Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-06-22
Reoonstruction-N Negro Government.

t nlclpal ofncCS to Winch they nau been 1 appointed, those Offices would be filled
 with negroes, is significant and sug- l gestive. It forcshadows the policy
 which the radicals intend to execute
 upon the South. 1t proves beyond all 1 question that the cllfranchisement of 1 the blacks was not merely to reward I them for their services in supprcssing l the rebellion, and to enable them to protect themselves, but that it was
 done as a step toward their elevation
 to position above the whites, and to
 degrade and humiliate men who had
 proved themselves the superiors of their ccnquerors, both in the forum
 and the field, and upon whom they de- sire to vent their spite.
 At this time, in anticipation of the l triumph of tho reconstruction scheme and the admission of the negroes to the right of suffrage, they are laboring to commend themselves to that portion of the population in order to attach
 them to the radical party which they arc now organizing, throughout the
 South. They do not consider the dis astrous consequences that must inevi- tabiy flow from these tactics, nor do they care what those consequences may be. they can secure the negro
 vote for the reconstruction plan and thus be enabled to frame such consti-
 tutions as will heap up disabilities up- on the whites at the same time that the ruling power will be placed in the hands of the blacks, their object will
 be accomplished. But to do this they
 must make the negroes believe that
 they arc their peculiar friends, and that their white ncighbors arc their peculiar and invcteratc foes. Hence we see them turning competent and educated white men out of office and putting ne- groes in their places. The pretext that they cannot find white men to fill the offices made vacant by their arbitrary removals, and that they are therefore compelled to fill them with negroes, is no excuse for the military tyrants. The men they are removing arc as competent and unexceptionable as any others that could be found, and should not be removed. And it is but natural that the white men of the South shonld be indignant at such menstrous abuse of power as they consider these rcmov- als to be. and refuse to sanction or profit hy them by accepting the places thus made vacant.
 In the appointment of these negroes tc office precedent will be established which the negroes will not be slow to profit by. In many districts in the Southern States they are in an over whelming majority, and can elect who- ever they please to any office to be filled by popular elections. In South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana they can elect one ot their own color Governor. In those States they can also elect almost every State and Fed cral officer, from constable to members of Congress. They can carry a major ity of members of the Legislature aud elect the United States Senators, and if the reconstruction act is adopted il is not unlikely that they will dc it. In the other Southern States we shall see the same results, though to more lim- itcd extent, and the disgusting specta- cle will be exhibited to the world of race of people, ignorant, stupid, inso- lent and semi-barbarous, but one re- move from apes and monkeys, gov erning people who, in point of intel ligonce, cultivation and gallantry, are the peers of any under the canopy of heaven.
 It is idle to say such things cannot bc--that they will not be tolerated for if the reconstruction scheme is ac- ceptcd by the people of the South, or carried by fraud and negro votes, the state of things WIG have suggested will inevitably follow. The appointment of negroes to office now going on, and the fattery with which they are being bespattercd which pufIs up their self conccit, and at the same time, assure them of their right to hold office and their. qualifications therefor, and wherever they find themselves in the majority they will use their power for their own elevation and aggrandize- ment. In such case neither the argu- ments of Radicals or Conservatives will be able to divert them from their pur- pose. They will soon learn their strength and how to use it. The Jac- obins are educating them up to this point and laboring with the wicked energy of fiends to put the power is their hands.
 In these preliminary steps toward the establishment of negro, mulatto, black and tan government, the people of the South should be able to see the precipice upon which they stand and the destruction to which they arc so rapidly hurrying. If they accept the | reconstruction plan now pending, their doom is sealed. Nothing more dis gus,ing and horrible than the eonse- queRccs Co flow from that acceptance could possibly be conceived. Threats of confscation and of more rigorous and oppressive terms sink into insig- nificance compared with the hidcons evils of piebald negro government founded in ignorance and administered in malice, with view to vengeance and pluEdor alone, as the one would