Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-03-16

now matter of inconsiderable mo
 mcnt, not worthy of thought, The
 fact that the plan of restoration whicl
 he now sustains is the overthrow anC
 destruction of the Constitution and the
 establishment of a central and grinding
 despotism is unimportant and the sub.
 stitute of the negroes for the whites as
 the ruling power is a trivial matter
 Danger, fearful and appalling, turks in
 the policy of the Congressional Jaco-
 bins, ready to be launched upon the
 devoted South, and to crush the people to atoms.
 Gov. Brown should know the peo- pie better than to suppose that they can be so exclusively controlled by fear, as he seems to be. Yet his argu- ment is addressed wholly to their ap- prchensions of evils which are to come. He loses sight of the fact, that the adoption of every measure proposed, will furnish no guaranty of security against the legislation he so much threads. That if the Congress really desired that the Southern States should have the system they propose, incorpo- rated upon their policy, it would have been just as easy, quite as lawful, and no more violative of the Constitution. to have declared the system adopted. rebels disfranchised, and negroes ad- mitted 10 suffrage, than to have left any part of the proceedings to their option. and left nothing to depend upon their assent. As the Constitution was nec- essarily disrcgsi'dcd in this scheme, it was altogether unimportant that the Southern people should be asked to give their sanction. That could not cure the violation of the Constitution, or give the slightest ap- pearancc of magnanimity or decency to the scheme. Nor will the acceptance Of these infamous conditions protect the Southern people against further prosecutions and exactions. If every demand is concededand these victims of tyranny determine to submit tamely to all that is asked of them, and they are restored 10 the Union, they would still be helpless, and liable to confi,cations and other penalties, with the despera- does who control the government see proper, for the qualification of their avarice or malice, to impose, as though they stood resolutely up in vindication of their honor and their rights. Self abascment and betrayal will have no effect to conciliatc the spirit of Jaco binism, which riots in power, and ex- ults in the ability to trample upon a prostrate foe. Nothing is to be gained by the cowardly rclinquishment ofcon- stitutional rights, or by indorsing the lawlessncss which characterizcs all the legislation intended to affect them. They can better afford to endure even greater wrongs than are threatened than they can to degrade and dishonor themselves by abject submission.
 We feel confident that neither the people of Georgia, nor of any other Southern State, will listen to the craven advice of Joe Brown or any of his squad of. dishonest demagogues. The history of these men contains nothing to inspire respect for their opinions or confidence in the honesty of their mo- tives. They are disreputable and lim- ber-kneed political tricksters who are willing to deliver the South bound hand and foot, to their northern foes. Constancy, fortitude, answering de- yotion to principle must yet triumph over the designs of their prosecutors and leave them vindicated and secure but cowardly and unmanly concessions will only stimulate to fresh demands and more ruinous exactions, and leave nothing in the track of aggression worth preserving.-[Louisville Cou- Tier,