Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-08-18

where there are q great many
northern men, every csrpetbaggel
is q BroOks-Clayton Radical, while
every northern man who is engaged. In
honest work is a warm Baxter man,
The carpetbAggers have stolen all they
can from State, and county, and city; the
State debt has been increased from four
millions to twelve millions from 1888 to
1872; the debts of counties and cities
have been quadrupled, and taxes in
creased from two to five and six per
cent. And all this before Baxter was
inaugurated. January, 1878. The re-
porter says: "The earpetbsggers, as they
class them, comprise the most enter
prising citizens of the State; the men
who conduct the manufactures and do
the largest business, and who have done
the most to rebuild Arkansas
have never heard OF one msnufac-
turing establishment they have ever
built up in this State. Their "enter-
prisen lies in stealing and plunderiDg.
They have not built one hundred miles
of railroad, though they have got State,
county and railroad bonds enough to
build five hundred. Every road now
In operation in this State, except those
named below, has been built under
charters obtained between 1850 and 1850,
and aided by liberal land grants OBJ
tanned from congress about 1858 or 1854.
1 mention the Memphis and little
Rock. begun in 1853 or 1854, and the
first finished. This had a fine land
grant, and got State sid at ten thou
sand dollars per mile, when bonds were
worth from sixty to seventy-hve cents.
The Little Rock and Fort Smith road,
one hundred miles finished, was char
tered in 1853 or 1854, and has MAJ nifi-
cent land grant. The RAIDS got hold of
this, squandered the State aid of ten
thousand dollars per mile, and broke
down; the most Of the money having
gone into the pockets Of q few notable
or rather notorious Brooks Claytonites.
The Cairo and Fulton was chartered
in 1858 and had a fine land grant.
The Rices, Hodges and q parcel
of like carpet-knRves got this road
and broke it. fortunately, they had
not done enough to entitle them to State
aid, before Tom Allen, OF st. Louis, paid
them to get out Of his way. The story
is he paid them seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. Dorsey'sroad is q pet
of the "enterprising" rsseals who have
been fleeing the State by getting bonds
under the Radical railroad law Of 1858.
The Little Rock and Pine Bluff road
that should have been built three years
ago Is a monument to Bowen's infamy,
and the Mississippi, Ouachita and Red
river railroad is another TO that Of Lew
is, who now summers it on the banks of
the Potomac. He and Bowen and Dor
sey made their jack out of these roads
by getting State and county bonds, and
t'placing them where they would do
Bowen and Lewis the most good "
These last three roads have tbusted."
The only good the Radical caTpetbag-
gers have ever done here is to build
some elegant private residences, which
they cannot carry away. But l have
made this communication too long al
ready, and will close by referring to
this extract from the reporter: "Kline,
who volunteered TO act IS deputy-sheriff
at the execution Of a notorious desperate
under sentence Of the proper court, was
bushwacked and shot dead; then fol-
lowed the shooting Of his cousin and
another relative, in retaliation for the
murder of Kline.p
l left Clarksville yesterday morning,
and Kline was walking about the streets,
almost recovered from his wounds. ]
saw him every day at meals for ten
days, and the trouble about him was mol
political in any sense. Respectfully,
]. 7. TREzEV Ant
Editor Ausesta Balieffn-