Des Arc citizen., 1866-11-03
Radioalism is Civil War.

There never was a people who trusted their government to Radicals, without end
 ing in civil war. The Greek and the
 Roman Radicals, in the midst of their divisions, between the then Conservatives and Radicals, brought on all their civil wars All tho bad fellows of Athens, Sparta, Corinth, etc., were Radicals, and Clodius was a Radical, with his gangs and his gladiators Jacobinism IS French for Radicaism. Robespierrc was Radical, ditto Marat < Co.
 Here, in our country, Radicaism often puts on the garb of religion. So did it in Greece and Rome. It was ever full of 'the gods" and of omens, and the "entrails of beasts" Thcre never was such set of religious rascals as the Roman and Greek Radicals. The French Jacobins were so pious as to make goddess of a Cyprian and to worship her in the street The Lev Kallochs here, the Parson Brown lows, and all of that ilk,, are only more modern men of very old school. We do not mean to say, that even the Radical world is not full of pious, good men.-but these men are, generally, fanatics, such as Charlotte Corday, oi the Maid of Orleans ---and have not the least idea of the prac- tical world they live in.
 Of course. men of such schools, and such minds, can never govern, not even themselves. They brought about in this country one civil war. and endless taxation upon us, and are rapidly getting up anoth- CT. They threaten us with one from Baltimore, and they are doing everything to get up one in Missouri aud Tennessee, Al about us, they are encouraging an i'm peachmont of the President, when they know that means civil war How mer- chant, how capitalist, how man of pro perty of any kind, can vote with, or work for parties in the hands of such men, pug zles and conlounds all logic and history. As we have often alleged, Radicalism is no. matter of opinion but peculiar moral and mental organization. The dcf nition given by the Express is accurate as matter of history, but defective as of moral idiosyncrasy. These people called Radicals have gathered within the scope of their potency vast numbers who may be withdrawn from the sphere of their influence. There are more men who fol- low Radical leaders and condemn them, than of those who follow and approve. And while these peculiar specimens of hu manity have figured in all revolutionary movements in all ages and countries, driv the timid, and dazzling the weak by an earnestness ill pursuit of evil as genuine as that of wisest statesmen, they always find antipodesin every scheme of religious or political benefaction They nerermake concessions 4 Radical is always radically right, and all others radically wrong They assent to no compromises because they are gods and incapable of error, They detest those who would reconcile differences in the interest of peace, order, prosperity and good government. They were wont to declaim about submission ists," and now have another clap-trap catchword which has musical sound as it glides from their lips or when read from their journals. Theirlatest ,'blind bridle, ; to be clapped on the head of all asses who will be led by them, is called Ca go-bc- tween" He who adopts and uses this term is always brave fellow He has ever done his country good service. He has given his people good advice. He never prophesied in vain. He never ran ted and roared and threatened. He never assumed to know everything. It was never shown by recent historical facts that he knew nothing Let us all wear the blind bridle of Radicalism, Northern .or Southern, and again go mcrr.ly to the
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