Des Arc citizen., 1866-02-28

By~ Time, the great destroyer of human enterprises and revelator of Divine will, of- ten teaches man strange lessons In the last four years it has taught us lessons of importance, lessons that will endure while memory last, and that are calculated in their nature to benefit, in that they show forth the folly of man and the inaccuracy of human undertakings.
 Four years ago and there could be heard throughout this broad land of ours naught but the clanking of arms and the fierce de- termined expressions ofpassion The de- mon of acar had mounted his blood stained charger and with the cry of oppression, oppression, moved to action United .South. Homes, country, dear ones, all that made life sweet were cheerfully bro't as sacrifices to the alter of duty. The wrongs that the South had experienced at the hands of the North rose mountain high, demanding resistance, aye resistance unto blood. She did resist; to what ex- tent, but Shiloh, Mvtreesboro, Per1yviNe and the thousand other battle .fe 'ds can tell. Resisted till homes were made deso- late, property destroyed, the hearts of dear ones made to bleed, the nation baptized in blood and sorrow-then submitted, not cringlngly as the whipped spaniel submits to his master, not cowardly as the guilty culplit submits to the lav, but boldly honestly, conseientiously as the minor right submits to the greater wrong.
 In this submission she lost no dignity, sacrificed no honor; but gained the appro- bation of the civilized world The terms of her submission will not be violated.- The peace that disappointed so many brave men will not be broken. All that the South promised will be done.
 What is she doing now; is she with folded arms and with paralized energies, idly lamenting her fate, and foolishly vast ing the crumbs that have been left her. No; time does not teach such lessons She has been awakened to the truth that she must work or periSh-there are none to help her. Depending on their manhood their hosesty and the integrity of their purposes; the people of the South have placed their shoulders to the wheel to build up their homes to efface the marks of a destroying foe, and to call forth the smiles of prosperity, which for so long time have slept. In this, they are succeeding everywhere-throughout our broad land can be seen the husbandman at his blow; proving his earnestness by refusing to look behind. The sound of the Mechanics hammer, tells of improvement everywhere Our own State and Town gives abundant evidence of this fact. But ah there is a work that none can do-none but Him who afflicts that He may heal. Widows cannot be omiorted-brothers cannot Luzarus like, be called to life again.
 To what do all these things tend? We answer to our own interests The loss O property; the devastation of our country call loudly for labor, and make of us { working people. The loss of blood; O good and great men of Husbands, Broth CTS, Sons, Friends, and those that wer, more than friends-make of us united people. Not united by worldly interes alone, but by the common tics of blood than which none are stronger. More than this; our dispositions have been mellowed cnnscionco aroused the love of truth in creased. Truth and principle yet burn lively upon the altar of the Southern heart lending to her sons strong incentives to fulfill all that they have promised; aye, to l the very letter. As they boldly and fear lessly went forth to defend; so are they a willing to earnestly engage in building up I their country, establishing her laws and $ protecting her citizens.
 . War has lost his eharms-the din of : battle is no longer heard. Peace, White s Robed and Heavenly, has unfolded her wings; flown to earth, and taught us, as commissioned by Heaven, that vengeance belongeth to the Lord and He will repay