The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-05-15
TIE Ar.kansos Trouble.

+ The serious trouble which is now agita-
ting Arkansas and mortifying every citizen
of the United States, is the direct result
of the corrupt and fraudulent manner in
which the governments of the States late
" in rebellion have been established since
the close of the civil war by the authori-
ties i'll Washington or by the carpet-bag-
/ gers at the several capitals, acting with
the sympathy of the National government
and supported by it i'll all their deeds of
yiliainy and fraud. The difficulty III Ar
kansas springs from the same causes that
rave rise to the civil strife in Louisiana.
( There McEnery was elected Governor by
an undoubted ajOrity of the votes of the
peOpie; but the supporters of Kellogg were
! the friends of the administration, and, i'll
+ the full confidence that they would be sus-
tanned by the Washington authorities,
they proceeded to falsify the election re-
turns so that tho result should be as they
wished it to be. This was thing that had
been done so regularly at every election
held in the Southern States since the war,
. that its manpulators came to regard it as
quite legitimate and rs matter OF course;
some of them had come to honestly believe
that it was justified by the fact that the
voters had been rebels and were thereby
disqualified from Judging who were the
best men to be elected TO office liz Il loyal
. STATE nSS NClC SIeiliE SUI pI-lS6t lndG
their proceedings in relation to Louisiana
created the cOmmotiOn which they did d;
surprise which was justified by the fact
that the voters had heretofore always
quietly submitted to the uSurpatiOns of
which they were the victims, because they
found themselves Po~erless against their
carpet bag rulers, backed as they were by
the federal authority. No doubt Kellogg
would have been iuauC urated as Governor
I.
ceived a minority of the votes cast, with
as little resistance as had been met with
by the other usurpers who had previously
climbed to the seats of power IN the South
ern States but for the fact that in this
State at this time tho Republican leaders
had fallen out among themselves and the
GOycrnor-W Warmouth-arraying himself
on the side of the honestly elected candi-
date, it seemed likely that the will of the
people, which had declared that McEncry
should be his successor would be obeyed.
This would have been the result but for
the interpositiou of Grant. who. under
cover Of Il decision of 4 corrupt Federal
Judge, managed to find excuse sufficient
for his own obtuse intelligence and dead
ened conscience to stand by his Louisiana
supporters and recognize their man Kel-
logg as the Governor of the State. Op-
posed by Federal authority, which was
Sustained by Federal bayonets, the people
of the State were powerless and again sub
missve and they now quietly suffer a
man to rule over them whom they did not
elect, and who has no other commission
than that which is conferred at the can
mons month.
In Arkansas, Brooks claims to have re-
ceived the majority of the votes cast at
the election held between himself and Bax-
ter III 1872, and his claim, we believe is
generally conceded to be well founded
Baxter, however, WAS the candidate of
Senator Dorsey and the other friends Of
the administration, and was consequently
counted in, in accordance with the rule
prevailing in such cases in the lately scced-
ed States, and sane Toned by the custom
of maLy years. Brooks appealed to the
Courts. but his cause for some time made
slow progress he had not the ear of the
Judges. 1t seems, however, that the
course of Governor Eaxtcr since his inauC-
uratiOns has not met with the approval of
the friends OF the administration in Arkan-
sas Senator Dorsey is the leader of this
body Of patriots, and he has with him in
his band his colleague in the Senate ana
all but ono of Che Republican members of
the House of Representatives. These men,
casting about for some means of crCum-
venting Baxter, concluded to join hands
with Brooks, and are presumed to have
made such arrangements with him as have
made it to their interest to oust Baxter
The consequence was the coup a. ctGt by
which Brooks, in the full confidence that
his patrons IN Congress would procure the
sanction and support of the President to
his act, turned Baxter ont os the State
House and installed himself. His prctext
was that he was the legally elected Gov
ernOr, having received tie majority of the
votes cast al the election. His statement
is now cOrrObOrafed bytkC very mon who
had. in defiance Of their knowledge of its
truth, caused RaXter to be inaugurated as
Governor, because they believed him to
be their tool. Could anything be said
more significant than this of the character
OF :he friends Of the administration who
are in power in the Southern States? Tn
governed by 4 single principle of honor and
unrestrained by single feeling Of dccency,
they have ruled the satrapies under their
control with single eye to their political
preferment and their pecuniary enrich
ment
The President has thus far declined to
interfere III the Arkansas trouble. On the
one hand he has feared to offend his sup
portcrS i'll Congress by recognizing Bax-
ter; and on the other, he has been unwilI-
ing to stulfy himself by recognizing
Brooks, In the face of his action in the Kel- +
IoGG and McEucry matter, when he decid-
ed III favor OF the former on the sole pro- /.
text that ho WAS the ''9s fuct2'' Governor. !
There can be no doubt that that advantage
Is now enjoyed by Baxter Whether hon
estly elected or not, he has been acting for
over a year as the recognized Governor of .
the State and he must therefore be held to
be the Governor until the legal tribunals /
decide otherwise. Lancaster IlsteEkigencer. /
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