The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-12-04
Arkansas.

81, Arkansas.
The Louisville Courier points with satisfacs
ton 70 the condition OF Arkans az. That State.
/, rising in the scale OF prosperity. AMI the
community, having been lifted up from
state Of disorder, discoa,ent, and apprehen'
sion, IS now becoming steadily more con-
ten. ed, more safe, and more independent.
The government OF the State is better, and
the domestic Improvement is marked ana
tue domestic economy good. The aCosaaaef
thus episomizes The information given by.
Governor GARLAND with regard TO Inc 90.
gances in husbandry: ne
e while Arkansas Is not neglectins her cot
Ton. she has found that there are otner sta-
MES that promise reward TO her husband
nan. This new range Of agricultural IN.
6,,strv has produced demand for 8 wider
ayea RI tiilab,e lands, aud Governor Garland
nnin.s with unaffected pride TO TIE fact that
syery county la the State has in the past year
added largely to its cultivated lands, while
some half .dezsn which he mentions have
added as much as ,fy0 thousand acres
each. while one has added over ele-
ven thousand acres. He tells US that
small grain, heretofore almost neglect
ed, has been sowp, and the results
have been surprise TO every one-that
large vineyards, 8 business heretofore scarce
IL known in the State, hare been and are
being opened and cultivated, with every pros
pecs Of handsome remuneration In short
lime, and tba. last summer fruits, vegeta.
b,es, and grain were sent TO st. Louis, Chl'
cago, and other points-a thing never done
beiore-With most satisfactory returns for
them. One lawyer in Little Rock, the Gov.
error tells us, sent seventeen car loaos OF
watermelons to Chicago, and confessed that
his outlay and labor brought better return
than his cotton and law together" 5 !.
How has this admirable change in the
affairs of Arkansas come aboutI It's by 9
combination of the white race. They
snatebed their Government from the control
of negroes. and those beasts OF prey the Radl'
Gals, who bad thrown the State into olsor'
der, ruin, and misery. Fair and fruitful as
that rich Safe is, it could not stand up against
the destructive msrule of a combination such
as that. But, rescued from barbarsm and
dishonesty, we see IL now blooming and
thrifty-the hand of tillage spreading beauty
and plenty: the people comparatively happy
and hopeful. And
From being an object of commiSeration
Arkansas has suddenly become an eXemplar
Of industry and progress even to some OF
the elder States. She has simply turned her
face to the front, and Governor GarlaDd eX-
pressed the sentiment which has given her
this new and unlooked-for impulse when he
declared in his address: MY friends, we
cannot stand still, nor can we 60 backward.
We must press forward and onward. IL Is
q day Of advancement and Improvement:
Change is written upon everything, and old
things and old ideas are passing away and
giving place to new ones.'"
All this came from the grand energy OF the
white race. Arkansas, like Virginia, and un.
der the guidance of Conservative party like
ours, was brought up out of affiiction and
despair. Such party dispelIed the clouds
hat lowered over the State and established
order and contentment in lieu of trouble, ap-
prehensiou, and ruin. ...
What would we think of men in Arkansas
who should raise opposition to the organiza-
ton which invoked such blessings upon the
community? What, furthermore, should be
thought of men who would seek to bring
into contempt such an organization by form.
ing an alliance with the very parties that had
ciused the terrors from which the Conserva-
tive party delivered their State?
They would be acting as enemies of their
own State, and success could not crown their
Objects without infictipg new wounds upon
the State and filling peoples minds with fears
Of pew troubles. This is indeed the true
light in which the course of the Independents
should be regarded. Are they not in effect
worse than Radicals, since they are doing that
which the Radicals want done, and which
said Radicals cannot Of themselves do, but
which they will always be glad to get others
to help them to do break down the Con.
sarvative party. We all know that united
tae white men can defeat their notified enc.
mics. But if portion of the white party
shows less party fealty than the negroes do,
aud join the negroes to defeat their friends
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IS QaDger that
their objec. may be accomplished.
No white community with proper re-
gard for the public peace and dignity, and a
proper sense of what is due to themselves
aud the general veal, can ever give counte.
nance or encouragement to the "Independ.
ents." Their policy, il successful, must
betray the State and bring back upon use all
the disorder and misery which we so glori.
.ously triumphed over through the Conser.
vatiYe party.
The Dispatch agrees in general with the
Governors message, but criticises some Of
its sentimental flights and verbal gymnastics
with surgical accuracy. Petersburg Star.
But we did not succeed in saying anything
SO sharp or:so good as the above.