The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-11
CESAR IN ARKANSAS.


which must if consum mated, work Writ
revolution.
The population Of Arkansas at the Ia
census was about $4,000, or 1862, 900 whit
and about $4,000 colored At the cleo j,
for Congress in 1870 the total vote was SO, CT
being majority of about 5000 for the Repu
hcan candidates. In 1872 the total vote
Arkansas for President was 49, $50, majori'
OF 3146 having been given for Grant. At thl
election there were two Republican cand
dates for Governor, Brooks being supporte
by the supporters Of Greeley, and Baxter b
the supporters of Grant, receiving about tn
same vote as the Grant electors. The election
was quiet, but perhaps not wholly free from
Frauds.
In the subsequent condensation between
Brooks and Baxter, Grant recognized the lat
Ter and sustained him. BY the Supreme
Court of Arkansas it was judicially determined
that Baxter was the legal Governor, and the
Baxter Legislature was pronounced the true
one by the same tribunal By the advice and
with the approval of Baxter and the friends
of the Grant administration, that Legislature
called convention, and the people approved
1he call by vote of $4,000 for, and s, 400
against. Delegates were chosen, the conven-
ton was formed, a constitution framed and
submitted to the people. At peaceful cleo
zion it was ratified by vote of rs, 697 against
24,607
1t was in compliance with the provisions Of
this Constitution that an election was stimuli
taneously held for Governor and State officers,
at which Hon. A. II. Garland was elected
without opposition, receiving 1851 votes.
A full Legislature was chosen at the same time,
and soon after, in November under Baxter
and the new Constitution, at an election where
there was no disturbance, G5, 900 white and
colored men voted for members of Congress,
with an average Conservative majority of
about 10000 votes.
Bearing the foregoing facts in mind, facts
which are Of record and which fully establish
the legal, constitutional and republican char
acter OF the existing government in Arkansas,
the reader is respectfully asked to glance over
sgain the following:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, j
Washington, February 8. 1876. {
To tho Senate of the United States:
Herewith | have the honor to send in ac-
cordance with the resolution Of the Senate of
the third instant all the information in my
possession not heretofore furnished relating
TO affairs IN the State of Arkansas
1 will venture to express the opinion that all |
the testimony shows that in the election of
1872, Joseph Brooks was lawfully elected
Governor of that State; that he has been I'M
lawfully deprived of the possession OF his
office since that time; that in 1874 the consti-
tuition of the State was by violence intimida-
non and revolutionary proceedings over
thrown, and new constitution adopted, and
q new State government established
These proceedings, if permitted to stand,
practically ignore all rights by mnorities in
all the States also. What is there to prevent
each OF the States recently readmitted to Fed I
aral relations on certain conditions from I
changing their constitutions and violating '
heir pledges, if this action in Arkansas is ac-
Iuesced in? | respectfully submit whether
precedent so dangerous to the stability of '
. State Government, if not of the National t
government also, shoulda be recognized by S
congress. C
! earnestly ask that Congress will take u
ehnite action IN this matter to relieve the
Executive from any acting upon questions
,hich should be decided by the legislative
ranch Of the Government.
U. S. GRANT.
Thus two years and three months after the B
lection for Governor in Arkansas, Grant pre- n
ends to discover that Brooks, the Greeley or 3
usion candidate, beat his friend Baxter, and al
lat Brooks has been all along, and will re- p
ain until November, 1876, the true and b
gh.ful Governor Of the State One of st
rants reasons for upholding Kellogg was 81
at he was recognized and confirmed h'
7 the Supreme Court of louisiana but fr
soon as his Radical friend Baxter ceases tn
be Governor, Chief Justice Grant over
les the Supreme Court of Arkansas, goes co
ok twenty-seven months into the history Of te
o State, and there finds that Brooks, his co
emy and opponent, was then, has been all We
,ng, and is now the rightful Governor jus
lgustus Il. Garland, the unanimous choice WI
seventy-seven thousand voters in State slr
lose total population is only five hundred WI
ousand, and whose total vote never reached
e hundred and four thousand acc
He suggests that the subsequent "proceed as
=, the submitting of q proposal for con 40.
alton to the people, the meeting and work 'of
such convention, the ratification of such TO
lvention by majority of SO, $40 in the full wo
/. freest and fairest election ever held the OH
elton under such Constitution Of Governor acc
other State officers and Legislature and ioS
srwards of members of Congress from her OF
T Congressional Districts that these pro- Ed
dings should not be permitted to stand"
ought not to be acquiesced in. He asks Ke
,gress to act in the matter. He asks Radi- tire,
Senate and House to authorize him to do us'
Arkansas what he has done with their sane us.S
/ in Louisiana. ... can
[e asks the present Radical House to eject me-
dvance four Democrats from the incoming be
nocratic House. He wants the privilege to ~ ~
o the will Of the people, and to set up in Gle,