Des Arc citizen., 1860-02-01
pry AND SCISSORS.


 gress, that 10 vote for a Democrat 10
 Speaker is the last thing he would do We see, however, in examining the re
 port of the 4th ultino, that he has done
 that " last thing and voted for Horace
 F. Clark, of New York, whom he charac' !. ,erized a, the time as an " Anti-Lecomp- ton. Anti. Buchanan, and Ishmaeli,ish Democrat" Thus it appears that he was determined if he voted for Democrat al lall, 10 vote for the meanest, dirtiest and the one nearest akin 10 the Black Republicans in Congress. Such is MT. Ethridge's taste. .Non disputandum de gustibus.
 -The Nashville Pafriot favors the idea of sending Missionaries among the northern people for the purpose of cor rec,ing the prevailing sentiments upon the subject of slavery. It says:
 That (No.thern anti-slayery) sentl- ment must be changed or materially modI- fled. We believe that il can be done, and fairly done We do not insist that the Free States shall become Slave States, but we do insist that they shall not only regard slavery as an institution recognized by the Constitution, but that they shall re- gard il as just for us of the South to hold slaves as long as we desire. We believe that such sentiment can be produced Tn the Free States. How? We answer, by such speeches as that of MT. O'Conor; by bold, open, manly treatment oi the subject; by the enlightenment oi the masses of the North. There are thous- ands of honest patriotic, misguided men in the Northern States, now voting with the Black Republicans, who have been induced to do so by the gross misrepre- sentations of their press and their pollti- cal leaders. Undeceive them: show them slavery as it is, and they will abjure their allegiance to the Higher Law, and agaln become devoted citizens of the Union. We must have more such speech es there as Mr. O'Conor's. Circulate, by the thousand, such as that of Gov. John- son, recently delivered in the Senate. Learn them that the slave labor oi the South is not inimical to the free labor of the North, but that both are engaged in common struggle against the expressions of accumulated capital. Let our South ern men take the field. Let us detail Johnson, and Nicholson, and Harris, and Stephens, and Davis, and Hunter, and Breckinridge, and Brown. and corps of others for the work. Let us no longer confne the fight against Black Republi- canism 10 Southern ground. Let us car ry the war into Africa. Let the battle cry be !" Carthage delenda est" Abolition ism must be crushed out.
 We most cordially endorse the sugges- ton of the Patriot. Let the missiona- res be furnished by all means. It would rejoice us, in the coming canvass, to see such men as Bell and Critienden on the stump. contending before the northern masses that slavery is morally, socially and politically right. They have in an eminent degree the faculty of making the worse appear the better reason" and Ill so good cause they would force the granite hills of New England, 10 prate of the injustice done by northern abolitionists to Southern Institutions. We long to hear the dispassionate logic of the one and the burning eloquence of the other caught up by the chill winds of Massa- chusetts, borne slowly along upon the breeze's that fan the home of Seward, echo and re-eoho upon the shores of On tario and Erie, until finally lost upon the broad prairies of the mighty West. Qh for south, a united south, a south that with one heart and one voice would stand up in defence of her dearest rights. We are struggling for life the Black Repub- lican party for sickly principle. When we lose, we lose all. It can never be too much regretted that we have in the southern States certain political leaders. who for purposes of party success or per sonal .aggrandisement, are ever ready to parry every direct blow that is made upon our enemies, by feint at southern dsu- nionists. When we can stand all togeth- CT, cease all pickering, lay aside all prejudice and minor differences, and de- mand our constitutional rights, not in the tone of craven applicants, but in the tone of demandants,' then we will have that union, ' which" in the words of the im- mortal Jackson " led our fathers through a sanguinary struggle to glorious inde- pendence-that sacred union perfected by the Constitution"
 -Hon. John Letcher was inaugural ted Governor of Virginia on the 2d ult His first message was transmitted 10 the 1 legislature on the 7lh. The high charac- ter of John Leicher, with reasonable men of all parties, as patriot, an enlightened statesman and moderate partizan will pro- cure for his message the dispassionate consideration of all, and the important l rf ].