Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
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torial in the Memphis Appeal of a late date, is well worthy of the study and 'perusal of every southern man. The words are words of truth and sober. ness t,r.i,.Y 5. If the Union can be restored on the old basis,-if our States can be read mitted into the Union as equals,=-if the Onion of the 'States, as the Fathers made it can be restored,-then we are ready to say "EsTo PERPETUAL" That Union we loved, and could wish no bettar fortune for our children, none better for our States than it's rcstora- tion. For the return of those golden days we prayed; but the prayer is not the utterance of hope.
 Our States, so far as they have re- turned into the Union, have not re- turned as equals, but as interiors. They crouch to receive their burthen. The white men of the South are forced to accept the negroes as their political peers, while those who force this upon them refuse to accept them as such for themselves. The States of the North regulate the matter of suffrage for themselves. Those of the South agree to be kicked out of the Union, if they ever take from the negro a privilege that he is wholly unfit to exercise.
 The Northern States put in force over us Constitutions conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity. They con firm and enforce the disfranchiscment of third of the white race in all the South. They are our tyrants and op- pressors, and we are their slaves and serfs and victims. Such a Union, as we have said heretofore, is like the union of the living man and dead corpse. tied together by Mczentius.
 "All our States lie fainting, dying,
 Each to each with sobs replying;"
 and the brutal tyrants of the worst days of Rome are reproduced and cx- aggcrated in the Stevenses, the Buffers, the Logans, the Binghams, the Schencks, and their aiders and abettors.
 A standing army of negroes is to be organized in each State, to keep the Caucasian under the rule of the semi civilized Africans. The child of the Anglo-Saxon and the son of the Hu- guenot. the representatives of the chiv airy of France and the cavaliers of England, the descendants of the Nik- ings and the Norman heroes arc dis -francnised, and the negro, armed with the bayonet, votes.
 Itthis should not be wholly changed; if the luxury of revenge, sweet to the base, and hate and the incalculablc vil- lainies of sordid tyranny do not give place to d generous forgettulness of past animosities and the bloody trage- dies of the war, then no permanent brotherhood between us and the peo- pie of the North is possible. Hate and the sense of wrong, and the longing for revenge, are not the cohesive at traction that can consolidate Common wealths into an Empire.
 We are not of those who hold that the overpowering of the South by the Northern legions in the late war, has sct1led the construction of the Consti- tuition as to the rights of the States We do not accept Force as tho inter- preter of civil compacts. To us, the Constitution is now precisely what it always was, and the only true Union, the Union of the States as sovereigns, is sovereign solely by means of their sovereignty. Our oath, required Of us as the condition of immunity, is to support, preserve and defend the Con- stitution, ''and the Union of the States hereunder" There is no union Of the States now: and our political creed can be very briefly expressed. "The Union of the States under the constitutional compact between them, all free, sove- reign and independent; or South in- dependent of the North
 We do not admit that the consolida- ton of the States and the destruction of their sovereignty arc legitimated by the result of the appeal to arms. we do not love, and will not pretend to love that Union, though we have agreed to obey the laws of the conqueror. II the old Union cannot be restored, we will hone to see the South independent before we die; and if Jacobinism IS to become supreme in the North, we wish there could be an impossible wall or gulf of fire between it and our South ern States.
 We are frank to say that we do not believe that permanent harmony pe- tween the North and South is possible, while they continue united under one government. One will rule and the other serve. Independent of each otn- CT, they might be friends. The North is too strong for the South, ana the South too much at it's mercy; and It never yet was known in the history oi the world. that strong States did not oppress and vex and encroach upon their weak neighbors.
 The triumph of the Democracy a' .ne coming election, would hold the ' hio, together. for time, because the ooutn would then be dealt with justly anu generously. But this would not ias' long; and new discontents would oe continually caused by new impositionS' exactions and expressions, until 'hc country would divide, perhaps in'o three or four Republics. It IS py ,a' too large to remain very long undet