Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-22
WESTERN ARKANSAS.
The Crops and POIities-RadIeaIism
Looking HOpefuI-BrOOks
Again Active.
The Congressional Smelling Committee
Anxiety OF dhe People and Com.
Peting Railways.

LITTLE Rock, July 1S.-People along
the Cairo and Fulton road, at every
station, gather in great numbers daily
to learn the result of political events in
progress at Little Rock. Newspapers
are sought after with great avidity, and
travellers are piled with questions as to
the course of events at the State capi-
tai. 1t is said that Brooks and Hines
and Hodges have secured the confidence
of the two members of the cOngressiOn-
al smelling committee, now nosing
about among the archives Of knavery
in government at Little Rock. The
probabilities are that the report of this
committee will be shaped in the pur-
pose of remanding this unhappy peo-
pie to the domination Of Clayton.
"Poker Jack" is again conspicuous on
the streets of the Arkansian capital,
and all the prominent plunderers Of the
State, except Tankersby, are cOnspicu-
GUS and seemingly confident of the
restitution of sll things. Therefore the
intense anxiety for news, and therefore
the avidity with which newspapers are
sought after. In Arkansas there is COM
ing up the same issue that congress
shaped for Tennessee, Alabama and
the south. There are only two parties.
Oucf MuAACf AAAG OlLAGlf blASh- IL
is not partisan contest. 1t
is social rather than political, and of
races rather than of parties. The white
man affiliating with the negro party be-
comes black in the eyes of white people,
and white Radical is deemed negro
in all his instincts and social aspects and
relations. 1t thus happens that the civil
rights bill is operative before its enact
ment, and l am sorry to say that such
results are inevitable and may be most
deplorable.
1T Is NO FAULT OF OURS.
Through the past eight years the AP-
PEAL has sought to prevent this con-
summation achieved by Radicalism.
Every possible concession has been
made by southern whites. 1t was to
prevent this segregation of races that
we stultified ourselves, supported Gree
ley, and opposed the enforcement of the
law requiring the payment of a poll-tax
as a condition precedent to the exercise
of the right of suffrage. Now that con-
gress has dug the impossible gulf be-
tween the races, the poll-tax may be
collected, and the "bloody chasmn
which separated whites from blacks
will be constantly deepened and
WIQeneQ. 1eHuSSSe6 ldcIS, Eeel-
ings and opinions rapidly pervade
Arkansas and Texas, and the single is
sue made in coming elections every
where in the south will be that defined
In Memphis, and psrtisanship means
nothing more or less than the "waF of
races"
CROPS.
People say, along the line of the Cairo
and Fulton road, that the best crops
will be made ever garnered since 1880.
This assertion has reference mainly to
cotton, which has suffered little detri-
ment because of drouth. Corn is with
cred and unproductive in many places,
but cotton has incurred no Injury,
HStalksn are small, but "forms" were
never more numerous. have observed
that in some districts, with which Mem
phis trades, the farmers are disposed to
give exaggerated accounts of the value
of the growing crop. The more cotton
the lucky farmer will probably make,
the more generous becomes the COM
mission merchant, and heavier are
drafts drawn by the cotton grower and
discounted by the banks. Credit de-
pends upon crops, and crops are wOn-
derfully rich, while it is the farmer who
is most promising. This is an excep-
tional facl, however, and most planters