The Van Buren press., 1875-01-26
From the Capital.
LarrLr Rock, Jan 7th, 1875
J. s. DUNHAM,

J. 5. DUNnAM.
Dear SIR: Late telegraphic dispatch
es from Washington speak most favora'
bly, of the prospects of the Garland
Government Hardly doubt seems tc
be entertained but that the President is
disposed to sustain and uphold it. Nor
is it believed that congress will be dispo-
sed to interfere. The only danger, how'
ever, is in the party necessity Of the hour
Grant, to be consistent, having sustain
ed the Kellogg government in Louisiana
ought to sustain the Garland govern
ment in Arkansas, t being the legitimate
successor of the Baxter government.
But, then, should party necessity drive
congress into an unconstitutional inter
ference in our domestic affairs Grant, l
am satisfied, would become the willing
ing instrument of Congress The party
leaders, Morton, Conkling, Logan d Co
are becoming desperate. They see the
hand. writing upon the wall The result
of last falls elections foreshadowed their
downfall, hence the party is to be saved
if saved at all, by the most desperate eX-
pedients Instructions are to be got up
in the southern states, and the grossest
falsehoods and Misrepresentation are
to be published and spread broadcast
over the land about kukiur, phite leagues
etc, in order that the people may be
goaded and driven to desperation by
their oppressors Hence Sheridan, whose
temper and disposition was weIl-known
TO the President, was sent to Louisiana,
to open the ball The programme is to
be Grant and a third term, and the cry
of rebel, kukiur, rhHe leagues, etc is to
ring through the land during the next
Presidential canvass, in order that bad
men max obtain a new lease of power to
r ID and plmder and outragca a long sui
feri 9 peo lie. Having heretofore been
successful in poisoning the northern
mind against the southern people, they
confidently calculate that the same devi-
ces and the same false clamors, so sue,
cessrul in past elections. will again be
equally successful, and this is our great
est danger Only three or four days ago,
paper signed by l95 radicals, black and
white, most of them living in and about
Little Rock, endorsing Shcridan's infa
mou>ly false dispatch from New Orleans
who say they have, for years, carried
their lives in their hands, and yet these
persons walk the streets of Little Rock
with as much security as the best men in
the city. Powell Clayton, pretended
Senator from Arkansas, presented TINS
paper to the United States senate, two or
three days ago, knowing that it was ut
tcrly untrue. But he and bis associates
are in desperate straits, ana desperate
cxpcdents must be resorted to, to &C
complish desperate ends, hence the get
ing up and presentation to the United
States Senate, of this miserable docu-
mcnt. But whatever may be The necessl'
ties of the radical-republican party, and
whatever may be its atrocious schemlnss
to maintain its power, still have strong
faith that the government Of the people
under the auspices of his
ex cheney, A. II. Garland will be upheld
and maintained,
We are still crowded with business and
| am unable to see the end Of our scss-
ion. expected to be at home before
this, and feel that ought to be there,
but important business is pressing upon
us, aud the destiny Of the state is trcm
bling in unsteady scales, and | am reluc'
tant to leave my post, even for few
days
JESSE TURNER