Des Arc citizen., 1866-06-09
BE FIRM, PRUDENT, PATIENT.

treason, out 0f Wnlcn the law grew.
 BE FIRM, PRUDENT, PATIENT.
 By insisting that the South should be garrisoned by negro troops; by the pas sage of odious, unconstitutional enactmcnts intended to elevate the negro over the white man; by every conceivable mode of oppression, and measure of malice and re- venge, the Radicals have striven, with ruthless revolutionary persistence, to har- ass and provoke the Southern people into the commission of acts of violence, and to bring about bloody collision of races, in order to give them pretext for disfran- chising and still further expressing both the States and the people of the South. They have cultivated all the arts of con spiracy with a success that would have shamed old TITUs OATES in his palmiest days With them, islander has become a science, a fine art, and wholesale trade, involving the employment of hundreds of travelling professors of mendacity, and hun dreds of thousands of capital.
 But their diabolical lmachinations against the loyalty and good faith of our people have been all in vain. After all their eff. forts to embroil the South, they are still without a pretext. With patience and long suffering forbearance never equalled, and looking to the future and to God for their reward, and for justice, the Southern people still stand firm in their determina- tion not to be driven, evem in appearance, from their position of perfect acquiescence and patient endurance.
 To deny the South representation, to keep the Southern people from voting in the next Presidential election, and to rob, wrong and oppress them generally by every species of legislative enactment and military tyranny, were, however, with the Radicals, foregone conclusions. They would be glad to have pretext, if the sensitive, excitable, high spirited Southern CTS would only be so imprudent as to give them one but, with or without pretext, by intrigue or by fouler means, the South must be kept out of the Union, out of Con- gress, in State of vassalage, disfranchised, degraded, virtually enslaved. This con- summation was absolutely indispensable to their retention of political power, and to the election of the Radical candidate for President in 1868; and nothing, Cons,itu- tion, nor laws, right, reason, truth nor jus tice, must be permitted, for one moment, to stand in the way.
 And thus, so far as the present Congress is concerned, the matter now stands. With a working two-thirds majority, ac- quired by wicked violations of law and jus tice, by infamously fraudulent expulsion and deprivation of duly elected members, they are going on, from day to day, to the perfection of their measures of oppression riding rough-shod over the Presidential veto, over the Constitution, and over the liberties of the people. And all this, too, by Congress ,chich is really no Congress
 "a Congress in which eleven great States Qately, at immense trouble and expense, "whipped back into the Union,') are de- nied representation
 The grand, peaceful remedy for this sad condition of affairs is the ballot-box; and there would be no doubt that this remedy would be successfully applied at the next general elections, were it not that the rev olutionary Radicals, ignoring the organic law, have managed by fraud and intrigue to distranchise one-third of the American people. They have taken away the ballot box from population of from eight to ten millions! And our last and only hope, short of a counter-revolution now is, in the conservative Republican and Democratic masses of the North. If hey can succeed in out voting the extremists at the ap- preaching fall elections, all may yet be well. The Southern people can do much to help them to victory--and they mast do ,t, or they and the republic are lost They can help their brethren of the North in the coming elections by doing nothing and saying nothing, that can by the utmost ingenuity be tortured into the semblance of disloyalty or disaffection towards the Government; by quietly submitting to the laws, however unjust or oppressive, until they are repealed or declared void by the proper tribunals; and by. cultivating a spirit of reconciliation and fraternity be. tween the lately discordant and belligerant sections, of now forever reunited repub. lic.- Memphis Argus.