Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-29
THE CAMPAIGN OF ,6s.

This campaign is now upon us, a questions that disturb the minds of the people will be for while, if not for ever, settled, and the battle for the continuation of radical mis-rule, or the inauguration of liberal Demo- cratic administration, will be fought. No fact is more clearly established thanthat if the Radical party is sue cessful in this contest, the American Union perishes and every vestige of republican government will be oblit- erated Republican institutions and republican rights must give place to the whims of Dictator while our government passes into-God knows what kind of form. The time was and is now, when by conciliatory magpanimous course, the radical party might bind the government together, heal dissension and inaugurate policy that would make our country greatest amongst the great of earth, that would give to each man and brother confi- dence in the stability of our govern mcnt and in the impartial protection and benefit of her laws. But the party in power fail to do that which will se- cure this end, and in their blindness and prejudice continue to legislatt against one class and in favor of anoth' CT; continue to introduce measuresland bring to light schemes each more op' pressive to the masses than those thai have before been devised. They disre. gard the wishes of the people, ill ma tional and state affairs, thrust upon Il: without our consent men for officer: that know nothing of us and whose only qualification is their connection with the party. Ill this way and by these means they are certainly rushing the States and the whole Union into ruin. They disregard the constitution over-step the bounds of republicanisn and will surely, if not checked, sue. ceed in making of this a government the like of which has never been seer on earth, this is the aim and tendency of the radical party.
 On the other hand the great oppos' ing Democratic party holds out to the people relief from these great dis tresses-"Democracy has ever been the impregnable citadel of American Lib erty," and the cord that held the coun. try together in the bonds of peace brotherhood and prosperity till that cord was broken by the incendiary strokes of that party
 .who steal the livery of heaven
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 It is the only party now that has the power and the disposition to heal the broken places of the nation, to bring back that time when every man will feel and know that peace is abroad in the land, and the voice of the people will be as the voice of God. No other party has in it the material or princi- pie upon which to build solid and a lasting government; no other party recognizes the rights of the people or guarantees to them freedom by their voice. II is the only party that can save our country from ruin. Morality, patriotism, right, justice, truth and liberty are it's allies; with which, oh ! people are you acting? In these times when your interests and the interests of your country are Ut stake, when the nation trembles upon the brink of de- struction, it becomes the bounden duty of every man to be up and doing-do- ing for yourselves, your children and your country. The man who sits idly down aud trusts to past successes or present revolutions, who consoles him. self with the vain hope that all will be well without his help, plays the fools part and pursues the policy of sui eide. The campaign is upon us, work, and victory may be wrenched from the enemy and ourselves snA onr country saved