Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-10-20
OHAS. s. CAMERON,
OF GROSS COUNTY.

party ripen so fast, and are unfolded SO plainly in the every day actions of the party, and their construction of every disturbance occurring within the prescribed limit of Southern terri tory, that we cannot help opposing the party and giving expression to our views by quoting from western CO., temporary:
 In the elections 10 occur this year, we confess to being partisan, while we know that we arc patriotic. The first lesson instilled into the young mans mind is the duty of loving his country. Without assuming for ourselves more than we accord to others, we believe that were it possible for us to close our eyes and sleep away all the party preju- dice we possess, upon waking. we should form exactly the opinion of the policy of the radical party we now entertain. We do not believe that any man who really wishes well of his country, and is not the slave of self interest or partisan prejudice, can study the political situation as it is, and ap- prove the policies, aims, ends and con- W thoroughly disinterested would won der why it prefers agitation to quiet, war to peace, antagonisms to concord, the negro of the South to the white man ofthe South. ltmay be answered {: to keep the rebellions element down. To that end, the rebels must be sub jected to militari government for a time, until the negroes can be invested with authority to govern them. To this shocking declaration, the reply would probably be: War or no war, it is simply strocious to reverse society as nature has organized it. Nearly four years have passed since the con clusion of hostilities. Events have proved that the pretensc that the South is still rebellious, is pure party assump- ton. There is not whisper of disaf- lection to the Government. If there were limit to the policy which holds the white race of the South in yassal- age, it might then be answered that it is intended only to be temporary. But as this justification cannot be made, most of the new constitutions of the Southern States were framed with Q view of divcsting the white race of power forever.
 We present in single paragraph, the animus of the radical party. It is brief and to the point. It is found in the notices on the transparencies carried by the negroes in New Orleans, at the late torch light procession:
 "Tammany Hall-the hall of treason !; Remember Lincoln Men enough have been murdered; Seymour means slave ry; Remember Fort Pillow; No com promise with rebels; Let us have peace"
 Similar sentiments animate the pro- ductions of many orators and presses of the radical party. All may be sum med up in one word-HATE. The democratic party of the North is now branded as traitorous. For what 1! For thinking the Southern people should not be outlawed, and for oppos- ing the doctrines of the radical party generally. We cannot perceive that the radicals rely for success upon any avowed policy of conducting the Gov ernment. Hatred of rebels, the finger ing fires and passions of the war con etitute their capital. The two sections must hate each other, and as the North Is the governing section, 1t must hate and cripple the South, What would the election of Grant be but the recor- ded judgment of the North that the South is to be dealt with as hostile country, and that there Is to be mo compromise with rebels !P The south is to be punished for the assassination of Lincoln, for all the Union men CD who have been murdered. for the cap tnre of Fort Pillow, and for other dire ful things. There is to be no concord, no harmony, no nationality, no peace. And yet, with such q programme heral- ded to the world, Grant exclaim: "Let us have peace.' The mysterious spirit that hurled ihe recent earthquake in South America might, amoment before the shock, as wei! have exclaimed {; Let us live.