Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-12-23

aid these officers, if necessary, in the
performance of their Official duties =
Complaints are made of this interfer-
ence by Federal authority, but if said
amendment and act do not provide for
such interference under the cireum
stances as above stated, then they are
without meaning, force or effect, and
the whole scheme of col0red enfran-
chisement is worse than mockery and
little better than crime. Possibly
Congress may fnd it due TO truth and
justice to ascertain by means of com
mittee whether the alleged wrongs to
co!ored citizens for political purposes
are real, or the reports thereof were
manufactured for this occasion.
TROOPS IN SOUTHERN STATES.
The whole number of troops in the
States of Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia,
/ Florida, South Carolina, North Caro-
lima, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Mississippi, Maryland and Virginia at
the times Of the election were 4,062
/ This embraces the garrlsons of all forts
from the Delaware to tae Gulf Of
Mexico.
THE TROUBLE IN ARKANSAS
Another trouble has arisen IN Arkan-
sas. Article Is of the Constitution of
the State, which was adopted in 1868,
aud upon the approval of which by
Congress the State was restored to rep
resentation as one of the States of the
Union, provides in effect that if any
amendments proposed to the Constitu-
tion shall become part thereof, they
shall be passed by two successive As
semb.ies, ratified By a majority of the
electors of the State voting thereon.
On the llth of May, 1874, the Gov
ernor convened an extra session OF the
General Assembly of the State, which
on the 18th Of the same month passed
an act providing for Convention to
frame a new Constitution. Pursuant
TO the act, and at an election held on
the Goth of June, 1874. the Conven-
ton was approved and delegates were
l4th of last July, and forced a new
Constitution, the schedule CT which pro-
vided for the election Of an entire new
set of State officers, in a manner con-
trary 10 the then existing election laws
of the State. On the 18th of October,
1874, this CONSTITUTION, as tEei ein pro-
vided, was submitted to the people for
their approval or rejection, and accord
ing to the election returns was approved
by large majority of those qualified
to vote thereon, ard at the same elec-
ton persons were chosen TO fi!l all the
State, county, aud township Offices
The Governor elected IN 1872, for the
term of four years, turned over his
uifice to the Governor chosen under the
aew Constitution, whereupon the Lieu
tenant Governor, also elected iu 1872,
for term Of four years, claiming to act
as Governor, and alleging that said pro-
ceedings By which the new Constitu-
tion was made, aud new set of officers
elected, were unconstitutional, illegal,
and void, called upon me, as provided
in section 1, article 4, of the Constitu-
tioD, TO protect the State against do
mestic violence. As Congress is now
investigating the political affairs of Ar.
kansas, | have decliued to Interfere
The whole subject of Executive in-
reference with the affairs of a State is
repugnant 10 public opinion, to the
feelings of those who from their official
capacity must be used in such interpo
sitiun, and 10 him or those who must
direct. Unless most clearly on the
side of law, such interference becomes
a crime With the law TO support it,
it is condemned without hearing. l
desire, therefore, that all necessity for
Executive direction in local affairs may
become NECESSARY aid obsolete.
| invite the attention, not of Con-
gres., but of the people Of the United /
States, to the causes aud effects of tLese /
unhappy questions. Is there not a dis
position On one side to magnify wrongs
aud outrages, and on the other side to
belittle them or Justify them II the
pubic could be directed to correct
-urvey of what is proper, and TO re-