Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-07-13
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the Radical leaders is to degrade and dis grace our form of government, that 1t may bc rendered so contemptible in the eyes of the people they will prefer any change to the existing order of things. Thus they choapen the right of suffrage, by bestow- ing it upon ignorant, besotted masses, ex- clnding therefrom the brightest estintelligence and political experience, so that 1t will fall beneath contempt In the name and form of law, they enact innovations upon popu- lar rights, once secured, or thought to be secured, by the Constitution as to exceed the most desperate hazards of despotism. If they had sought to render despicable and abhorrent all that had been venerated under the benign administrations of the earlier Presidents, they could not have ln- vented surer means of accomplishing their object. The latest move in the tor tuous career of infamy by which the wick ed and most irresponsible creatures as we'll as creators, factious misrule, seek to blot out every vestage of constitutional freedom, is the determination, foreshad- owed, of subjecting the sovereign States of Kentuckey and Maryland to the sway of military satraps, by disregarding the fact that they are States, with all the soy ereignty of States. and have never been out of the socalled Union, but, through their Governors and Legislatures, as well as representatives in. congress, were as much members of the United States, as were Massachusetts and Pennsylvania It will be a long lane that has no turn, and unless the unprincipled leaders of the ia, natical and unconstitutional faction shall have accomplished their object, and crip- pied the Government past recovery and beyond the reach of surgery, a reaction may vet be in store for such Satets as bend the listening ear to Wilson and Ste vens, and commend the bitter chalice tc their own lips. It must come before | generation shall have passed away, anc such retribrtious mctcd out as will make the very stones of rugged New Eng lane rise in mutiny against the favorites of ths hour, who in their blindness are not aware they are withdrawing the ropes from tho edifce which is to crush them in its fall ing ruins. Two wrongs do not constitute right, but may constitute precdeent. The same power that can reduce loyal State to territorial dependence, to gratify party rancor and individual spleen, may for like trivial cause, subject such States as believe themselves exempt,
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 to similar disability. Times may change and wheels revolve. Those who are upper most now may, before many moons wa, and wane, find themselves at the bottom The old maxim that the gods first til with frenzy those whom they devote to de struction, is exemplifed in the present a' strongly as ever it was reflected in the past The steady eucroachments upon the right' of patient people, will tire out their en durance and the reaction will be terrible The confident conspirators who are sappine popular liberty, and playing into the hane of i'll gotten and funded capital, are moving over slumbering volcano whose fire may burst forth at some unexpected moment and whelm the whole set of robbers and brigands in irretrievable ruin. The times are big with portents, and it is impossible to tell what week, or a day, or an hour may baing forth.-[ Memphis Avalanche