Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
The wolf and the Lamb.

Inc speech Ot senator henuTlcks nt Indianapolis, which we have already | published, deserves more than pass l ing notice. It evinces at once the soundness of his political views and his detestation of the revolutionary party which aims at the destruction of con stitutional liberty. He exposes in the clearest manner it's successive steps Tn the march of revolution, and demon- strates with mathematical precision that the so-called "peace" of General Grant and his Radical supporters aims only at discerd, usurpation and a war of races. Referring to the period inn mcdiatcly succeeding the close of the war, he proves by the evidence both of Governor Morton and General Grant, that the people of the South had ear nestly accepted the results of the war. "I am satisfied" said General Grant in his report made about the close of 1865, "that the mass of thinking men of the South accept the present situation of affairs in good faith. My obser- vations lead me to the conclusion that the citizens of the Southern States are anxious to return to sself-government within the Union as soon as possible"
 At much later period-we believe only about year ago-Gen. Grant fur ther stated in his testimony before the Reconstruction Committed:
 l know that immediately after the close of the rebellion there was very fine feeling manifested in tho South, and l thought we ought to take ad- vantage of it as soon as possible.
 But the manner in which the Radi- calls "took advantage of this fine feel ing manifested in the South" however it may exalt their cunning, is anything but creditable to their honesty or their statesmanship. In good faith the Southern States, without exception, engrafted in their fundamental laws the results of the war. They perpetu- ally abolished slavery by their own State constitutions. They annulled the several ordinances of secession. They wiped out the Confederate debt. In the belief that they were dealing with honest men and statesmen. they did everything that men couldbdo to show their earnest purpose to come back ''in good faith" as members of the Union, under the constructions of the Constitu- ton, even as decided by the sword. Every Southern soldier had been dis banded. Peace prevailed throughout every Southern State. There was no inrurrection anywhere in the South. There was not even tumult. There was not an arm uplifted in opposition to the authority of the United States. Every voice in the recently hostile States counseled peace and harmony. Nothing was left undone by the South ern people to secure, at the earliest moment, reunion in good faith, and q revival of the prosperity of the coun- try.
 But when, under the dclusivc propo- sitions of the Radicals, the South had yielded everything which had been de- manded ef them, and when they had just right to expect the enjoyment of the liberty guaranteed by the Constitu- tion, they were unexpectedly met by still further demands on the part of the Radicals. With each further conces- sion. some additional demand was made, until the Southern people were not only wholly excluded from all par ticipation in the Government, but were rudely thrust beyond the pale of the Constitution, and trampled under the feet of rude and unfeeling despotism of bayonets. In this result Gen. Grant must bear his share of responsibility, and it is q weigty one. For with n knowledge on his part, conceded by himself, of the "good faith of the Southern people and their anxiety to return to self-government within the Union as soon as possible he not only consented to became the instrument of Radical oppression, in excluding these people frora the Union, but has given the strongest proof of his sympathy with their policy by consenting to be the standard bearer of their principles.
 Senator Hendricks forcibly sketches the insidious policy adopted by the Radical party to attain its ultimate purpose of negro supremacy and the pcrpetuation ofRadical power through the instrumentality of the negro. The submission of the Southern States to the Constitution was met on the part of the Radicals, first, by establishing the Freedmen s Bureau, which extended to the negro degree of protection not accorded to the white man, and which fed the negro in idleness and sowed dissensions between him and his em- ployer; then by the "civil rights bill, which established for the negro sepa- rate tribunal from that appointed to adjudge the V white man, and virtually protected him when guilty of the viola tion of municipal law. Then followed the "reconstruction acts,' destroying State governments, overthrowing courts, turning legislatures out of doors, ejecting governors at the point of the bayonet, and building upon the ruins of civil government strictly military despotism. Over this sin9u- lar republican structure Gen. Grant reigncd supreme, and directed the installation, by military appointment, of large numbers of negroes and carpet baggers into offices of trust and profit. Under his auspices were white men first degraded and negroes first eleva- ted to official positions. As the willing executor of the Radical will, he, more than any other individual, is responsi- ble for the attempt to thrust his own race beneath the heel of the negro, to Africanize one of the fairest portions of the country, to install himself into power by means of bayonets; and to defraud the white citizens of the North as well. as of the South of their just weight in the Government, by estab- fishing a negro balance of power to control the policy of the country {. Gen. Grant tells us that he has mo policy of his own," but these are the fruits of his actions, which are so identified with the purposes of the Radicals, that we cannot distinguish between them. The people would pre- fer he would get up "policv of his own,' rather then he should bindly adopt that of his Radical followers. He also exclaims, "Let us have peace !" His words, when compared with his conduct, are forcibly suggestive of the fable of the wolf and the lamb, and even his political friend will not call General Grant lamb. If he and his friends will cease to disturb the gentle