Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-17
ARKANSAS.
The Pictures Drawn by the New York
Tribune.

The New York Tribune says that trav-
el in Arkansas, exciting though it may
be, is not entirely unattended by dan
ger. if We may judge OF the country
from q travellers recent experience. Our
correspondent in the Southwest, whose
letter is herewith printed, relates some
movingincidents by field and rail, which
will revive the memory of stories of
American travel told in Martin ChUzzJe-
t0t. For all that, however, Arkansas
has many physical attractions for set
tiers, and we may be allowed to hope
that il will not always be as It is now,
"Ihe worst-governed Southern State"
| Contrast with the condition of Arkan-
sas, i've whose unfortunate property
holders the rule of the carpetbag has
prevailed, the condition of her nearest
neighbors, Tennessee and Missouri, which
were some time ago returned to the
government of their OWL people, white
and black. In each of the latter, prop
erty is secure, life is protected, material
prosperity is reviving, and, in the bless
ings of q liberty which embraces all its
inhabitants, each State is rapidly learn
ing to forget both the civil war and the
long blight of slavery which preceded it.
In unfortunate Arkansas property is not
secure, life is not protected, material
prosperity is not increasing, and the
luckless people, impoverished by the
war, have since been unable to make a
start again. Tennessee and Missouri
show the fruits of self-government, uni
versal amnesty, and impartial suffrage.
Arkansas shows the fruits Of carpetbag
government, prescription, and the policy
Of the Office-hOlders' party, which now
appeals for the reelection of its head.
The Tribune says of the Arkansas
troubles: People who live in old and
vel protected communities a hardly
understand such a state of affairs as
that which exists in Pope county, Ar
kansas. The recital of facts, furnished
ny a correspondent Of the Tribune, Is
calculated to stir the indignation of
every honest man. Here We ave a
county practically in a state Of siege. in
consequence of a determination of the
local government to find pretext for
Ihe declaration of martial law. The
modified force bill, which was whipped
through Congress at the close of the
last session, is not sufficiently Sc
we're in its provisions for the ex-
acting demands Of the military
ring; and Senator Clayton, who
is foremost in every INSCRIPTIONS
scheme for the benefit of the admins
%tration, is undoubtedly the iuspirer OF
this new plan to -cOerce the citizens of
Arkansas into the support of the wan
ing cause which he advocates. Hadley,
the acting Governor, came into power
through the success of the corrupt bar
gain which sent Clayton to the Senate,
thereby ~vacating the gubernatoTial
chair. He is therefore the willing CO.
adjutor and tool of Clayton; and the
narrative of the events to which we re-
fer shows him CONSTANTLY applying to
Clayton for orders and advice as the
dismal tragedy Of Pope county wears on
a catastrophe.
KUKLUX DODGE.
It became evident some time ago that
Arkansas was lost to the denomination
party, unless desperate means were
to u some unusual power
n the State. The old cry of "kuklux"
vas tried, but the people did not re-
,pOnd, for nowhere were there any
of the onee-dread Khan. Deter
mined, however, not to be turned aside
rom their plans, the Clayton ring went
INTO Pope county, where the settlements
are far apart, ald where lynch law was
a ready resort OF the inhabitants,
and there began a series of artful move
nents, designed to create the impression
hat that locality was infested with the
The evidence ON which de-
bends the whole subsequent chain Of
events is so slight as to
re a mere sbsurdity. A Deputy Sheriff
said that he had been shot at by a man
ambush; he was not wounded, and
ne never pretended that he saw any one;
vet he was sure that the shooter was a
zukluX. His OIly witness, who first
roundly that the Deputy was thus
shot at, subsequently confessed that the
reallysfred the shot himself.
From this trivial occurrence, this trans
parent sham, came all the train Of pros
which has resulted in the muir
Ter Of several innocent citizens, the es-
adjustment of a reign of terror in two
peaceful counties of Arkansas, and a
llOckery Of justice which is a disgrace
10 the American name.
INFAMIEs OF RADICAL DEsPOTISM.
OF the wicked conspiracy by which
A sheTiffs posse smassacred their cap
ives under pretense of an attempt at
rescue, We do not now speak. The full
mination Of acting Governor Hadley,
which we publish with the story of the
troubles in Pope county, libelous and
distorted as it is, bears ON its face ire
evidence of the baseness of the
whole scheme. Some allowance must
1e made for the free-and-easy ways of
southwestern court of Justice;
out the in which the
requirements of law and equi-
y were trampled upon that the murder
Jus Sheriff and his gang might escape
rom the hand of the law can scarcely
to attract indignant attention. And
wen this pliabie Judge May, when wri-
ing Of the events in Pope county, ignO-
ant of the Misrepresentation made by
Governor Hadley, is forced to admit the
niquity of the proceedings of the Sher-
fl and his gang of ruffians.
THE SCHEME FAILS.
At last accounts, the conspirators hesi-
ated to have martial law extended over
he locality where they have determined
fix the existence of kuklux. The plot
las evidently been a failure. But the
state militia, a sort of Arkansas type Of
{ Kirke's Lambs "IOf the olden times,
rave been sent into that region; and, if
bav ara crrufoinaH tbara for opu Iaprfh l.