Des Arc citizen., 1866-07-28
WE ARE MAKING HISTORY.
OF PRAIRIE COUNTY.


 When this language was uttered by MT. Lincoln, there was truth in 1t. The red pages of American history were being made at fearful cost, the best blood of the country. That part of our history has been made, and it stands recorded that a brave and honest people have been thwart- cd in designs they thought honorable to themselves, and conducive to their inter- csts That they have fought, many ofa them died, been defeated, and have yield cd submission-all of which conditions find many parallels i'll history. But no where de we find in the history of the world, pages that will compare with those we arc now making Why is it that the South must be made the "IshmaeP amongst nations? Why is it that when her honor has been pledged, her faith so well kept, she is not allowed those privile- gcs and rights that even her enemies de- clared could not be taken from her? When first the tocsin of war was sounded Freedom was the cry of the now powerful party; freedom of speech, of thought, of action but alas for the consistency of mal- ice. Now that wars dread cry is hushed, that the object for which old earth was made drunk with blood is accomplished. the cry of Freedom is hushed, and central ize is raised, In other words, the many who harped and canted on that precious text, "all men are created equal now say the majority are inferior to the minority, and clamor for government in which the minorwise and superior, must govern the major, foolish, and inferior. Although the conditions upon which the South sur rendered, have all been faithfully kept, still is she spit upon and grossly insuted, in all that pertains to the honesty of legis- lation. Political imbeciles sit in the pla- ces of state, and disgrace and shame their people by their perfidy and ignorance. Tennessee blushes for her Brownlow i; Missouri must hide her face when the long list of her offcials-many never before known beyond their own barn yard, if they were so fortunate as to have one-is pub- lished to the world. Yet, notwithstanding the hand of time is guiding the pen, and that many pages of history have been made and are being made-at which an Ameri- can people must ever blush still there are some North and many South, that would remedy the evils by making the future so bright as to shade in its perfectness the imbecility and folly of the present The time is now, when the American people must prove 10 the world that the Union is restored, not only in name, but in principle, in interest, and in feeling. We are now doing nothing-the South is not represent cd, in short, she has no identity--in view of these things, and that no more such history may be made, let us unite with good patriotic men of every state North or South, and forgetting prejudice enter with all our might into the working out of our own salvation, although it may be with fear and trembling. We should by all means send delegates to the Philadelphia convention. We should look with jealous regard to the formation of our legislative bodies. We should forget who we were, in the remembrance of where we are, and go at once to work, to make history of MI h; ob x,,a ,,- -;O ,,o4 k o.la,,>uI