Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-04-29
msr n ARKANSAS.
Baxter Appeals to the President for Aid
Both Governors RfpresrnthG at
the Court of Ulysses.
Another View Of the Case-N nyt6ek
4 Sustained Net the Men but the
Merits of the Case.
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FIRING THE COLoRED HEART FOR
BROOKS.
LfFT1E Rock, April 2S.-A special to
the Gazette from Helena says that there
was a very large meating at that place
On Monday night for the purpose OF Iais-
ING volunteers for Brooks. The meeting
was composed principally of cOlored
people. After the warriors made speech
es Hon. j. T. White. colored conlmis-
sioner Of public weFks and Hate State
senator, advised the lcolored men to stay
at home and let the legislature settle the
matter. This speech had the effect to
prevent the enrolment of single man.
MIsCARRIED CORRESPONDENTS RE-
q - a-Hss& g PEATED- E5t-6
Governor Baxter last evening received
information from the President that his
requisition for aid to assist in suppress
ing the insurrection, made on the nine
teenth, had never reached him, and he
forwarded the following both by tele-
graph and by letter:
4a4 = "LITTI.E Rock, April q.
sU S. Grant, President Of the United States,
Washington: JCr--T
son the nineteenth of this month, as
governor of this State, / telegraphed
you there was an armed insHrrectiOn
against the legal government OF this
State, and made requisition upon you
for aid to suppress it and to prevent do
mestic violence. 1 have just now been
advised that you never received that
requisition. Il now take occasion
to say that an armed insurrection exists
in this State against the lawfully cOnstI-
4tuted authority thereof, and as the legis-
lature can't meet until the eleventh day
of May, / eaH upon you for aid to pro-
tect the State against domestic violence.
ELISHA BAXTER,
81 q T. 'sGovernor of Arkansas"
GENERAL ITEMS.
A company of Baxter men took pos
session Of the Fort Smith train to-day,
near LewisbHFg, to prevent some REIN
forcements for Brooks from reaching
the city.
Hon. Thomas Allen, president of the
Cairo and Fulton railroad, and num-
Der of other distinguished railroad men,
called on Governor Baxter to-day.
Captain William T. Groves, of the
Brooks forces, left the statehouse this
evening and came into the Baxter lines,
stating that he had quit that party.
A telegram from Pine Bluff states
that the Brooks men have advices from
w aSuluStOn ludL tl6 SthSadA gwen
nent will mo longer interfere. The
Baxter men are jubilant tonight. They
claim that the government has decided
in their favor.
A company of two hundred men is
expected from Hampstead county to-
night, to reinforc Baxter.
ANOTHER APPEAL TO PRESIDENT GRANT
WASHINGTON, April 28.-President
Grant has received sdispatch from Gov
ernor Baxter, of Arkansas, stating that
an armed inssrrection exists in that
State, and asking for aid TO protect the
State against domestic violence. Gov
ernor Baxter says that be telegraphed
for aid on the nineteenth of April, but
understands the President never receiv-
ed the requisition. Governor Brooks
has already made similar request, and
now has two lawyers in Washington
looking after his interests. Two law
yers, in the employ of Baxter, are on
their way here. The question as to who
is the actual governor will be presented
to the President for his decision, unless
some other mode Of settlement shall in
tervene.