The Van Buren press., 1873-06-03
Little Rock Muddle.


In another column will be found an cxtrac
from the New York Times, (republicsn). Civ
iny to the country the result Of an interNie"
with Senator Powell Clayton.
From this. we would be led to the belief, Il
we could think Clayton sincere, that Baxter
has been feariully frightened by the eonJura-
tions ola diseased Imagination. That all the
t,,k about gu0 ,cdrraato Is mere bosh, and
that nothing was further from the minds OF
Mcclure & Co. than an a,temptto ouSt Mr.
Baxter. Unfortunately Clayton coniesses his
Ignorance OF what is going on nt our State
Capital II he does not at the same time give
MS some little cause to think he Is 10y no
means in tho confidence OF Mr.. Baxter. lie
saw, Baxter told him he did not intend to re-
move Upham, and as soon as his back is
turned, he does remove him. Now either
Baxter does not trust Clayton or else he did
not tell him any such thing.
t Be this as IL may, from this remarkable in
terview we gather that there was no idea OF
quo ndrrdnto or any other proceeding, for
the ousting OF Baxter by Brooks. And both
Clayton and his man Hadley tell us that it
Supreme Court was not in session, and would
not meet for some days. Baxter would have
presented pretty figure il he had halted and
awaited the meeting OF the Court and the is
suance Of the writ with Uphsm and his foes
generally (foes, because they were under the
thumb of McClurc) controlling the militia.
after he had been informed OF the scheme to
kt,a nul of \, Y
the Court This information came TO him
not through Democrats, MS Clayton, lladlcy,
Mcclure d Co. would have us believe, but
from true and tried Republicans, upon whose
Judgment and veracity he had every reason
to rely. Upon information of this character
he had right 10 act. The New York Tunes
In an editorial informs us with the greatest
simplicity, that those who told him so were
ignorant Of the laws of Arkansas, as the
Court could not legally act, the Legislature
having refused to do SO. We still have fresh
In our minds the outrage perpetrated upon
Louisiana by the drunken Durell, who did
not stop for lac but made his iniquitous rul-
ings and enforced them by the bayonct. In
passing Judgment on political questions, our
SOuTtS uuVo not Dce1 CHaTtClpIlLeu Dy any
vast amount Of regard for "he lac.' And
the Times is wocfully ignorant of the history
VI the South for the past five years, If it
thinks, In the childish innocence of its heart
that Mcclure would hesitate to assume juris-
dictlon and enforce his illegal orders by the
militia. Furthermore, we now have it fresh
from the Capital by Visitors therethat the APP
plication for wri, wiR be made at an early
day:
We must cohclnde that the famous inter
view Is but supplementary to the letter re-
ferred to by Clayton. What did he want to
write n long letter, full OF fulsome fattery of
Baxter, merely to inform him that he did not
start to Washington as soon as he expected
We hope the Governor will not be hood
winked by such men as Clayton has hereto
fore shown himself to he. The good people.
The people rho pay the tdres and desire good
government, throughout the State endorse Mr..
Baxter and will, Irrespective ofp,rty, staHd
BY aiihis acts done for The GOOD Of the wAole
State