The Van Buren press., 1873-07-08
Assassination
Memphis Appeal jane % !

! 1t is commonly asserted across the riy
cr that Gov Baxter will probably be rs
Sasslnsted His person is often guarded
at night, we are told, by very many gen
tlemen, even when his Excelency is not
| advised of the fact Not long ago hc
was induced to arm the officers and
clerks in executive departments, and four
| hundred stands of arms were held in
readiness tor any emergency. With u
I view to their proper use, Gov. Baxter
reorganized the militia Of the State. The
country at large can hardly understand
what magnificent body of desperate
villains was gathered abont the capital
of each Southern State subjected to the
negro domination The more unscrupu
lous the scouudrel the more iimitess his
success, in robbing States and counties
| through the Intervention Of negro cred.
ul!ty and simplicity--or Of negro knav-
cry. Adventures from the east, t,who had
been trained in the school in which pom
eroy and Mitchell won supreme excel.
lence, aud desperadoes from Indian
wild3, and the stool pigeons OF the Wash
ington lobby, and highwaymen that sluff.
ed off in moral rottcnncss from Federal
and confederate armies--al are gathered
! in great numbers in Arkansas. When
the crumbs fall from tables of legislation
they swarm in Little Rock, and many
rich morsels are scattered around by the
drunken representatives Of knavery and
barbarism. The true people Of Arkansas
had no place at this festal board, and
when the revcry was maddening. and alb
solute debsnchery began, it was Baxter's
hand that was seen writing on the wall,
Meme, mere, rhel, upharSia There
was never body Of debased revelers so
amazed. Our readers will remember what
dsgraceful scenes were enacted in the
capitol just before the Adjournment of
the legislature, AMI how Baxter was
threatened, |, and then what madness seiz.
ed black and white public plunderers
when Baxter defed rage. dcspiscd
threats, and asserted his purpose to serve
Arkansas rather than faction. There
are perhaps two thousand Of these
scoundrels in Arkansas. Their wealth,
homes, property, life-everything they
have and all they Lope for, is involved
in the maintenance Of their own absolute
supremacy in Arkansas Louisiana and
Mississippi are overcrowded The
thieves that used to prey upon Tennes
see, led by Ham Carter, are vampires now
in Mississippis overcrowded capital.
! Louisiana also boasts Of eXiles from
Tennessee, strangers among Tonnesse-
ans, who aided in executing in this State
preliminary processes of reconstruction.
When Senter triumphed these villains
/ fed. There are, no VACANCIES in the
! South for the masters of Arkansas, and
if Gov Baxter be suffered to execute his
plans there is not ia all this bread land
one spot 50 unfortunate in its relations
| to federal power that the thieves Of Ar
kansas can find people to rob or Offices
to occupy, For these plain reasons there
was never such excitement, such cxas,
pcration, such well foTnded anxiety
among the late Radical ma tiers Of Ar
kansas. They elected Baxter, and his
treason ronders him ctch more odious
But. life, home, money, power, every
thing is involved in his expulsion from
Office If this may not be effected they
must surrender sway over four hundred
Thousand blacks as thoroughly cnslavcd
as at the moment when Abraham Lin
coin asserted African emancipation a
/ million dollars have been annually stolen
for eight years past by these plunderers
Of Arkansar. They have been robed in
honor, too, and li0ed UP among the
| the great men of the country. All this
! can come nCycrm0re if Baxter reign
! They have resolved. SO the story goes,
to remove Baxter, through the interven-
ton Of the courts and registrars, if they
can; by means Of the assassin's knife, if
/ they must