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Excerpt from The Brooks and Baxter War: A History of the Reconstruction Period in Arkansas In less than a decade after the surrender of Lee the Southern States, one after another, threw off the governments erected under the military bills of Congress. They re-established governments in accordance with ancient usages, inherited from the colonies, and the rules of home government reserved to them in the Constitution of the United States. The re-awakening was irresistable and phenomenal. By these sketches I have attempted to trace the tiology of this material and moral palingenesis in Arkansas. I have spent my youth in Arkansas, and I watched with deepest interest the successive stages of its disenthralment. In the early days of its settlement chance assemblages of adventurers from the older States, at the river towns on the Mississippi, committed lawless deeds on its border that gave it a reputation which did not apply to the interior. The caricaturist of the Eastern press selected it as the scene of droll characters and incidents - the creatures of his imagination - and found a never-failing source of merriment in the tales of the "Arkansas Traveler." Young off-shoots from a civilization which had grown too exacting, perhaps, coming to the State and yielding a credulous faith in the reality of these burlesques repeated them, and fancied that they thus enhanced their own accomplishments, not fully appreciated at home. It got to be called the "Home of the bowie-knife and refuge of the cut-throat." The "gentle" "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" approves the bowie-knife - pronounces it the "Roman gladius, modified to meet the daily wants of civil society." Others, who never visited the State, or the South even, applied their caricatures to the Southern States generally. The gifted Bret Harte, accomplished by the amenities of "Roaring Camp, " and learned in the magic of "Ah Sin, " has lately attempted to borrow them for use in distant Scotland. His etchings of M'liss and Yuba Bill are far below the art of Cable's "Les Demoiselles' Plantation" or Miss Murfree's "Drifting Down Lost Creek." His lampoon of "Elsie Kirby, " whose "Maw" has invested twenty thousand dollars in a "syndicate" for obtaining by her daughter's marriage a share in the title and estate of a Scottish "laird, " contains none of Nature's touches, and is a new role for a Southern girl. On her first meeting with the American Consul (a former claim-jumper from Scott's Camp, on North Fork), the author makes this feminine type of American thrift and modesty say: "It was mighty good of you to come and see me, for the fact is, I'm a Southern girl, and did not admire going to your consulate - not one bit. I never was 'reconstructed, ' either. I don't hanker after your gov'ment. I reckon I ain't been under the flag since the wah. I'll just run up and see if Maw's coming down. She'd admire to see you. You would n't think I was half engaged to Malcolm, would you?" Ab
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