chopped it off.
We would applaud the top chop of
Hillary.
We don't want to eat her cake.
America will revolt, although cir.
Hillarv Rodham was caught playing
State troopers who patrol our high- again.
ways and county to,ads are scarcer today Our radio scanner has a constant
than they have been, especially if you stream of reports of drivers speeding or
count the number of drivers on the roads driving erratically. Local police or
today, deputies take care of these.
With fewer troopers patrolling, there Our laws require troopers write up
seems to be fewer fatal wrecks in the wreck reports, especially the ones with
state, fatalities.
What causes fatal wrecks today is tex- In the absence of a trooper, this
ring and talking on cell phones, over- responsibility could be transferred to the
drugged drivers (legal and illegal), late sheriff and his top deputies. How to
night driving, speed, and some alcohol- change the protocol in Alabama is a
related collisions, mystery. Even the FIB top dog says he
What prevents fatal wrecks is the can't recognize crime any more.
wearing of seat belts. Even seat belts Black Belt Alabama deputies are
can't prevent some deaths in crashes smarter than he, so let them write wreck
with big trucks, reports and tickets if necessary.
Many young drivers who have Deputies don't want this responsibility,
matured behind the steering wheels of though. The sheriff has to run for re-elec-
their cars are instinctively safer drivers tion and this may not be good for him.
than the very young and the very old. Alabama has the personnel. All that is
They have skidded off the road a time or needed is a change in protocol, regula-
two, bumped another car, or even rolled tions, and a little training and the prob-
over. When they wake up and find their lem of waiting on a trooper is absolved.
passenger dead beside them, they are To answer this question is to save
changed forever. If they wake up dead, Alabama a lot of money and make the
they won't ever bother the rest of us highway safer.
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Rept~er. Periodicals postage paid at D :mopolis, Alabama.
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Send Your Letter to E O. Box 480040. Linden Alabama 36748
Jail is filthy, musty, not fit for me
Dear mr. Goodlne Sutton. (murder) (no rope) (no robbery) (Sail) In 3-1-16 got ouT may-21.
I'am Johnny Crocker, they (no felony) That Jail is nasTy when I went To Sail I weight
puT me in That nasTy and and filThy you can caaqT (155) when I got OuT I weighT
filThy Jail. Because I owe for anyThing any disease, when (140). I dont Think I deserve
(Amenn) my sons well men one GoT ooT I has aTheleles Foot. That PunishmenT. And
is 31 years old and The other 34 Gout And Among oTher Thing. someThing else The Plumbing
years old. One work aT The oil That I dont want To Think about, dontT work.I really Be died
company and The other one is a I have nighTmare All The Tune. Than To go Back That is (Hell
manager AT WalmarT I have when you geT sick The double Hell)
Two (caand kKid) one 3 year the (Jailon Cast you ouT Because Sincerely your
other is 18 years old. They donT Care They half feed Johnny Crocker
That Jail is not FiT For me I you. no clean(Linden) or Towell 2002 James Dr
have noT did no (crime) no no nothing, when I wenT To Demopolis, Ala36732
for first touch of Fat
I have a little path across the at the end of the path. As a child looks for, hopes for,
mad from my house in Sweet I sat there for quite a while and searches for every sound
Water, where, on a good day, I hearing the birds sing and the and sight that brings the long
get my walking cane and walk squirrel chatter, awaited-- for thing, I, at last, in
down to the little branch of Pleasantly seated, I got my delicious joy, detected, discov-
water, cane and started back up to the ered, and rejoiced at that long
As I feed all animals, there are house, where all my cats met awaited for sign of someflfing
coon tracks, deer and turkey me. wonderful and yet mysterious. It
tracks, this is my pleasure. I stoppd and, revising my was at its earliest and possible
That hot summer afternoon in head to savor the aroma of pine conceptiorr--a touch of fall.
late August, I was very tired needles and look at a few pretty Joy Brycin
from my little walk (83 years leaves falling. Nieholesville Rd
old) so I sat down in an old chair I was there when it happened. Sweet Water, AL 36782
OLD TIMES BY THE LATE JOEL D. JONES
O c4 tna.t.v I aUSHm MARCH 27,1941
Union soldiers continue robbing
Southerners in Marengo County
C. C Clay, Jr., son of Governor C. C. Clay,
was born in Madison County, Ala., in 1817
and was graduated from the University of
Alabama in 1834, and in 1853, he was elected
to the United States Senate and re-elected in
1859. In April 1864, he did some secret diplo-
marie working in the British pray'races of
North America, returning in January 1865.
