Des Arc citizen., 1866-04-21
THE SOUTHERN SITUATION.
Evidence of Restoration as Witnessed 2
 Republican Correspondents.

The Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina correspondents of the New York Times furnish that journal the following statements, in reference to the Southern situation Gas 1t is:"
 Those who attempt to represent the present condition of public sentiment at the South toward the North as disloyal, resentful, rebellious, because 1t is not full of love, admiration and cordial desire for increased intimacy, forget that the Southern people have been conquered, stripped of all their property, spoken of and treated as whipped rebels, 1" and sub mitted to all the privations and indignities, and most of the disabilities which common ly attend defeat in civil war. They exag- crate also the extent of what they call the ''hostile feeling" of the South. They think that the people are ripe for another revolt, and only refrain from 1t because they have not the power to engage in It..
 There is not now disloyal man of any influence in the entire country. The peo- pie swore to be loyal, and have faithfully complied with their oath. Butthe feelings of kindness and coneiliation which existed in the early days of submission have been effaced by the contumely, the harsh treat ment, the threats and unceasing desire to punish and crush and humiliate, which have marked the acts and speeches of those who pretend to represent the Northern people, Every man yields obedience, to the United States Government and the laws. Every man regards secession as slowed away forever with the battle flags and insignia of separate nationality which he loved and cherished, but has lost never to regain. No one thinks or dreams of resistance to the Federal authority. Every man clngs to the Constitution as the only safeguard he possesses against utter de- struction. Every man knows he must be taxed and that his children after him must be taxed heavily to pay the national debts; ]; and no sane man thinks of repudiation as possible or desirable. As mass, the peo- pie regard the sudden emancipation of the negroes as both a political mistake and a gross injustice; but no one thinks of a restoration of slavery in any shape, or de sires to punish or i'll treat the negro, Or deny him any of the rights which belong to freedom and are necessary to his secure enjoyment of life, liberty, property and reputation. The conditions laid down by the President as precedent to the rehablll- tation of the revolutionary States were promptly and fully accepted, not from l feeling of concurrence in their justice, wisdom or propriety as abstract questions, but from feeling of the necessity of sub mission, and a willingness to do every thing that was honorable to obtain the promised restoration of peace and self-gov- ernment. Immediately after defeat in the field, when the South lay at the feet of the North, crushed, bleeding and powerless, kind words, kind treatment, forgiveness, forbearance anda helping hand would have evoked gratitude which would have grown, rapidly into feeling of fraternity and good will. and would have endured forever, effaced animosity from the most inveterate secessionist, made many doubt the proprl- ety of revolution, and done more to wipe out sectional feeling than all the bureaus and Constitutional amendments which the fertile brain of Mir. Thaddeus Stevens can devise in century. From the moment inc South submitted, her people were hon
 estlv and Joaa fde loyal in deed and word
 and tbey are and will remain 80, and every