Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19
|DES ARC, ARK, JAN. l9, l867l
POLITICAL, INToLERANOE.-

kH POLlTlUAll IN NIUllhhANU UEss
 |H Eoghing has cursed the cause Of In |kman freedom more than political intol cfance. We have learned our lesson
 on this subject from history, and hat E fhcm confirmed by the direct test O individual experience. To-day, tho Nworld is in agitation; even thrones Hand altars, long held sacred, are treinb' Z{ling and tottering t dynastieg arc
 changi and passing away. The ma. tions seem to be in comnotion great
 yolcano seems to be gathering all its
 |ftlror, to upheave and scatter the insti-
 8tulions and dogmas long established
 Patriots and statesmen have turned away in sorrow from scenes SO revolt Hing. while dcmagogues and tyrants are ||Eborne upon the popular blast. Great
 and good men shudder in anticipation
 of results soon to follow. Thcyssseem
 infhtuatcd or frcnzied while hurrying
 matlly on to thcA dread vortex of fpolit- Heal damnation.s Continuation and re-
 criminations is the watchword of the Hhour no tolerance, no forbearancc. If k you choose to think for yourself and
 disagrce with the party in power yon arc hurried to the guilotine, your chat j tcls and lands are confiscatcd, your
 name is. hissed by yenal tongues, and &if permitted to live, you must drag out ka lonesome and loathcsome existence
 Beneath the gratcs of a dungeon. We
 of the South claim once to have been q
 frcc and happy people, ere the dire kfocsin of war cciioed along our lovely Esavanahs and blooming vales, but were I've then a. forbearing, a tolerant pco- |plc? did Democrats, Wings and Know |Nothings concede to each other the Thigh and sacred privilege to think and kdisagree in matters of public policy. The dominant party always claimed in fallibility, as we'll as the right to omould |and shape ideas for those that dared to Edissent from their political dogmas. This was demonstrated in the great political contest in 1860 and immedi- ateIy following that memorable cleo tion of November, 1860, hot and hur- |ried was the canvass for secession, and, in many instances, woe to him that claimed the privilege to think ere he leaped. If you hesitated or doubted theexpedicncy and propricty ofimmc- diate secession, you were traitor, a coward, or sympathizer with Black Republicans; nor has that spirit ceased
 lkoldevclop itself among us up to this good hour, though conquered, overrun and bcreft of our former glory and pride as a people. But in heavens name, have we not atoned sufficiently for our errors and blindness to induce us to exercise n little tolerance and forbcarance, especially with our South. ern brethren who have been to the manor born. Let us be wise by i'm. proving upon former political blundcrs that we may yet become united, free. prosperous and happy people. It was political intolerance that rent asunder the Amphyctonic Council or congress of ancient Greece. It was this that whipped Hannibal, the conqucror of
 Rome. For eleven wears Hanno, in the Carthaginian Senate, raised a po-
 litical storm that broke in fury upon Hannibal, and swept away the last ycstige of Carthaginian prowess and ] glory. It was this that undermined the proud fabric of republican, Rome, by
 arraying the patricians against the pie bians, and afterwards dividing the citi-
 zcns of Rome, under Pompcy, Caesar and Anthony nor ceased tho strife till x. Rome was laid in the mausoleum ot
 nations. Nor is history silent upon the lniserics and sntierings of modern Sco- tia, the land of Wallace and Bruce, whom political intolerance forced to draw the battle blade, as they felt, in freedom's cause. Ireland, too, unhap- py Ireland, has long and painfully felt and realized what political intolerance
 means; and the same may appropriate ly be said of France, Spain, Mexico and the South American States. Alas of what nation or people may it not be said. It would seem from survey of
 nations past and present, that some dread fatality is inherent in the people, impelling them to national suicide; re- joicing while digging their own graves and madly and blindly precipitating themselves into a fathomless gulf, cry ing peace, peace, when there is nc peace.
 szS We have again to call attention
 to the rapidly increasing circulation oi