Des Arc citizen., 1866-02-20

faith. And as we bore our part in tearing down, so we are willing, ready and anxious
 to bear our part in building up our native
 land-bnt more especially our own town.
 Let us then work together in common cause with common sympathy-to re- build our shattered fortunes. We have a common interest to subserve socially, mor- ally and politically Our skies are as bright as of yore. The genius of liberty is still abroad in our noble, chivalrous land of the South, where enlightened minds with virtuous manners can never be enslaved. Among such apeople ,liber- ty first chose, and has ever chosen her favorite abode, till there arose a demon under the name of freedom, (fanaticism) who on plains had the stride of giant, and on rocks and mountains the hexibility of serpent whose career has been marked with blood through the fairest parts of the earth, and the most civil portions of mankind, like the footprints of Calayulas horse in which even the grass refused to grow.
 We feel that in tho late struggle we were out numbered and pyerpowered, even vanquished and whipped, but not con ouered; for even "truth crushed to earth shall rise again, the eternal years of God are hers" In the eyes of the world, the South stands today vindicated as chiv alrous and patriotic people, whose equals are seldom,.. and whose superiors are no where to be found in the annals of our, race. The ill -fated Poles, the down trod- den sons of Erin, and the unfortun''e Z 'Hungarians, have each in their day chai- lenged the wonder admiration ans symPa- thy of the world but the Soutiern otates of North America, have by leeds oi noble daring, engraved their nsmes highest on the chronometic pillar Then who of the South would be So base as to deny his sec tion or the hallqwcd place of his nativity, or refuse to ceitribute his mite in recon asd re-building so noble, So glo- r;ons q land. Let us then feel proud of mir olo.ious heritage; let us be emulous in o,f efforts to develop the mighty enter ,dse of the South, and push forward every audable enterprise that has for its object he improvement of our own, our native south.s Let us feel that the dissemina- ion of knowledge and spirit of invention Ire abroad in our land. That we are again he architects of our own fortunes, having rich, luxuriant soil waiting to be remu- lerative, admirably adapted to the growth md development of all the cereals-;s yell as the far-famed King Cotton We lave the strongest and most fattering in- lucements to put forth our efforts, in pushing forward the rising energies of )es Arc. Recur to the appearance and of our town six months ago compare what it then was, with what it is LOW, Then there was apparently no life, 10 energy, no business here-look at hings now-springng, moving, pushing. tiring, as ifihe Talsmanic wand had been over the town. Fifteen busi- less houses, two hotels, saw-mill, shops f nd other appendages necessary to consti- ute a thriving business town, and in this rray of evidence of earncstness, on the 'art of the citizens of Des Arc, we would nodestly introduce the DeS Arc Citizen, anne familiar in other days to the older members of this town and surrounding k ountry-offering our efforts and energies n furthering the prospects and interests f Des Are, and the country adjacent that if we conduct a faithful nd efficient sheet we will be sustained he rewards of merit are sure, and to the intelligence of discriminating public we ubmit ourselves, and will cheerfully abide heir verdict.
 DIES ARC.