Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-06-22
The Crisis.

X crisis is coming again The morn ing that will break soon must waken the nation from the horrid nightmare of the past two years. or witness her, chained maniac, in the bcdlam of political madness, if the amazing progress of usurpation as systematic practice, Is not arrested m the South with swift and striking facility, it will infect and subdue the North. The ascendancy of moral principle and rational conscience connot be measured by the spirit with which one defends his own rights but the sole tests is the zeal with which we defend those of others. NIr- ginia saw in the Boston port bill of lI45 a blow at the principle which made her own chief security, and without unfriendly deeds toward herself she called her statesmen to counsel and her rifemen to arms, though she was to Massachutts as a separate nation. Will Boston see in Richmond trial of her own safety i? Will she realize that city under the heel of despot is simply the case of a city without foreign help? Did Massa- chusetts establish her libertyy What must have happened Boston if colonies safe from British aggressions had not barred their bosom with hersy
 It is fearfully dangerous to ignore prin- ciple in irlulging party passion, zeal for reform, or advocacy of public measures. Principle is the cohesion of civil order, and when ignored abroad, it can not be saved at home. Principles in the heav- ems keeps each planet in its orbit, and, in society, each person in his. If it could slacken above, worlds would tumble into ruin and the universe pass away. On earth, anarchy is the result.
 Men who believe these truths will shud- der if they think what consequences may follow fatal indulgence of military con. tempt of law. No longer we inyeigh against particular outrages. We deplore the disastorous prevalence of growing insensibility to outrage, so that by becom- ing so common and familiar, the most presumptuous and lawless usurpations and expressions are destitute of novelty enough to incur the name of outrage, a term under stood as applying to something cxtraordi- nary. ne pcopic aio uio"sihse "ien uoi' inattention over daily bulletins, the most inconsiderable of which seven years ago would have shaken every community in the Union, and kindlcd indignation in every face of excited groups collected in our bamlets from Maine to Texas, by the mutual astonishment of freemen that arrogance so high-handed would dare show its teeth on our shores.
 The time is comming when the people must reflect upon and realize these terrible tendencies or else, if they do not, and that speedily, the time will come in the North that rcpohs ,ciU De stirred up as preterts for usu,pations-that exciting new outbreaks, and they, in turn author izing new expressions. A negro military police would then complete the work preside over elections, enforce military orders and levy contributions. Two parties would be in the country-thosc who adhered to tue de facto government, and those who did not. The compulsory business of the mass of the former would do to support their leader in prescribing the latter. Consider. reader, whether there is not something in this to reflect upon--[ National Entelligencer.]