Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-08-17
SOUTHERN POLITICS.
SPLENDID SERIES og PATRI
 OTTO PAPERS.
NOTES oN THE slTuATIoS-No. T
BY HON. B. II. HILL, or GEORGIA.

BY HON. B. Il. HIII, OF GEORGIA.
 In all ages governments have been overturned by men who made great professions of patriotism and good in- tentions. The serpent induced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit by Aattering her. and declaring his eounsel would do her good. Ae greatly desired, he protested, to improve her condition. From that day to this traitors have been unable to find any better method of accomplishing their purposes. Ig- uorancc is more easily duped than in telligence, and, therefore, knaves have always been advocates ct comforting power on fools, and so fools have gem orally thought knaves were their best friends. For this very reason common
 wenlths--free countriss-havc produ- ced more demagogues, and have be- come more fcarfully the prey of anar- chy than any other forms of govern. ment The people generally mean
 well. They think they follow friends
 when they follow those who fiatter them, and they follow with ''cheers and tiyer.' They go, like the fatted OK with pretty ribbons streaming from his horns, frisking to their own slaugh- teri
 Were not they glorious Southern leaders who established the RIGHT to carry slaves to Kansas? What if God had decrecd slavery could not prosper there, and onr fathers had agreed it should not go? Who cared for God q, t z h.s, T ] compacts stood in the way of "our rights P Oh, how good theories and fair pro mises have wrecked hopes, de- stroyed prosperity and subverted gov ernmentsi Every command in the decalogne has been violated in the name of God, and every preccpt of the Savior ilas been trampled upon under pretense of promoting religion.
 Never, at any period of human his tory, have bad men, or traitors, or dew ills undertaken to accomplish c wicked
 work, with greater professions of good will, or with circumstances more fa- vorable for exciting the confidence of the people in the sincerity of their pro-
 fessions, than those by which. and un- der the influence of which, these Radi- calls have undertaken to destroy the Constitution of the United States and the principles of free government in America. With sincere convictions of right and necessity, but in suicidal way, the Southern States and people | seemed to place themselves in an atti- tnde of hostility to the Constitution. And these Northern traitors, rho pro- voked the South to her folly for the very purpose, have ever since been en- abled to tickle and divert the minds of 1 the Northern people with the flippant cry of "rebel' and traitor" and thus not only unperccived, but in the midst of the wild cheers and mad aid of the giddy foolish masses, have Six A the Constitution thousand staas. And i still the arch-leadcrs give out the key note rebel; and the Babel crowd catch rp the refrain, and fools in office cry.
 rebel and knaves trying to get office cry, rebel; preachers of lies and haters from pulpits cry, rebel lunatics in
 schools cry, rebel; and, foulcst of the 1 foul, Southern reneeaIes cry, rebel : and the traitors thank God for the wild
 distemper of the people, and STAB ON
 And the poor outraged Constitution, under W hieh our common fathers lived. Ftto tohtsty tfnsItTta- dnd WtllCI would gather all, black aud white, even as hen gathereth her chickens under her wings" bleeds and reels, and no one will hear her cries or heed her totteringl
 Equally insane, but equally favorable
 to the purposes of the Radicals, is tho
 hypocriiieal pretense Of elerating the black race. All wise or good men
 everywhere, and more especially those
 in the South, desire to elevate the l black race, but Radical traitors and
 their Southern tools aloBe desire 10 ! degrade the white race. By whatever 1 other means the work may be done. it
 is certain the black race cannot be se-
 cure in privileges Or rights by taking
 away from the white race these san e 1 privileges and rigbts. Whether either
 race. and which Shall finally gain the
 mastery, or whether both races can live and rule together as equals and in
 peace, are questions which good men may discuss, and about which, possi- l bly,, even true men may differ, but one thing is very certain. neither race sep l arately, nor both races together can rule or be ruled wisely or peacefully, CT with safety to life, property, or franchise, by violating ar trampling upou the Constitution--the fundamen- tai law for all. Who would, therefore. be friend Co either race must be d iriend to the Constitution. He who violates the Constitution is an enemy to both races. He who observes the ! Constitution is q friend to both races. The very reverse of all this plain reasoning is every principle W hich can
 be sdduced to snpport these <militarv bills. These bills violate the Consii- tution. These bills degrade the white race. These bills ti'anple on the rights of both races, and all these things these billie do under pretense of eleyatine
 the black race, The work is absurd and impossible. The means proposed cannot accomplish the ends professed.
 Both races must go together, or the greater must control the less, or the two must collide. And when the two collide the less must perish, or be driven away, or be brought under control, however the greater race may
 suffer by the collision and the struggle.
 Aud the Radicals know this; and, therefore. the means they propose arc
 not intended to accomplish the end they profess. The real end is to secure
 these ten States to keep the Radical
 party in power in the approaching
 Presidential election, and this they
 seek to do reckless ofeonsequences to
 black or white, 10 the Constitution or Government. The traitors are seeking to retain, by this fraud and force at the South, tke power they are losing by the detection of their treason at the North. They annul the Constitution
 in the nalne of loyalty; they cxterni- nate tho black race in the name og phi lanthropy they disfranchiso the white man in the name of equality; they pull down all the defcnses for life and