, 1875-03-04


THE VOTE ON ARKANSAS.
Tho lessons Of Louisiana have not been
lost. The action Of tho 1iouse, Tuesday oven.
ing, in defeating Mr.. WAnp'a 1nonstrous prop.
osition to oscrturn the present Government
OF Arkansas anl substitute for it ono TINT IL
utterly ropugnaut to tho grcat minority OF
tho people Of TINT Stnto rs we'll rs of tue
United States, EXCUSES 1nany errors OF tho
past. The House did oven better than this.
1t adopted the resolution submitted by tie
majority Of the Committee which investigated
Arknnsas, and thus declared that "Eo intor-
ference with tho existing Government in 4ar.
kansas by my department Of tho United
States Government IL advisable" As tho
President hos announced that ho would 10
ruled by tho action Of Congress in this case, the
Arkansas problem mny DO taken rs definitely
settled. Attorney General WnnrAxa will hayo
to chain up tho dogs Of war ho has boen so
anxious to lot loose, and BnooEs, CLAYTON,
DORSEY, ct A., will hive to give up their plans
for electiug arkansas Governors at Washing-
ton. Now tint the long contest Is over, a
summary Of it will bo Of interest.
III 1872, Dnooks, Liberal, md Da1rEn, lie.
publican, rau for Governor. BnooKs was
probably elected. Tho CLAYTON and Dorsey
clique nevertheless counted BAXTER in.
BnooKs appealed to the courts, which decided
against him. Then ho appealed to the Legis-
latnre, which also decided adversely to LIS
claim Then ho turned Ralcal Republican,
ansl SO secured tho support OF CLAYTON aud
DoEsEr, tho very men who had counted him
out, but who had meanwhile quarreicd with
their own candidate, BAXTER. Relying upon
their influence ct Little Rock and
Arkansas, he appealed To arms and
tho President. Both decided ngainst
him. Lie disappeared, to the great relief of
honest men. Soon nfter his lust outbreak, q
Constitutional Convention was called in
Arkansas. 1t met, framed good-enough
Constitution, much better than tho one then
in force, and submitted it to the people. II
was ratified by an overwhelming yote. Tho
minority for 1t was something like $1,000 in
vote Of 100,0 600. There were somo technical
defects about the calling and tho proceed
lngs Of the Convention, as there have been,
according to Judge JAMESON, in tho manage
ment Of every such Convention held iu this
country. Ratification by tho people, how
ever, cured thess defects. 1t il q sottled
principle that Tic popular vote on
the adoption OF new Constitution
las the power to euro al technical or formal
defects. The people then act in their high
est capacity, Oh tho sovereign sourre of all
authority. What they will becomes low.
Under tho new Constitution of Arkansas, tile
Gubernatorial term for which BAxTzn and
DEooKs contcuded expired, and AUGUSTUS II.
GARLAND wis elected the now Governor.
Since thon tho stato las been ut peace for
tho first tims since 1861. Tile laws layo
been respected. The courts hnvo bcon open.
No class Of citizens is tlisfrauchised. lilo
negroes hold many of1}ccs. Thoro aro no
cases Of Ku.li1uxism. Life, limb,
AMI property arc rs safe rs in any frontier
State. business is improving, confidence re-
suro sign of internal peaco aud Of
fait]l in the future.
AIR. WAnD proposed that State, thus
and prospecting under tho Conati-
tuition and Government Of its free elojco,
should be ruthlessly intcrforcd with BY Fed
eral soldiery, deprived Of both Constitution
and Government, and handed over to uou
whose pretensionB TO place and power have
been denied by tho courts, BY tho Legislature,
by tho President. and now bv tho Hons, NJ
Representatives, AIr. WA1p il backo,1 in 1ia
impudent demand by a class Of ,nemI,er4
whose eompaniouship doea no credit to Dir.
WAnp or 10 anybody elso. Tho desperate
fight mado by the Arkansas carpct-bagEera is
explained by tho plight in whirl. dcfcat baa
left them. According to tho dispatchcs Of
this morning, they havo spont oil thew Ind in
tio casa aud arr no{v hcooorad
Fifty Of tho crowd aro under Indictment at
Little Rock, and dare not return thero.
BHoong Is utterly broken down.
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