Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-08-10

10 grow unwilling, and the Confeder- ate government was driven, as have been all people who go to war; to em- ploy harsh measures to make the un- willing do their duty. These harsh measures required agents, and agents, as agents often do, became exacting and oppressive. These harsh measures were seized upon by the disappointed politicians, and used as pretexts to make the people believe their govern ment intended to establish a military dcspotism. In the meantime specula- ton became riotous; the example be- ing set by some in high places, others also thought it no harm to use these God given talents to make money" These evils multiplied the necessities for harsh measures to support the army, and the harsh measures increased the noise of the politicians and the conse- quent demoralization of the people.
 While this internal treachery was do- ing its work, the United States, in every form, and by every department of their government, were assuring our people they had seeded under mis- take that their rights were secure in the Union; that they had no purpose in prosecuting the war but to preserve the Union uniinpaired; and that, in decd our seats were vacant in both Houses of Congress, and we had 0oth- ing to do but to send members to fill them. Emissaries came from the North under pretense of being driven here as Southern sympathizers. and joined our malcontcnts to disseminate these two ideas. Trcachery became bold and de- sertion became respectable.
 In this way the masses of the South- cen people were conquered, and the remnant of patriots were overpowered.
 The actual statistics show that during the two last years of the war, for every one of our soldiers whom the external armed enemy killed, disabled CT cap tured, the internal unar'med enemy i'm duced three to desert. And this work went on, too, in the face of the fact that Gen. Grants only policy for defeating Gen. Lee was in wearing out his army ; and also in the face of the fact that Mir. Lincoln, in his last annual message, de- clared the hope of suppressing the re- bellion consisted in the abandonment by the Southern people of their presi- dent or chief.
 Therefore, l affirm, the treachery within was thrice as strong as the pow CT without in subduing the Confcder- ates.
 Thus, some of those who were most active in destroying the Union, were also most active in destroying the Con- federacy. And these are now the fla voritcs in the South with the Radicals of the North. They are received into their councils at Washington, and they are cheek by jowl with Wilson and Sumner and Stevens in their efforts to destroy the Constitution.
 Men. who I know made bitter seces- sion speeches, have been travelling through the North proclaiming their suflerings as "persecuted loyalists ;' and having reused their fragmentary conelave Of Congress to secure mea- sures to disfranchise those whom they denounced ae traitors, because they op- posed secession, in order that they may get the offices ofthese States as rewards for their devotion to the Union.F And the poor, deluded, helpless South ern people are thus bcspattered with their own filthl
 These facts suggest several points which deserve the most serious consid- eration of the Northern people.
 l. The first is that they are underline most solemn obligation possible to re- cognize these States as Existing ncm- bers of the Union, with no diminution of their rights, except as to slavery This was the avowed purpose of the war. This wasthe promise to the North ern people by their government to en- courage them to fight and this was the pledge to the Southern people to in duee them to cease fighting.
 }. That this purpose has been defeat ed this promise has been violated {; this pledge has been broken by their Radi- cal leaders, with the clear and unmis- takable intent of destroying the Con stitution: and that in this work they arc now joined and aided by the most vindietive, the most active and the most unscrupulous of the original Southern seccssionists.
 3. That the Southern people became weak in proseeutig the war only be- cause they listened 10 this pledge, and laid down tLeir arms only because they believed it. That though this genera ton may be helpless because they were entrapped, the next will refuse to be- lieve, and will remain strong--invinci- ble That these Receptions can breed nothing but distrust ;thatfhese oppres- sions can produce nothing but distrust and hate, that oppressed and epprcss- ors can never live together in peace, and our children and our children's $ children will be the victims of this Typhaan union of the Northen Radicals and the Southern Secessionists, with no gain toseither sections, but C havoc, spoil and ruin