The Van Buren press., 1868-09-11
|" Higher Civilisa.ien ,t-Rallroads.

hAaISas' bl lhe way, Us 10 sad luau-
gur;i ifa school boy of sixteen summer,
could not, hsckhanded, write abcttcr one.
he ought TO be school buttered' from
one end of the land to the other. Higher
civilization, forSoVih from the cogtrsrc
of the monkey African, the scallawag.
the adycnturer, the fugitive who ' lctt his
country for his country's good ~ Ar
kansas who has names among her annal,
in war. in law, in letters, in culture, in so
cial refinement, surpassed by no State
verify, lmpudence aud Insult could 90 NO
further than has this blatant usurper. lie
who could achieve no distinction in hi.
native cline, if he bad such, and steal,
distinction in another cline, to talk of
"higher civilization" God deliver tn,
people of Arkansas, and all other people
from such civilization. But perhap.
usurper Clayton was slightly mistaken
in his orthography perhaps he intended
to write hire civilization. Men like him
think they can hire everything; honor
decency, letters, religion, even the Savior
They are to be bought: they suppose all
are equally purchasable.
Before the advent of the Radical scum
in this State into power, they promulg
ed extensively as TO what they would dc
for Arkansas, morally, religiously, intel
lechlally. They took curious set in
their Legislature to do these great
things-men who were neither moral re.
li9ious, nor intellectual, a iabble made uf
Of scalawags, blacks, reneaades and
loafers. They knew only one thing, were
adopts in one only art-they could steal
could get hold of the peoples money by
slight-ol-hand. Such as they, promised
that there should be church on every
hilltop, a school in every grove, that
steam cars should be frisking before every
mans door, and that everybody" loil'
body-should be so rich he would own
a bond and so escape taxation
What have they done? Appointed q
set of school officers. Superintendent
and assistants, the lirstOf whom get $1,000
per annum, each of the others 50, 800 pei
annum, an aggregate of S2S,O00 per year
"a set ofpartizan officers, perhaps " bag,
gers" perhaps beggars, men incompe.
tent to do ought than the dirty work OF
their party, to regulate education That's
what they've done for schools People
of Arkansas, tax payers, how do YOU like
this part of Clayton's " higher civiliza.
ton = BY the time you have paid this
1~enty- Etght thousand dollars, by the
time you have paid your tax to build ne
gro school houses, pay negro children
teachers, support negro daddies aud man
mics who superintend their brats' educs-
ton, how much money will you have il,
your pocket, and how many of YOUR chill
dren will be educated ? So much for
Powell Clayton's, the usurpers, " higher
civilization" " ...r
As to the churches, it is hardly time to
say anything-only there are several hill
tops in the State where the Radicals have
not built any. Never mind; wait till
they've elected Grant and then they'll
show You; they'll control and tax your
conscience then take tthes from YOU for
the support of the one true catholic Rad
ical church, and you will be compelled to
worship God according as they shall die
tate Just wait til they've elected Their
n,an aud they'1l chow you all aiJout tnc
rights of conscience, and levy S2S,00O
per annum on you to pay their priests
If You don't believe this, go and ask
lIutchison, chaplain to the "4th Arkan-
sas," the man who wanted to pray for
Mrs. Seth Howell when they burned her
feet, and he'H tell you
Now rs to what they have done for
Railroads They have done better than
was expected; no better than they ought
to have done, nasmuch as they were an
illegal body Of men voting away money
of the people towards which they paid no
tax. But they have done very well here
that is, they usurped control of the State
the people could do nothing, and they,
this scalawag Legislature" did, for O
marvellous wonder, do what the people
of Arkansas wanted done. They are en-
titled to no credit therefor, and it is, per.
haps, the only act Of theirs that will not
be hereafter, and soon rejected by the
people, We are glad they did what they
did, and be still more reioiced when capi
talists take hold and go to work as they
now will, even should the scaawags here
after try to relssll their acts. The Road
now will be built
But as the scalawags are so cautious
about appropriation ofthc peoples mon
cy, and after voting aid to the Railroad
yet left it to the vote of the people for
ratitication--why were they not so scru-
pulous in some other regards rs TO the
taking of the PEOPLES MONEY? Why did
not Usurpcr Clayton say something on
this head Why did not the scalawags
learn it to the people whether they were
entitled to per diem before the admission
Of Arkansas, if, indeed, they were entitled
to dollar? Why did not Usurper Clay
ton leave it to the people before he drew
his salary as " Governor from the 2nd
of April last, when he was only inaugu-
rated early in JulyY Why did he not
ask the people, the tax. x.paycrs of Arkan
sas, if he was entitled to this 1900 ode
dollars, ere he put it into his pockets
Surely, both were not entitled But that's
higher civilization SO far as Usurpei
Clayton is concerned, that phrase means
putting money into my pockets.
W.
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.E' We find the following notice Of The
murderer John Collins, and history Of hi
previous character, in the Scarcy Recorder