Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-07-20
No. ?.

While these, 0!. Similar notes may ul- timatcly take wider range, the immc- diate purpose is to examine the pend- ing feature of tho rcvolution--the Mill itary Bills, embracing what is called the Congressional plan of reconstruc- ton. have given the measures full, fair and mature consideration. en- tcrtain not the slightest doubt that the conclusions have reached are correct, and, if those proposed measures shall become laws, the future developments will most abundantly prove this cor rectness. Before proceeding with the analysis of tile clarurter of the bills, ticir effects, and rsic apologies offered for them, desire to announce the conclusions which the reasoning will establish and the events will confirm, as the certain results of their accept ance and of the Incorporation of the plan and principles proposed into the Federal Constitution and State Consli- tutions of the ten States:
 1. They will cotisammate the sub- version of tlfc 'repttiic, the dcstrnction of the Constifttioh, the annihilation of individual liberty, and the ultimate but complete change of all American government from the principle of cor- sent to the rule of force. And these results VIII become permanent and ab- solute and irrcmediablc.
 }. Before This final consummaiion is reached, the country Will pass through an ordeal of anarchy. This ordeal will be prolonged, and the most bitter of any in history--becaus anarchy in n republic is like fever with an individu- al, most violent with the most vigor- ous, will not cease until strength is reduced or destroyed, and no people ever had such strength and matci...... prosperity for the prey of anarchy as have the people of the United States. Besides, in the transition, two races will struggle for the mastery, greatly increasing the horror of these writh- ings of liberty in her passage to death.
 5. I need not, and can not--it is beyond the power Of the pcn---tc cne- meratc the terrible evils that will spread over all the land during this reign of disorder, discord and decay. Among them Will be the prostitution of commerce, the paralysis of all indus trial agencfcs and pursuits, the repudi- ation of all ycbss--rationai, State, and individual. the disregard of all legal sanctions; the removal of all restraints upon the wicked; the withdrawal of protection from the helpless and the good; the decentralization of mem the prostitution of women; the starvation of children; the rise and fall of fac tions: the burning and sackipg of cit ies, and the general devastation of the country. Robbers will fill our noun tains and forests, assassins will come boldly fiohh All hiding places; civil wars and insurrections will multiply ; leaders and followers will slay and be slain; clans of burglars and thieves will hunt the rich as herds of buffalo hunt Shc green pastures, and insatiated wickcdness will ftnd and tear all that is pure and good, as the hungry lion when Aeshing his tooth ih the young and tender fawm
 1. But there is ono fyatirc of this ottseai of anarchy--one result of this deviiish choice to destroy the Consti- tuition by those Who take solemn paths and make saintly pretentions to pre- serve 1t, which is distinct from al. oth- CTS, involving hypocrisy without ex- ample, dclusioh Without limit, and cruelty without parallel, and which l cannot contemplate without feelings of peculiar sadness. I mean, of course, Inc effect upon the African race.
 A separate Note must elaborate this point; but as am announcing geneial conclusions, must not omit the tssult which will be, must be, the most eer- tain and inevitable of all. A war of fates will come, aid come early, in this hiaeous prosramtiie of ruin. This war will be proiiiced by three chief caases. I. Tho ignorant, viciots, iin- 1 asihativc and exceeding credulSns I babits aid passiohs of the negro. ? fhe sieIasi5hs practieed tpGh tbis iih- aginatiyc and credblohs haiue bt emis-