New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-30
msfortunes, and the people cannot rebuko it
too sharply or too soon.
EIJ.yH1 BAYTER.

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Elisha Baxter! 1t bulges upon startled uni
verse like stridulous Outburst from an unor-
dained exhorter. Elisha Baxter! Mellow and
mellIfluous name! Billowy, beautiful Baxter!
Three times day, with a patriotism that
knows no bounds and zeal that
knows no discretion, the sudden ana
unaccountable Baxter telegraphs 10 the
President from Little Rock that grim
visaged war is wrinkling up his front IN
Arkansas, and that various people OF beiiicose
dispositions are mounting barbed steeds 10
fright the souls of fearful adversaries ana
incidentally hinder Elisha Baxter from
exercising the functions of Governor, and
he asks aid i'm fact makes requsinon for
aid. to suppress the insurrection and
prevent domestic violence. Receiving no re-
ply. Elisha Baxter continuously and persistently
harnesses the unhappy lightning to swift lying
conundrums asking tho President If he has re-
ceved the other dispatches, till the President
of the United States, to whom the signature
has become a horrid nightmare, exclaims: = Is
" THERE'S there no rest from Elisha Baxter T.
Still the tired lightning drags the untitled
re1uisition still tho signature OF Elisha
Baxter bumps the poles from Little ROCK TO
Washington.
Well. who is Elisha Baxterf From the
length and frequency and pcrsistency OF his
dispatches to Washington, he is certainly not
the author of any Saints Rest, though by the
same token he seems to be the author OF the
Call to the UncOnverted. If we get the drlit
| of his dispatches, he either Is, or thinks he
is, or means to be, the Governor OF Arkansas.
A long time ago. ever and ever 80 long, III
that far time when the people believed the
reelection of Gen. Grant would promote the
| reform of the Civil Service, give stability TO
| the finances, lead to the speedy resumption OF
specie payments, bring peace and g0od gov
eminent to the South, insure honesty ana
| economy in administration, and reduce the
National debt in the PARKWAY time when
neople INDUCED in these Authorizations,
we ore told that Elisha Baxter was
dragged from the private station when was
| then, and has been ever since, the post OF
honor, and nominated for Governor by the
| friends of freedom. Elisha Baxter was reluc-
| tant. but the friends of freedom, many OF
whom had deliberately thrown up lucrative
practice behind the bar in order to throw
themselves into the ranks of freedoms hosts
as suffers and cotton-brokers. demanded the
| sacrifice, and he consented.
Elisha Baxter we understand to be one of
those noble souls whose generous dispositions
make them the prey of the pocket-book dropper
and tho confidence man. Should anybody
hand Elisha Baxter pocket-bOok full of bills,
even of a small denomination, with the re-
| mark that he had been seen to drop 1t, Elisha
| Baxter is not the man to stand on street
corner and by disputing tho statement invite
| domestic disturbance. Elisha Baxter is the sort
of man that would pay the finder reasonable re-
! ward and take the pocket book. That Is the klnu
of man, if we judge him correctly, that
Elisha Baxter is. So when, after the votes had
been counted in Arkansas, and it was found
| that by leaving out the returns from two OF
three counties where the enemies OF man
| kind had given adverse majorities, and
changing a few figures in others In
tho interests of humanity, Elisha Baxter
| was elected. Elisha Baxter was not the man
| to 90 behind the returns or make any factious
opposition to being inaugurated. The friends
of freedom, among whom were United States
| Senators, Chief Justices. and editors of news
| papers said the cause demanded that he should
be inaugurated just the same as though he
had been elected and Elisha Baxter said he
would not stand in the way of Freedom
battle once begun. SO they inaugurated him.
Subsequently man named Brooks discOv-
| cred some errors in the count, and some omls-
sions of ballots that had been cast by a
| wicked and perverse generation in the back
| counties who never had enlisted in the cause
of freedom and did not know the difference
between a suffers wagon and faro bank.
The foes Of human progress and OF Elisha
Baxter said Brooks was elected Governor, and
tried to have an Investigation. Elisha
Baxter rose up, lazily winked his sim
lister eye, and remarked, Possession is nine
"p'ints,n and "No mistakes rectifed after
"the parties have left the bank" And SO
Elisha Baxter held on like a friend of free
dom and a brOther-in-aw. Brooks finally got
a decision of some sort of o court in his favor,
and the other day walked into the Execu-
tive Chamber and ordered Elisha Baxter
to get out. Elisha Baxter is man OF
peace; he went out. Brooks Immediately
began to use the great seal, and Elisha Baxter
began to use the telegraph. Elisha Baxter
teegraphed the President that there was q
state of war. and the army and navy ought to
| be sent to Little Rock at once, or somebody
| would be hurt. Then he telegraphed to know
if the President had received the message
and Immediately afterward to know if the
army and navy were coming. If we are COZ
rectly informed, he is still telegram and
the President is up 70 his OPS in Elisha Bax.
ter's telegramsa ss'
This is the true story of Elisha Baxter. HI
means well, But we take leave to say that il
he kiiiccws, as he mus, that President Grant
has already two States on his hands-to wit