Des Arc citizen., 1860-06-02
The Kty Stone State.

We take pleasure In transferring to our colums an extract from a recent editorial of the Philadelphia Argus. While tue State which proudly wears the title of the Key Stone of the Federal Arch, furnishes men that entertain and dare express such sentiments, we will continue 10 cherish high hopes of the safety of our country.
 The best interests of society are being immolated upon the altar of fanaticism The vaanche of Abolilionism has already acquired fearful momentum, and threa. tens, in it's downward course, to crush out all that is near and dear to us as people.
 A few years since, handful of insane enthusiasts in New England started this doctrine and ignoring the peace, the happiness. and the prosperity of twenty. five millions of the white race, and for the sake of an ilnpracticable abstraction, de- voted themselves, through mistaken philanthropy, to the amelioratlon of the condition of those of our four millions, of the African race; and for the sake of this comparatively small number of negroes, they are willing to crush out and des- troy, at all hazards, five times the num- Der of lha, race to which the world is in. debted for Christianity and all the improve. menls valuable to man. For this fanatcal idea they would break up and destroy Il nation winch stands among the first pow CTS of the earth, and presents the model ~c .L based upon the best interests of the gov erned, and calculated in the administra- lion of it's powers, to secure the peace, happiness and prosperity of its people.
 la their march of fanatical instruction they have already broken up churches, and with the pulpit in their trains, they have impeded the cause of Christianity, wound ing Christ in the house of his friends They have already broken up the great Wing party, which work was performed m the defeat of Henry Clay, by Abolition votes, in lS44 They afterwards split mo fragments the American party And now, the last national party in the country the hope of the patriot and the conservative great Natonal Democratic party-ls endangered, and likely to be destroyed hy the introduction into its councils of this Abolition, free soil ele ment.
 Tue "enemy have come in like flood. The spirit of tue great conservative masses of the country must arouse themselves, and set up barrier against 1t, no matter what the maternal. The destructive course of the Abolition hordes, who, like the Iocusts of Egypt, now swarm through the land, carrying peslllence m their flight and poison Tn lheIr repose, must be crushed out. This eternal nigger ques- lion must be ignored, or if not, the result will be the dissolution of Cur government
 Let this Gordlan knot be cut. The question is one be,weena crazy sentiment and gfea. controlling fact. Our South ern brethren cannot permit any inlerfer ference with their slave institutions. and consequently the struggle IS between Black RepubIcanlsm and the perpeluity of our country Either Abolltionlsm or the na- ton must goio wreck and rum
 a The lover ol his country, the good citl- zen, will not, in an issue of this kind, hesItate moment. This IS the time of the natlon's peril; and every other consid- eratIon should be laid aside in order to preserve the country
 Men of other partles have looked to the integrity of the Democratic party as the las, sheet anchor of the natlon That party is now drifting from it's moorings, and dls- may sits upon every counenance. We call upon every Democrat for the support of union and harmony, for concession and calm councils. that the nation may be saved that when v the enemy shall come in like food" we may be able to '''raise up standard agains. hm
 Con SAVE TIRE REpUBLIc!