When the armies of the south surrendered,
Clay started on horse back to Texas, but went
to Macon, Georgia, instead, where he learned
that he was charged with complicity in
Lincoln's death and surrendered to federal
authorities. Confined in Fortress Monroe for
12 months without a heating, he was constant-
ly abused and when released was in bad
health. He returned to Jackson County, Ala.,
and turned to planting for a livelihood. ,
General John T. Morgan, on attempting to
resume his law practice, found his office at
Cahaba closed by the post commander. He
procured ground nearby, hitched his war horse
to the plow and with the aid of his little son
dropping the seed, prepared
to make a corn crop. It
was not long before a per-
mit came to him to open
his office for practice, but
in Alabama courts only. A
formal permit from the
President or an act of
Congress must be
obtained to allow practice
in the United States courts
by a rebel. So the matter
stood for several years.
One day while this great
lawyer sat at his desk
where he labored, a mes-
senger boy brought in a
telegram, which was
from Senator George The ate
Goldwaite, asking per- Joel Desaker Jones
mission to offer a bill to
remove Morgan's disability to practice in the
federal courts. His reply to the telegram was,
"I shall accept no favor from the United
States," He said, "It will be time enough for
me to be relieved, when my brethren of the bar
get relief."
General Morgan won immortality in the
United States Senate, undoubtedly his work
there, the generation length in greatest work of
any senator. In the senate General Morgan was
unusually active and served on several impor-
tant committees. He secured important inter-
nal improvements for Alabama and battled
long and persistently to aroUse Congress to
the importantance of an isthmian canal across
Nicaragua. He served as a senator from 1876
to1907, 31 years.
General John B. Gordon was also a great
senator, he was born and reared in Georgia. He
lived in Jackson County several years, where
he was engaged in coal mining. He recruited
one of the first companies in the county to go
to the war, the "Raccoon Roughs." He entered
the sixth Alabama infantry regiments a major,
and was rapidly promoted on up to General,
and was wounded at Sharpsburg.
At the close of the war, the industries of the
south were prostrate, the banks out of busi-
ness, farm wagons were worn out, farm imple-
ments had been lost in the building of army
fortifications, farm animals had gone to the
war or ceased to be of service, ditches were
closed and no tools to open them, the steamers
on the rivers needed repairs. Still, when the
Confederate armies surrender, they would
come home to find a great abundance of assets
to restore every industry. This would have
been tree if the terms of surrender of the
Confederate armies had been faithfully loved
up to by the conquerors. This was not done,
for example, a planter between Linden and
Demopolis stored 150 bales of cotton under
shelter on his plantation. Fifty bales of this he
had subscribed to the Confederate cotton loan.
The government claimed the assets of the
Confederacy. The military at Demopolis, sent
wagons to the plantation and no objection was
raised by the planter to the seizure of the
bales, although he yet had the Confederate
cotton bonds that he had accepted for the par-
ticular cotton. With the wagons came an agent
of the Bureau, at Demopolis, with a printed
form of contract in his pocket, and asked the
• planter toexecute the contract, for labor of, his
. former slaves yet on his plantation. The,nature
of the contract, was that the planter had to feed
the labor, and pay them for their labor out of
produce from the farm. Having succeeded in
getting the contract executed, carried away the
50 bales of cotton. Then returned with a bunch
of his armed military men,
loaded the remaining 100
bales on wagons, carried it
off and left the planter pen-
niless, with him between
one and two hundred
negroes on his hands with-
out means to feed or pay
them.
It was believed that after
20,000 bales of cotton were
burned at Selma, April 1,
1865; 80,000 burned a day
or two later at Montgomery;
20,000 at Columbus soon
after, all owned in Alabama,
and thousands burned on
plantation, yet there
remained on plantations
over 300,000 bales. Three
hundred thousand bales of
cotton in 1865 put on the market was worth
forty-five million dollars net.
It was difficult to imagine the limit of the
benefit which would have accrued to the state
had the terms of the surrender been adhered to
by the United States and the vicious role of
tyranny never applied.
If the cotton stolen by the invaders had been
left with the owners, not only would agricul-
ture have been restored, but great investment
in industries would have followed.
Carpetbaggers and scalawags would have
sunk their diminished heads below the current
of prosperity that would have forced good
government into power.
The grand jury of Greene County indicted
Lt. Benjamin Ratz, who was in charge of the
United States army, of troops then infesting
Eutaw and Greensboro, for stealing cotton
from William Shaw's plantation he was also
indicted for stealing Crawford's plantation. A
petition was sent to the governor asking him
to have a regiment of negro troops moved
from Greensboro, of which Ratz was in
charge. Ratz, and his gang would steal cotton
and deliver it to white men which were in
league with them, and the white men would
deliver it to citizens who might be depended
on to sell the product for a share of the profit.
A large number of citizens of Demopolis
sent forward a petition to the governor, pray-
ing his intermediation to have the troops
removed from the post at Demopolis. They
were idle dissipated, and destructive. They
corrupted the negroes on the plantation, urg-
ing them to steal cotton..