Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-23
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1874.

.AIKANsAs.--The rustlings of civil
war are no longer heard in our neigh
Dor State. General Grant has inter
posed the strong arm of federal au-
thority, and Brooks baftied and beat
en-, for a time at least passes into in
famous obscurity. We do not care to
enlarge upon the Arkansas troubles,
but we cannot refrain from trans
ferring to our columns the following
from the Cincinnati Commercial of a
ate date.
'"The Arkansas civil war will call at
tention to the desperate rapacity of
the rings of public robbers in the
Southern States. The row is not be-
tween the races, and it is not between
the Democratic aud Republican par
ties"
oh no, of course not. The Repub-
lean party had nothing to do with
the domination of negroes and Ohio
preachers in the politics of Arkansas,
and papers like the Commercial on the
safe side of the border can very com
placently watch the evolution of the
diabolieal drama as it is played in
the Southwest. 1t is very fashiona-
BILE among the Radical presses of the
North just now to treat the wrongs of
the South as something with which
their party has nothing to do-as
something peculiarly indigenous to
Arkansas, Louisiana and South Caro-
lima, and not the fruit of that bitter
seed sown broadcast by Northern Re
constructionlsts since the war. Sow
erign members of the American con-
federation are first robbed of their
constitutional franchises and their
undelegated rights, by the els major
the higher law of military subjug2-
ton. The blind, brute hate of the
great North, bursting like tempest
ON these States, left them weak, max
cd, powerless. Then assessors were
sent down to brighten them with
threats of confscation to be enforced
with the bayonet- The armed Regis
ters took the names of such as they
saw fit, who alone were to be allowed
to vote. Then came elections and at
last the plantation slave and the
Northern white robber, were fully in
stalled inpower. Packed conventions
of alien yagabonds worked such
changes in the organic law of these
States that the possession of property
and q Caucasian skin made a man
odious, and thus has the greed of
Radical thieves been gratifed at the
cost Of the overthrow of old States,
rich in historic memories of the Rev
olution, and of new ones that were
filed with the strong and hopeful life
of the West. And now, after the
shameful work 40 elsdod, when these |
States stand like monuments of Radi- |
cal infamy, that can be seen by all |
the world, the men who made these
things possible, like miserable COW
ards as they are, say with the Gin
cinRGti C0mmercial-the war is not
@NeHSSAA AeSCo1 AOb bCbWJGu lNtDuOll-
cans and Democrats-it is something
with which the General Government
had nothing to dot is all very
wrong indeed, but there is no way to
help it. The people of the United
States think differently, the people of
the world think differently, and the
results of all the late elections all
hounce the wild hour coming on in
She fortunes of the Radical party. It
will pass Into history all covered over
with infamy, and in less time than
the lapse of generation, when men
read the story Of the Arkansas war,
and similar chapters in the annals of
Reconstruction" they will wonder
how it was possible that in a land
claiming to be christian and civilized,
such an organization conld possibly
lave held possession of the Govern
ment for years.