Washington telegraph., 1865-12-06


people, it becomes our duty to condemn in nm
measured terms the tyranny and usurpalisn that
has long held sway in our beloved State, and
which has placed the iron heel of oppression
upon her already ruined and impoverished ci6-
| zens.
Hence it is that we feel no hesitancy in hold
ing up before the people for their censure and
reproach, would be aspirant to political pow
er. who. has recently inflicted an act of wrong
and injustice upon the people of our State, more
| unjust, more cruel and more intolerable than any
mandate that ever emarated from the throne
o. Russian Car. ana whose hands are yet
stepped with the blood of his counnymen,w whose
voice yet pleads their eternal destruction, and
the cynosure of whose ambition is the rusn Of
arkansas -s--- 20. .t t.-.-r
While the great lumiusry of our political sky
sheds the lustre of its smtcLectuat light, upon
.he desecrated walls ef our State Capitol, and
the lesser satellites continue to move in their
respective orbits around its majestic throne, a
cursory glance at this planetary system will en-
able US to discover that the constellation was in-
complete until another star whose briltiancy
peared in the galaxy of our $50 called" STATE
Government. Another clog is added to the
wheels of government. Another stumbling
block toreconstruction has reared its gorgon head
Another stepping stone is added to the pile for inn
beciity TO ascend the throne of anarchy. An
other emissary of Pari tanicsl fanaticism, has
stepped into the political arena, linked hi Cor.
tunes and his destiny with tho Murphy Usur-
Patien, and Dlasys bis appointed part with uu-
wonted Inalignity. -l ..rs.
But who is hei Ec.e home! The chivalric.
ths patriOtci the intensely loyal; the rabid; the
blatant" the minute CAN'T. Does be de-
serve the epithet! Yea more, Language fails
10 furnish US the means of expressing our faint
oucep;isn Of the wrongs. injuries and mis- or
tunes that he has brought upon cur poor down
! trodden, unfortunate aud afflicted land To
whom can we attribute, more thai to him, tn,
ioul disaster of war which has swept over thr
country ike an Angel of d inolition, and letI
This fruitful, fowery land, once as bright anu
beautiful as the fields of the Tempean vale, ID
wilderness ef woe, desert of destruction; con
secrstrd by the blood of its sons and watered
by the tears of its maidens 2 Whose clan OIL
tongue invoked the bloody hand of Mars to un-
sheath the sword of civil war, and sever tn,
| GorGian knot that held these sovereign States
tcgetherl Whose voice was raised throughout
The State,to str up the bitt erness of adverse en-
nifty that had slunlbered for years in the breasts
of the psoplel Whose soft mcllifuous words
| flow ed from his lips like melted streams of Hy-
| blean honey, to wSter and nourish his lsns-
| cherished scheme OF Secessionl And finally who
helped to inveigle the people of Arkansas int
bloody and disastrous war, lent them his smiles
and cheers until they had crossed the fatal Hell
lespont and their boats were burned behind
| hem, when conquer or die was their only
| nope, baseiy abandoned them in their darkest
hour, and fed to lie Capitol at Washington.
implored and obtained elemeney and pardon al
the hands 0l his victor, and left his victimized
countrymen TO mourn over the hopeless coudi-
ton of the land, aAd weep fer the degradation
| of their former Ieaderl
But this Is no, all he has done The vial OF
his wrath was not yet expended. Citizens OF
Arkansas, you who have nourished this Wiper
in your besOms; who have carried him to your
hearth-stones and warmed his mercenary life
into existence, ard who once encilcled his IN
grateful brow with the wreaths of Congress
ional honors, Haark his ingratitude! Behold the
crowning act of his infamy. In compliance
with the wishes of that august embodiment and
exponent of governmental imbecility, and politi-
cal chicanery, he assumes the garb of embassa-
dor, and arrayed in the panoply of illegitimate
authority, proceeds to Washington and informs
(misinforms) President johnson that Murphy'S
GoUcrnment tcas arorhing ,ceH o. wnat an
-gregious wrong is here porpetrateJ upon the
people of Arkansas o! what an irrepara lie
Injury is here inflicted upon the land. We may
as well attempt to tathom the measureless depths
of the ocean to calculate the results OF SO in
furious statement and so false representa-
ton. 1t Will require a convention of the whole
people, when every mans voice can be heard
to controvert TIE falsefer's malignant and un-
Jus: statements. That convention has been cal
led and will assemble next Monday; when an
accurate statement of all the facts will be laid
before the President, and we think we will be-
relieved of this intolerable incubus.
Will hi wrath against The people who have
festered and fed him, never be assuagedl The
sorrow and anguish of distressed parents; the
sobs and sigh5 Of broken-hearted sisters; the
cries of the destitute widow and the tears of the
helpless orphan, thought enough to move
the meanest heart to pity; but no; the manacles
of tyranny and The calling chains of despotism
must be forged and fastened to the limbs of the
people, before his anger is appeased and tn,
goal Of ingratitude reached. The blast Of his
0ugle is heard calling for the enslavement OF
free-born citizens OF America Far up his rocky
hei shts, inaccessible the foot of Inan the Vul-
leasts upon infant child.
Let him sing the song OF his triumph. What
triumph! Has The treason Of hrnoid a triumph
Ii so, wonderful has been the achiey m-nt OF he's
triumph. Does he play the syeophant 10 Mu.-
phy 10 obtain fame, honor or distineliOnI Ii h
does, we would advise him to srek it elsew her,
and remember that "the post OF homer is pri-
vaIe station
U The negIses-ah! We beg pardon-th.
freedmen from the country contiHle to 'roi.
into town" in uuiiraiu shed uumbe and ,.y