The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1868-12-22
OUR CONDITION,

OUR CONDITION. @ H
General GRaSr is to be the President
Of these United States from March 4th,
1869, for four years. This is conclu7
sion, by gone, and none can successfully
resist it. To this the people of the South
have made UP their minds, and do not
propose to precipitatc themselves into
troubles, vast, Unreasonable and fruitful
in disastrous results. AS Democratic
people the Southern States aequiesce in
the avowed voice Of the majority of the
Electors. Whether this conclusion has
been arrived at by fair means or foul
makes little difference. Cayilling is of
no avail 1t is consummated, and for
veal or woe, nationally, the die is cast
The usurpations of Congress are fully en-
dorsed by the people. We are slow to
believe that Congress Will follow ont their
destructive doctrines to their fullest, le
Ultimate extent Yet wcnccd not be as
tonished at anything. Separate State
sovereignty has been pronounced By the
people Of the North 70 he "a, ,s','s a''a an
s-.a, 80 upon the Federal Constitution,
not be long 50 sre sst4i syi 1s| concern
ing the future of our national existence
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and while thcyerdict of the people may
have pronounced against separate State
sovereignty, yet without the States there
can be no Union. and SO lonelas States
are preserved the United States is pos
sibility, while without them the United
States is al impossibilityss Itlba,ooves
all good citizens to look to it, that their
States arenot demolished, and their State
Governments destroyed, by high handed
measures, inaugurated by would be Gov
errors and petty Military Carpet Knights,
The people of Arkansas were fully pre-
pared to accept the situation and acqui.
esce in the election OF Grant. The coun-
try was as quiet as usual; civil law as
fully and faithfully administered; all was
profound peace, yet upon apretext, and
without awaiting the action of the civil
authorities, our Governor sends forces
into one Of our counties and brutally
murders two or three of her best Citizens.
This is done" said he, because life
and property was not protected by the
civil law!' In the name OF reason, does
he propose to protcct'lfc and property
by the destruction aftohp Such Is the
course pursued by his minions Happily
this state of things promises not to last
long-and CArrERsoS, the hero ofCentre
Point is soon to return to the bosom of
his friends, at the Capitol, to be .tetea aud
rewarded as the great General of the age
whose boast'isa log fertilization, built
TO prevent the attack Of men who fed be;
fore his bloodhonnds, wholly unprcpared
for such an INVASION; and not even advis,
ed Of the proclamation Of Martial law in
their county Bravo! my bold soldier
The thanks ofthc present and future gen |
Grafton are due you for the able manner |
In which YOU protected life and proper,
IT," BY such outrages our sister State of
Tennessee, undcr the counterpart OF
CLAYTON, has been completely rutacd--
her finances gone and her credit wholly
destroyed And alike fate awaits Arkan
sas, II our Governor does not soon'have
q lucid interval, God grant It may soon
como, for we cannot endure much and
live as a State Reconstruction laws,
however unconstitutional they may be
are not half 50 fatal as internal disease
and corruption. No State can long sur
yiyc IL. Ours cannot be an exception to
his rule A meeting is to be held in
Little Rock, on the 9Th of January, and
We trust something may be done to bring
ll,out n hqffpr state OF tIlinpa