Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-03-23


 The deprcssionin business. thakbe, gaQ asksfan, stitk continues, IndSe,I Et scem4 to ~gfow worse cxary da 4 Tk spring sessdh tiaft1p d kbrin Hh it4 re -aHakeniN h MIsacparE r4silts of5ndasf land USdc. wak kes pa i, F, sn of hfe llSN IsiThc s1ssnat atinn, con N; tWiics ,as $ ubborM andss3i Ii I'd; n e seo3 '-ztfi> cuMcnt Of anortkern SNeam 1n taEhith the genial rays of the morning sun have not descended.
 The sluggishness is not confined to one section. nor to one interest. It is universal. The harbors of the North ern cities arc dhled with idle ships.A Northern and Eastern dock yards have ceased to echo with the sound of Amer EN hwnnfrss bundng Am eyicaa sllif5s 1he shoe factories or lynn have turned -eisqrits their ffasrtis. md ~scareefy find employment for the ether chalf. The milis of New Eirylsnd are becoming blle. while thestochs of unsod and uir- I,saleable, goods indicat ] the lifelcssness tpL the manutacrttApripg acrttAprip interest," Wages of worklnginen are being reduced, and thoasands ofthcfh atthe East arc being turned out of employment. sdi ioIhat this generatdepressian cxtcptfs 6tqQ ,oVroW cif ysand rests like Il " eighty oppression upon our merchants,9ou our iiianhfactnrcrs, oni boatmen and our rlecimrfiesy does not need neither to be, demonstrated or asserted pit is . fact ,palpablc to, all. b9We had no trade with the south last, fall, and We have. little prospect ofa fratie with tho Southrthis spriaa gg1 and the Nort.iwesttrh produce iwhir inought to be coniiiig st. Louis tagg shipment to the fSoatlf remains ou the tarnls of the prodpccrs,bunbo bought :iiid undesIi'ed. '7.. hWhat is' the cause of this? The i, ,NortherD .Statesare blessed with abun- dant, ,to9le, and the Sputheru States are in sore need of food and clothing There ought to be large shipmoafs of Bs'ovisionsaHd goods contindary going. ,oit from the North to the South. But no such movement takes place. Thyg There. may be- several .canscsrfor thfs oppressive inertia; but the chief cause Pfs theipolicy of disorder ana disaster gshat4reigns einb Congress. Nothing is popular there except some remorseless scheme of vengeance sud prescription against q people who are absolutely lsutlefing for the want 0 the necessarics tof'life. Measure after measure of per-. tseeution, each one exceeding the last in. cruelty, are deYiscd for theirpmifsh- ,nent,; and, as if their condition were. not already sufficiently abiect and eheerless. it iss proposed to deplive them of. ALL civil privileges, and sub kject them to the harassment of system of military satrapies, to, extimcnfsii the last spark of American spirit in their bosom. FA yfErIS-woeN to the conquered-77is tile4sole motto of Cen- gress. notwithstanding the victims or this unremtting persecution are the. counrrylnen and the kinsmen of their persecut ofs. 4 5i Aei'ia8 hit
 n Resolafiona and decay brood over q [ thirh of the patipnal territcry--s desc. ,lation and decay which Congress labors to make more dismal by d harsh leeis1 lation. The people of the South arc crowdfng into Texas, or fleeing to Mexico. Brazil and Nenezuclf, to csrallc | the blight and the prescription of their yindlctive masters. IL is q reproduce tfon of the weayerS and ,lace-n1kers of the Netherlands fleeing from Ava and Philip IL: of the Huguenots fleeing from the French Kings; .oti the lrisI fleeing in despair from English pcrsr. cutions. Altthese expressions in othe,' countries have resulted in disaster and fless to tho prosecuting power. Ia it any wonder that the same crucities are welding the same harvest of oripplcd trade, depressed industry and calamity, with us ?-[St Louis Dispatch. 'rs