Des Arc citizen., 1859-03-04

On tUe issues tDuS IlduC uP, 'HN e C''' Presidential contest of 1900 was fought, between Cen,ralism, represented by Adams and the Federal party, and State Rights, represented by Jefferson and the Democracy. The enemies ot State Rights then initiated mode of warfare 10 winch their descendants have since closely ad' hered. It was 10 prefer the untounded charge of hostility to the Union aganst every man who insisted that the States ouohl to resist infractions of the constltu- ton. Their persistent and false clamor of .disuniouist," "ultra,' 'tralsor," and the like. had then--as ii has had in later times and is designed to have in the lu- ture-. the effect to embtter many good citizens against the only doctrine really preservative of the Unlon as formed. But Jefferson maintained himself against these laspersions. He demonstrated that the true e-rights-mon IS the only friend ot constitutional Union, and that the Gen. ralist, who submits to federal usurpatlon and thereby invites other aggresslons, IS an enemy 10 the Union, however bolster ous may be his professions of devotion to 1t. The intelligence of the people was equal to the emergency. The Federal party was defeated and Cenualism repu- diated. State Rights principles were en- dorsed and Democratic supremacy firmly established Another somewhat more distant result, was the dissolution ot the old Federal organization and the aban- donment of that party name forever
 But, though that first champion of Gen. ,raIisrn has long been sepulchered in the goIgotha of heresies, yet Centralism itself, still hves and grasps as greedily as oi yore at the rights of the States and at the rights of the people. It's most formidable developments has been in the agitation ol the slavery question, and the right arm oi it's present strength is that mighty anti slavery party of the North, called ' Black Republican. Should that parry obtain control of the government, and administer Iitaccording to the declarations of it's au- thoritative platforms and recognized lead- CTS, what would be the consequences In the first place, the immense lever of oi- ficial patronage would be yielded directly against slavery in the States, every fed eral appointee, from the highest to the lowest, would be selected because of bis hostility to slavery Black Republicans would be imported, fresh from Yankee land, if necessary--and the means would thus be provided for implanting, fostering and strengthening anti-slavery sentiment in the midst of slaveholdng communities. In the second place, the interstate slave trade and slavery in the District of Co. lumba would be prohibited. In the third place, slavery would be forbidden in the territories, and no new slave State would be admitted into the Union.
 The idea that the agent may rightfully commit such acts of war on it's principals, or any one of them, is preposterous. The claim of right must rest on an utter denial of agency-on denial of compact between the States--on the bold and dan gerous assumption that the powers oi the general government come to 1t directly from the whole people of the Union, as one consolidated nation. This Is the doc trine of the Black Republican party. It lis Centralism, in its most unmitigaied form.
 If admitted, the power is thereby con ceded to the federal government. not on- ly to overthrow slavery, but also 10 ab- rogate any other domestic institution, and to destroy any other property right what soever. It annuls the constitulon-sub- stitutes mobocracy for its saving checks and balances--and makes the will of an unbridled majority the arbiter of all State and private interests. This may account for the fanatical furor with which the agrarian masses of the socalled I" free States" have embraced it.; and the land- owners the |" merchant princes" the sol i'd men" of the North may yet rue the day when they warmed this adder into life It may sting them as venomonsly as 1t now stings the South.
 Against Centralism, thus resurrected but one party offers opposition. It IS tho same that Jefferson founded, and has now as in 1900, his doctrine of State Right | for it's cornerstone and main support
 Between these parties, in 1860, battle will be fought, as portentous and ieartu as any combat the bloodiest war. Com
 pared with it, the Revolution, which es tablished, and the contest oi lSO0, whicl
 restored our liberties, will lose their gran'
 proportions and be dwarfed almost to me
 diocrity. It will be the life-and- -deatl grapple of the constitution with its loes- Ithe Armageddon, in this government, o Centralism and State Rights. Ii Blacl
 Republcanism trinmphs, it's shout of vlcto
 ry will be the dirge of the Union. I'm
 Southern States have been so often driver
 to the wall by the ferocious, brute force 0
 the North, and have so begirt themselve
 with solemn pledges and recorded vows |
 resist this crowning oolrage. that they wll
 scarcely humiliale themselves by furthel retraxts and surrenders. If not, = the di is cast"
 ARKANSAS PoLITICS-FUSIoNS AM COALITIONS.
 or our own State politics, fellow-citi
 zens, have itlle to say, except, that Il
 order to be prepared for the terrible dan
 ger that menaces the sovereignty of Ar
 kansas, the Old State Rights Guard shoul . muster and drill it's forces-organize it
 strength-place it's standard in the hand , of the " bravest of the brave," and, wit