Des Arc citizen., 1866-09-01

v The States were governments by themselves the mosaic of boundry was the most beautiful l in the world---the wheat field nodded to the rice--the corn to the cotton-the Northern pine to the Southern palmetto--the snow bawl | to magnolia and we were all happy together. I and when the labours of the day were over, the fisherman of New England and the farmer of the West sat by their firesides and talked of the greatness of our Union. And the new l conner from foreign shores gather at sundown l his little ones about him and told them legends of the wonderful Faderland-the dusky la borcr of the South blessed with muscle but not with brains, sang and danced on the plan tation lawns, and DEMOCRACY was in the hap piness of the people fully realized. -a.e 9 Then came the fifeand drum, ts 1 si To arms .+---To ARMS! 9j q s89
 By the thousands, and thousands our men went forth! A blue wave reaching from the 1 Atlantic to the Father of Waters! On foot 1 and on horse. Muskets and sabre--shot and shell The men from the pines are now corpses under the palmettoes The warriors l from the wheat fields the corn fields and pral- ries are sleeping in the rice and cotton heids' l The lovers from the rose bush are at rest meath l the sod their life blood reddened under pale magnolia Widows and orphans--debt, pow erty, unjust taxation and bigoted intolerance now fill the land. This is the work of Repu6- hcaaism. We never saw these sights-we never heard the whistling bullet--the shriek- l ing shell--the whirring rifed cannon ball-- the groans of the dead and dying, while the l people were true to Democracy Democracy made the country-Republicapi impoyer- l ished it--made widows of our women, corpses and cripples of our en-orphans of our chil- l dren--slaves of poor white -arstocrats of dishonest, selfish, ease loving Bond Hold l CTS. tgff tp ga eN fsgtua8 HHG lHglJ
 The nation has tried Democracy and Re publicanism.
 We have tried statesmanship and buH'oon- cry. 9p es @ ts t@1t a34'8 tssi''i
 We have tried wisdom and foolshness.
 4, We have tried justice and tyranny. s4om We have tried law and order and mobs and 1 disorder.
 io We have tried minding our own business aud interfering with that which concerned us not. ii b8s99
 We have tried peace and war.
 We have tried low taxation and high
 We have tried equal taxation and Republi- can favortism.
 Wehave tried sense and infamy.
 :, We have seen Democracy mature and build up the country. as f9.aae aaIt nG We have. seen Republicanism ruin it. .ed * X x
 The best way is, when we are on the wrong road to get on the right one Better not lie in agony on the brambles when there are messy banks at the same price. This state of l affairs cann& last forever. Debts and taxa 1 tion are increasing. The country is worse off | than ever before We must be at peace with 1 the South-the South must be at peace with us. The past has gone. It went out in pow der and smoke, it went out in sabre fashes--- it ran red into the corpse covered ground. | We want peace for our children. We want peace for the e.millions yet to come here to live under the banner ofliberty. We want to See a feeling of common interest, of q common I pride of our country, of a common brother hood of States and of people. sasf
 War is over. The sword is in the scabbard. Let us forget the past, and be noble. high minded conquerors as we claim to be. We have no right to father this country--to pile up more misery and debt for our children to meet. Let us have peace-concede what is l 1right-join with the people and again be | happy. t#'A 4'l3 @'A s4
 And ifthere be those in power in this land of freedom. of liberty and equality who would 1 strangle liberty in her cradle, let hus rid the earth of such tyrants before the beautiful flu ture be blackened forever. And let us demand our lawmakers hat they legslate for the peo- | ple--not for portion thereof n section. | And if they will not thus obey their masters,
 
 people are monarchs; the legislators are the ! serUdnts. | The Republican party is party of theft ! of tyranny--of treason-of fanaticism-of in tolerance-of persecution--of oppression--of | taxation--of favoritism--of Bond Holders aristocracy--of base mobbers and murderers, and adventurers--it is a decayed, q dishonor- ed, an ignominious, time serving party devoid of honesty, liberality, generosity, patriotism or ingenuity. We ask you, young men of the country, to look at the history of the two par ties-to the country under the rule of Democ- racy and Republicansm, and tell us which 1 party you are for. i'i' i-''
 There is the party of the people } i..a | a The party of those who hatethe people.
 And the party of the people will triumph, 1 for the day comes when they will arise in their might and make short work of those who would ruin, impoverish and enslaye them, for such binding of free white men in this land cannot and will not long be tolerated or en- aur'a' 4 =. q zlhklvf
 --The ex-Sheriff of Franklin county, Miss., gave his servant-girl the following | pass, shortly after the surrender:
 'sKnow all men by these presents in the name of the Almighty God and this down. trodden country, l. Wm Wentworth, ex-Sher- |