: Let Us Have Peace Remarks of Logan H. Roots on the Assassination of Hon. James Hinds Delivered in the House of Representatives Washington D. C. on Friday January 22 1869. by Roots Logan H Logan Holt - Hinds James 1833-1868

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"LET US HAVE PEACE!"

REMARKS OF LOGAN H. ROOTS, ON THE Assassination of Hon. James Hinds, DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, D. C., On Friday, January 22, 1869.

WASHINGTON: 1869.

REMARKS BY HON. LOGAN H. ROOTS.

MR. SPEAKER--

The sad subject occupying the attention of this honorable body is one that bears upon my mind with peculiar force. I was personally acquainted with JAMES HINDS during a busy portion of his eventful life, and it was in the district that I have the honor to represent in which he met his terrible death by political assassination.

Only twenty years ago JAMES HINDS was a fatherless, penniless lad. But so determined was he to acquire knowledge that he attended school when he only did so by hiring a room, doing his own housekeeping, and working enough beside outside of school hours to earn the means of paying for his school expenses and daily living. Such earnest perseverance created success even under the most lowering clouds of adversity.

Traveling by such rugged steps he did not come upon the stage of manhood a mere hot-house production of opulence, but an earnest, laborious youth, gradually developed into a self-made, self-reliant man. Experience taught him to never wait for the coming of success or friends, but first make success, and then friends would come. His nature and training alike rendered it equally impossible for him to play sycophant to the rich or oppressor to the poor. His warm sympathy with the oppressed and downtrodden touched a responsive chord in men's hearts that returned him in a remarkable degree the affection of the masses. The humblest and most friendless loved him without fear of being repulsed, and learned to regard him as their especial champion.

When the great struggle came between human oppression and the nation's life, he was at once found positively on the side of his country, and he went forth to do battle upon the side of loyalty, of freedom, and justice to humanity.

It is now, though, nearly four years since the happy moment arrived when he considered the struggle ended. We all proudly felt that henceforth free speech and free men were to be as universal south of Mason and Dixon's line as they long had been north. It was at that happy period that Mr. HINDS was allured by the genial clime and inviting features of the Southwest to make his home in Arkansas, and engaged in the practice of his profession with an assiduity that received merited success.

Alas! it was not long until the fact was developed that the fierce fires built on human oppression to destroy and keep destroyed the relations of the State to the nation were not extinguished, but only smoldering; compressed and changed, but not abated. When this fact was developed, and the question arose as to whether or not Arkansas should make an effort to regain her lost sisterhood in the great family of States, notwithstanding the odium and dangers with which those who had severed the State from her proper relations cast about such a course, JAMES HINDS became an earnest advocate of her return to the loyal household. Elected to the Constitutional Convention by one of the largest majorities in the State, he soon became recognized as one of the prominent leaders, and to him the humble, toiling citizen of that State owes a debt of gratitude he can never repay; for in the construction of the fundamental law of the State he was most active in the introduction and riveting of those points which are barriers of protection for the many weak against the few strong, and for the securing to the humblest all the rights of citizenship granted to the proudest.

After the adjournment of the convention and the submittal of its work to the people, he was elected by a remarkably large vote to a seat in this body, and even in the brief period of his presence here he exhibited a lively interest in the welfare of the State and indefatigable efforts to promote her good without failing to strive for the greatest weal of the whole nation.

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