The Van Buren press., 1874-06-09
wILsHIaE's MISSION.
What the President Expects of the Good
Citizens Of Arkansas.


Citizens of Arkansas.
Yesterday morning Judge W w. vii
shire Of Arkansas left this city for Little
Rock, having arrived here the night pre-
vious from Washington Several other
! Arkansas politicians also passed through
/ the city on their way from Washington
to Little Rock, among them Deputy.
Marshals Fowler and Donnelly Of Fort
/ Smith, who had been to the capital AS
witnesses before the committee on ex
penditures in the department of justice,
which has been Investigating the Western
judicial district of Arkansas. Besides
these there were fifteen or twenty promi-
nent Brooks men in town Sunday aud
Monday. Fromall Of them a good many
interesting facts on both sides of the late
uuplcasautness were elected.
Judge Wiltshire present mission TO
/ Arkansas is to confer with the governor
and legislature and to lay before them
/ the requirements ia the way of legisla-
ton and the preservation Of the peace,
which have been entailed upon them by
the late action of the federal authorities.
The president expects every good
| citizen of Arkansas
TO DO Ills DUTY,
Was the judges reply to the question rs
| to whether or not he bore any informal
communication from Mr., Grant to Bax-
ter and the legislature. lie said great
hue aud cry had been raised by the Clay
ton faction that mo Northern man
would be permitted to live in the State
now that it had been turned over by the
president to the ku kux Democracy.
| 1t was most necessary that the people Of
Arkansas should restrain their feelings
and pa sions ct this juncturc. No matter
how grevous the wrongs they had suf
fcred the remedy was not by violence, but
by peaceful measures, and in the
EaTuGai. COURSE or THE LAw.
/ Every violent or proscriptive act or ut
/ terance towards the late adherents OF
Brooks would be magnided q hundred
told by the Clayton faction, and used
with tremendous effect in Washington
The Influence of Clayton and Dorsey had
| been utterly destroyed in congress by the
/ late developments, and the only thing
| that could restore their inllucace would
( be acts of violence by the people Of the
state in the name of The Baxter govern,
ment. He was on his way to Little Rock
/ for the purpose Of holding personal con
ferences with the governor and members
Of the legislature upon This subject, and
he had no doubt
THAT THE PEOPLE WOULD APPRECIATE
The necessities Of the situation. The
president would sustain Gov Baxter not
only in resisting all further attempts at
usurpation by the Brooks faction, but
also in repressing any manifestations or
curbing any spirit of violence ANA ven
geance on the part Of his own adherents
And the president expected Gov Baxter
to be as prompt and effective in dealing
with one Of these evils rs with the other.
| This was the substance of Judge VII
shres remarks to Republican reporter,
as he was waiting for the bus to talk.
tie Liltle Rock train He expects to re.
turn to Washington the lattcrp part ofthis
week.
| THE BROOKS " REFUGEES.
The Brooks men who were in town
called themselves refugees, and stated
that they had been compelled to lesSe
the state by fear Of assassination and all
that sort of things. Each one, to let
him tell the story, fancied that he saw
the deadly shadow Of that willing soul,
King White, lurking behind every bush,
or ready to pounce down at one fell
swoop from evry corne 1t was OBJ
servable, however. that thcre was more
method in the madness Of these men than
is usually the case with men really panic
stricken They seemed more apprchen-
sivc that their tales of terror would not
be believed at Washington than that they
would be placed in actual peril by return
| inc to Arkansas In short it was plain
! " evident from the conversation and
manner OF these men that
AS LAST RESORT,
They had raised the well worn deaths
head and bloody bones of the ku kIuy
for the purpose Of creating public opin-
| ion adverse to- the Baxter government
Judge Wiltshire, who is himself a North
ern man, says that there are not twenty
men in the state who are really in any
danger whatever and these are in danger
| 4 a.