Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-29
Loyalty.

Loyalty.
 'In the name of the Prophet, Figs ? As the Osmanlis disdain the sweetest fruit of the Orient unless it is offered in tho name of the Prophet, so there is class ol persons in this country who avoid every thing as unclean and impious till it is in. spected and branded as "trooly loil.' The jockey who rode the winning camel in the great hegira race has quite areputa. tion as great prophet, but the profits of loyalty in. this country could buy all the treasures he ever won by faith or armies From the pulpit to the cockpit, loyalty ii now the only currency. It buys the right to vote and the right to hold office. Sc far as holding office is concerned, loyalty was worth moro to Sam Mckee than the overwhelming vote of the people was tc his opponent. It can buy out the stain and the penalty of every crime, though you have committed more than were charg. ed to Warern Hastings in India. You may invade city, slay your thousands confscate all the money you can find drink up all the whisky and steal all the tG1dy spoons, but if you are ''trooly loily'
 04 have only done patriotic duty. (n the other hand, if you are disloyal, you can neither vote, hold office. nor keep g station in Arkansas, and your wife has grounds for divorce into the bargain.
 As the "trooly loil" are to have every thing their own way, it is very nice and comfortable to be one of them, and so il becomes highly important to know how Nothing is easier to learn, and nothing is easier to practice provided you are not troubled with a mind or conscience ol your own, and have no "splinters of our shattered Consultation striking in youl kidneys" You have only to take the New York Tribune, or any other leading Radical paper, and learn from it that the Democrats in Main and Vermont, like those in Texas and everywhere else, are -disloyal rebels and murderous Kukluxes No man can vote with them and be "trooly loil." All who do are enemies of the country, convicted by that act of treasons stratagems and spells, and therefore fl subjects for prescription and disfranchise ment, no matter though they fought from Bulls Run to Appomattox under the stars and stripes. But those who vote as the Radicals tell them to, are "trooly loiP' Any queer toasts they may have drunk or any little shooting they may have done fol the rebellion, are all forgotten and for. given. They are the salt of the earth. They are the Lords people, and entitled to monopolize all the privileges and to eat up all the fat.
 This sort of loyalty we have every day for breakfast, dinner, and supper, fried, stswed, baked, boiled, and raw, on the half shell. Having so much of it, we should thank God that the country is safe but for one fact. This sort of loyalty is confined entirely to party, and that party in the minority in most of the States. It is melancholy fact that great majority of the white race in this country are desti- ute of this kind of loyalty. What will become of our Government now, when it must lean altogether upon one leg, its weakest leg and that leg black leg9
 In all this, just as history repeats itself, the leading traits of the Puritan stock reappear in their descendants. The latter cant of loyalty just as their fathers canted of piety. It is grasping arrogance assum- ing the garment of godliness. It is self righteousness, claiming the authority of heaven to promote paltry and personal ends. The Puritans, when they canted about religious liberty, were seeking the power to persecute Quakers and Baptists When they canted about godliness they were demonstrating their right to engage in the slave trade and burn witches. SG their descendants, when they made wal for ''the best government the world ever saw," were only seeking power to override its Constitution and tinker it to death with amendments and new principles of con struction or reconstruction n.-Louisvillt Courier.