Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-27
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 We are unable to perceive why tho people constituting the Radical party ot | the North should desire the ruin of tho Southern people. We can conceive oi no motive at all creditable to human nature that may plead justification ot feelings so bitter as those entertained | by the victors of the North. Has not that section the prestige, the offices, the honors, the glory? Has it not the Government to wield and does it moi wield it Constitution or no Constitu- ton? Grant is hero, followed by ovations wherever he goes, while his great antagonist is ill retirement, and under the ban of the Government, not daring to receive homage, and scarcely to speak. The chief of the Confederacy has been in irons, and is now in dun- geon awaiting trial for his life. The once dreaded South is no longer form idable. If the prostrate section once controlled the Government, it has now no part in its administration. Without being heard, it is commanded to obey. It has neither money nor credit. Its losses of property by the operations of war, amount to billions. The land is only left, and that, having lost it's val ue, is retuMning to the wilderness. d
 But the South rebelled and attempted to destroy the Government. Have not the people, or a part of them, of every government on earth at some time or other rebelled? Is not every civilized State indebted for the amelioration of its institutions to the spirit of resis- tance, of actual resistance, to oppres- sion? Governments become corrupt and tyrranical when the people, from ignorance or other causes, become care- less of their rights. Certainly it is treason to oppose with arms a govern ment to which one owes allegiance. But when that opposition rises to the proportions of war, the law, Of nations declares that that no treason attaches to those who otherwise would be insur- gents. So it is in the case of the South. Even Butler will admit that it is not proper to hang eight millions of peo- pie. But still, these people, the popular verdict says, must be punished. It says more--they must be ruined in for tune and rendered forever incapable of asserting any right to which they were born. The people of the South must bleed through Davis and Lee. When the death pang strikes their hearts, it must, sweeping down the cord of sym pathy, touch those of the whole South ern race. sigit H#
 On the plea of interest, we look in vain for justifiable motive for running the South. Poor as we are, the little cotton we have scraped together, has gone to the North, and been returned in the form of manufactured articles that constitute the business and creates the wealth and power of that section. But the deficiency ofproduction inevit- able, if the destructive policy prevails, will cripple Northern enterprise and power. The more the South produces, the more she can purchase. Is the North satisfied with the present ability of the South to produce? If so, we must conclude that she has reached the highest point of her prosperity and does not wish to go higher. This is not probable. It is more probable that her vengeance blinds her to her interests, as it does to the noble instincts of hu- man nature.- Memphis Ledger.