Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-01-05

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 c57 We are authorized to announce VIM. F. ASHLEY a candidate for election to the ofice of Mayor of the City of Little Rock at the ensu- ing January election.
 
 A New Year.
 When Caleb Cushing said few weeks since We are in the midst of revolu- tion," he uttered great truth, the full sig niiicance of which Le did not fully compre- hend. We ore in the midst of revolu- tion, and what will be the final result no human wisdom can foresee. We only know that the entire conlederacv is disin- tegrated. The dream of the patriot and the philanthropist is brohC n. The enthu- siast in fancy looking forward to the gigan- tic Republic, whose eagles, emulatng the bird of Rome, should glance from the ris- ing to the setting sun, will behold with dis may the wings iluttering and dropping, which once rose proudly and defantly in inc air The poet will no longer bewail the dying year. IIia annual lament for the good and the beautiful that have passed away, will be lost in deeper, more earnest regrets over all expiring Republic. Great God! can you look without emotion on the broken and shattered ruins of once elo- rious Union? X mine has exploded be- meath the magnificent temple, which with open doors offered protection and happi- ness to tho oppressed and en8laved of the whole earth. The fiery ordeal through which VIC have passed, did not sufficiently aaaeal and purify that portion of the con 1ederacy, whose religion, even in'tho early days of the republic, was darkened with fanaticisn, and whose philosophy was blended with a purilanical cant. Grovel ling aelfshness, intIamel by demagogues and mountebanlla under the odious form of religious bigotry, the most odons of all the damninabIe phases of populardelusion, has at last produced it's legitimate fruits disunion and revolution.
 Thereader, gIaneing overtho proud pages of American history, will pause in mute amazement to Gnl that nation so great :. and so prosperous should voluntarily checl, < it's high career, and that these States, 2 Which stood the storm when waves were rough, SEoula ii d sunny hour taI of,
 Like ,tnfS that have gone dewn at sea,
 Wtef heaven Was all tranquility"
 If misanthrope he will close the chroni- cie of humiliation with fiendish joy over the insecurity of human ambition; if q philosopher, he will weigh in a balance cause and effect and trace back modern ia natieinIn to the intolerance of the Purtan; if all indignant patriot, he will throw down the annals of national degradation, and in- hSak ke the curses of heaven on those arro-
 sxnaGnnnl lr47k~ha North, stitution, and in the madness of the hour threatened to Subjugate the South. New England is the hot-bed of traitors. Med dlesome, biSoted, crazy, her religion is la- naticism and her philanthropy hypocrcy. She is an intolerant harlot, who would teach the world to be virtuous, and in the very intensity of egotism and selfshness she amogates to herself morality that she does not possess, piety that is all cheat, and philanthropy which would desolate our hearlhs and fre-sides, and which has already shattered to pieces the fair fabric of the Union
 Standing by this wreck of the past. sur veying the mournful mcmentoes of pres tine spendor, we can but shed tear over the bright dreams that are sepulchred for ever, and conseienciously labor to recon struct anl rebuild nationality, perhaps less magniicient, but more permanent and more enduring Human ken cannot read the future. Beyond the horizon of the present stretches out the dim and shadowy laud-hcreafter. But no occasion can arise, so great and so momentous that men will not he found equal to the emergency, if they will be true to themselves. Great dangers lie before us. Times of revolution are ai- ways times of danger We may not be able to restore the Union, torn down by the fanatieism of the North, but we will have before Us the material from which we can create republic greater and stronger than that which sprung from the revolution of '76. The new year dawninS upon Us is pregnant with great events. Let the good and true men of the land be equal to the ordeal through which we are destined to pass, and we will reach in safety the pro- missed land that flows with milk and honey, of peace and prosperity.
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 The Arkansas Institute for the Education
 of Deaf-Mutes.
 We are requested to state that the school for the deaf and dumb is now open. The location has been fixed at Fort Smith, and Mir. Matthew Clark appointed principal.