Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-02-12
Grant Regarded as a Reckless Bidder
FOR Third Term, Like a shame
less Political PrOfiigate.
The Country Startled into Recognition
or his Insane Ambition for Place,
Power and PelE
What the Leaders Of the Radical Party
Are Trying TO Do TO Assist a
President who has Sold
Out TO Them.

WASHINGTON, February 1.-THE Re
publican senators held q caucus to-day
with reference 10 the new legislation,
applicable TO the south. The commit.
tee OF the house caucus have matured
several measures, one Of them making
more stringent the enforcement set,
a prOyisO, giving the President the
rover 70 suspend the writ of hGbeds cor
pas Tor limited period, under certain
circumstances. A joint caucus of the
republicans Of both houses is to be held
tonight 10 finally pass on the measures
10 be presented.
STATE OR PROVINCE.
Lite Rock Gazette.l
The persistent efforts of the carpet
DaggeTs st Washington have met s
measure % reward. They have laid
close seige to the President, and have at
length induced him to " earnestly ask
THAI congress will take definite action
ln' the matter Of Arkansas, ain order to
relieve the executive from acting upon
questions which should be decided by
the legislative branch of the govern
ment." This communication of the
President was in reference TO q request
of the senate for certain information.
The resolution of request conspicuously
learn the Presidents opinion on the SUBJ
Ject OF inquiTy-a portion Of the resOlu.
ton 10 that effect having been stricken
out by the senate before its passage.
\ Nevertheless, in reporting the informa-
ton, the President thought proper to
add his views of the constitutional
law applying TO the case OF Arkansas,
70 the budget Of information returned.
his views are variant from those recent
~ expressed on the same matter by such
Jurist5 as OConOr, Cooley, Jameson,
Evarts and Reverdy johnson, and it
would be IN order to advance in pallia-
ton the same excuse he made for Sheri-
dams wild views of constitutional law
lgROrancs-Were it not that the Presi-
dents action demonstrates that he is a
Ss1biie political strategist. He doesn't
care dime about the law Of the case
his purpose is to hold the carpetbaggers,
who, in turn, are tn hold the mastery Of
the next national Republican nomilat-
ing convention. IL is only lately that
these soldiers Of fortune resolved in eau
Gus 1t Atlanta and Washington that
they world lend the use of their blades
only 70 that man in the next presiden-
ual contest who would advance, or
proTnise 10 advance, their interests. In
hiS recent action, the President has
hHlerely made large issue OF the latter
currency, which, like greenbacks, are to
be redeemed at an indefinite time. The
President, II he l.snestly desires peace,
70 DOUBTLESS very anxious to have con-
gress assume the duty, which he very
properly ssys is appropriate to it, OF set
Ting the relations of the States with the
Union. All the rest of his message in
regard TO Brooks and Garland and "dan.
gerous precedent as we said yesterday,
IS tub thrown to the csrpetbag whale
something TO hold ia his political reti-
7lue and divert its attention, while con-
gress by appropriate action relieves him
from responsibility he detests and the
State from apprehensiOns of further mo-
lestauOn. Take up the statemant of the
messsge-that all the testimony shows
that Brooks was lawfully elected in 1872,
and Unlawfully deprived Of his office.
Grant. that it is true; the Testimony
also shows that the same pack
OF cheap and hungry scoundrels
who are low vexing his and the ears
OF congress with their howIs about
the fraud are the very principals and
accessories who perpetrated the foul
wrong, and tnst the Conservatives, the
vast majority OF this State, only ac-
quiesced IN the results declared d by these
same men, because the action was cloth
ed with the forms of law. Suppose the
Con servaives had attempted, by the use
or the same force in 1878 that Brooks
employed IN 1874 to install him in
Ofiiee-what would have been the ac-
tiOn OF the President in such q case?
Fortunately, we are not in the dark
upon this point. The President has
record upon that subject which he did
not report to congress while prsting of
BrO9Es's wrongs. In 1872, few days
before the Inauguration of Baxter, under
orders OF President Grant, 8 battery OF
artillery and a regiment Of infantry
were stationed in the arsenal at Little
Rock for The UeTy purpose las was boast
ed by Dir. BroOks's present friends at
Washington, who now have the Presi-
dents ear Of assisting Clayton, Had
ley and Mcclure in "unlawfully de-
priving Brooks Of his rights,n and
convincing the Conservatives Of the
improperly Of asserting them forcibly.
Most potent arguments, 1t would be
the work Of only Eve minutes to cut
rom the flies OF the organ here, Of the
men who are 8OJU supporting they
counted him ou) BTOOks's cause at
Washington, enough Of threats against
Conservatives, Of fire and sword, bsnlsh-
meut and confiscatlOn, to twice fill the
compass OF the sheet on which these re-
marks are printed, Why, it is less than
a year since the same organ, then edited
10y Mcclure, declared that Baxter de-
served 10 be "hOoted and stoned on the
streets for not calling an extra session
OF the legislature for the express purpose
of canceliug the old and adopting a new
constitution. The President talks about
IL 1rass
AIRY proceediugsn attending the adoption
Of the new constitution. Does he forget
that his own action IL recommending y
called session o; the legislature enabled
this new government, when he was
Just as well and fully posted Of all the
circumstances that preceded its as
sembing as he il now? The people
of Arkansas then took the view that
they had been swindlei by the corrupt
installation Of BaXter-they cared moth
ing for sbs infni;esimsl wrong done the
remarkably lively atom called Brooks.
But that wrong had been done and
ssnctiO ed by compliance with all the
forms OF law, aud was irrevOkebie by
any but r=vo'uUionaTy action. The only
means by which tEey could right them
selves w4s by resort 70 constitutional
OnveuiOn-therehy consigning both
Brooks and Baxter to their homes and
installing d ruler OF their choice. The
Presidents suggestion Of a precedent
80 dangerous 70 the stability q the gov
eminent" state aud national, il con-
gress should recognize the existing State
government, is much weakened when it
Is remembered that sil the proceedings
from and aftse the Date Of bis prOclama-
ton dispensing BrOOkz's Oanditti, until
tie evellustion of the new government,
were orderly and pesceiul; that the con-
ventiou vas called by a majority Of sew
entv five thUu=lnd votes that the con-
stituiol was ratified by more than fifty
thousand majority; that mole pro-
found quiet has prevailed since
his pr5e.auatJl than at any time
since the war 49, and over and
above all, that Toe very action the people
of Arkausas lately took, IA overthrow
ing au odi8us and erecting an agreeable
government, has been precedented IN