Washington telegraph., 1855-07-18

S0s~~AtS q Soi'Sstoo0chCS oStoccu ts1e OOf-
ernor. and Col A. b. Rutherford, State
Treasurer. in relation TO the number of
State bonds that have been cancelled and
filed by the Receivers of the two Banks
with that ofhcer. aud also. in regard to the
present condition OF the Safe Treasury.
That correspondence wss evidently IT,
tended on the part of the Governor, TO mis-
lead the people, and to claim for himself a
credit to which the facts of the case in no
way entitle him.
We are pleased to see that those having
charge of the assets of the two Banks, have
been enabled to collect from the debtors OF
those institutions the sum of seress hundred
ard forty one thousand dollars. and that
the State has been relieved of her indebt.
edness to that amount. But, we would ask
what possible agency Gov. Conway had in
the matter We would be gratifed to be
pointed to any recommendation or message
of his that caused this result
There can be no question that large
amount of these bonds have been in posses
sion Of the Banks for some time, and the
mere act of cancelling them and filing them
with the Treasurer. in accordance with the
requirements of law, is very small item in
the affair The attempt to manufacture CAP
ital for Gov. Conway out of a matter of this
sort, is not only ridiculous. but shows the
extremes to which his friends are driven to
sustain him.
We are also grati6ed to learn from Col
RUTHERFoRD's letter, that there is a suffi.
cient amount in the Treasury to redeem the
outstanding scrip. and to pay. promptly. the
current expenses of the government This
is the legitimate result of wise revenue
laws, faithfully administered; but is Gov
Conway the author of our present revenue
laws? or did he appoint the officers who ad-
minister them? Has be, by any recon-
mendation of his, produced any reform in
the revenue laws of the State. or any re-
trenchmen; in its expenditures If so, as
we are disposed to dc justice to every body.
We would be glad if the editor of the True
Democrat would point it out to us. We
frequently hear of Gov CoNwAY's State
policy, and Roswell BEEBE's we'll digest
ed system of finance; but what they are we
are at loss to determine, having never
seen either of them in print.
That the State of Arkansas will. in course
of time. pay her Indebtedness and build
Railroads. we sincerely hope and confident
ly believe. But that she will ever do the
one by any policy recommended by Cover
nor CONWAY, or the other under the well
direeted financial system of Roswell BEE
BE, we have. as yet. not the irst particle Of
evidence to induce US to- believe
We hope the Governors friends will cease
their attempts to impose upon the credulity
of con6ding people, by claiming for him
that to which be is in no way entitled. To
reward faithful and efficient public officer
by due appreciation Of all bis labors for
the public good, is proper and right. but to
bedaub with indiscriminate praise, every
act of one, whose whole course, in the esti.
nation Of large portion of the people, ha.
had direct tendency to retard the State
in her progress to improvement. is wrong
and culpable In addition to this, when il
is attempted to claim for his administration
results with which it had nothing to do. and
thus TO blind the people to its true merits
it becomes highly eensurable. and should
be at once. discountenanced and rebuked.