The Van Buren press., 1868-07-17

ter reciting the many imaginary evils
growing out Of y "rebellious spirit =
among The people, the able Governor pro-
poses to correct all this, although poor
Murphy and the gallant commander, with
their " limited means" could not cope
successfully with them. lie intends 10
effect this mighty revolution by filling
the offices, under his control, with men Of
fidelity, honesty, courage, frmness, and
all the catalogue Of virtues, except 81 con.
sistency," All this means that the men
Of honesty, courage, etc, belong only TO
the Radical party" A man may have
given aid and comfort to the rebellion,
but having joined the party" and bent
the knee to the Ethiopian god, he is all
right-honcst, capable, courageous, etc
One of the Supreme Judges, for example,
although the Board of Registration de
cidcd him unfit and unsafe as voter, be
comes charming subject for Supreme
Judge. The three hundred and one let
ters written by his trusting friends of
Fayetteville, 70 establish his loyalty to
the "rebcllion" are all ignored and 60
for naught. lie was forced. Forced
also to write To his friends in the South
after the federal occupation, that he was
a ngood southern" man and intended TO
make his escape as soon as opportunity
presented Another of the trust worthy
and "trooly loil' officers of the newborn
State, is to aid in the proposed reforna
ton, although he materially aided the
~ rebellion by seiziug the property Of
alien enemies" aud selling it for the
good ofthe Southern cause. Many Others
might he named but one sickens If
Murphy. the tool and victim, and the
epauletted sub commander.s the army
navy and militia Of the United States
could not protect life, liberty and proper
ty, can this be accomplished by the new
I ly fedged Governor, with such material
as the negroes have put together for him,
aided by the Ethiopian militia. Wewould
feel sad indeed did we not fully under
stand all such trash and poorly conceal
ed egoitism. The system Of education
contemplated by our admirable constl
tuition" is also to lend ahelping hand
The new plan compelling free white men
who happen to be too poor to educate
their children by paving, and not we'll e.
nough informed TO teach them at home,
to send theirsto school with negro chill
dren, is the contemplated system.
How this can be very efficient in restor
ing political and civil order, we confess
an utter inability to conjecture The
Governor concludes, " Permit me to ex-
press the hope that out Of the dark and
gloomy past Il brighter and better era is
dowaiag, etc. etc One that will excite
the admiration of the future historian
(if VIC have any history written, it is very
likely to be by 81 future" historian, +" as
he hands down to all succeeding ages
the glorious record Of people who Git
is hoped, also, that the said " ".tature' fel-
low, wont forget to "hand down" thi.
Inaugural Address with much suffer
ing and great sacrifice. made every insti-
tuition Especially the common school
system conform strictly to the great
principles Of Liberty and Justice (vot-
ing system for instancc) etc, etc, is the
humble supplication of
Yours truly, p CLAlToN."
The above quotation is merely given
to show how forcibly his Excelency pre-
sents the question ofthe great need Of ed,
ucational institutions in "his" State.